Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-01-17
ROBINS TO USHER
IN NEW GOLF LINKS
Half OF Cricket Clubs Layout
to Be Finished in Spring.
Warmers Devotion
BRITISH STARS PETITION
BY SANDY McNIRLICK

EIGHTEEN holes Of the new golf
- layout Of the Philadelphia Cricket
Club will be completed by spring. Just
how soon play viii be permitted over the
new holes is, OF course, problematical
just as II is Mt any new course. It all
depends on the condition OF the turf.
| At any rate oil Of the construction
work on the first half of the proposed
thirty six hole links at Militia Hin will
have been finished when the birds cheep
once more hereabouts.
There are golf courses" and "places
TO play golf" The most famous course
in this district is Pine Valley. The
story Of that course revolves around the
late George Crump, how he discovered
the site while prowling through the
woods there with dog and gun.
How he gave much of his finances and
nearly all his waking moments to its
construction. With unfagging enthus-
iasm, devotion and nerve George Crump
carried that project through to the lead
ing golf course Of the country. Few
golf courses are fortunate enough to
have such a man "behind the gun"
The work of Frank Warner on the
new Cricket Club project is the nearest
example to George Crump's devotion to
n golf ideal that We can think of.
Busiest Golfer"
Engrosset in his business at The
same time, Francis y. Warner has for
n number of years been secretary Of the
Golf Association OF Philadelphia, q
task that eats up nearly every "spare
minute" he has. But when the neces =
sity came at the Cricket Club for q
new layout Mr.. Warner stepped in.
He was instrumental in putting
over" the project at Lis club, and hard :
ly day has passed since that he has
not been on the ground working as
hard as the labor he's hired. He fairly
breathes enthusiasm for the new
course, his only reward the praise It
Is getting from the experts who have
looked at the nearly finished course.
Another Pine Valley" is the glow
Ing tribute of nearly all who have
seen il.
All of which is an introduction for
the thought that the truly great courses
of this country are the result of the de =
voted interest Of some one real golf
entushiast. a man who is not content
with the plans and specifications, but Is
on the job from morning till night
the man who sees every blade of grass
planted, every hazard built.
Frank Warner is proud of his handi
work, and from the tribute of that
courses admirers justly so.
Guilford Going Over
Jesse Guilford has now virtually made
up his mind to so abroad again for
another fling at the British amateur
This decision will probably be even
1 tirmer II the petition of the British ama
teurs goes through relative to q change
in the playing conditions.
A petition is now in the hands of the
committee of the royal and ancient from
leading amateurs which asks, in the
main, that qualifying round Of thirty
six holes medal play be carded, eighteer
holes day. with eighty to continu,
after the first day. Thirty-two players
would qualify under the new proposal
the match play to be at thirty six holes
The petition is signed by John Ball
Roger Wethered. Cyril Tolley, r. II
De Montmorency and other stars Owe
there, whose opinion means a lot
There arc few who do not favor the new
plan. it is said, among the amateur
over there.
Anyhow the Change, II made, woul
remove the chief objection American
had TO going into the British champion
ship. This was the plan still used las
year of no qualifying round, and eight
cen hole matches down to the fna
round.
Our British cousins want the ne,
plan put through before the next cham
p!onship.
Just Another Meeting
The annual meeting of the L. s. G. A
was held and that. apparently, was n
that happened. All the live question
before the golfing public were evidentl
carefully avoided.
Nobody knows any more about IL
stymie. the OUT bounds or mud -on
ball proposals than before. Or the ribbe
clubs. Or admission being charged {
championships. Or international CON
petition. Or this, that and the other.
There is much disappointment hel
and. it is presumed, in other distric
also.
A national meeting is getting to
merely rollcall.
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