Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-07-20
|NTERC[UB GOLF
TITLE FOR merton
Cricket Club Players Score Easy
Victory Over Whitemarsh
at Pine Valley
PLATT ON THE SIDELINES

After long, long stretch Of years
the supremacy of Huntingdon Valley
in the intcrclub championships has been
blasted into oblivion. Tho noble players
from Noble were knocked completely
out of the picture on Tuesday by the
Merton stars. and from the moh,ent the
first ball was tecd never had chance
at the title.
Merton held the center Of the sta se.
and were never headed. Yesterday they
started against Whitcmarsh Valley in
the final battle. and the going was
easier than they had expected. Woody
Patt was still in bed. and golf was the
| farthcst thought from his mind.
Norman Maxwell. still feeling the ef-
| fccts Of the broilinc he underwent on
Tuesday. did not appear, and his match
| in the four-ball affair was dcfauited:
| ITaltor and Harry Mountain also stayed
| away from the Jersey sands. ana SUI
| fcrcd the same fate. So Merton held q
four point lead without playing ball
Two dcfaulted matches was a terrific
handicap. but the Whitcmarsh game.
| Sters didn't lose heart even then. Fred
| Knight and Lou Dcming tore along al
great clip. and won up. EdsGG-
| comb and Newton noscd in by one hoIc
! less, and the count stood . TO Ill
favor Of the battlers from Chestnut
Hill.
DeibOld and Newton Fail
Had D!chold and Newton hold up
their end in n match against Filter ana
Stitcs the Cricket Club men would not
| have had so long lead at the half
way mark. But the later pair acted IN
most unclubby manner by treating
! their Whi,cmarsh opponents to the
worst drubbins Of the tournament. Ihe
score was I up. which gave the Merton
men five points on that match. more
than half of the points registered by
the winners in the forenoon.
With the taste OF victory and 4
championship in their mouths. the
cri"kctcrS went out in the afternoon
with blood in their eyes. Whitemarsh
had its back against the wall. though Il
had an admittedly fighting chancc--be-
! fore tho two ball matches started.
The vallcyites cracked badly in these
matches. however. and were over
whc,mpd. Lou Deming and Fred Knight
| were the standard bearers OF the forlorn
hope, but their skill under the sultry
skies was not equal to their courage.
Dcming. the former Philadelphia ANA =
tour champion. was whnlcd to the
Queens taste by l.. II. Washburn. 1
up and Knight bowed to the skill OF
Handsome Eddie" briggs, the former
Princeton football star.
Only Score Three Wins
TIE only Whitcmarsh players to come
through with wins were Mountain.
Newton and Edgccomb. But three
triumphs in ten matches was poor
effort for men attempting to come from
behind and snatch victory from the
gaping jaws of defeat. =,
Merton led. q 10 !. IN the morning
but when all the cards were turned in
they jumped it to % to o; certainly n
conclusive enough mark to stamp the
Cricket Club men rs real champions.
Had Harry Mountain appeared in the
four ball match in the morning the
score might have been whitfield down a
bit. but there was no chance that
Merton would have slipped sufficiently
TO lose the title that now graces her so
well.
There was not the same sensational
shooting at Pine Valley yesterday that
thrr" was in spots on Tuesday. in spite
of the fact that a gauzy veil Of clouds
made playing conditions a bit more
bcnrAble. II is likely that the grueling
effort Of playing thirty six holes on n
course that baked in 100 degrees OF
tpmprrature--aS Pine Valley did on the
first day OF the tournament-took mos,
Of the starch out of the contestants.