Evening star., 1916-08-06

| writing, editing or publishing articles
magazines or books on golf, or to lay
ing out, constructing, supervising OIL
giving advice concerning the layout
| construction or upkeep of a golf course
| or any part thereof.
ANY person who becomes ineligible
by reason of this bylaw may be rein.
| stated by giving to the executive com.
mittee of this association satisfactory
evidence of meriting such reinstate.
| rnent. No occurrence prior to January
s, 1915, shall affect the status of any
person who was in good standing a:
an amateur golfer on said date"
| After the receipt of the letter from
! the United States Golf Association. in
/ which Messrs- Ouimet, sullivan anG
/ Tewksbury were barred from amateur
golf, the directors of the Woodland
| the executive committee of the United
| States Golf Association got together
| but no satisfactory decision was reach
ed. The Woodland Club, thereupon. APP
| pealed to the national association itself
and. according to its petition, the mat
. ter should come up for discussion al
an early special meeting of the asso-
| citation. The Woodland Golf Club also
! has published letter from Leighton
Calkins, former member of the ex-
ecutive committee of the United States
Golf Association, which was written
to the president of the Auburndale
club. i ne text oil tne mlSSiNe follows.
The rule from the standpoint of phras-
ing is tumble. The recently added
violation, No. 6, considered by itself.
without regard to other parts of the
rule with which it may be in appar-
ent conflict seems hard to Justify be-
! cause of it's sweeping and discriminate
nature. The first portion of ii clearly
discriminates against an employe in
favor of the owner of a sporting goods
store. And as the terms handling and
/ 90 daf i is evi.
dent that young man may not earn
his living at SIS a week if his duties
even remotely bring him within range
of any article used in connection with
the game of golf; such as golfing
shoes, grass seeds, fertilizers, mowers,
clothing, etc. 1t makes no difference
that he may get small pay and work
ten hours a day. six days in the week
and start in as the owner of such a
business, he is not disqualified as an
amateur. under the first half of vio-
lation. No. s.
ing portion of the violation outlaws,
owners and proprietors, as well as
agents and employees. In fact. it is
sweeping enough to make it a bust
tion in athletics. For who can say
of famous young athlete who goes
into business that his prominence in
game like golf may not incidentally
ledd TO uSe1ulneSS ana pTONt. with
such rule it would seem better not
to have a reputation for excellence in
playing games, unless one can afford
life of leisure"
The Woodland Golf Club goes on to
say that it is in very difficult posi-
tion and that it desires to perform all
its duties to the United States Golf AS
sociation, but that when IL is directed
by the executive committee to disqual-
ify the men in question it finds it i'm
possible to act without the utmost con-
sideration."
Where it strikes home is not on
count of the disbarment of any of the
local players, but account of the
fact that one of the Washington clubs,
the Bannockburn Golf Club. has sig
nifed it's intention to stand beside the
Woodland Golf Club and gives its ap
proval to the matter of a special meet
ing to take action on the subject. To
quote one of the Bannock ckburn mem
bers: 1T is the sense of the board of
governors of the Bannockburn Golf
Club that the executive committee was
within it's rights in the Interpretation
of the rule. However, it is also our
feeling that the rule is a very clumsy
and inequita BILE one and our club will
gladly join in a petition for a special
meeting for a change of the rule.
Two events hold the limelght at the