Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-08-03
SOLDIERS GOLF AS
CAMP IS BROKEN
Game Still in Favor, Though
Camp Dix Is Being
Evacuated
CADOIES TO col MPETE

!
lhough the personnel of the Flrst
! DIVISION stationed at Camp Dix is only
skeleton Of its former robust stature;
! In sni;,rJo ,uni.;,,a, H. -,
mar nf tbo v,rantnrh e,,s -; .,ii, t' :, IN
;n, wy J, - s',. Is s'I., "N
Enr ~ hriof snoi, 10y ,ne !. "a = ni,,,
| forevar Tho No, Jarso,, -, ,a, 49,,
on a feveroj lifcoNa fr.ct;npoi = baca
tic, mart tbot II livad tbrnmyb d,r;no
| tbe World Va ,rha ,nn;ns ha,.n nare
ried some hundreds nf stmJsnt so,d;ors
! thers Reserve otIi,ors anJ xornastors
taking their tr.t toste % "'" ,;,;,arS ;H"iI Iifs
come hnstlin1 in
! AT the same time nIo,s ,ro be;ry do.
veloped for the eyacnstio, NJ tho reou.
! lars and the demolition of rho rnmn
! This keeps the officers busy hut they
find time to get ont on tho links coy.
| pral times n week. and keop themselves
| in form with mashie and putter,
| The course was built bv thc soldiers
themselves on part of the divisional
| parade ground. Grass greens were
| made. and the warriors proved that they
| knew more than little about golf
architecture. \ sufiicicncy of sand made
! trapping easy, and the course. when
! finished, was a good enough test of golf
u.
| Par for the Camp Dix links is:
! 4a.43 : 3-3s
! Eo,or,I S,.,,, S
! H"''>' ''"'
III the last feW years tournaments
nave been numerous down there. though
Ivy nuNt ocen GuF'a1'eI 'hiS season, que
10 the gradual abandonment of the
camp. Ihn last one was held in the
.4u ot l"-i ana was won by Major
HicOInre. tn" good -humorcd. strapping
olg star OF me First DIVISION = motor
transport. MAJOR Mc'lu shoots
CONSISTENT AZ over the camp Dix links
ana Is CLOSELY followed IN all his actiri.
ties by Major Alden, of the Medical
,orps' ana .aP'aih iiarker. lhcse
nleh' win Noiohei hun!phrles' We're re-
sponsiblc for the building of the links.
Major Alden, one of the most famou!
surgeons in the army, i rabid golf
enthusiast. bur, aS his frienSd say. II
he were az good with his golhng tools as
he Is with knife and lancet he would
i"He "hl''r rug" !1i I'liIin,eu'
,hnso p,avers rho colIrsa record is not
held by First Division man. General
David Shnnks. who commanded the port
of cmhorEotion during the war, and who
later was commanding officer at Camp
Div /. ius,lv nroud Of that distinction.
I.enero, Shnnl'. shot n snappv IS,
mork thot none Of his subordinates has
hacn able 70 rouaI.
II provcs that the weight OF two
stors on a soldiers shoulder does not
nrevert him from swinging wicked
r;tl;,,
Thorch .bere arc no tournaments
oohad,,Ied down among tho Jersey pine.
, .,, u;I, ha nrt on the tapis be-
nnu @ N.Y. ot ,ho irminnnt departure OF the
rtnI.,,,. E;ret therc ore alwavs enough
f,snli"s 49,, ,ho Tnla to keen if from
on''IS w II ;s M, in ony too
o''"s rnu, bacouse there are
goo" HhnpL, Joni;stoG mon left 70 con-
nor '''"sn ~ ost koens the golfers
dltloh IT, pu' ~ ~ .I.
there from gong TIM onnor+un,,v.
When thrE nune SToC,urra hldon'
Colonel iiuti,p"I C.nn D;y'S on
Harker anu tne t' s - Iakeburst or
thusiasts run ,h,.rjIia In w ~ trv ont
Moorest"N II ~, @ aML ,raens of those
the, faster 'air"asS anu s'ee"' u '''''>
clubs
Cod,lies Play at Cricket Club
Daairrinc royt Monday morning and
heslhti'"s ,brao s,,',ccnd;n. dovc.
.nS' 'mG G,io,,TIo 10y ,T Criclet CIuh viii LH,i
,he In!,",''!'' i !''',nomen,s for tho cod-
US "hnta, ,rt 'ora ara oimost ZOO hac-totcrs