New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-04-25
COLE.
OPPOSITION TO THE CHOICE OF JULY
FOR THE AMATEUR CHAMPIONSHIP

There Is a possibility that the date Of the Ma
tional Amateur Championship may be changed a
movement is foot. fostered by some OF tns
leading golfers. TO call a special meeting OF the
United States Golf Association to deal NOT only
with this question. but with others relative TO the
conduct of the championship. Strong opposition
is developing against the arbitrary action OF the
executive committee in passing upon questions
which every golfer understood were to be lett 10
popular vote at special meeting of the associa-
ton.
In commenting upon this action Findiay Douglas.
the metropolitan champion, said: Il certainly un-
derstood that the various changes suggested oS
President Robertson at the annual meeting were
to be passed upon a later meeting and not ietr
the executive committee"
Walter j. Travis the national champion. has
taken occasion in the current issue of golfers
Weekly to express his disapproval OF the connInt~
tees action in following words:
At the last annual meeting the president an
nounced that the various changes suggested. stich
of playing etc involving as they did such radical
changes-woud be submitted to a vote at Special
atinrs contemnIsted IN h. a verv serious question
whether il is wise policy to invest the executives
committee with such autocratic power Nor IS
chief reason in the past why delegates from the
various allied clubs should come from an secuons
Of the country TO the annual meeting OF the Jn'eo
States Golf Association? The paramount object IA
coming champi0nStins OF the current year. Re-
this and the delegates simply listen to ac-
9qh these OF meetings naturally to the detr
ment of the good of the game generally
Regarding the selection of July for the amateur
tournament Mr.. Travis protests that grave mis-
take has been made. and his Judgment Is being
echoed by hundreds of other players who bellows
that July is of the question. owing to the In
tense heat Two years at Garden city. when
July date chosen the competitors were
anmOus ir declaring that such tournament
should again be held in that month The
players who survived the semi-inalS were physical
ly exhausted by the strain. and several narrowly
csc med frqt 10
advocate a repetition of that experience. yet In
spite of that fact the committee has decided on tho
week of July H.
Another we'll known BaItusrol golfer. in referring
to the choice. said Yesterday The selection was
made presumably in the interests OF the college
boys who will be free at that time, but the college
boys have yet failed to appear in other attn
Ietic contests in time. and I see no reason
why they should have much consideration from
the United States Golf Association Certainly
none of the older players want to spend week In
Chicago in the very middle of summer, and nope
the executive committee can be prevailed upon to-
make change
Another reason for opposing the July date Is that
Western golfers themselves not particularly
pleased with the choice. Their season Is four
weeks that of Eastern clubs. which gives
them scarcely time enough in which to reach their
best form Having the championship award.
they naturally anxious to make a creditabis
showing. and this they feel would be more likely X
the date s deferred until fall
Although formal action has vet been taken to
the present decision. II is felt that the
executive committee cannot withstand the pressure
being brought bear from individual sources to
revise the Tournaments dates