The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1916-04-26
CALIFORNIA GOLFERS
GIVE UP FREE TRAIN
Withdraw Offer That Was I'm
Conflict With Spirit Of
Amateur Rule.
CHANGES At ENGLEWOOD

A message zane from San Francisco
Yesterday saying tina the Del Monte
free train controversy was at az end.
Tho roport tated that the California
Golf Association lad decided to do what
the Western Golf Association requested
and had withdrawn its OFFER OF a free
train 10 convey the Chicago contingent
TO the Western amateur championship
a, pei Monte next summer
To George t. Balch of Cincinnati.
president of the Western Golf Associa-
ton. belongs the lions share of the
credit for settling the controversy and
keep.ng golf free from the faint of pro-
fesslonal.sm that would have invaded
IN. game II the free train mad been run.
II he had not been away from home at
the time the orer first was made by the
California Golf Association the whole
matter never would have assumed the
importance ii did.
free train proposition he realized that II
was a trarsgrcssion Of the amateur rule
which forb.ds any club to pay the ex-
r.nsts ~ any golfer who plays In one
Of ~ Journeys, and he at once set
about the task OF preventing the plan
from going through. At the time he
took hold OF affairs the scheme had
made considerable progress among the
middle Western golfers. who were
pleased by the idea Of "A free trip to
California, and II was pretty hard to
persuade them TO give II up. Mr.. Balch
began with the directors of the Western
Golf Association and at "A meeting held
shortly before The anuual meeting Of the
association they voted to refuse the
offer Of the free train.
The matter seemed 10 he settled. but
a, TN Western meeting the vote of the
directors was practically o%verruled. for
the tourney We SEM to De- Monte and
the directors were requested TO accept
the fire. train.
Nj Bach refused to give up the fight.
however. despite the mandate of the as
ISOLATION. Of which he was presid. nj, and
10 encourage him he had the moral sup
port OF President Frank II. Woodward
and the other officers OF the United States
Golf Association. They agreed with NJ.
Balch's stand and urged that the free
train ofer be turned down.
DURING the winter the w. q a. di-
rertors voted to ask the California Golf
Association TO withdraw it, offer as the
most graceful way out OF the situation,
and although a month ago the Califor-
mans declined TO withdraw the oifer the
nesslg. which came Yesterday o
that they save decided 10 TALL in line at
list and that the entire controversy is
over.
Tho results Of the visit that Donald
Ross mad 10 EnClcwood IN sunday were
made known yesterday. Nearly every
hole Oh the course will he changed in one
way or another, nine new greens will be
bull and about I:i yards will be added
Il tue playing length OF the course.
The most patent change will be at the
twelfth hole, the all uphill hole at the
south end of the links. This VIII be
converted into a one shot hole. the Ions
div. from the bottom of the slope being
Eliminated. New trap viii h the main
changes on the first two holes, but the
tard tee will no move forward about
my yards. and the green put back of
tie ditch which crosses the course. The
fourth will remain about the same. hut
new traps viii tc put in at the fifth and
the green raised. 4 new green will be
constructed tur the eighth hoe further
o IA the hollow.
The eleventh green will be moved back
of the ditch. making tho hole about 4iO
Yards lu'E A .erraced green will make
TIE lttlr fifteenth harder and the home
green also Nill have two levels. The BAN;
a. the rlg I of the home green will DC
GU away and replaced by a trap.
Work vii begin at once and some OF
the more important changes will he
.g.rH..r4 1900 .I, mil. Mot r.rn.Efs "a a.,
AMI Now Jersey championships are
I.ayeI AT Enslewood IN June.
About eighty entries have been re-
c. we'd for the spring tournament Of the
Country Gu of Lakewood, which opens
the season in the Metropolitan district
Tomorrow, and more are expected to-
day. The quality Of the lis; 80 far is
rr' quite So imposing As the quantity,
ir the first rank golfers ave" not yet
been heard from, but some of them ma
turn ~ rs tho time the tourney begins.
There is one name on the list, how
ever, that every golfer will be glad to see
tho mama Of Fred Hcrreshor, former
Metropolitan champion, and twice runner
u1 for the national title. II was not
! = long ago that golfers all were peak
irr with regret because Hcrreshoi wouid
20 seen On the LINKS NJ more because OF
tlross lie has been at Lakewood fo'
msre than d month and has been play
Ing golf a. often as possible. His scores
have been good. and II he wins the tour
n" that begins tomorrow his victory
VII nc more popular than that OF an!
oao elise could he.
Horace r. Cook of Trenton has en-
tered ,li can be depended upon To play
some excellent golf. Percy Kendall
Deal and Pierre 4, Proal, Rumson, alsc
VIII play Philip V. q. Carter. who die
everything A golfer could do AT Pr
hurst during the winter, finds himsell