The New York herald., 1922-02-06
ASK GOLF CLASSIC
FOR PACIFIC COAST
Admission Charge May Make
Possible Staging Of National
Meet i'm California.
BY KERR n. PETRIE.


If. as reported. San Francisco>is being
considered as the possible place for the
Holding of the 1928 national amateur
golf championship the United States
Golf Association perhaps would do well
to revise its plan about waiting year
or two longer before charging an ad-
mission fee to its title Journeys and put
somo such scheme into operation the
coming season. AS every one knows the
national body never has been very keen
about paying the expenses Of the anna
teurs, but the time is not far distant
rerhaps when facts of this sort will have
to be looked squarely in the eye. The
institution Of any international event
which necessitates an American team
going abroad, as the tennis players now
go on Davis cup business, will require
financial backing by the national asso-
citation. Sectional associations. it is we'll
known, shouldered the financial burdens
OF several OF the players on the amateur
team which w. c. Fownes, Jr., cap
tained at Hoylake last year. Interna-
tional competition is only in it's infancy,
Charles II. Ebbetts. and as the call be-
comes stronger and longer for the
u. S. G. A. to dip into the treasury i.
will require some such source of supply
as the taking of gate money as the
championship offers to meet all the bills.
The question of paying the expenses
Of participants in the national amateur
cL championship often has been mooted.
Until last year the longest range asked
of players from the East was Chicago.
while Chicagoans. who formed the back
bone Of the middle Western attack about
two out Of every three years or possibly
three out OF four had to undertake the
same journey. But. as was demonstrated
last September at st. Louis i'm the ma
national championship, New York, Bos-
tor and Chicago have ceased to be all
there is 20 American golf. The Pacific
coast has shown that It has a right to
some consideration. A strong represen-
tation was sent from that section to St
Louis and the same men have intimated
that they will again be seen in action at
Brookline, Mass. next fall.
To Have Every Consideration.
st. Louis for long was considered to
be we'll without the pale. but golf is
growing in the United States. Those
who attended the last national meeting
had their eyes opened, and il Is not the
least surprising to hear from San Fran
cisco that J. Frederic Bycrs, the new
president of the U. S. q. A.. has tele-
graphed as follows in answer to a re-
quest to have that city considered for
the 1923 event:
"You may rest assured that San
Francisco will have every considera-
tion. Personally I believe that IL prac-
ticable 1t will be a splendid thing for
the game of golf to hold the champion
ship on the Pacific coast"
Because Of the big expense entailed
not many Fasteners made the trip to
st. Louis. Without u. s. G. A. aid even
fewer are going to San Francisco, but
il at any time In the near future the
national body means to give that recog-
milton to the Pacific coast that un-
doubtedly has been won by that sec
ton it can at least prepare itself to
put all the Eastern, Southern and
middle Western eligibles on a special
train and ship them, carriage paid, to
the Golden Gate or somewhere in that
vicinity.
A little revolutionary the suggestion
of such scheme may seem at the
moment, but there Is no blinking the
fact that the national body some day
will have to face the music. Mr.. Byers's
answer has undoubtedly whetted the
California appetite for a national cham
pionship in that State. The only loop
hole of escape for the u. S. G. A. Is
in the impracticability OF the plan. but
this. by the admission OF the national
body that the time is not far distant
when a fec will have to be charged for
the championship tournaments, has now
been overcome.
That suggestion opens the way for
the Pacific coast to land the title before
many more years have passed. 1t may
be a question as TO whether that section
offers what Fasteners consider ideal
golfing conditions. Some contend that
there is no real golf under California
turf and climatic conditions, while. on
the other hand many are positive in
their assertion that out there they have
some of the finest golf courses in the
world
East Has Had It's share.
The fact remains, however. that the
national championship Is not alone for
that part OF the United States bounded
by the Mississippi on the one hand and
the Atlantic Ocean on the other. New
r~rt. I~.a-