Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-09-07
DADS AND SONS
PALS ON LINKS.
Tournament Played over
Whitemarsh Course Great Event
From Every Standpoint
AULBACH'S FINE FIGHT

This Father and Son Golf Tourna.
ment that took place yesterday under
the burning skies of Whitcmarsh Val
ley isn't the big golfing event of the
year from n statistical viewpoint. High
scores nre the rule. but after all. a
score isn't the big thing In golf or any
other sport.
A fine thing for the links game--thcse
tournaments: and finer thing for those
who play. In these times of youth in
surgent and Aapper triumphant. the
boy. as n general thing. does not get
much chance to play around with his
dad.
That old blurb about the father and
son being chums has been buried In the
limbo Of forgotten things for several
years. Dad is too often a check book,
and nothing else. But in these Scotch
foursomes for pater ct films. the young
er and older generation get together on
a common ground.
The boy has chance to see that his
governor is a pretty good sort after all
and the father can see his son in the
field-which Is the greatest test of cour.
age and breeding.
The affair yesterday---likc all those
that have preceded it-was n handicap,
tournament. and most of the hnndicaps
ran we'll into double figures. The golf
was spotty rs general thing. If the
younger man could shoot star game
the older one usually couldn't get his
/ shots going.
A Big Field
One hundred and forty-six golfers
Nn1 ~H 1aAN do, ~f 80
| fields that has ever competed in this
competition. Seventy three fathers and
seventy three sons-and some sweet
| hitters among them.
There was l.. +. Adams and his son
George. who shook tho sand Of Lu L,l
, traps from their Cleats long enough to
| trot down to Whltemarsh to defend the
title that they won last year. There
was the Stevens duo, who turned in n
| gross rs. with II handicap. for net
Il. There was the Recorder of Deeds,
Jimmy Hazlett. and his yrungstcr
There We're host more who should be
| mentioned.
The fathers of course. have passed
the stage of improvement. though there
! may be one or two exceptions to that
long ago the proud holder of the city
title. The Youngsters. though. are the
players Of the future. There were a lot
Of them at Whitcmarsh yesterday who
Won their spurs in the junior cham.
pionsliips at the TorreSdale Club in
June.
Young Stevens. for example, who wns
a biz factor in bringing in that So. had
the lowest medal in the junior cam :
paign. though he had the bad fortune
then to be beaten out before he could
show his brand of golf to the champion,
Winston Kindt.
1t might be good scheme for a
mothers and daughters tournament to
be placed on the tapis. There are some
! mig hty sweet-and that can be taken
=! In both It's neutrality-suspicious. among
the maids and matrons of this town.
Francis Warner
Francis Warner. the genial secretary
of the Philadelphia Golf Association
was at Whitemarsh to superintend the
! tournament. Any tournament or
match of general interest would be IN :
complete without the presence of this
veteran of the links who has done much
to make golf the popular sport that It
/ Is in Philadelphia.
1t is always easy to find star players
to appear In tournament, but It ism {
SO simple n matter to find man who
will take off his coat. roll up his sleeves,
and plunge into the irksOme details that
every successful tournament requires.
And Francis Warner has been the
reliable wheel horse of every tourna
ment years beyond recall. It IS indeed
time that tribute was accorded him for
his magnificent work.