Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-03-24
WH|TEMARSH GOLF
PLANS PROGRESS
18th and 18th Holes Improved.
$50, 900 Porch Second Unit in
New Clubhouse Plans
STAR TEAMS PROMISED
BY SANDY McNIBLICK

A LII licks for the year have been
\ taken Mt improvements on the golf
course at Whitemarsh Valley Country
Club. New construction work is being
concentrated on what Is expected to be
as fine housing plan us there is around
/ these parts.
The clubhouse is being remodcled in
four units, YOU might say. The new
kitchen, refrigerating and ice plant
system, ETC., was the first unit--was,
because it's all finished.
Inc second unit is magnificent
porch. which is expected to be ready
in about three weeks. The rocking
chair brigade will lose It's quarters on
the brick terrace, which has all been torn
up for the new. 1t il an inclosed "sun
parlor' effect, extending the length Of
the clubhouse and out under the trees ut
the left as you go in. To the right it
reaches very nearly to the parking
space.
| 1t will increase the dining room ca.
pacity moro than threefold. and will
cc used also for dances and other cn.
tertainment. The whole thing is an ex-
tremely attractive addition. beautifully
decorated. The cost is said to be
around $4,000.
IT greatly adds TO the appearance OF
the already beautiful outlay.
Locker Rooms Coming
The next move planned is adding a
locker room to the main clubhouse. The
present locker house will be used as a
dormitory. The fourth unit to be built
Is overhead. There'll be sixteen rooms
thu SpppNI ar1 <bf,; Noor. UyL.,,
completed it promises to be a splendid
structure.
Whitenarsh has ranked for years
with Merton and Huntington Valley as
one Of the three veteran championship
links Of the district.
Last year the local amateur, open and
women's championships were ali played
at Whitemarsh. About the only holes
that came in for criticism were the
eleventh and sixteenth. Both Of these
have been changed.
eleventh now has craps nll around it
, so that stumbling run-up is no longer
possible.
It takes two woods and jgger or
mid-iron. all carry. to get home. It's
real shot, that third one, at the best.
There's still the tree and the split fair.
way.
The sixteenth is still one. shotter.
but now you can see the green and
what it's all about. This has been done
BY gouging two terraces into the former
steep and terrific bank. The walk up
there is easier on the golfer, with a
Ihczzanine floor. too--no escalator. just
more gradual ascent.
Aside from attention to the traps.
green's and fairways. usual upkcep, no
changes in the course are planned for
the coming season. Temporary greens
have been used during the close winter.
but the regular greens have already been
rolled and will be opened at the first
peep Of spring.
At the annual meeting the following
officers of the club were elected: Pres.
ident. Otto w. SchGum; vice presi-
dents. Edward G. Budd. Walter Clark
and John Gribbell: secretary. Samuel
Steele; treasurer. Gordon S. Carrigan.
Tom HaltOn, Sr.. ever energetic, is
chairman of the Golf Committee.
Much Material
Whitemarsh has SO many good golf
ers that there is an idea OF forming
a varsity and scrub team. The lat
ter. it is argued. could play in the
Suburban. The only golfer Of note to
be added to Whitemarsh S strength this
thinner, however, will likely lead Rox-
boroughs team in the Suburban, which
will make him ineligible to golf in the
interclub matches for Whitemarsh. A
player can enter only one competition
or the other.
For the Interclub Whtcmarsh has
Woody Plat, l.. F.. Dem,ng. city cham
pion; Fred Knight. II. B. Newton,
Tom Halton, Sr. and Jr., G. II.
Wheeler, Norman Maxwell. Z. V.
O'Hanlon. DR.. A. Knox. Horace Daw-
son, F. II. Chapman. Harry Mountain,
II. l.. Newton, w. G. Donohue, L. !
Edgecomb and players Of like caliber. |
Morrie Talman Is the pro. He Is
taking particular pains to develop "A
woman's team to equal the fine showing
made last year by the one which Mrs
f. II. Ware captained. Others on 1t
We're Mrs. J. Hirst, Miss NJ. Hoffman.
Mrs. q. f. Adams and Mrs. Whittem