The New York herald., 1920-01-18

GOLFERS TO MISS
FAMILIAR FACES
Wen Known Professional, Amateur
and Steward Have Severed Their
Connection with Baltusrol Club.

While the Baltusrol Golf Club will begin
the season with a double course, OF at
least with it's second eighteen hole circuit
we'll under way. many changes will this
year be noticeable at the famous oreaniza-
ton located near Short Hills. n. J. George
Low. one of the best known professionals
in the United States, and who has been
with Baltusrol for many years, has sew
cred his connection with the club, and the
connection with Baltusrol, although
much more recent, still has been suffi-
ciently long to make him one of the best
known club stewards in the metropolitan
district.
Shea already has signed up with the
Sea View Club. of Absecon. n. j., while
Low in the summer will have charge of
the course at Lake Champlain and the rest
of the year will devote his time to links
architecture For the next month or two
Low will be in California, for which des-
tinatioR he started week ago to begin
mis- course construction work.
But Low and Shea will not be the only
two whose faces will be missed during the
coming season at Baltusrol, for it is un-
derstood that Max r. Marston. the New
Jersey State title holder, who recently be-
cided to resign from the New York club
Marston had an idea when he first went
to Philadelphia that ne would continue
his membership in Baltusrol, but evidently
has seen fit to change his mind
Marstons loss will be felt by Baltusrol
when the club finds 1t necessary to put
team In the field at any championship
tournament, but unfortunately the matter
does not end here, for in a recent ice
th.x
River at Red Bank E. NJ. Wild was so
badly injured that his days as a star of
The game may be said to be over When
Wild came by his injuries he was enjoying
himself in a new ice sled invented and
owned by Pierre A. Proal. the well known
golfer, of Deal and Rumson. It So hap
pens that this sled is driven by propeller
or the aeroplane type. and il was this
which caught Wild, shattering one Of his
arms. But for Marston Wild would have
been the leading golfer of the Baltusrol
club- Last year the two were resp.c-
lively, winner and runner-up in the New
Jersey State championship played over
the links of the Deal club
Ia announcing the engagement Of Low
as Its professional the Hotel Charnplaip
COLI Club speaks OF 1t as one OF the mos.
important or the early preparatio for
the lS1 golf season And 81 indeed II is.
ior jeorge has been with the New Jersey
organization fo- seventeen years How
ever II "a lis desir~ to devote more of his
time 10 links rchitecture, and he will
md his opportunity 70 develop his talents
III this direction between the Bluff Poin.
seasons. Lows Aew charge Is the third
Oldest course In the United States and fhe
first to be built by resort hotel II was
remodelled In 1916 by A. W. Tillinghast.
and is rated among the leading courses of
the country.
George has attained q very high prestige
in every department Of the sport having
an enviable reputation as player
teacher, clubnaker and architect. He was
metropolitan open champion in 1896 the
second time such an event was ever held
In addition he has held the Florida State
title and has been in the money IN the
United States Golf Association oper cham.
pionship number Of times, being runner
up In 1899 and six shots behind the winner
IA islh With Alex Smith as his partner
he played against Harry vardon and Ed
ward Ray, the English pair. tn 1918
coming to this country about twenty-one
years ago, Low became identified with the
now tefunci Dyker Meadow Club Of
Brooklyn, and was the first professional
OF the Ekwanok Country Club of Man
chester. VI. over which the national ANA
teui championship was played in 1874
Leaving Ekwanok in 1903. Low took charge
% the Baltusrol course, whers he remain ed
up to tho present int, With he exception
OF two winters at St Augustine, Fla.