Los Angeles herald., 1907-08-15
AFTER
GOLF EVENT
cLEvELANp's SUCCESSFUL WAY
MAKES CONSERVATIVES
SEVERAL CLUBS MAY BID FOR
TOURNAMENT
Women's Tourney VIII Also Go tc
Atlantic Seaboard, While West
VIII Take Care of Open
Championship

NEW YORK, Aug. I.-American golfers
are beginning to speculate on the cham-
pionship awards for 1908.
At present it certainly looks well for the
east, and 1t seems probable that at least
two of the national events will be held
along the Atlantic seaboard.
Nearly a dozen clubs with first class
links were in the field for the recent
amateur championship, the blue ribbon
affair In American golf, but the unusual
form of wire pulling and generally breezy
methods adopted by the Cleveland dele
cation completely nonplussed the conser-
vative New England representatives, who,
headed by G. Herbert Windeler, had at.
tended the annual meeting in Chicago
fully expecting to secure the 1907 amateur
tournament for one of the Boston courses.
incidentally, 1t may be said that the tao
tics employed so successfully by the
Clevelanders have proved an eye-opener
for many of the golfers, especially in the
east
Boston Too Slow
In years gone by Boston could have had
the amateur championship for the asking.
1t never has had this tournament, and 1t
is safe to say 1t never will until II
awakens to the changed conditions and
does a certain amount of hustling when
the right time arrives. At all events, an
official who takes a prominent part in the
affairs of the United Golf association says
that by right of rotation at least the next
amateur tourney should be decided some
where in the east.
This official says that personally he
would like to see the event go to the
Garden City BY the time the 1908 season
rolls round it will have been eight years
r,1,f,N rN1a x-oI x-aT.
this Long Island course. 1t was there in
1900 that Walter ], Travis won his ma
tional honors for the first time, but since
then the eighteen-hole circuit has under
gone many changes Its greater length,
scientific arrangement of hazards and
billowy putting greens make the course
much better championship test than was
possible in former years, and for that
reason 1t is just possible that Garden City
may enter the field again next season.
Myopia May Bid
Professionals who have played on My
opia's links at Hamilton. Mass, say IT is
the best test they know of anywhere.
Heretofore Myopia has refused to offer
it's course for the amateur because of the
inability to accommodate a large number
of persons in the clubhouse. This has
been unfortunate, especially for the Bos-
ton district, which has all along admitted
that Myopia represented its only real
test. There is reason to be-
lieve now, however, that Myopia is about
to emerge from it's shell. The first indi-
cation of a move in this direction came at
the last annual meeting, when Mr. Win
deler announced that he believed If the
were offered to Myopia the
club would accept. But this old style
method stood absolutely no show against
the Cleveland machine" Consequently,
the Bay State, admittedly one of the
greatest golfing centers in all America,
has yet to be the scene of a national ANA
teur championship.
But should, for one reason or another,
Garden City and Myopia not prove avail
able there are several other desirable
courses. AS a matter of fact, the
Apawamis, Baltusrol and Deal clubs
would have been glad to have handled the
recent amateur event, although the burn
ing of the Apawamis clubhouse last win.
ter may have changed that organizations
plans for the future.
Possibly, because Baltusrol was the
scene of the 1904 tournament, there might
be reluctance on the part of some to
have the links near Short Hills, N. j.,
again given the preference. But, like Gar
den City, the Baltusrol course has been
along scientific lines, so that
it has now become a rival of Myopia as
golfing test. While it may be deemed ad-
visable to award the 1908 tournament to
some other club. the golfers could make
no mistake should they again favor Bal
tusrol.
Deals Long Course
Then there is Deal, with its wide ex-
panse of fairway and heartbreaking
length of the outward journey. Velvety
rat
that he is beating round the longest
circuit in the country. Re-
cent club house improvements place the
Deal organization in an excellent position
to handle large number of persons.
Here is an array of eastern courses. any
of which would afford an ideal test for
a national championship, But 1t may be
Just as well, when the time comes for
real action, for the eastern applicants to
use a little tact by getting together and
casting a unanimous vote for some one
club, and not to be caught mapping, as
was the case at the last annual meeting
where Cleveland secured the entire sup
port of the delegates from the Chicago
district The west will, of course, as 1t
always is, be in the field with one or two
offers.
Women's Tourney in East
The fact that this years national
woman's championship is to be held over
the links of the Midlothian Country club,
near Chicago, in October practically
means an eastern selection for 1905 An
other thing which makes this seem the
more certain lies in the fact that the
women's associations of the east and
west are holding annual team matches
Immediately preceding the national tour
naments So far as the selection of a
course is concerned, the choice would
seem to lie between the Philadelphia and
metropolitan districts. Boston had the
women last year, and it is no secret that
Philadelphia would like to have the 1905
attraction Thus far no club hereabouts
has expressed any special desire to land
this tournament, but a little later there
will undoubtedly be several In the race.
Following out this line of reasoning il
looks as though the west will have to be
content with the open. The professionals
played for the national title this year at
Philadelphia.
MAeNATE RED PERKINS