The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-11-11
N. Y. A. G. GOLFERS
WANT OWN COURSE
Linksmen of Big Athletic Club
Still Are Fighting for
Recognition.
BY KERR N. PETRIE.

While the golfers OF New York Attn
letic Club have not abandoned their
fight for recognition many feel that the
Winged Foot emblem wearers lost
glorious opportunity when they allowed
the old Pelham Country Club to be
picked up right under their very noses
and absorbed by a group OF enthusiasts
intent on laying out fine golf course
in that section Of Westchester. Lying
as 1t does about a couple of brasse
shots back of the Travers Island prop
erty of the New York A. c.. the Pelham
Country Club layout would have been
just the very thing for the linksmen or
New York city's premier athletic organ
ization. Unfortunately, however, the
fight for recognition which has been
going on for several years has not pro-
crossed to that stage where any one
would have been justified in rushing
headlong into such an enterprise even
If Pelham Country Club had been
available.
Heretofore one of the great obstacles
in the path of those who would like TO
see the athletic club golfers with
course of their own has been the way in
which the golfers are scattered around
among the metropolitan clubs In the
at Garden City Country Club probably
less than half a dozen entered as I'M
attached out of a field of more than
sixty players. From this angle can be
seen something of the hazard which
confronts those who are anxious to
whip the clubs golfers together. For
II readily occurs that while the MEM
bers of the clan seem to be only too
pleased to turn out at the annual cham-
pionship call it may be difficult mat
ter to wean the enthusiasts away from
the various clubs with which they are
now identified merely for the sake of
playing on a purely y. Y. A. c. links
For many such a circuit may be quite
inaccessible and far from filling the bill
in one way or another.
On the other hand. OF course, there
are a great many golfers who hold
membe rship in more than one club. And
with not less than $50 of the Winged
Footers playing the game at the pres
ent time. and more taking 1t up every
day. there seems no good reason why
a n. Y A. c. golf club could not be
made a great success or why the links
men should not get some measure OF
recognition along with the trapshooters,
the track and field men, the swimmers
and so forth. Golf demands big ont
lay. naturally, but, judging by the ex-
perience of most of the metropolitan
clubs, such an organization soon would
become self-supporting. Moreover. with
Its own links It Is safe to say that the
New York Athletic Club soon would
furnish double the number of budding
Vardons that now are playing the
game.
A. II. Pogson. the secretary Of the
Metropolitan Golf Association James
G. Patterson of Fox Hills and others
long have championed the cause of the
golfers in the N. Y. A. C. Others who
recently have taken up the fight are
Raymond f. Rode of Garden City
Country Club and C. G.. Mobiles of White
Beeches. These two mean to get the
golfers Of the athletic club together at
dinner on an early date for the pur-
pose of whooping it up for golf. Speak,
ing of this idea the other day, Mr.. Rode
said:
ut is for the express purpose of round
ing up all the golfers OF the athletic
club and instilling that friendship among
them In order to boom what Is the
greatest sport In the country that such
a gathering has been suggested It Is
our aim to, make this dinner n big sue
cess and we feel confident that we will
have more than $50 present There will
be plenty of talent and prominent speak
ers and. OF course. we have the thought
that some day in the near future we
might be successful In organizing so
strongly that the New York Athletic
Club will have a course OF it's own. 1t
is the largest athletic club In the coun-
try and stands first in all athletics, with
the one possible exception OF golf We
feel that If ali the golfers get together
we can boost the royal and ancient game
so that 1t will be one of the largest inner
organizations OF the athletic club"