Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-08-01
CLASSIC MATCH -
FOR WH|TEMARSH
J. Wood PIatt and Norman Max
we'll Will Battle for
Championship
JONES LEADING AMATEUR


Valley still hangs on the hinges Of
doubt. j. Wood Platt and Norman II.
Maxwell have battered their way
through the tournament, Maxwell get
ting into the final by eliminating that
steady goliing paragon, Lou Deming.
But the final match still hangs in abey-
ance, waiting for Mr.. Fate to take his
vicious glances off the principals.
Platt, it will be remembered. lost a
match to Humidity at the interclub
championships played over the blazing
sands of Pine Valley. lie was knocked
cold--if the sun can put any one in
that condition-and hasn't had a golf
club in his hands since. Woody visited
Whitcmarsh several times in the last
week, but his doctor issued the ulti-
matum that he wasn't to play for quite
a while. However, his period of absti-
nence is nearly over, and when it is the
classic Platt- Maxwell duel will be ex-
hibited to the gaping Valley fans.
Maxwell himself is not in any too
good condition, though his golf in the
last few weeks has been sensational.
At the Green Valley tournament his
first thirty-s holes were run off with
the skill of a master. Then he was so
fatigued that he had to withdraw,
though he appeared to be certain
winner.
Shot "a at Gulph Mills
His record breaking feat Of going
over the Gulph Mills course in "A in
dicated that he was at the top Of his
game. That was an eighteen hole test,
and at the short distance Norman is
almost unbeatable by the amateurs Of
Philadelphia. But thirty six in day
stops him: He showed this again in
the st. Martins Cup battle, when,
qualifying round, he went utterly to
pieces and was eliminated.
A battle between Platt and Maxwell
over their home links should be one
well worth watching. Both men know
every angle Of the course, its water,
traps and pimples, and, better vet,
know how to negotiate them in classic
style.
Winning the championship at White.
marsh Valley is one Of the biggest tasks
any philadelphia club has to offer, for
the club numbers among its membership
some Of the best golfers in this vicinity.
Any one who conquers Plat, Maxwell,
Deming, Eddie O'Hanlon, Herb Newton
and a dozen other stars has accom-
plished feat that he can chortle about
to his grandchildren when he gets too
old and rickety to swing the niblick.
Tho Best Amateur
Philadelphia need not bow her head
when the amateur class Of the country
Is reckoned up. In this district are a
splendid group of players, but we
haven't the best Of them all located
here.
Almost every professional agrees that
the finest amateur player this country
has produced Is twenty year old Bobby
Jones. Bobby finished only step be-
hind Gene Sarazen in the national open,
and with bit Of luck or n bit more
control Of his temper might have won
the crown that the black haired little
Italian American now wears SO becom-
ingly.
Jones is letter perfect in form. No
player, amateur or professional, can
teach him anything in the matter OF
style. He draws the head of his club
all the way back, but so perfect is the
groove" Of his swing that it is very,
very seldom that his drive is wild. Be-
sides that, his short game is all that
can be desired end his putting something
that more than buffers dream about.
His single flaw in the past has been
temper that has not always been
under control. There was excuse in
plenty for that. He is young and i'm
pressionable and youth never has this
severe control of nerve force that comes
with the years. But Bobby is arriving
at the age of discretion.
Angered at SkOkie
| At Skok!e he slipped only twice. when
| the gallery, milling restlessly about, an
gered him. He made his shots on those
occa sions before the watchers had been
herded back out of the fairways; and
though he apparently lost nothing, hie
margin behind Saraz'n was so small
that every shot counted vitality.
Jones will play in III" amateur cham
pionship at Brooklne in September. and
hopes to vindicate the opinion Of his ad
mirers by winning the crown of th'
all ior glory golfers.
A number Of Philadelphians, includ
ing Platt. Max MarstOn, Maxwell. Ed
die Clarey and others, are eligible fol
that campaign, but If Jones Is In thu
form that he showed Mt Skokie h'
should be a favorite 10 win the tourna
ment.
/ The plans Tor the teStImOnlal tourhd
ments to Jack McDermott, the creates
golfer ever developed in Philadelphia
are rapidly maturing. They will b.
played at Merton. Atlantic City anc
MerchantvIle, and will bring togethe
a field Of star performers.
McDermott. it will be remembered
was the national open champion II
1g11-l2. He won the Philadelphia
open several times, and in 1913 defeated
Harry Vardon and Ted Ray at Shaw
nee. after those Rritons had made
tour Of the country, in which they di'
not lose match.
In the following year Jacks mind be
came affected. and he has been confined
to a sanatOrium ever since. This tes
timonial is one that Is deserved thou
sand times over.
1923 Open Mt InwO0d
II has been decided TO hold the 192
national open golf championship owe
the course Of the Inwood Countr
Club, near Far Rockaway. Long Island
This should be good news to Gene Sar
aZen and an omen Of good luck, too, 70
liz was on those links that he made hi
first great showing. He defeated Joe
Hutch!son there by the one sided coun
Of s TO I.
incidentally it is the first time tbs
the open has been held in the metro
politan district since 1915. when Jeron
1Dr,yoru Uon tho title ot RaltusrOl