Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-05-04
FIVE LOCAL STARS
PLAYING FINE GOLF
Knight, Plat, Ho4ner, Greer
and BeadIe All Show Great
Form at Trenton
SNAPPY TILTS PROMISED
By SANDY McNIBLICK


1ONE week before the big whirl of the
~ local golf season gets under way
the conversational hum along the local
links rialto is dropping barragc OF
plaudits on five golfmen who arc step
ping out.
The Trenton tournament last wccl;
was played under what might be called
summer conditions and the. play there
furnishes n pretty fair idea as to
how the Quaker City experts are going
to travel this year.
The golf was inclined to be little
spotty hereabouts last year. The
leaders were always good for hard
match. but no one player was either
able to win consistently nor did they
seem to play up to their best stand
ard at all times. This year the re-
| port was that the leading players were
right on top Of their games for the
start of the season and the Trenton
fitting proved it.
Two Hard Matches
Fred knight. Whitemarsh, won and
| played two notable matches. One was
| with J. Wood Platt. Whitemarsh, in
| the finale. which ended only on the
twentieth hole. The other was with
Marcus Greer In the second round.
| was two down going to the eleventh.
won four holes straight to be two up.
| was square in three more holes, hnd
finally won the match in two extra
holes.
Against Greer knight was l down
and . to play, He got bird on the
seventeenth and won the match at the
eighteenth, Greer's jonah hole.
knight was tied for the second in the
qualifying round with 78. He is
playing for score in order to lower his
handicap to get on the national el!gibil-
ity list. Not long ago he had two
rounds over the No. course at North
field. Is and "a. the same day in a
medal match.
Great Golf
His best ball was a snappy 60. which
deserves place in the public prints.
knight
Out A 2 Z 3 4 4 4 3 6-36
In .....3 1 Q 3 : 3 4 5 433-60
Platt played fine. nervy golf through
out. The final day he had two 14s
at Trenton, vet he lost. His tee shots
are longer than ever and his putting,
his main weakness last year, has come
back to him. AS result he's SO per
cent more confident.
That twelve-foote uphill on the
eighteenth to halve with knight after
missing his tee shot sadly was a fine
piece Of work at Trenton. Plat has
been ranging close to par all spring.
George Hoffner is back on the same
old form. He lost only in the semi.
final to Platt. but that was one Of
those close things where neither is ever
more than ! up. and it's anybody's
match all the way. Hoffner, too, IS
putting In 1920 form. He proved his
worth in the tourney by dusting off
Rudy Knepper. one of the best young
players in the country, and the ramping
favorite at Trenton till he met Signor
Hoffner.
Marcus Greer's game looks much bet
ter than just after the war, when he
was with us for a brief stay before
going to Canada. Up there he won the
Quebec amateur. broke course records,
played with the best of them and Is an
improved and dangerous player.
Another player who is very much on
the move IS John Beadle. The latter
had season which was only fair. He
failed by a stroke or 80 to qualify at
| Trenton. but fell among fast company
In the second. He knocked them all off
| there winning the final