Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-09-11
GO[FDOM FACES
ITS BUSIEST WEEK
Nearly Every Day Is Repre-
sented in the Calendar
Of Sport
A TRIBUTE TO SWEETSER

"ioOHD tne dIndteuT is HOW nlStOTy I,
L golfng hasn't slackened up in the
least. As q matter Of fact. this week
both. from local and national angles,
will be one Of the busiest Of the year.
| Yesterday the Green Valley Country
Club held the first round of its
championship play for the Josephine
Berg Cup, and the qualifying round
for the Philmont title was also on the
card.
Today an open championship that
rivals the Philadelphia open in the
class Of its entry list started at the
Springhaven Country Club. Every
well-known professional in the district
is keen after the $500 in prizes. and
some very fine golf should result.
On Tuesday the graybeards of the
district will hold their annual tourna.
ment. when the Philadelphia Seniors
championship is PLAYED off at the Old
York Road Country Club.
On Wednesday will be n great match
when John Taylor. 'the grand old
mnn,of golf" and fifty -four: year old
Sandy Herd on one side will oppose
George Duncan and Abe Mitchell, two
of the finest of the younger British pro-
fessionals on the other AT Phi!mont.
Thursday is more or less quiescent.
but on Friday things spurt up again
with tho Taylor Hcrd Ouimet .Marston
international clash at Merton.
All in all. very full week for local
links enthusiasts.
Golf In Other Quarters
The Western womens championship
struggle opened today at the Glen Echo
Clug in st. Louis. for a six day battle.
ms did the Canadian ladies' title clasl,
ot to IN trv 1nh
On Tuesday the eighteenth annual
Seniors Championship gets under way
Mt the Apawamis Club in Rye. n. Y.
The United States seniors defeated their
Canadian rivals recently for the fourth
straight time, so this tournament will
decide the senior championship of the
continent
On Wednesday tho biggest profes.
sional event Of the yenr--outside Of the
National Open-will get under way at
the Lido Golf Club. of Long Beach.
l.. l., It is the Metropolitan Open. and
it invariably draws the finest profcs.
sional golfing talent of the United States
This fills the calendar chock full of
star cvents--the brilliant. scintillatng
bill, of course, being the Met.
The Metropolitan Open
The. field in the open last year in {.
cluded Walter Hagen. Joe Kirkwood.
Johnny Farrell, Jim Barnes. Jesse
Sweetser, Gene Sarazen and other pro :
fessional and amateur stars. besides Bob
O'Donald, of the Bob-o- Link Club.
Chicago.
Walter Hagen won in 1916. 1919
and 1920. Gil Nichols has twice taken
the honor. and Alec Smith four times.
The only professional resident in Phil =.
adelphia who has metropolitan cham
pionship to his credit is Jack Hobcns.
No Philadelphian finished In the
money last year. but in 1920 Charley
Hoffner was sixth and Bill Leach well
up with the leaders. Last summer
Philmont Charley was third with n
dashing 209. with Clarence Hackney,
of Atlantic City. the only other local
district man to get very high.
! Philadelphia professionals have played
some very fine golf this summer, but
in none of the big tournaments out
side the village have they succeeded
in winning n championship.
In all probability Hoffncr and Il
number Of other locals will appear
again in the Metropolitan Open, but
they face sitter opposition this year
than ever bfere.
At Springhaven
Charley IIoffncr won the Philadcl .
phia Open at Merton by n fine. up
hill struggle that brought him victory
when he had faced tho second days
play behind Freddy Mcleod and Alex
Gerard. In the tilt AZ Springhavcn he
will face almost identically the same
field.
Hoffner had hard fight to win out
in that tournament, but the going will
be even harder at Springhaven. Johnny
Rowe. of Stenton, who was nerve
shattered from the strain nt Skokc,
was unable TO put up his best fight then.
but since has shown his heels to
Charley at the Falls open. Lou Gold
beck, Hoffner's assistant at Philmont.
who was one of the surprises at
Merton. has been going even better
since then. and should b." n vital fac
tor, So should John Edmundson, Of
Llanerch.
The Exhibition Matches
Phllmont and Merton are giving golf
fans one Of the biggest treats Of the
year in bringing John Taylor and
Sandy Herd to this city for matches
with Duncan and Mitchell on the t'hi'-
mont fairways, and Max Marston and
Francis Ouimet at Merton.
There has been so much written about
these players that repetition Is useless,
Every one OF them has captured vari-
GUS championships. and are capable Of
winning good many more.
The exhibitions will rival in interest
the Hagen -Sarazcn Kirkwood -Hofncr
match that brought 5000 fans out
Philmont way earlier in the summer.
with the cool breezes that are sweeping
the fairways in these September days
the chances are that the galleries will
be even larger than they were Mt that
classic.