The sun., 1908-01-19
GOLF CHAMPIONSHIP DATES
SCHEDULES COMPLETED FOR
THE TITLE EVENTS.
New Executive Committee holds MlOinlkht
Session After Annual MeetIns-Re-
formed System Of Play Adopted for
Amateur EVent--DInlcr OG Onicers.

Dates for the IOOS golf ohamp pionshlDs have
been nxed In this order: Open championship.
! holder. Aleck Ross. Boston. at Myopin August
! n and Is: amateur championship. now held
! by Jerome u. Travers. New York. at Garden
| City. September, ii-i0; women s champion
ship, holder. Miss Margaret Curtis, Boston, &C
! Chevy Chase. October 1924.
! After the annual meeting OF the United
I States Golf Association ON Friday night the
| new executive committee went into session
| and arranged the schedule. Myopia virtually
| selected its own dates. and tho women had pc
/ titiOned for an October lxture The amateur
championship was in duly last year. bat this
was found too early by the Westernes,
petition from them had requested a date not
earlier than the nrst week In September and
the executive committee took heed Of t in
assigning the days. The placing of the ma
tional contests 80 late opens the way for golfers
to take trips to the spring events in Great
Britain and also gives a clear Held to the local
championships.
A new system o. playing the amateur
championship that had been referred with a
rush TO the executive committee at the meet
ing when presented as a petition signed by
100 prominent golfers was adopted. The
details provide for medal play on Monday
and Tuesday forenoons. thlrty-twO survivors
to play matches in the afternoon and after
that all thirty-six hole matches.
Daniel Chauncey brought up the business
at the committee meeting a. soon rs the
dates had been scheduled. lie said a. the
plan had been presented at the request OF the
leading amateurs there should be no option
as to what must be done and no two ways OF
action. President Chauncey therefore rec
commended the adoption Of the new method
OF play.
The other committeeman agreed with him
and they cOlncided with the petitioners In
the belief that the ideal system had been
found. The one change suggested was TO
make all the match play at thirty-six holes
instead of the opening round of Tuesday
afternoon being at eighteen holes. The
committee. however. did not change the
method as sent to II by the petitioners and
upheld President ChaunCeys position by
adopting 1t without . dissenting vote.
The clubs to cast votes BY delegates or
proxies at the U. s. G.. A. annual meeting
were:
Country, Alex Brtton: Baltusrol Golf Parker
chevy Chase. Alex Bfiiton: Columbia Coli. j. ".
Mckinley. BrooRlne Country. herbert Jacques;
Club Of LaEsvood & x ds FOfsa: Deal Joseph
Il RyEns EkwsROs RNsT n, y L TAElO5 E3sl1ESSSSi ES
Club, Als1 S%rttop % E5mSOT Country, siLas m H.
r. K. Robertson: Glen Echo Country. Alex Brit,on::
Glen View, Capt. X. ". Hunt HomewOod. Alex
K T. Thomas; Iyopls, HsfSsT. c. leeds: Nassau.
Andtew p AlvOrd; Oakley, q. II. WlndeieT; Phil
SqieEe, $. Hsebacr PaiSReid. LeFason c
aims; Rock Island Alex BrttOn s.. Andrews, c. ".
n o. BAvsmeyer; WySagyL James r. Turner.
In searching for proVies from Western.
clubs RrittOn said very franSly that as Chew
wOmens championship he wanted to hold
this time winning hand.
u. o. Hayemeyer, son OF Theodore Have
never. the frat president and leading founder
OF the organization. attended the meeting
eight who have served on the ea eCutivs COM
mittee theodore Hsvemever IL the Oniv
one dead. theodore sheldon OF IhiCagO.
who had been elected Vice president. died be
fore qualifying. Ihe dinner for past and
present committeeman held before the an
Laurence curtis was the onlr living former
president not at the board In the part,
Ransom Il. Thomas. 6. {. Nagdopaid. Herbert
e. Leeds, ADRIAN y lartln. r; II. Robertson,
BageFerr, ii. J. WhiEhan. e.. +. 'Wiliets.
Danicl Chauncev. who had the head Of the
table; W GLOVES Morgan. Leighton Calkins.
Herbert JaHues. AIeN ErttOn. sIlas H. Strawn
As a supplement to the annual dinner a
change is suggested that started among
those who virtually dned with Duke Hum
Dhrey while the officials were feasting. IL
Is that the business meeting be held i1 the
q. \. members. he held in the evening. Sub
scribers will pay for their tickets and the
The dinner, u is thought, will become in golf
what the (iimcrack Club dinner is TO the
British turf place lot tne , ex position oi the
ks il is now, the business follows the late
ventilated or reforms discussed the dele
gates are worn out. Their patience is ex-
room about midnight. with many OF the topics
left undiscussed, II seems established that
nriW "a w NhlmninnQhtN
details and the routine business would be
settled in the AFTERNOON. AZ the dinner
Sppsrtsinins 70 the game. With a free debate
on the topics that would ,,o2 crop Hp' The w idea
where a general dinner is always part OF the
annual gathering OF the Western Golf AssO-
Clatlon
Raymono A. Greene Of Passsic became
president for the second year OF the YOuntakah
nsR Pierce sGs and PsTsy asfs0S Esrs
elected vice-presdeDts; Il. E. Kip and V. l..
M'Oq sbs q Cries s.Ss.6 3 KEGSHr ISS%SG
trustees and committees were appointed:
Trustees until ieOo-George, A.; Milne, George
sSs and HsSbv L s Sp0SfRsSS %.% gG OS iS, s.
CHS W j. BERG and s a HsS HIHSo,a. chairman
william Abbott l. s. GOOdsDeed. J. B. AcEermsn
and l.. Clark.
Hciirlch, z v. HerricE, S. <. Magic aud ?. L.
Pierce
Daniel Chauncey, who Is president Of the
Dyker Meadow Golf Club as well as Of the
United States Golf Association. had the chair
at the annual dinner last ght In the Hamii-
ton Club. \ remarkable summary OF golf
facts was read by Secretary +. j. Phillips.
There were seventy-six competitions at the
club during 1907. which had 2,357 entries.
February was the only blank month No
vemher was the most active. the ten com
petitions attracting aBI entries. There we're
seven monthly handicRps. about fifty cup or
prize competitions and bw enty-siK were ball
sweeps. Ia all l22 prizes were yed for by
100 members. OF whom forty-six won prizes.
One took nine. another Ave, three won four
and seven won three prizes each. Marshall
Whitlatch. who plays at Dyker Meadow only
when winter puts the Montclair course In
door sha no. had the best record.
Nhitlatch won the club championship, the
Grow ell MADDEN, Jr. memorial petition,
three lowest gross score prizes, three other
first pri res and he also equalled A. T. Dwlghts
competitive amateur record for the course Of
-. Last years champion, W. b. Rhett. was ,
runner up this year. James i, Taylor won the
Maxwell memorial cup, and T. Ashley Dent |
the governors cup The 1907 record leads
the clubs lists In 1905 there were ninety |
one orunettions with 1884 entries; in 1905
seventy eight competitions With $50 entries, !
and IN 1904 there we're nfty-nVe events With /
91B entries
\. L. Smylis, the Dyksr poet laureate, had /
a new batch of songs ready. and there were I
talks by Martin w. Dittleton, AlInet +. jerks !