New-York tribune., 1907-12-30
ON THE GOLF LINKS.
american Amateurs Nay Play an
OHM pic TOurnam IN June.

The Olympic golf tournament is to be held on
June l. 2 and over the Deal course which was
recently admitted of the championship links
of Great Britain. Already plans are under way in
this country for strong representation in the
Olympic athletic games to be held in London, but
Just what America purposes doing as regards golf.
is at present largely matter of conjecture.
The Amateur Athletic Union has turned the golf
part of the programme over to the United States
Golf Association. but thus far the latter has taken
no official action There those who would like
this country represented at Deal in June. and
they believe would simplify matters if the parent
body here would select team Of say. four anna
teurs and defray the expenses OF such team while
abroad.
The United States Golf Association has more
than 10000 in its treasury. that the matter OF
expense need not necessarily stand in the way. AS
for the players, Jerome d. Travers the national
champion, II. Chandler Egan, Walter J. Travis and
Fred Herreshoff would constitute a quartet hard
TO beat. The United States Golf Association paid
attention to the Olympic golf competition held
at ST Louis during the Worlds Fair in 1904.
So far as Deal is concerned. there has been no
end Of comment abroad pro and con over It's right
to be classcd among the championship links II is
a fact that there are sixteen cross bunkers and
blind approaches, The play IS for the most
part fairly straight both out and IN. which sug
gests a certain element Of sameness-
Apropos OF tho stir occasoned hereabouts when
Henry NJ Brown the Philadelphia veteran.
the chief cup In the recent Lakewood tournament.
u foreign publication says:
The American press is making much OF the sue
cess OF Henry NJ. Brown. who at the age OF sixty
OF IS. Hitherto the Americans have only claimed
premacy which has been gratefully conceded but
when they make a fuss about an able oodled man
OF sixty going round in IS # Is evident that In tho
veteran department they are still a young nation
Did old Tom Morris go round St Andrews In
50 when he was eishty-two OF age? lhd h ,l not a
ship? Are not octoGenarian foursonss Things or
almost daily occurrence in midwinter? And then
there ia Cautain Charles l.. Reade, x. n. VINO
ONLY began to play when he was forty-three. ana
was reduced to scratch when he was htty-siX
According to those IN close touch with the SIT
nation in New England the Brae Burn County
Club does not intend TO do any wire pulling In
an endeavor secure the 1908 amateur champion
ship tournament. II IS understood that the Massa-
chusetts golfers will be content TO adopt a con-
servatve policy. relying on the fact that the tour
uament has never been held in that vicinity TO
count In their favor. They are also able TO refer
without words OF apology to the manner in which
the women's national competition conducted
at Brae Burn in 1906.
John Ball ir VINO won the amateur title OF
Great Britain a St. Andrews last spring for the
sixth time IS finishing tho season as brilliantly as
he started In the medal play competition at
Hoyiake on December 7. Ball. John Graham. jr.
and A II. Weaver. tho first two at plus five. and
the latter at plus one, tied for the trophy at s.
II H. Hilton came next, with 81. There were 123
starters.
One-day golf competitions. which have become
popular with the women in this section and Chi
cago have been taken up abroad. The Ladies'
Golf Union has officially decided to encourage these
affairs in future