Los Angeles herald., 1905-02-27
LOCAL GOLFER
A CLEVER PLAYER
VIM. FREDERICKS0N A CHAM
Pl0NSHlP POSSIBILITY
Annual Meeting Of Western Golf
Association Next Month-Many
Changes To Laws of
Organization

While Walter Fairbanks Of Denver
again won the amateur golf champion
ship of Southern California in the
three days tournament on the Coun-
try club links, there are many enthusi-
asts who firmly believe that the title
and honors would have been taken by
William Frederckson this year II he
was able to maintain his usual stand
ard of play during the entire course
of the contest with Fairbanks. The
latter, of course, fairly earned his VIC
tory. but as he Is a resident of Den
yer Frederickson can be well termed
the resident champion of Southern CAL
ifornia
Fredericton has a style of play dis
tinctivey his own and is one of the
moving spirits in the golf activity in
Southern California. In the recent
matches with the golfers of Pasadena
Fredericton has proved himself to be
the ablest nibliclt knight pursuing the
gutta percha sphere on Southern Cali
fornia links, Fairbanks alone excepted,
anu ullutl Npli'iiNiOiiS iiN - 10
ured trine more effective than the
veteran champion. Fredericton is
confidently expected to win the anna
teur title next year.
With the annual meeting of the
United States Golf association over, the
attention of golfers is directed to the
coming annual session of the Western
- A
Carpenter has sent out the preliminary
notices, with the ticket proposed by the
nominating committee. and the pro-
posed change in the constitution. The
, meeting is to be held March I.
The proposed amendment to section
/ of article is sweeping. The section
now reads: ANY club within 500 miles
of Chicago or west of the Mississippi
river shall be eligible for membership
in this association, provided any such
club is either an associate or an allied
member of the United States Golf as
soCiation."
1t is proposed to amend this so as to
read as follows; "All clubs located in
Buffalo, N. Y, or Pittsburg, Pa, and
all clubs located in the United States
of America west of a north and south
line made to pass through Buffalo and
Pittsburg, are eligible to membership
in this association"
Golf Association Plans
The amendment contemplates killing
two birds with one stone, namely, the
addition of territory beyond the 500
mile limit in the east and doing away
with the clause making it necessary
for clubs first to become members of
the United States Golf association.
The addition of so much eastern ter
ritory, together with the fact that
clubs west as far as the Pacific coast
are eligible, conspire to make the name
western" Inadequate. The associa-
tion is western from an eastern view
point not from a national. Some name
like central would doubtless be bet
! ter.
The main argument in favor of a
club joining the Western Golf associa-
tion is that players of that club will
be allowed to play in the annual anna
| teur championship. If club which
does not contemplate sending any play
| er to the national championship is
| forced to join the u. S. G.. A. solely
| that it may be in position to join the
| w. G. A., it will hesitate before taking
! the double step. If the first fee is
done away with it is believed the clubs
will join the w. G.. A. in numbers.
The bylaw amendment proposed is
that to section 4, which now provides
that none but regular members of
clubs may take part in the associa-
tions championship. The tournaments
"held under the jurisdiction of the as
intended to cover are rather held un-
der the auspices of the clubs holding
them, and the association, as was
proved last year, was powerless to
dictate to the clubs what. golfers should
be allowed to play. even had it wished
to. The clubs annual events, many
of them, were instituted before the
w. G.. A. was organized, and naturally
club assumed itself able to say what
it's tournament conditions should be.
The effect, then, of the amendment
last year was to bar the junior golfers
from the championship, and as some
golfers We're made regular members by
their fathers while others were not. it
worked a hardship.