Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-04-10
MARCUS GREER To
GOLF HERE AGAIN
Canadian District Champion Re-
turns Home as Another Star
in 1922 Links Cast
KIRKWOOD VISITS HERE
by SANDY McNIBLICK


MARCUS GREER, the Philadelphia
AV1 boy who went 10 Canada ant
cleaned up for the championship o
Quebec. has returned here for keeps
Here is one Of the finest golfers pro.
duccd in this city.
He suffered severe injuries in his
hands and wrists during the war. bu,
played in the Lu Lu tournament on his
return and busted off George IIoffner
then city champion, the week after
Hoffner had gone to the third round OF
the national. Soon after this Greer
went TO Grand Mere, Canada, to take
n new position. lie played in the ANA :
teur championship. setting the record
for the course. and later won that
championship mentioned above.
Greer is product of Cobbs Creek and
is understood to have made no club af.
filiation here SO far. If he "joins up
before tho suburban season starts he'll
surely be a tower Of strength for some
club aud he should also thro another
little shimmcr into the city champion =
ship If he's in a club from which he can
enter.
There will be more expert golf talent
| in the amateur ranks Of this city this
season than for most Of its golf history
kirkwood Here
Joe Kirkwood. the Australian golf
expert, Is in Philadelphia for few
days. He will play on some OF the
Jersey courses during his visit here.
The former champion Of Australasia
made a tour of the world last year,
playing in all the leading events. He
will repent this year, sailing next
month for Great Britain with Walter
! Hagen. Jim Barnes and possibly Jock
! IIutchison. who are expected to make
n try for the British open title again.
| Hutchison brought that cup to America
! last year.
! Kirkwood had the best average of
! any Of the British players last year in
the few events he entered while over
there. lie iin!sh he'd in the money every
! time except in the American open. He
finished third in the North and South
and also played in the Columbia open
during the last ten days. being one
stroke out of the money at Columbia.
klrkwood finished the tournamen, at
Columbia with his exhibition OF trick shots.
, He has lot OF new ones this year, and Il
goes bigger than ever.
lnOSf VINO nave seen the magnificent club
house al columbia, inside and out. will 10
astounded I" learn that i was built for only
$4,000 But that was twelve years ago.
George J. YouOli. tho Frankford enthusiast
hustled down to Washngton. to have look
at the British. American. I. s. p. G A..
ex-Australian. southern. Western. Pennsyi-
vania. Metropoltan. California and other
! champions in action together. II wasn't
| hard TO PICK up pointer or two on the
way the same Is played
I ld, NcI
know. and h" always uses an iron for his
| drive at the seventeenth. on his third round
hc pulled into tho water. which DISTURBED,
/ HIM to tho extent OF taking six puts on the
! next green.
/ Walter Hagen generally manages 10 null
/ ono of the best shots. His drive TO the A.
tc"nth once carried him behind some trees
which were half way between his ball AMI
the hole. After quiet had hcen restored
Hagen pitched ov"r the trees ten feet from
he green. and holed the putt, just like that
for bird.
These are the little things that make golf
so burned easy.