Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-03-14

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 in Louisville, the two days following at | Indianapolis, and April 13 they tackle West Virginia, playing in Wheeling.
 International Athletics.
 International athletics have become
 so important and interesting a part of 1 the annual indoor and outdoor pro-
 granmes that we do not consider year successful unless it provides events of this nature in the various pastimes simultaneously popular on both sides of the Atlantic. During the last decade America and England have 1 been unmistakabIe leaders in interna- tional athletics, such as rowing, track and field sports, golf polo, cricket. ten- his and swimming, and also in yacht- 1 ing and horse racing. This year will ] be no exception to the rule. Many l joint contests have already been ar l ranged, with others still in the balance, and when the curtain rises in the spring the outdoor sportsmen will have unequaled--in fact, unsurpassed-op- ! portunities to be actual witnesses of contests between American and British athletes.
 While our sportsmen are going abroad in large numbers to compete, a still greater delegation of Britishers is expected to come over here, which arrangement is eminently satisfactory to the folk who cannot see their way clear to journey to the other side. American Versus British Golfers. One of the most interesting interha- l tional events of the year will be the | matches between American and British golfers. The United States Golf asso- of the Oxford and Cambridge society a famous English organization composed of men from these great universities, to come over and participate in our l open championship tournament to be held at the Baltusrol Golf club, Morris l town N. J. The collegians have decided l to accept the invitation, and conse- quently the meet will be the most in | teresting of the series. Not since the year Harry Vardon and J. H. Taylor, ] both former open champions of Great ! Britain, finished in the order named in our open tourney have Englishmen ap- peared in one of our championship l meets. The match in which Vardon won the open championship of Amer l ica, with Taylor as runner up, took place in 1900 on the links of the Chi cago Golf club
 The United States Golf Association. The recent annual meeting of the l United States Golf association disposed l of many important matters, among them being the election of officers and the allotment of championship tourna- ments. The spirited fight of the vest l ern representatives, resulting in the awarding of the women's championship | to the Chicago Golf club, was one of the striking features of the meeting. The new officers have been chosen from representative sections of the country, and their election has found favor everywhere. They are: Presi- dent, G. Herbert Windeler, Country club, Brookline, Mass; vice presidents, E.. P. Martin, Chicago Golf club, and Adrian H. Larkin. Yountakah Country club, Nutley, N. J.; treasurer, Samuel Y. Heebner, Philadelphia Country club;
 secretary, Maturin Ballou, Apawamis
 Golf club, Rye, N. Y.; members of the
 executive committee, which also in-
 cludes the officers, Thomas Taylor, Jr.,
 Onwentsia Golf club, Lake Forest, H.,
 near Chicago, and Daniel ,Chauncey, Garden City (N. Y.) Golf club.
 The Amateur Championships.
 The amateur championship play will
 take place during the week beginning
 Aug. 31 on the course of the Nassau
 Country club, Glen Cove, N. Y. The
 leading women's event has been
 awarded to the Chicago Golf club.
 Western Golfers and the U. s. G. A.
 The success of the national amateur
 tourney held last summer at the Glen
 View Golf and Polo club at Golf, H.,
 near Chicago, showed the golfers of
 the west and middle west that their
 long standing claim to @ standing of
 importance equal to that of their east
 ern rivals was well founded. It has
 also encouraged them to so great an
 extent that they are making still more
 determined efforts to secure for their
 territory just share of the champion
 ship journeys at the disposal of the
 governing body, the United States Golf
 association, which in the past, it must
 be admitted. has shown decided favorit-
 ism toward eastern organizations.
 Chicago golfers are particularly anx-
 ious to hold national meets, and their
 fight this year for the womens tourna-
 ment will long be remembered. A peti-
 ton signed by more than a score of
 clubs was placed before the U. S. G. A.
 at it's recent annual meeting, and natu-
 rally such strong argument could not
 pass unheeded.
 Clearly if the U. s. G. A. desires to
 continue it's career as the national gov
 erning body it must be more generous
 in it's attitude. Sectional antagonism
 should not be aroused, and, more inn
 portant still, when aroused should not
 be aggravated. A revolt openly and
 strongly conducted would split the U. s.