New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-05-16
WOODLAND CLUB
WILL NOT DROP
FRANCIS QUINTET
Denies Right of Parent
Golf Body to Ban
State Players.

Word was received from Boston last
night 70 the effect that the Woodland
Golf Club has announced that IL will
not comply with the order Of the United
States Golf Association TO remove the
names of Francis Ouimet, Paul Tewks-
bury and J. n. Sullivan, jr., from the
handicap list of the Massachusetts Golf
Association.
The determined stand Of the Wood
land club, which supposedly has the
backing of the state organization in
taking this position, indicates that
there is to be long and hard battle
With the L. s. G.. A. before this matter
is finally Strengthened out.
The parent body has ruled that these
players are ineligible 10 compete a.
amateurs because of their business &C
tivities. The Woodland club takes the
position that the national organization
has no jurisdiction over the lists OF
state bodies.
Whether or not the club will take
issue with the L. s. G. A. as 10 the
right Of Ouimet and his eliminates TO
enter the tournament for the national
amateur championship is still a mat
ter of doubt, according to l.. b. Folsom,
president of the club.
"The matter is still oper. We may
carry il further" he said yesterday.
Over the telephone last night Howard
F. Whitney, secretary Of the L. s. G.
A., when informed OF the stand taken
By the Woodland club, had only this TO
say:
THAT part of the question does not
interest me- All know about IL Ia this
the players in question will not be
allowed TO compete in any tournament
over which the L. S. G. A. has jurisdic-
ton"
The spring tournament OF the East
ern Trade Golf Association will be held
on the links OF the Siwanoy Country
Club, Mount Vernon, on Tuesday. May
%, with three events down on the pro-
gramme TO hold the interest OF the
members.
There will be an eighteen hole medal
play handicap, 70 be played either
morning or afternoon, but the first
round will count in this event. Three
large silver cups have been presented
by the association for the winners.
An 1S-hole match play competition
against DOGGY. for a set Of clubs and a
bag presented by Alex Smith, the Great
Neck pro and an honorary member o.
the association, will give the Traders
something 70 shoot for.
Still another chance to get in the
money is open for those who enter the
four-ball competition, IS holes, medal
play handicap. The greens fee will be
SO, which will include a wholesome din
ner at the clubhouse
The women players Of the Dunwoodie
Country Club will hold a handicap
tournament on the home links to-day
and on Saturday afternoon the country
Club Of Glen Ridge will conduct team
match. teams to be chosen according %
handIcaps. The losers are 70 dine the
winners at get together" dinner. The
golf will be followed by dinner az
o'clock, with cabaret attachment.
The big event Of the week il sched-
uled for Thursday, Friday and Satur-
day when the annual spring tourna-
ment of the Garden City Golf Cidh
will be PLACED The lists will include
the names of some notable golfers IN
this section, Max Marston, New Jersey
State champion; Henry J. Topping,
winner of the Ardsley tournament last
week; and Phil Carter. North and South
champion, being among those who will
tee up.