The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-05-03
MAY BILLIARDS Be
TERMED ATHLETICS?
ID. g. g. A. Executive Commit
tee Asked to Decide in Case
Of William Huey.
GOLF NEWS AND CHATTER

Can billiards be ciassed as athletics
Al frst glance one might say no and
let Il pass. Possibly the Y. 8. q. A.
executive committee will so rule in the
specific case that has como before H.
that OF william Huey Of Chicago
Huey In the Chicago salesman who
entered the recent worlds three cush-
Ton billiard tournament, went into a
anal game with George Moore for the
crown. and being defeated refused to
take q large cash prize for second place
IN fear Of jeopardizing his amateur
seatus. Since then ne has challenged
Moore. Refusal TO take cash for his
efforts did not influence the ruling body
Of amateur billiard In Huey's behalf
He cannot play in further amateur
tournaments carrying N. A. A. II. r.
sanction. Huey also plays q fair game
Of golf and asked secretary Whitney
a the u. s. q. A. how he stands among
the simon pures at the royal and an
Client game. The secretary has put
the question up to the committee. AMI
the ruling will be awaited with interest
Involving as II does the classihcatio
Of billiards In the realm Of sport. Fro
fsssional athletes are barred from par
ticipation in amateur golf.
Although May will be one OF the bust
eet months OF the golfing season. no
tournament OF Importance will be held IN
the East this week. on the Pacific
coast. however. the third Of the three
big Journeys In connection with the
Panama Pacific Exposition will be
played. The wpmens tourney will be-
gin this morning on the Ingleside links
where the open tourney was played
yesterday. The women will continue
play for six days. the tourney ending
on Saturday.
It Is not likely that the field at Ingle-
side this week will be az representative
as those which played In the amateur
and open events. No Eastern women
golfers Of prominence have entered. and
although one or two from the middle
West may be on hand II Is probable
that the Californians will have the
tourney to themselves.
The members Of the New York News
paper Golf Club will visit Fox Hills to-
day for an all day assault on par. AL
Enough the newspaper golfers do not
expect to set marks which the profess
si0nals will have any great difficulty
In disturbing when the metropolitan
open championship is played there later
In the season they do expect to have
q good time. and that after all is the
chief reason for the clubs existence.
In addition to the members OF the
club who play in nearly all its tour
neys a number OF other men of promi-
hence in the newspaper and magazine
business have been invited TO play to-
day, and so the field is likely to be
larger than usual.
Four ball matches will be in order
both morning and afternoon. the after
noon event being sweepstakes In
the morning there will be prizes for
the pairs making the low gross and low
net scores.
Under the direction of the Women
Metropolitan Golf Association the Sc
ries of handicap team matches which
began so well last Tuesday will be con-
tinued tomorrow. The second round
OF the original competition and the first
round Of the consolation will be played.
90 over one hundred women golfers will
participate. 1t IL likely that the next
round will be played later in the week,
probably on Friday.
Team matches seem to be popular
with the women golfers in other dis
tricts. Al Boston the first matches Of
the season were played several weeks
ago. and the Philadelphia women golfers
are in the midst of league series, The
0oorestown team is now in the Lead.
with Wilmington second. Down at Bal
timore the women golfers Of the Balti-
more Country Club. finding no other
nearby club teams to play. have or
ganixed two teams within the club.
Seven women are on each team and
n fnh xuyih ha t.tu Fa1p
day morning. Miss T.. Bowes Is captain
of one team and Miss Gladys Grelner
Leads the other.
The success OF the women's team
matches is excellent proof of the wisdom
displayed by the Women's Eastern Golf
Association in naming Mrs Lawrence
Swift OF KnollwDod for secretary. The
credit for the local matches really be.
longs to Mrs. Swift who suggest ID the
Idea when she was elected to the pres-
idency OF the Women's Metropolitan Golf
Association last winter. Mrs Swift has
had plenty or valuable experience in sec
Petarial duties. as she served two terms
~ secretary OF the association OF which
she now is the head
There will be plenty of tournament
play next week to make up for the
lack OF II this week. On Monday, Tues
day and Wednesday. May 10, II and IL,
tho Baltimore Country Club will hold
its annual invitation tournament, and
b. Warren Corkran announced day or
two ago that he had received a letter
from Francis Ouimet, in which the ma
tional champion accepted the clubs in
vitation to play the tourney. With
Ouimet and Corkran in the field the
tourney should be one OF the best OF
the season, and as 1t is to be played on
the first three days OF the week one or
two Of the more prominent Metropolitan
golfers may decide TO enter.
Oakland will hold its invitation tour
ney on the last three days OF the week,
May 10, IA and Is, and the club hopes
to have just as good a field as that
which played at Oakland in the spring
OF 1913. Travers. Travis, Herreshoff
and White We're among the competitor
OF that occasion. Travis is almost sure
TO play at Oakland. as he won some of
his earliest golhng laurels there many
years ago.