The morning journal-courier. (New Haven, Conn.) 1907-1913, 1908-03-10
CHANGE COLE RULES
Suggestions to That End Sent
by Ruling Body in This
Country.
TEXT OF THE PROPOSITIONS
Most Important Refers to Lifting and
Teeing With Two-StrOke
Penalty.

The suggestions for the revision OF
the golf rules as sent by the ruling
body of the sport in this country to the
st. Andrews club committee, Scotland.
has Just been made public. The sug-
gestions made do not call for many
radical changes. The text of article Is
as follows:
AS far back as 1904, when the st. An
drews committee made Its last revision,
1t promised the then american COM
mittee, consisting of Charles B. Mac
donald, c. Herbert Windeler and Wal
ter j. Travis, that the next time an
overhauling of the code was contem-
plated suggestion from America would
be sought. The present interpretations
are really the outcome of the agita-
ton which began last summer. Early
in the fall the United States Golf as
ISOLATION received word from Captain
Burn, of st. Andrews, in which the lat
ter asked for suggestions from this
country
1t was decided to go ahead with an
american code, and the question was
left to the executive committee. The
real work, however, has been done by
subcommittee, consisting of Daniel
Chauncey. w. Fellowes Morgan and
leighton Calkins. The need for fire.
quent meetings was the reason why
only New Workers were selected as
members of the committee.
Marginal references to facilitate find
ing the point in question appear in the
new edition, but unquestionably the
substance remains practically the
same. AS a member of the committee
admitted last night, step in the right
direction has at least been made. Con-
tinuing, he said:
"The wording is better, the arrange
ment is better. and | believe If we
ever get at the same work again we
will be able to do still better. If there
are any inclined to criticise us for not
accomplishing more, they would 90
well to remember that something like
five hundred changes In wording have
been made, and after the committee
had met fifteen times the work was
not half completed"
Probably the most pronounced sug-
gestion refers to the lifting of the ball
and teeing up for the usual two
stroke penalty. The change recon-
mended by the Americans was doubt
less inspired by the controversy which
arose over the action Of Jerome D.
Travers in the Olympic 90 "ompeti-
tion at Cleveland last July will be
remembered that Travers, an ing his
ball In an unplayable position after
wild drive, and seeing, in his judg-
ment, no suitable place to tee immed-
lately behind where the ball lay, elect
ed to go out to the fair green, but nc
nearer the hole
His right to do this was questioned
by Westerners, who first appealed to
the executive committee of the United
States Golf association. The latter
upheld Travers in his action. Not sat-
isfied with this, the hair splitters ask
ed for decision from the st. Andrew.
body, and, oddly enough, the latter
decided against the national champion
Rule 10 In the old book reads:
"A ball may be lifted from any place
under penalty Of two strokes. A bal
80 lifted shall be teed, IL possible, be.
hind the place where It lay: If it be
Impossible to tee the ball behind the
place where 1t lay, II shall he teed az
near as possible thereto, but not near.
er the hole. The penalty for a breach
of this rule shall be disqualification.
The American suggestion tends tc
simplify this, as may be seen by the
following:
"A ball may be lifted from any place
and teed anywhere on the course, bu
not nearer the hole, under penalty Of
two strokes The penalty for 9
breach of this rule shall be disqualifl'
cation"
1t will be interesting to watch the
attitude of the St Andrews committee
toward the American conception of tn,
boundaries of a water hazard Here
tofore the rule has been that an over
flow of the usual boundaries Is part o.
committee comes out with a directly
opposite view. The latter part of Ruiz
IL of the present code reads:
IF the water in a recognized watel
hazard overflow its usual boundaries
the overfiowed portion of the cours,
shall be considered as part of the haz
ard. and not as casual water"
The new Interpretation, appearing a
the bottom of Rule 3, follows:
IF the water in a recognized waite,