The sun., 1905-08-20
new COLLEGE GOLF TROPHY.
UNITED STATES ASSOCIATION HAS
PUT UP FINE CUP.

PUT UP FINE CUP.
Westerners Call Down the Executive COM
nittee for Violating Constitution-Msi.
feasance in once. High Treason ana
wrongful Use OF Funds Charged.
There is a fine hubbub out Chicago way
over the gift Of a $1,000 perpetual team
ohampionship cup to the intercollegiate
Coli Association by the United States COLI
Association. Tho trouble has seethed ior
q month or 80, and tho pot boiled over
during the recent amateur championship
at tho Chicago Coli Club. Certain western
golfers have said right out in meeting
that II was use Of the orgsnizations
surplus, which Is around $4,000. not war
ranted by the constitution and consequently
a violation Of official trust by the members
Of the executive committee. 1t has also
been urged, Crafts w. Higgins OF the West
srn Golf Association being the spokesman
for the kickers, that the gift was a sop 70
the Eastern college golfers, and snub to tho
college players Of the West.
The wind seems taken from the sails
of the assailants on the latter point by
the fact that Western colleges are eligible
to Join tho intercollegiate Golf Association:
1t is true that it's tournaments are limited
to It's members, the golf clubs OF Harvard
Yale, Princeton, Columbia, Cornell and tho
University Of Pennsylvania, but the bars are
not down to the admission OF other men,
bers, North, South East or West. No sec-
tional line Is drawn and more members,
willing to share the cost and burden OF tne
tournaments, will be very welcome.
The United States Golf Association COM
mittee has no official knowledge OF any
protest against it's action. In an informal
way. however. its members who were at
Wheaton spoke vigorously enough on the
publicly made criticisms Of its gift. which
has been accepted by the college boys.
They are empowered by the constitution,
Article H., "to promote interest in the game
Of golf say the committeeman. and that
settles it, The Intercollegiate Golf Asso-
citation. which had to hustle to raise $500
for one trophy, is now IA consequence
in possession OF two trophies, both paid for'
and thereon hinges story.
College golf had its inception at Yale
through the activity of John Reid. Jr., son
Of the first president and ruler for years
Of the st. Andrews Golf Club; Roderick
Terry and w. r. Belts, who had learned
at Shinnecock Hills; E. M. Byers and Walter
b. Smith. In 1897 there was enough in
terest in the game to demand, in the opinion
OF the Ardsley Club committee, in which
John T. Terry and NJ. 8. Patton we're leaders,
an organization OF college golfers. Invita-
tions were sent out to the colleges known
to have discovered golf asking them to
send delegates to a meeting at the Univer-
sity Athletic Club to consider the project.
Here the Rev. Roderick Terry, father OF
the Yale player, told the boys Of the offer
Of the Ardsley Club This was that the
club would give fine trophy for semi
annual intercollegiate team match on
condition that the first three contests should
be held on the Ardsley links; also, that the
trophy should be in play until won three
times by the same college, and that as long
as Ardsley should be the battle ground the
club would present a miniature reproduc-
ton OF the cup to each member OF the win
ming team as souvenir.
No sooner said than done. The college
boys closed at once with the sportsrnan- n
like offer, and the first tournament took
place at the Ardsley Club In the fall Of 1897
Harvard Yale, Princeton and Columbia were
represented, the University OF Pennsyl-
vania and Cornell not sending players
until later Yale won that year and also
In the spring of 1898. The next fall there
was tie between Yale and Harvard, which
had been second in the two earlier contests.
and on the play-of at eighteen holes the
Harvard team scored it's first win.
Then the venue was changed to Garden
City, and it was decided to hold only an
annual competition. Harvard Won again.
with Princeton as runner up. There was
no match in 1900, and in 1901, this time at
Atlantic City, Harvard won its third VIC
tory and took the Ardsley cup. for keeps,
Yale being runner up. At the annual
Golf Association assessed each Of the mem
bers SiOO to buy a new trophy. The COL
lere boys have had to buy their own medals
since 1890, and on this account the new
trophy has been paid for In full only this
year, yNin,.r. and runner, up since have been:
Yale and Harvard, 1902, at Garden City;
Harvard and Princeton, 1908, at Morris
County; again Harvard and Princeton,
1904, at Garden City. and, last fall. Harvard
last year were to clean up the schedule
go az to. have only a fall match thereafter,
the double event being necessary because
a spring match had been fxed on the year
before. 1t was finally decided that fall
match would be more interesting. az it
at each college.
Az Harvard has now three successive
wins on the trophy, il the conditions were
the same as for the Ardsley cup. It would
then OF Columbia. and president OF the
intercollegiate Golf Association when the
cup was ordered. is Of the opinion that it
was to be perpetual trophy Malcolm
McBurney Of Harvard. now the president
is Of the opinion that it was to be won out,
but by four wins instead Of three. He is
now trying to find what were the oondi-
tions, as there seems to be connict Of
ideas regarding them, and the subject will
be settled at the annual meeting.
Meantime, the team to win in the inter
collegiate at Garden City. this October
will receive the custody Of this cup and
also Of the new one from the United States
gift, IL to be always the trophy but the
Intercollegiate Golf Association will con-
inue to run of the tournaments and buy
tit - 81 I.