The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-12-21
PRO GOLFERS BADLY TREATED.
Forced to Lunch In stable at Brook
line Open Tourney.

How to take care OF the big number o'
professionals that are sure tc enter will
he problem for the club that succeeds
in getting the national open go.f cham
pionship.
The problem seems to he an increas-
ingly difficult one with each succeeding
year. In the last few years the open
has attracted big fields. and all but
comparative few have been professionals
One thing that makes 1t hard is the
decision that the professionals must be
provided for outside OF the clubhouse. 1t
is rule that many OF the professionals
think is uncaled for.
At Brookline in 1913 the dining hall for
the professionals was big stable and the
fact was not greatly liked by most OF
them just when 1t had last been used as
stable was a matter of doubt, but some
of the salaried golfers who had to eat
: their lunches there were of the opinion
that they deserved better treatment
This year at Midlothian the same dis
satisfaction with accommodations pre-
pared for them cropped out among the
professionals. They were not allowed in
the clubhouse, the club officials saying
that the United States Golf Assoca ton
had instructed them in that regard Con-
siderable discomfort was the result. In
fact 1t was reported that one indignant
Chicago golfer wanted to transfer the
entire tourney to his club in order that
the professionals might receive the treat
ment he said they deserved.
There ire a good many golfers who
share the opinions of this Chcagoan.
They feel that the professionals here in
America have proved their ability to con-
duct themselves as they should, and that
the present tendency to hedge the paid
golfers about with restrictions and to
give them inferior accommodations when
they assemble for the open champion
ship should be checked.
At the Washington Cd. O. Country
Club the members have stumbled upon
an interesting discovery. In order to run
off a special tourney recently they divided
their links into two nine hole courses, and
| in order 20 make the home hole of each
course In the vicinity of the clubhouse
considerable rearrangemtnt was neces-
sary.
The first five and the last four holes
were used for one course and the re-
naming holes for the other When they
had finished their tournament, the mem
bers woke up to the fact that the new
IdffdHSfHltnt was InuCn more satisfactory
than the old so they are not going to
return to the former layout.
/ Metropolitan golfers who intend to play
| inthe opening tournament OF the Sea View
Golf Club near Atlantic city, which be-
gins on January II, should give "A little
attention to putting before they go If
some of the reported descriptions of the
Sea View greens are to be relied upon.
The seaside spirit Is said to be typfed by
several greens. One of them Is described
as resembling an oyster shell, another is
said to be perfect imitation OF waves
rolling into the shore and 50 on,
In constructing $500 yard golf course
| within the enclosed oval formed by the
new Chicago Automobile Speedway the
hackers OF the racecourse are making
ambitious plans Bob Jolly, the profess
sional, who Is laying out the course, says
that he is not going to have any hole at
which the golfer will have to drive into
tina farA ar thu aim