New-York tribune., 1910-02-21
WOMEN FIX DATES
Plan FOUR JOURNEYS
". ". e.. Il. Contest to Open
M0y 1-W esterncrs IN Fold.

The Womens Metropolitan Golf Associa-
tion has officially decided upon May 81 and
following days for It's annual championship
tournament, which will be held over the
links of the Montclair Golf Club. A glance
at the calendar shows this to be 4 happy
selection in that for once it does not clash
with the mems metropolitan meeting. The
fly In the ointment. however. is that the
present choice on the part of the women
means conflict with the New Jersey State
Golf Associations annual gathering. though
only for part of the week
An active spring season has been decided
upon by the energetic committee now in
charge of the Womens Metropolitan Golf
Association, additional proof being that
three one-day tournaments have already
been planned. These one-day gatherings,
open only TO metropolitan women, will be
held at the Richomnd County Country Club.
the Plainfield Country Club and the Green
Wich Country Club.
Something new in womens metropolitan
circles will be attempted this year in the
way OF an official handicap list. IT will
serve as an aid 10 clubs holding special
ono day or invitation tournaments and It
will also prove of assistance to the Eastern
body The Tomen's metropolitan list has
not been compiled yet. but 1t will prob
ably be ready by the end of the month or
early in March
There is some uncertainty with regard
to the dates for the championship tourna-
ment of the Women's Eastern Golf Asso-
citation and the tri-city matches for the
Griscom trophy. The course of the Hunt
ingdon Valley Country Club Will be the
scene of action for both events, which are
n
day, June and Z, have been mentioned
by the Womer's Golf Association Of Phil
adelphIa as satisfactory to that orSaniza-
ton An official of the metropolitan body
said last night that this was not in aC-
cordance with the wishes of the players
around New York, and she believed the
Boston women would feel the same way
The objection to the dates mentioned IS
that the programme now calls for the
Eastern championship to precede the team
matches, as in this way everybody gets
chance to practise over the course, and, in
cidentally, get in better condition for the
tri-city contests.
Ill health has compelled Miss Louisa A.
Wells, of Boston, to give up temporarily
her duties as secretary of the Eastern as
sociation, and Miss Margaret Curtis has
been named as her successor pro tenn The
of seventy-two holes Of medal play. thirty
six holes each day. This will be the first
time in the history of the organization
that seventy-two holes have been attempt
ed Mrs Wheeler, formerly Miss Mary
Adams, is the title holder. An addition to
the metropolitan forces will be Mrs. Fowl
er, formerly Miss Mabel Higgins.
In view of the many belligerent and
wariike utterances that have from time to
time emanated from the pen of Crafts ".
Higgins. an article in the current number
of his publication, The Golfers Maga-
zine" entitled "A Plea for Peace" will
come as surprise for the average fol-
lower Of the game East and West. This
welcome February valentine will also
strengthen the position Of those who have
all along insisted that Mr. Higgins has not
been trying to stir up an 'insurreCton."
Anyhow, his editorial in part is as fol-
lows:
Now that the golf atmosphere has been
cleared through the definite action of the
United States Golf Association it seems a
time fitting and proper for ANALYSIS of
the situation as We now have it. Putting
aside any opinions we may entertain as to
why such action on the part of the United
States Golf Association was taken or the
reason for such action its part we have
as an established fact that action taken
in q. way to substantially improve the for
mer conditions and TO make of the United
States Golf Association a much improved
body in that by its new and broader form
it is possible of being a more nearly repre-
sentative national governing body than it
ever has been before.
7 think OH the whole that of the West
have occasion to congratulate ourselves on
the notable victory won III New York.
While perhaps we may not have gained
everything for which we contended, still l
think we have secured all that we could
reasonably have hoped to get 1t has also
been a moral victory Of tarrea ching i'm
portance-the closed door has been opened
wide and permanently.
The golf public has heard SO much of this
political discussion during the last few
years that I believe it now deserves and
should have a time of more peace and
quiet along these lines. Then if such
changes cannot be worked a 5 are necessary
to keep the West an equality with the
expanded conditions, that IS the time to
take them up in a more forCible way, such
was adopted by the Western Golf Asso-
citation to secure concessions recently
granted