New-York tribune., 1910-09-19
GOLFERS AGAIN RESTLESS
West Suggests the Formation OF
National Golf Association.
EAST WILL NOT COOPERATE
intercollegiate Championship Be-
gins To day at Manchester,
Mass, Links.

Hidden behind the smiles and congratu-
| latory speeches Immediately following the
| frish Of the national amateur golf cham
| pionship tournament at the Country Club,
! BrookIine. Mass. on Saturday. lurked feel
| ngs of unrest As usual when anything
! happens to disturb the serenity of United
! States Golf Association affairs, 1t is not
difficult to discover the cause. The West.
! the wild and untamed, is once again on
! the rampage.
Several sectional organizations, including
! the Massachusetts. Metropolitan and West
| ern Pennsylvania associations. have re-
ceived circular communications from the
West asking for cooperation in the forma-
| ton of d proposed body to be known as the
National Golf Association.
| Henry Fownes. OF Pittsburg. who wit
messed the success of his nephew in the
decisive match against Warren X. Wood.
was outspoken in regard to the latest
| Western agitation. He said:
"At a recent meeting of the Western
| PENNSYLVANIA Golf Association the national
| proposition was acted on, and we promptly
/ voted to have none of It. | think any such
| movement toward the formation of another
/ national organization would he serious
mistake
! Others vino cared to discuss the matter
| Yesterday spoke in the same vein. and 1t Is
certain the proposition will receive no en-
! couragement in the East.
'rhe main cause for discomfort on the part
! OF the dissatisfied element is the failure OF
| all clubs in the parent body to secure voting
| representation. This was thrashed out
pretty thoroughly last winter. when the
| constitution of the United States Golf AS
sociation was revised in manner appar-
emily satisfying to the West
| An executive committee meeting of the
United States Golf Association was held at
| the Country Club on Saturday. when the
Skokie Country Club of Glencoe, ILL.,. was
| transferred from allied to active. or voting
membership.
The Nashville Golf Club was elected an
allied member. A draft of a special set
of rules to govern bogie competitions was
! presented. but no action further than ac-
T cepting the report WAS taken, except that
the committee voted to have the rules sub
mitted to the delegates at the annual meet
ing to be held at Chicago on January II
| Heretofore the national body had refused
| to recognize the need for set of bogie
rules but it seems to have at last yielded
to pressure.
! The competitive attraction this week will
| consist of the annual intercollegiate cham
! pionship tournament, scheduled to begin to-
| day on the links of the Essex County
| Club Manchester. Mass.
| Not a few of the younger set that COM
peted In the national at Brookline last
| week have shifted over to Manchester.
| They include Albert Seckel. of Princeton.
the intercollegiate champion. and Robert
| A. Gardner. the Yale player, who parted
| with his national title through inability TO
| qualify last Tuesday. Team matches will
claim attention the first three days. and the
Individual the remainder of the week. Yale
had an easy time winning team honors
year ago. and the Blue seems fully as
strong this season.
The discussion as to whether W. G.
Fownes jr. the new national champion. is
an Eastern or a Western golfer has been
started afresh.
The champion. although a director in the
Western Golf Association, is also ident1hed
with several others. First and foremost, he
is loyal to the United States Golf Associa-
ton Last fall he played on the Pennsyl-
vania team in the Lesley cup matches at
Huntingdon Valley. This intercity affair.
until the formation of the Pennsylvania
State Association, was confined to New
York, Philadelphia and Boston teams
Fownes himself says that Pennsylvania Is
an Eastern state. His final words were:
PENNSYLVANIA extends to the Atlantic
Ocean. and that's about as far east as you
can get"
Handicap lists are becoming more general
each year The Philadelphia Golf Associa-
ton started the ball a-roling in the Key
stone State. and few months ago ratings
were also compiled for Pittsburgers. Now.
it is understood, arrangements are under
way with a view to drafting an official
handicap list for the entire State of Penn :
sylvania.
Apropos of handicaps, 3.517 names appear |
on the fall list of the Massachusetts Golf |
Association showing an increase of nearly |
three hundred since the spring issue.
The present list represents an entire re- |
vision. There are seven players at scratch, |
as follows: j. G. Anderson. T. NJ. C1af1in. |
Percival Gilbert. A. G.. Lockwood. H. w. /
StuckIen. p ". Whittemore and H. H. |
Wilder.
During the national tournament a man
whose ideas on the game were as positive
as they were limited got into an amusing
argument He reached the course in time /
to become one of the gallery which |
swarmed along behind Fownes and Chick
Evans in the semi-inal round.
When they came to the short seventh
hole the visitor remarked: 'I suppose is
boyle here" "Oh, N.Y. no. replied his
friend, who then proceeded to explain why |
bogie 2s were impossible. Still the other
remained unconvinced. and moment later.
when Evans supplemented a fine mashie
shot by holing long put for 2, the WIS.,
itor turned to his companion with n scorn-
full look which seemed TO say: II knew I
was right"
It will be some time before Robert c.
Watson. secretary of the United States Golf
Association. will be seen at his office in
this city. Immediately after the decisive
championship match the secretary, accom-
panied by Mrs. Watson and a party OF
friends, started for Canada. His preserve
IS the objective point. and when Watson
arrives the big game will suffer.
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