The New York herald., 1921-01-26
CANOE BROOK GETS
NEW JERSEY GOLF
Summit Course Defeats Knick-
erbocker in Vote for State
Title Tourney.
by KERR N. PETRIE

Canoe Brook Country Clubs recently
reconstructed course is to be put TO the
test the coming season. the New Jersey
State Golf Association having at its
annual meeting he'd yesterday at the
Princeton Club selected that circuit as
the venue for its next amateur cnam.
pionship Canoe Brook rard ---o-~ad
by the Knickerbocker Country Club OF
Tenafiy. LOT the LIial Woe WAS 10 d.
Shackamaxon received two votes. No
specific choice of dates was made, but
II Is generally conceded that the tourna-
ment Will be held the first week OF June.
This Will be the week before the title
tournament of the Metropolitan Golf
Association. while II Is the same as that
in which the Westchester County Golf
Association will hold its annual blue
ribbon event.
Offers for the junior championship
We're received from Upper Montclair.
Glen Ridge and Hackensack, but the
selection of q venue for this meeting was
deferred. During the discussion of this
tournament II was suggested by the
president, 10. Z. Holden, Jr.. who was re-
elected to another term Of office, that
there is here a real opportunity for Some.
missionary work on the part of the New
Jersey clubs, inasmuch as last year the
entry had remained the same as 1t was
1919. At the inaugural tourney twenty
two boys came forward to play for the
title and there were that many on the
tee again last summer. There ought to
be more Junior golfers than that in New
Jersey. according to Mr.. Holden.
With the reading of the treasurer's
report the world was given an insight
into what the higher cost has meant to
State golf association, for whereas
there was s592 In the treasury on Jan
uary 2. 1920, this sum now has shrunk
to little more than $46. Nothing but
the higher cost is to blame for this state
of affairs, printing, silver cups, medals
and other trophies and all the other
things necessary to the successful rum
ming of golf association having gone
higher than the highest sc1aff that the
hardest driving golfer in all New Jersey
ever hit.
Want More Journeys.
Instead of feeling that policy of re-
trenchment should be pursued in the
face Of such an outlook the New Jer-
sey men courageously and with one ac-
cord are clamorirg for expansion. But
how to expand in the face Of shrinking
finances? Here again facts We're looked
sQuarely in the face. and II was voted
without word OF dissent that to put
the association on the map, or rather TO
keep II where 1t belonged, the club dues
and tournament entrance fees should be
raised. One delegate was for increasing
the annual assessment of $40 by as
much as $50 per cent. but 1t was pointed
out that such an increase would not be
necessary and the matter was finally
referred to the executive committee
With an increase OF 100 per cent there
should be $1,000 in revenue from this
source alone the coming year, as with
Pine Valley, the famous course in the
Philadelphia district, and Weequahic,
Newark's public course. added the mem
bership now Is fifty. It cost the N. J.
8. G. c. s723.62 to hold last years cham
pionship at Arcola, whereas the receipts
from club dues amounted to but $500.
1t was the sense of the meeting that
the New Jersey association should also
hold an open championship. A profess
sional-aInateur title competition such as
Long Island held last year and West
chester has added to its schedule for the
ensuing season was also advanced as in
keeping with the wider policy craved by
the delegates. 1t was here that the
treasurer got his inning. for it was then
his turn to explain that while suchs a
scheme was highly desirable, under pres
ent conditions II would not be possible
for the association TO extend its activi-
ties until the problem of income had
been solved