Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-07-28
LUMBERMEN GOLF
ON NOBLE LINKS
Use Girl Caddies With Splendid
Success in Annual Tour
nament
LOCALS FAIL AT SHAWNEE

Huntingdon Valley Country Club
rlnvod host TO the Ph!lndclnhia Whole
sale Lumbcrmcn's Association ycSter-
day in their annual tournament. The
woodscIlcrS turn out en- masse every year
to maui the elusive golf ball. and they
usually play over the Noble links.
Murky clouds threatened to chop the
tournament short. but the weathcrman
was lcnient. and enabled the half dozen
foursomes 10 get under way without
drenchng them.
The lumhermen had experience with
the girl caddies employed at Huntington
| Valley, and they were all loud IN thcir
praise for the juvenile female OF the
species. Most of them admitted that
they seldom had boys who did better
work than these short -skirted young
stcrS.
! 1t was more by accident than design
that the girls were employed Mt the
Noble course. Three years ago jack
IIobcns was brought from one Of tn"
suburban New York clubs as profcs-
siona!. He found distressing shortage
of boys TO carry bags. an he tried the
exped!ent of hiring girls.
His experience with them has been
most pleasant. Says Jack: Nobody
could want better caddies than some Of
the girls we have here. One of them
is the best ball hound I've seen any
where--boy or girl. It is seldom that
she ever loses track Of ball. They
| M" all quiet and know just what they
should do. And best of all. they get
along splcnd!dly with the boys. There
is never any trouble between them. The
Youngsters treat the girls with the
greatest of courtesy, and we've never
| had n complaint as long as have been
here.
The lumbermen. at their dinner fol-
lowing the tournament. had oceans Of
praise for their fair bag carriers.
Philadelphians Fail
In the face Of sensational shooting
hv John Golden. Jim Barnes and Bob
Mcdonald, the Philadelphia delegation
ar Shawnee failed TO come through.
Wednesday a number Of them were in
posit!on to come through with rush II
the leaders wavered for an instant. AT
the end of the morning round they were
hopelessly out OF the race.
Charley llOfner and Jim Edmund
son each required seventy -sevcn strokes
TO negotiate the Shawnee course in
the y. \. NJ, while John Rowe. of
Stenton. who entered the tournament in
su!tc OF q highly nervous condition.
took eighty. Tha, definitely killed their
chances ~ triumphing In this popular
joy-fes
1t seems TO be n case Of ver-golfed
condition with each OF these men.
IloGner and Rowe were both at
Skokie, trying their hardest to nail
the national championship. They came
back home and ba,tled through the
philadelphia Open, which IIoffner
nddrd 70 his collection. They have
been playing thirty six holes q day for
weeks nc n stretch. and that can only
/ result In one condition, 1t Is reflected
| principally on the greens, where most
| championships are decided; where
petitive play over long stretches be-
| tray their owners-and puts that
should be sunk are missed by inches.
Though the Shawnee tournament is
| not the biggest In this country by any
matter of means, it always attracts a
| field Of the best golfers in the country,
! and the winning of IL Is q prize that
every professional wants to hang a.
! his belt.
The qualifying round for the St.
! Martins Cup was played at the Phila-
delphia Cricket Club yesterday. and
Norman Maxwell, the slim dynamiter
from Whitemarsh Valley, led the field.
Norman has too leg, on the Cup, and
| he is anxious TO gain permanent pos
session OF 1t.
That the others will have the fight OF
their lives to keep him from achieving
that ambition was made certain yester-
day when Maxwell turned in card OF
TO- His shooting was very consistent,
five 3's and and six Is being marked
up to his credit.
| Billy Mcintyre. OF Springhaven,
topped the rest Of the field, which in .
cluded John Arthur Brown. the Cricket
Club champion; Fred Knight, who was
Woode Platt's partner IN the inter-
club fracas at Pine Valley; Charley
Doelp, the champion of the Lu Lil
Temple clan, and score of other good
golfers.
Mcintyre went out IN par figures oi
81, and but for bit Of bad luck on tbs
eleventh hole, where he took a 5, would
have bettered Maxwell's fine score b.
a stroke.