Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-05-15
LOCALS entered
IN SEASH0RE GOLF
Atlantic City Event ls Big Tour
ney This Week-Dates All
Spoken For'
WHAT sALA PEP DID
Nv SANDY McNIBLICK

BY SANDY McNIBLICk
uANDs tired and blistered, acninS
IL limbs and sunburnt noses wi, VIII
have q chance to recuperate toul! " ~.
severe golf action, but forthwsn 80.
action will be fast and FURIOUS =" 'oe"
links circles. =, - .re
another. All the teams IN wcmen
cup leagues play their mai matcnes ~
merit woman player in town will sally
forth under arms to wrench last hon
ors from many links. The following
day. Wednesday, IL the ofhcial opening
of the Golf Association bf Philadelphia
schedule, when competition starts IN
ave divisions for the Suburban Team
Gun. the local minor league team cham.
pionship for men. There are twenty
teams with zen golfmen to team,
which means that 200 golfers will en-
gage each other in terrific fitting.
By all the signs and Fred Sherman.s
calculations, almost that number VIII
compete on Thursday this week for the
qualifying medal in the annual spring
invitation tournament of the Country
Club of Atlantic City. This tourney
is supposed to pry the lid on the Phil.
adelphia season. It lasts all week and
will see a goodly bevy Of Philadelphians
in action for the first time this year.
though three tournaments have already
been held.
No Let up
Meantime, there will be no let up for
the ladies, The second annual play for
the Nancy Wilbur" Cup will be held
Mt st. Davids, a tourney that had an
overlooking entry last year, Miss Mai :.
garet Doyle apd Miss Katharine Hutch
ins0n sharing the honors, gross and net.
The next day ties in the ladies' team
play will be played of, and team elm
nation matches will be played Friday
of this week to determine what clubs
shall play in the different divisions next
year. That's about nh that Is OH the
cards for this week. but nearly. every
star golfer, both sexes, has links work
ahead these next few days. !
The golf prospects of nearly 250
locals were launched last week, and for
some the Bala golf tournament hit their
sails like the first storm off Sandy
Hook. fEi
Bala's farewell to it's classic and
historic nine hole tournaments has been
said also sung and toasted. Bill Flynn
and Frank To0mey leaped on the course
with fury and fock Of laborers this
morning. To the sound of Gee, haw, -
and the crunching Of scoops work was
started at erasing the little old nine
hole course, and this time next year
Bala hopes to be playing on an eight
cen hole and championship links.
The idea
Bala's enforced small membership was
made up of highly enthusiastic and, fol
the most part, expert golfers. A small
group, sitting around the old iron Ctove
in the locker room a few months ago,
had happy thought. Why not expand
I'VE will enlarge the clubhouse .
said one. "And the locker room," sug
gested another. Eighteen holes," all
cried in unison.
The first fourteen verses Of 'Bala
| Will Shine" were sung by all standing,
Nobody had ever thought Of changina
the layout at Bala before. Too many
happy moments had been spent on 1,
as 1t was.
But the idea went big. They wsft
for 1t. More song. ~ '."
From a far corner: "How about tn.
money!" Oh, yes, the money. 1t wa,
thought. but 1t was ruled out. It wa.
! sour note In mOmentous meeting
No attention was paid to 1t. Plan,
were drawn for the locker room.
1t was Friday. .'.
II can't start till Monday" Ia.
mented the builder. But he made ur
for lost time Monday. by noon he hat
the locker house torn to pieces, anf
by night the first new bricks were laid
The same went, for the clubhouse. Botf
are now complete. and visitors last weel
blinkcd before the modern accommoda
tions of the Bala Golf Club.
To 60 back. the housing was finished
Still no money. i...
I. 'iNow we will build eighteen holes =
cried the glowing members. They wer,
just mailing down the last plank II
their two houses; they were starting
tees on their new course they wer,
II all but let's have farewell tour
ney to our nine. hole course" suYgeste,
some one.
"Hooray shouted the membership
And they invited every one In town,
This. many might think, was tinan
cial lunacy. They had started wit
nothing but an idea. /.
Then up stepped Bill ,Nock to star
the mazuma drive. With, II. Bart Me
Hugh, Bill Wilson, Prof. John Human
HilI Sykes, John Mackin, Frank Nc
Adams and all the rest. the club emerge
Saturday night with nearly $50,
They We're crazy--crazy as the we'll
known owl. All they put over was
new clubhouse, new locker building
an eighteen hole course, a tournamca
that writes Bala indelibly In local Iink
history and the prospects are that tn
membership in the club will, be doubled