New-York tribune., 1911-01-14
GOLF SKIES LOOK DARK
Fate of Schenectady 'Putter
Hanging in Balance.
A CIVIL WAR NOT LIKELY
Delegates to Big Meeting Have
Some Delicate Problems
TO Solve

and by this afternoon nearly all or the
active clubs will be represented BY oeie-
aatas. on hand to attend the annual meet
ing Of the United States Golf Association
tonight While the fate OF the centre
shafted putter will be determined at tnS
session. rules legislation in general Is inc
,ubject bound 20 claim chief attention ana
the golfng SHES are dark, even II CIVIL
war IL not imminent.
Despite tho fact that golfers have been
Informed that the oentre-shafted putter ~
forty years old and was first conceived py
@ Scotchman. followers Of the game on
this side OF tho water have come 10 look
upon II as an American invention. Al any
rate, the Schenectady unquestionably mas
gained q firm place In the affections OF
American golfers Shortly before leaving
for the Wess to attend the meeting, RoD-
ert G. Watson, secretary of the United
States Golf Associs uon. called attention
TO q condition appa gently overlooked by
many who have been studying the situa-
tion. lie said:
II is fact that hundreds Of old men
have come to use the schenectady curing
the last few years With II they seem 10
put more freely. and they will continue 10
Ise IT, irrespective of what happens at the
meeting. EuTtnCrnlOkS. I NOb StF WHY
golfers could not take the same broad view
of the putter problem that polotsts do over
the polo mallet The mallet in England is
different than the one In this country, !t.
when il comes TO an international match
neither side cares or worries about the SIZE
or dimensions Of the mdlets.
All this lengthy technical and analytic
matter We have been reading about recent
!, is really unnecessary What the golf
ers have got to decide is whether we DO
do not permit the tne OF the Schehec-
iady putter in TIL country anyway there
Is no need for rupture with St. Andrews s.
(or The simple reason that we have been
given a lOOphOle through "hlch 10 Cra"I.
In other words. the United Ststes Golf As
sociatlou has the privilege Of interpreting
q mallet- headed CluD as one Where the dls,
tance between the striking SlTface Ano
the back of the club is EreaIS than LiIe
width That would not include the Sche-
nectady.
There is another point 10 certain eN-
tent overlooked. probably because of the
furry with regard TO the putter question.
gThfs has TO do with the future relations
between the parent organization and the
westsrri Golf Association. The last named
81 will be remembered, holds its meeting
after the national body. Then. again, that
od proposition to broaden the Western
Association so as TO make 1t national In
scope must he brought up for final settle
fnent at the ns1t meeting.
That there are certain dsgruntled West
srnsrs still ready TO sound. the note OF dis
cord ia evident by an article under the sig
nature Of S. p. Jerma1n, Whioh appears in
the current number Of The Golfers Maga-
sine" II reads In part as follows:
And now COMES the slluring gift TO the
west-the presidency Of the United States
Golf Association. The Western Golf Asso-
eisuon and the West are expected to look
aaIA ~
presidant, after many years of waiting as
. great concession, as a praisewThy glit.
On the contrary, was not this zone as
If.saying measure? Cannot one fathom
The unmlstakable motives which at times
influence certain actions? ! think 40
Had the powers that be been whole
hearted in an effort to give the United
states Golf Association a Western admin;
istration- for once in its history. they would
nave put up a Chicago man for secretary,
Ia addition TO the president. in order that
have been under the personal direction or
tbs western president, who, able as he un-
auestionaey s' cannGJ pg Tiss' srss ~ rep
yesentatiye national broadness that the
West would Ike to have done and upon
which many consider that tne noir IuIure
aon depends.
Following Is list OF the courses that
hsv. applied for the three national cham
pionships showing length, par and other
interesting data:
Ar,at.ur championship Ppnadephis cricket
Club Chestnut Hill, Penn; 1,so4 Yards par - l5,
scene Of national open championships or lWl
and 1910 Aleck Smith did 81 in practice last
year: best IN contest was II. BY tltd McLFC1.
Fred HsrreshoT had scores Of "a a.. 20.
~ sI1. and Y. c. Watson had 40. course .rn, mas
been enlarged since last open was held there.
spawamis club, Rye. y. Y, 6,169 yards, par
7s place Of womsn's Metropolitan in 1900,
mems Metropolitan in 1901 and 1909. intercol-
Ieriate 1909 Has waited to apply for amateur
championship until club could offer thoroughly
nnrtsr 1|oI, Country club: 6.1s7 yards: par
7e Has held state and many successful local
Desi ~. - Golf and Country Club. 6l82
wards but II needed can be stretched 70 G,5OO.
PAR u Held Metropolitan in 1893 and Metro
vim aOl! j J. McDermott doing 303 and having
crs round in y. Annual tournament discOn-
tu0sd three years. as the popularity ,9s os tne
course brought out an entry In excess OF 20 and
made the field too unwiedy for comfort.
Chicago Golf Club wheaton. III; el63 yards
par ~. Course is now longer and more difcuIt
fsce Of national amateur and open in 1897;
national amateur. 1905 and 1909: women5 ma
tional 1908. national open, 1900; Western anna
t,mr' 1902 1907. also an annual tournament
open championship Essex County Country
cub Manchester Mass 6.025 yards par 10.
Crsat,y improved since last fan and IenEthened
somewhat Held womens championship or 1871;
oxford and Cambridge match IN 1908, MaSsa-
ohuset,s open and intercollegiate last year
'''tS Chicago Golf club. previously descrlbed
N-ous1's championship Country Club OF At
proved within year. Held national and inter
Collegiate championships in 1901 women's East
70 ofercd r. dc for any championship Nassau, coun-
Try club Glen cove, y y. bo9t yaIds' par
49, scene OF national amateur in 1909. met
rcpoltsn in 1900 and 1897 also wcmens Met
ropoltan and womens Eastern. -
ucid national amateur in 1900 and 1908, ns-
'ons open 1902 .eyera nGrcoltElate and in
evYyi animal tournament.