Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-05-22
STYM|E SETTLES
TOURNEY OUTCOME
Marcus Greer Really Won Sea-
shore Golf Finals Against
Beadle on New Ruling
LOCAL SWEEPS CLEAN
ny SANDY McN1BIlCk


MARCUS GREER. the night before
AVA the last two rounds for the honors
in the annual golf tournament at At.
| lantic City. remarked that he was glad
the stymie had been restored. lie said
he thought II was a good thing because
it gave an expert golfer a chance. at the
same time requiring a skilled shot TO
overcome.
He had no idea how much part IL was
to play in his own fate on the morrow.
A stymie he laid his Llanerch ciubmntc.
John Beadlc. in the final round the next
day was really responsible for Grecr's
ultimate victory. one up on the TWEEN
tieth, and Il was the first tournament
since il was restored where stymie has
virtually settled the issue.
How Come
Greer had traied every hole Of the
way and suddenly began 10 skid and was
only one up when they teed on at the
| eighteenth. which he also played rag
gedly.
Roth developed stage fright in front
Of the gallery banked around the green.
Greer was n foot from the hole in ).
Bcadle foot on the other side in @.
Greer putted brusquely. the ball hit
The back Of the cup and hung there. a
| dead stymie on Bcadle.
If Beadle could get down he'd be ons
up FOR the match He'd lost in four
final rounds last year and wanted tha,
! one.
! lie souinted algebraically trigono.
! metrcaliy and every other way at that
| line IN for several minutes
Finally he putted and knocked Grcer's s
ball in for win. That was the works
II made the match all-sguare.
After n hair raising half at the nine.
| teenth. Greer stuck one on q mound at
the twentieth. Rcadle's chance.
But there was n lake in front OF the
tee and n stiff wind blowing in their
faces.
What could be more human" muir.
INJURED the gallery. than TO top one into
| the lake,
And that's just whn. John Beadie
did. You may figure that this shot cost
Bendle the victory.
But II you'd seen that stymie you d
know that il told Greer palmer than
words that twas his day--to keen on
and that fate would hand him the plum
and cup. sooner or later
anu !ASVVuUtcu
The most terrible conditions hat ever
reigned a. the stormy seashore links prc. &.
vailed the day before and on qualifying
day so that the field was rudcly scat :
tered and manv failed to play at nil.
Consequently the first flight was per :
hnps no; as strong as It otherwise would
have been under better weather condi :
tions.
This resulted in passably easy voy Z.
age for the four or five hand picked
favorites. but they began to get close IA
the rocks by the time the semi fnala
were reached.
John Beadle and Fred Knight. who
met in the finals last year Of the same
tourney. crossed brassies in the semi =
final this time and Beadle got revenge
for the licking he got last year.
Beadle was the winner this time by
3 and 4. gracias 10 the fact that he was
out in 81 and was two over 4s on 4
good. windy day when the match ended
Knight. on the other hand. was not
getting up his puts. which. combined
with the fact that Beadlc dropped a
couple from across the green. broke up
the party.
Marcus Greer met Tom Wooton. the
sentimental scashore golfer. in the other
semi-fnn and this was corkor alf the
way. Wooton = girl followed him around
and Tommy only had his mind on the
game in spots.
This was Fred Knights vountar;;
analysis Of the match. anyhow.
BlusI, Of Pride
But Wooton put the blush of pride
in his fiancee's checks more than once
with the terrific battle he put up. In
deed. occasionally II looked as il he d
be the winner.
lie was hitting the bumps around the
sixteenth. where he put one out Of
bounds, and was down two and two to
play. Then he did his stuff and
squared
The battle began to look like melo &.
drama, but the Goddess Of Bum Luck
overlook Wooton on the nineteenth
tee.
He hoisted his frame too much on
his tee shot and the ball hoped mis-
erably down there in one of those
topped efforts entitled the golfers
busted hopes. When Greer aimed a
French 10 shot into the wind which
never laid down till it passed tho butr
Of the bunker guarding the dog lee
farway. the song was sung and the
works were shot for lHump Tommy.
He staggered on his way 10 the hole
through the waving grasses. the banana
trees and the what mot so that he lay
Ave on the green almost before Greer
had finished playing three.
To make it unanimous, Greer sank &
ten foot putt. and that was that.
Greer made II clean sweep in tht
great tourney. getting both thc media
and the final cup. II was his seconC
tournament on successive Saturdays
for he also won the Rala final las
week lie looks like one Of the very
best bets in the Philadelphia district
His only weakness. many find. II
his inability to chip close enough fror
of the green.
But how about the one he holed II
the final from twenty yards of thu
fifteenth