The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-03-31
WAR HIT GOLF
 A HARD BLOW
Forced Postponement Of Plan to Organize Intercollegiate
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 ponement of the plan to organize a
 golf association made up of the alumni
 of colleges and universities through
 out the country, but the scheme, in which Yale men took the lead, is
 likely to be launched by the com
 mencement season, if not before. The idea was to hold an annual cham pionship of the associa ton and for
 the alumni of each college to main tain a team, which, among other things would occasionally, at least, take crack at the undergra duates. A new and important angle to the project is now forthcoming. Some of those whose aid was solicited prouis- ed to cooperate, but only if the i alumni would attempt to take the undergraduates under their wing or at least a corner of it. As has several times been brought out in this col umn, the Intercollegiate association Is barely able to keep going even with the aid that the National association, 1 Touchsafed a dozen years ago. With out experience to help them, the col lege boys mismana cement has been so monumental that their champion ship has ceased to attract much at i tention, although a decade since 1t stood second in point of interest only 10 the national amateur. The climax 1 of asSinity appears to have been reached, last week, in setting upon Iate June for the title contest-probabl bly, i the very busiest week of the year. The students need just the steadying l hand that the alumni could ideally ex- i tend. It would furnish the grads l association with raison q etre
 ] If the Oakmont Country club is l wise it will go slowly in attempting a | curtain raiser for the National anna | teur there, opening the middle of | August. The United States affair has | always proved enough in itself and \ the last two years have brought no f increase in the capacity of players to ! digest. Unusual business activity is i assured the coming summer in order l to catch up for the war, so every hour 1 will carry with it a premium.
 | There will be no better time to act 1 than next summer because for one 1 thing it is proposed in bringing the i Eastern InterschoIastc association l back to life to widen it's membership and scope. The interschoIastic largely l feeds the intercollegiate. For another i reason, all intercollegiate activities 1 are being resumed As former Dean ! Briggs of Harvard lately put the case: i NOW is the time 10 incuIcate more l sensible notions and to foster a. better i understanding of the relations be- i tween sporting pasumes and the other 1 interests of life. It is one of the op- 1 porturities in the. wake of the war; 1 Suppose it was a normal year and l that a two or three day tournament 1 should be held in advance at Pitts l burg. Players who could. not spend i from a week to ten days there would i find others had the drop on them. 1 Exactly that notion is already crop | ping out in connection with the Is l Intercity pro matches which it is pro- l posed shall be held in the Middle 1 West. previous to the National open championship. It is declared the 1 paid players of that section twill have a little something on their Eastern i brothers by way of competitive prac. tice. Chicago, St. Louis, Detroit and Minneapolis would each have four pros in the preIiminaries with four i matches III eaCn ClIT. IL Is rather
 more difficult for the Eastern pros to get together, but hey will be obliged to do so in seIf-defense if the mid i Western plan goes through.
 Once in it's desire to keep down the entry list without offending golfers by drawing lines as to handicap allow ances, social prominence, etc, the ! Garden City club held a tournament 1 which was restricted to Long sIand- annoying developments, no other club l has since had the temerity to repeat | the experiment. As there was no Long Island organization there was
 no one to. object to the borrowing of | CTS. There were so many odd and l that title for the occasion.
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