Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-08-26
MARSTON IS STAR
0NNAT|0NAL LINKS
Makes Fine Showing on Course
Where international Match
Will Be Played
WETHERED'S ELIMINATION

MAX MARSTON, Of Merton. who
A'A stands with J. Wood Platt as
Philadelphia premier amateur. went
up to Southampton to compete in the
tournament that was played there
Thursday and yesterday.
Max is n member of the interna tional
team that will match its skill with the
British invaders over that course, and
he will also compete in the amateur tilt
AZ Brookline. He has been playing
torpy golf all summer and was con
sistent performer in the qualifying
round on the national links.
He took 42-39 for an 81 that placed
him tenth among the first sixteen, ahead
Of Tolley, Mckenzie, Wethered. OAR
win and Alymer. of the English team.
There We're few mistakes in his play.
and 1t convinced every one who saw
him IN action that Merton Max will
be most dangerous contender in the
coming campaigns against the invaders.
Tho British Ambition
The brilliant Engliehmen harbor high
ambition in their hearts. They want
TO win the team match, Of course, but
they are just as keen to have one of
their number capture the American
amateur golf crown. It Is necessary,
TO their minds, that this be done to off
set the American triumphs that have
been gained this year on British soil.
The foreign team appeared en- masse
on the hot and windy course Of the
National links.
Among those who crashed into the
first sixteen of the qualifying round
were John Caven, the goling clerk of
Cochran Castle: e. V. L. Hoonan,
w. B. Torrance and Cyril J. II. Toll
ley. Roger Wethcred, W. Willis
Mackenzie, Bernard Darwin and G.. c.
Alymer failed IN this test.
\ battling. whipping wind criss-
crossed the National links. which are
trapped in manner 10 punish every
g.olting sin; The hre"2es didn't bother
the Englishmcn particularly. for they
are used to that sort Of thing in their
own country. 1t was their errors on
the green that cost them dearly.
Another member of the American In
ternatonal team beside Marston ap-
! peared in the tournament, and his
showing brought surge of hope and
pride to the followers Of the team. w.
! G. Fownes. Jr., who captains the home
team, led the way in III" qualifying
round with n brilliant 70, and Max
| Mnrston, as has been said. toddled
| home with n most CommendNble 81.
To any ono who knows the difficult
ties of the National course the scores
are sufficient recommendation of the
brand Of golf displayed by tho Yankees.
Though Fowncs and Maraton are
brilliant golfers, veterans Of many q
tense and gripping tournament, they are
rated behind some of the other mem
hers Of the American team-,Jones and
Evans and Ou!mrt, for instance. II
they can show their heels TO the Eng
lishmen, what, say the fans, will those
other Of our stars do?
Wethered's Failure
The fall of Roger Wethcred was the
tragedy of Thursdays play. The lean
English youth who is rated the best Of
England amateurs, needed q . on the
eighteenth for 19--a figure that would
have brought him well up with the first
sixteen.
But Roger sliced his tee shot into the
bullrushes, where trouble ia as sure as
the coming Of the Grim Reaper. From
there he hit into even worse disaster
and when he had sunk his final putt his
score for that hol" showed n ghastly 10
Ten on one hole for the creates,
amateur in Britain
George Duncan. the brilliant English
professional took snappy IL on a
par 3 hole In competitive play.
Trouble can easily raise its hydra
head out of the bunkcrs and ruin the
best of players,
The booming drives Of the English
men were in evidence on the Nationn
course just as much as they were at
Pine Valley last Saturday. ON the
3O9- yard second hole Cyril Tolley drove
to the edge OF the green, only to take
a when his putting fell to pieces.
Caddy Champions
BY defeating the Llanerch boys thf
caddes from the Philadelphia Cricke,
Club cinChed their claim to the caddy
championship of this city.
The margin of victory was consider
ably slighter than 1t was the first time
they met, the decision being reserved
for the nineteenth green Of the last
ma tch, and the final count being TO Z
The scores turned In were sufficien,
evidence that We have potentially gatat
essionals- budding In our n st
Gaskill and o Rourke each had cards
Of n. Yhile y. Lyons made 4, suappy