Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-09-05
OLYMPIC GOLF CUP
WON FOR THIRD TIME
Western Association Victors,
Making Record Medal
Score.

WHEATON, H., September 1.-The
Olympic cup, the team trophy. first play
ed for at the Glen Echo Club of st. Louis
in 1904. was today won for the third time
by a team representing the Western Golf
Association.
incidentally the team made the lowest
medal score by nine strokes ever made
during competition for the trophy. the to-
tai for thirtysix holes for the four men
being 623 strokes. an average of about
four and third strokes per hole per
man.
Only four teams contested for the tro-
ply, representing the Western, Ohio
State, ST. Louis and Wisconsin Golf As
sociations Not team was entered from
any of the associations i'll the east aff1li-
ated with the United States Golf Associa-
lie dthe breach that formed last winter be-
tween the United States Golf Associa-
ton and the Western Golf Association, re-
suting from the adoption by rhe latter
body of set OF golfing rules differing
in some points from those accepted by
the national body.
Differ on Puts.
AS matter of fact. the rules differ in
only one essential particular, that is in
the rule governing the holing of puts.
The committee from the ST. Andrews
Club of Scotland, which last winter took
up the revision of golfing rules. recon-
mended that no puts be conceded The
L. S. G. A. adopted the rules as recon-
mended by the ST. Andrews committee
without taking any further action in the
matter of puts
The Western Golf Association, on the
other hand, acted on the recommendation
and made it rule that ''all puts must
be holed.' claiming that the practice of
conceding short puts to opponents in
match play was being abused.
Eastern players today said their teams
were not entered because they did not
care to establish precedent of playing
under two sets of rules; that the game
of golf of necessity must have but one
governing body and that it would be
showing disloyalty to the national body
to play under any other rules than those
recognized by that body.
Western Association members declar-
ed that the cup was offered by a western
club: that the Western Golf Association
governed the play for the cup, and that
therefore, the rules adopted by the West
ern Golf Association should apply to the
contest.
Rules Alike.
In medal play. however. the rules are
alike. All puts must be hoed. But
over the question of whether the West
hrn or the United States Golf Association
as Recognized Snouiu govern Tue pray
the split came, and there seems little
doubt that the movement of last winter
20 reform the Western Association into
the american Golf Association TAX
ing in clubs all over the United States
and Canada and thus forming rival
body to the United States Golf Associa-
ton, has been accelerated.
Play for the Olympic cup is regarded as
the curtain raiser for the national cham
pionship tournament, play for which
starts Monday with the first eighteen
holes qualifying round.
The western team consisted of II. Chan
der Egan of Exmoor. Warren Is. Wood
of Homewood. Charles Evans. jr, of Ex-
moor western champion. and Kenneth p.
EdWadS of Midlothian. Egan, twice ma
tional champion, displayed the best form
with morning round of 10 and an after
noon round of -.
Ohio Was Second.
Warren Wood and Harold Weber, the
latter of the Ohio state team. each made
154 for the thirty-six holes. Weber $
team finished second, but was AZ strokes
more with total of 66s The ST. Louis
Association team, with the two Stickneys,
r. McKittrick and II. Potter, finished
third with total of 673, and the Wis
consn team made up OF c. c. Allen. r.
p, Cavanaugh. c. D. Barnes and Gordon
Yule fourth with a total of I'll strokes.
Players who will contest in the cham
pionship arrived by dozens today. For
mer Champion Travis was out in a four
bali match with T. NJ. Clafin and hugo
tombstone of Boston and Oliver Perrin
of Baltimore. Ned Sawyer. Albert
Seckel. the Riverside youngster. and
Ned Herreshoff and Bob Watson of New
York made up another four-ball match
in which the westerners were successful
nv / up. Sawyer made Is during the
morning. Travis made a IS. All the
players complained of the slowness of the
course, due to the recent heavy rains.