Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-05-01
RUGGED T|[T|NG IN
TRENTON TOURNEY
Last-Day Matches All Go to
18th; Finals to 2Oth-Local
Players in Form
SUPER.TECHNIQUE RUlNOUS
By SANDY McNIBLICk


A Nd it was a real golf tournament.
"A No words the morning after, as IT
were. could be truer than that. The last
days play in the second annual invita- =
tion golf tournament of the Trenton
Country Club. even though it was the
very first event of the season on Jersey.
metropolitan or Philadelphia cards.
from which districts it drew. had enough
thrills for a national championship.
Fred knight turned apparent defeat
into a victory when he won the final
round against Woody Platt on the
twentieth hole. The two Philadelphia
invaders and eliminates at Whitemarsb
had turned back all the rest. and a
bitter struggle it was for the verdict.
Each was carried to the eighteenth
green in the semi final before the win.
ming putt was dropped. Platt played
the course morning and afternoon in "A
strokes, vet he was runner-up.
In the morning he tackled George
Hoffner. Bala. The phrase nip and
tuck was made to fit any old match
In which these two ever meet. Actually
Hoffner beat himself. They were all
SQUARE to the fifteenth.
On that green Plat laid Hoffner q
stymie and Hoffner knocked Platt's ball
into the hole. His own stroke lost him
the hole and Hoffner was unable TO re-
cover. The fates had hand in if.
though, for Plat had played the hole
better.
S..,i, puttS Wrocl
With neither making any stroke or
whole match was matter Of constantly
going for the lon: puts.
That will ruin anybody. and many
predicted Platt would he unable to meet
a similar test in the afternoon. Platt
going nicely. however, and the match
against knight in the finals looked as
good as won when Platt came to the
eleventh . up. He was hitting them
sweetly. and only superb work around
the green's saved knight thus far.
Knight won the eleventh, sank q
twenty foot putt at the short twelfth
for a birdie 2. drove the 2S3. yard thtr.
teenth and got down In putt on the
fourteenth. Four holes straight. and he
was . up instead Of 2 down. Platt
won the fifteenth and seventeenth by
beautiful work and the match was
square again.
, Anything could happen and 1t did.
Plat hepled his drive not more than
! thirty yards. It was the first time.
almost. in q tournament he's ever done
that But he came back and was as
| good as Knight with a couple of irons.
You should have heard the private
| 12. foot putt up hill for 4 half.
~ hn IN ofo \ Ia ,,ut< 60.
hung on the very lips Of the cup.
knight WAS steady as could be and,
| when P1att's second took n break into
water ditch forcing him to lift. the
match was virtually over. But the
! rhiladelphians gave them all thrill.
The Trenton otficialE have shown that
as openers, thnv are the best littlo
! openers Of anything.
"Ncver do ANYTHING halfway" II q
! hyuord At the Trenton Country Club,
/ nrd they don't
! Fifteen hundred dollars worth of
! prizes we're presented, the field was
even faster than last year, the course
in prime shape, and the hospitality
super excellent.
No wonder the Trenton tourney gce,
big
Too Nurh Science
One of the most promising players
wc were about 70 say IN tho rough eYo,
to take M golf, Was FreA Gieg, th'
| former star athlete at Swarthmore. u,
was the shining light of that famous
Garnet plecen some nine or ten yoar,
ago which went through u spason
beaten only by Lehigh, 30. wher,
Geg's pass over tho s"al.line was
knocked down in the dark Of the las
play,
Aud then he took no golf. Let hin
tcl' about,
They told mo no one ever played n,
well as I did he first year. got {
pro to lay down the fundamentals fo
me. .'My drives were from $50 to 3Ot
yards and straight down there.
scored TS that summer and in tb
winter ! was under 50 most Of the tim
down South.
"My pro cornrrcd ne when ] go
bnck. Better than ever. | said, whe,
he asked inc how ! was going. Com
over TO the bullper and will show yo,
how to add twenty five yards % you
drives, he urged.
Most guys are satisfied with 25,
yards. Not me. He told me thing
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