Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-07-13
LADIES' HANDICAP
AT CRICKET CLUB
Miss Dickson Is Favorite in Golf
Tourney Over st. Martins
Course
PUBLIC LINKS SC
SCRAP

Though tennis is absorbing a lot Of
attention at the Philadelphia Cricket
Club. golf is by no means n dead issue
there. Yesterday saw the beginning Of
a handicap tournament among the ladies
that will come to its elimination today.
Miss Dickson. the Cricket Club star,
is expected TO win It in spite OF the
fact that she is stalking many Of her
clubmates to heavy handicaps. This
young lady apparently outclnsses the
heid' but IN medal play of this sort an
Unknown oftentimcs makes n race of it
and noses out the star,
Every Saturday at the Cricket Club,
as at nearly every other PHILADELPHIA
INKS, n tournament is run off. either
! four ball matches or the fifty fifty"
tournaments that have become so pop.
ular at the Chestnut Hill Club.
TN July p. 2S and 30 the thirteenth
annual invitation tournament for the
St. Martins Cup will hold the center
OF the stage. This Is one of the biggest
events OF the year at the Philadelphia
Cricket Club and the Golf Committee
looks for record entry list.
The boys nre not overlooked out there
either. and on August I there will be
n, tournament for registered caddips.
lhough the date is quite way off. the
YOUNGSTERS are practicing their an.
nroaches md puts wherever they can
fnd bit of unusued ground From
these matches among the little fellows
some OF the best professionals of the
future may be developed.
The Inverness Golf Club, of Toledo
VIII be the scene Of the first national
public links championship Of the United
Sfatcs some time in August. On tho
classic course where Ted RAY won the
open in 1920, the players who make
thclr game on the city course will meet
I" decide their champion.
a committee has already been formed
III New York to choose tho best prod
vets in the Van Cortland. Mosholu and
Pelham Bay links. 81. Louis. Frisco.
the Northwest. New England nil nrc
heating up in anticipation. but our own
fair village is lagging behind.
New York will pay the expenses of
| th''r municipal golfers to the tourna-
ment: so. in all probability. will n
number of other cities. Philadelphia so
far has made no preparation toward this
end. Yet Council could do no better
than to boost interest in the public
course than by sending a team of five
men to Toledo to represent Philadel-
phia.
Mike Tobin, who broke two records
here in ten days. is going NJ his own
expense. Bob Pierce. II golfer who has
been shooting consistently in the 7OS.
will be in Toledo on business at thc
time of the tournament and will COM
pete. But no team has been organized
vet. With Tobin. Pierce. Joe Coble,
Bob Hamilton and one or two other
Cobbs Creek stars competing at Inver-
ness. Philadelphia would have an ex.
cellent chance to win the public links
championship.
The Standish Cup as well as the title
| Of champion will 60 TO the city whose
! representatives wins. 1t will be worth
Philadelphia while TO see that a team
| i sent out TO the Ohio city in the fading
days of August. An elimination test
| could be held in the near future over
CobbS Creek 10 decide who should 90.
Andy Robertson. who has been the
professional at the Philadelphia Cricket
| club for the last five years. has entered
the Philadelphia open championships,
scheduled at Merton for July 20 and II .
Next week is full Of Importance to
| local golfers, On the 18th and 10th
the postponed intcrclub championship
will be held at Pine Valley. During
the next two days the Philadelphia open
will be staged at Merton. On the
I'D the reception to Walter Hagen.
open golf champion of Great Britain.
and four-ball match between Hagen,
Charley IIoffner, Joe Kirkwood and
either Hutchison or Barnes will be the
feature at PhilmOnt.
! Not to be forgotten is the Newspaper.
men, Golf Association qualifying round
for the Mastbaum Trophy at Phlmon,
on Monday.