The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-02-12
NATIONAL GOLF LEGISLATION.
G. ~. MACDONALDS SPEECH AN
Event AT TIE ANNUi Al MEETING.
John VI. Ward Elected President Of Six
Cub League IN New Jcrse>-Meniber-
ship and Quality OF Links Make "
Most Important Team Organization.

John VI. Ward Elected President or Six
Cub League IN New Jrrsey-Member-
ship and Quality OF Links Make "
Most Important Team Organization.
Action regarding tho admission Of repre-
.cntatives OF allied clubs 10 the executive
committee will come up again at the annual
meeting next year Of tho United States Coli
Association. The delegates on Friday night
were disposed TO grant some such conces-
sion. but the amendment voted on was
deemed unconstitutional and this Killed the
project for the timo being. The executive
committee was aslied TO bring up the matter
again in proper shape.
Tho vote OF instruction TO the executive
committee Killed of the two day qualifying
round. and as the delegates had previously
killed on q motion 10 have all match play.
as in 1903 the one thing left. u there Is 70 be
no further quibbling with the expressed
Wishes OF the players. is 10 resume the thirty
six hole qualifying round. This Is what tho
beat players have always declared for in
publio uttcrances and President Thomas ia
the man 10 see that the will OF tho majority
prevails So said the golfers about town
Yesterday. and gossip OF the eort is tho straw
that usually tells how the committee winds
will blow.
There was more oratory than usual at the
annual meeting. The technicaliues Involved
in tho constitutional amendments we're a.
pleasing as a teed up ball 70 the lawyers. ana
Adrian H. 1arkin J. y. c. Tappan, Leighton
Calklns and W 4. Stern played up the diner
ent points with much cleverness Sidney
Foster OF Des Moines. Alan l.. Reid OF chi
cago. A. b. EndIcott OF Atlantic City. Harvey
Murdoch, = Y. Heebner. q. ii. Windeler.
r. o. Horstman and Tracy Harris were also
active in the debates.
Herbert G. ceds the Myopia yhchtsmhn
and golfer. made the hit during the discus
oson over changing the title from associate
clubs TO active clubs, That II seemed TO IN
volve only the purity OF Language and might
better be left to a committee OF college pro-
fegsors
Holders Of the amateur championship
were represented by Findlsy 5. Douglas
and C. B Macdonald The lntter's speech
against the amendments TO the constitution
was declared the best ever made at an annual
meeting and IL WAS an event OF the council,
He sn i'd 10 part:
1T was my privilege with others to aid in the
orgu nlzatlon Of the United states Golf Asso'
citation some ten years ago. In the initial
meetings there vss much discussion as 10
whit form the constitution should take. and
the late Mr.. Have meyer. our hrst president
appointed me to draw up the constitution
with instructions to communicate with the
leading authorities on golf in Scotland ana
u
of opinion in all the replies on two points.
One was praying us TO play the game OF
golf In this country as IL was played abroad,
not to have an American and Scotch game
OF golf so that when coming to the tee one
would not have to ask Are YOU pla wing Ameri-
can golf. or Scotch golf, or Oshkosh eolf!'
THE other point they dwelt upon as i'm
portant was that the legislative body should
be kept small in order 10 be effective TO avoid
vn1F lar all nd n
avoid politics II seems to me the United
states Golf Association is now drifting away
from these principles
L we'll remember how Mr.. Havemeyer
our first president. felt regarding the de-
velopment and growth Of the association.
After mature elaboration. the organizers
de termined that IL Was necessary 70 have a
property and educational qualification TO
merit golfers having voice in It's affairs,
thereby making tho legislation oil the seIeoted
committee intelligent.
The question arose how much educauonhl
and pr9perty auaiImeaIomr , smouiH d 1
that the method of discrimination by which we
should decide should be the quality o. me
course over which the members played. II not
only requires intelligence, but 1t also takes
money TO build good so T., cOgpse ,rod 70
have two classes OF members Any repre-
/ sentative club. where the links. accommoda
tons and bylaws were such rs 10 make ~
L
-ociate member. All other clubs could nlly
Themselves with the association by paying
a small fee.
ments proposed the association would cease
TO be what it has always been. a deliberate
and conservative body? Does u not occur
TO you that with clubs orga nized In thrty-hYe
States this organization has been growing
and expanding about rs satisfactorily as ne
best friends could wish? Do you know OF
any private club that has been, on the whole
more successfully managed? / am opposed
TO any change.
Six Of the leading clubs IN New Jersey
were organized yesterday into league for
home and home matches to be played this
season In the aggregate membership Of
the clubs the clubhouse accommodations
and the fact that each ia in possession OF mn
eighteen hole course. the league Is the most
important ever organized n the East. i not
OF Y In, United mi ststes Golf Association. and
the other four. Montclair. North Jersey
Essex County and Englewood, are allied
! become associate members for the asking.
! All the six are loyal members OF the New
Jersey state Association, and the league il
| merely 20 systematize the matches that tho
| clubs have had between themselves every
season in an informal way
In these respects the league il similar To
the older New Jersey leagues Of smaller Clubs,
q >. Inst Jersey and abe Central ard 20 IN I
which was formerly maintained as the North
Shore Jersey League The delegates TO tho
! meeting. which was held at the Office OF John
NJ. Ward. we're;
BaltuSrol. Louis p. BayArd. Jr Enrewood.
! " T. T. Moore and Frank N. Wilson. HsseG County.
! C. " O'Cunnof: Morris County. john O. Rates;
Montclsir. John NJ. Ward. Nor'h jersey. Archibald
! Graham.
John NJ Ward WINS elected president,
/ c. W. O'Connor vice president NJ. Wilson,
/ secretary reasurer md Messrs Rayard,
] Graham and Moore as the executive com
/ mittec The choice OF a distinctive name
/ for the league, the framing OF by laws and the
/ playing schedule were left u a sub committee,
/ Messrs Moore Bayard and Wynant y. Van
/ derpool Of Morris county .
! II vas fixed definitely that each team shall
/ play ten matches. five at home and FIVE abroad
! and that a handsome trophy snail be awarded
/ 10 the winning team. also that no club shall
/ play on It's team a member who has not be-
! longed 10 the organization for at leAst slAty
days.
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