New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1909-10-22
NO VAR IN GOLF.
StraScn Makes appeal for
Harmonious Relations.

1t begins to look as if the threatened
war and talk Of rebellion on the part of
the Western Golf Association against the
United States Golf Association had rolled
away Silas II. Strawn, of Chicago. a
former vice-president and at present a
member OF the executive board Of the ma
uonal body. has gone on record with a
statement in an endeavor to set right false
impressions caused by misleading articles
that have appeared from time to time in
The Golfers Magazine" He especially
refers TO the articles. Olympic Cup Com
petition and PLAY or Quit
Strawn declares that no oficiaI attempt
was made by the parent body to keep any
player or team from competing in the
Olympic cup tournament. He also urges
that while just criticism may have been
made in the past over the manner of Sc
lecting the officers and executive commit
tee of the United States Golf Association.
that cause was entirely removed by the
amendments to Article of the constitu-
ton, which provide that at the annual
meeting OF the association a NOMINATING
committee shall be chosen which shall Sc
lect officers and an executive committee
for the succeeding year; also, that II the
nominees of the committee thus selected
be not satisfactory to FIVE or more clubs.
other tickets may be put in nomination.
Strawn then finishes his remarks with
the following appeal for good fellowship
and harmonious relations:
Having demonstrated at the tournament
recently held at Wheaton that we have
more high class players in the West than
there are In the East appreciating as we
must That there should be but one golf as
ISOLATION In this country which is national
in chancter, recognizing, as the figures
compel, that four-fifths of the membership
IN the United States Golf Association is
made up of clubs east of the Allegheny
Mountains. let us cease stirring up a feel
ing of sectional animosity between the East
and the West, let US give more attention to
the United States Golf Association by at
tending its meetings and having a voice in
It's affairs, and / confidently predict that in
the future we shall have no just ground to
criticise the East for the manner in which
We are treated.
When we remember that the annual
meetings of the United States Golf As
sociation are rarely attended by any dele
gates from the West, IL seems to me we of
the West should not be too free TO criticise
the manner in which the affairs of the as
ISOLATION are conducted. During the three
years have been on the committee have
received nothing but the most considerable
courteous and generous treatment from its
other members.
The United States Golf Association has
no quarrel with the Western Colt ASsocia-
ton. There is plenty Of room for both
The United States Golf Association is and
should be national in its character. Under
its present constitution and bylaws, if it
becomes sectional IL Will be because the
West Is too apathetic or indifferent The
Western Golf Association is and should
continue to he sectional limiting its splen-
did activities 20 the territory il now covers
Let those of US in the West who love the
game demonstrate TO the East that in golf
as in other and more serious affairs. we
are broad. liberal and progressive. that we
have no time for petty iealOusies. and let
us Join with the good men OF the East in
playing and in promoting the game and the
good fellowship that goes with it.