Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-08-20
EASTERN CLUBS
AFTER TOURNEY
NEXT GOLF CHAMPIONSHIP
MATCH AT MY0PIA
METHODS USED BY CLEVELAND
CLUB CRITICISED
Atlantic Coast Golfers VIII Make
Strenuous Efforts to Have 1909
Tournament Awarded
to East

American golfers are beginning to
speculate on the championship awards
for 1909. According to local golfers
it certainly looks well for the east
and it seems probable that at least
two of the national events will be held
along the Atlantic seaboard.
Nearly a dozen clubs with f1rst-class
links were in the field for the recent
amateur championship, the blue RIB
bon affair in American golf, but the
unusual form Of wire pulling and gem
orally breezy methods adopted by the
Cleveland delegation completely nom
plussed the conservative New England
representatives, who, headed by G..
Herbert Windeler, had attended the
annual meeting at Chicago, fully ex-
pecting to secure the 1908 amateur
tournament for one of the Boston
courses. Incidentally 1t may be said
that the tactics employed so success
fully by the Clevels nders have proved
an eye opener for many of the golf
ers, especially In the east
In years gone by Boston could have
had the amateur championship for the
asking. 1t never has had this tourna-
ment and it is safe to say 1t never
will until 1t awakens to the changed
conditions and does a certain amount
of hustling when the right time ar
rives. At all events an official who
taxes q part III IuS eIALdiA .
of the United Golf association and who
at the present time is a guest at the
Los Angeles Country club, says that
by right of rotation at least, the next
amateur should be decided somewhere
in the east.
Want Event at Long Island
This official says that personally he
would like to see the event go to the
Garden City BY the time the 1909
season rolls around 1t will have been
nine years since the championship was
played over this Long Island course
1t was there in 1900 that Walter j.
Travis won his national honors Tor
the first time, but since then the
eighteen-hole circuit has undergone
many changes. It's greater length,
scientific arrangement of hazards and
billowy putting green's make the course
a much better championship test than
was possible in former years, and for
that reason 1t Is possible that Garden
City may enter the field again next
season.
Professionals who have played on
Myopia's links at Hamilton, Mass,
saw it is the best test they know of
anywhere. Heretofore Myopia has re-
fused to offer it's course for amateurs,
because of the inability to -accomrno-
date a large number of people In the
club house. This has been unfortu-
nate, especially for the Boston dis
trict, which has all along admitted
that Myopia represented its only real
championship test. There Is reason to
believe now, however, that Myopia Is
about to emerge from its shell. The
first indication of move in this d.
rection came at the last annual meet
ing, when Mr.. Windeler announced
that he believed that If the champion
ship were offered to Myopia the cup
would accept. But this old style
method stood absolutely no show
against the Cleveland machine"
Consequently the Bay State. admitted
Iy one of the greatest golfng centers
in all America, has yet to be the
scene of a national amateur cham
pionship.
Other Good Eastern Links
But should for one reason or an
other Garden City and Myopia not
prove available, 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. Possibly because Baltusrol was
the scene of the 1904 tournament, there
might be a reluctance on the part of
some to have the links near Short
Hills, N j., again given the prefer
ence. But, like Garden City, the Bait
usrol course has been rearranged along
scientific lines, so that it now has be-
come a rival of Myopia as a golfing
test. While it may be deemed ad-
visable to award the 1909 tournament
to some other club, the golfers would
make no mistake should they again
award the tournament to Baltusrol.
Then there is Deal with its wide ex-
panse of fairway and heartbreaking
length of the outward journey. Vel
vety turf and true green's help one to
forget that he is beating round the
longest eighteen-hole circuit in the
country. Recent club house improve
ments place the Deal organization In
an excellent position to handle a large
number of people.
Here is an array of eastern courses,
any Of which would afford an ideal
test for a national championship. But
it may be just as well when the time
comes for action for the eastern APP
plicants to use little tact by getting
together and casting a unanimous vote
for some one eastern club and not be
caught mapping, as was the case at
the last annual meeting. The west
will, of course, as 1t always is, be in
the field with one or two offers.