The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-01-19
SEEK METHOD
MAKING GAME
MORE POPULAR
Less Cost for Membership IN Pri.
vate Clubs Suggested by
Walter Camp.
BY WALTER CAMP.

Reducing the high cost of golf so
as to bring the game within the
reach of the average young married
man is a problem which the various
associations are tackling with 4
view to finding an early solution.
At the recent annual meeting of the
greens committee of the United
States Golf association, this was the
big point stressed and the sugges-
ton was made that there should be
more municipal golf courses in or
der to promote the growth and pop
ularity of the game.
Let us, indeed, have all the mu-
nicipaI golf courses possible, but it
should be made possible for the
young married man of moderate
means to join a private golf or
country club where his wife, even
though she be not a golfer, may
have the pleasure of meeting
friends in the clubhouse and be not
left drearily at home while her
husband goes out and plays over
municipal course because there is
not private club of reasonable
dues that he can join. The inter
esting news comes from Chicago
that President Byers says that no
action will be taken on the mat
ter of rules until after the meet
ing of the western golf association,
which occurs on Saturday. This
is evidently and manifestly in the
interest of more increased har-
mony.
Undoubtedly at the meeting Sat
urday the questions of the out of
bounds penalty, lost ball penalty,
the ribbed club and the stymie will
come up for a thorough discussion
and ii real harmony prevails be-
tween the United States Golf as
ISOLATION and the various sectional
organizations throughout the coun-
try all golfers will breathe relief.
The United States Golf associa-
ton now has 202 active members
and 331 allied members. Twenty
four clubs were elected to active
membership and 80 to allied mem
bership at the recent session, show
ing gain of 60 new clubs for the
year, which is nearly four times
the. gain of a New York previous
year.
Golf truly is becoming a great
national game. What change from
the days when the baseball player
or the football player looked upon
the man with the golf clubs as
rich dude"
One/act taken at the recent meet
ing, that was really rendered neces-
saryyby the increasing number of
candidates for acceptance, was the
refusal of all entries for, the ma
tiohal unless recommended by the
association of which the candf-
date is a member.
Harvard has had fine representa-
uVes on the rink in ice hockey for
years and some of her teams have
been phenomenal. This year. al
though there has not been a real
opportunity for testing, it certainly
would seem as though the team was
likely TO be somewhat under the
average but that is a good thing in
the way of encouraging Yale, now
that the blue has a rink for real
practice and is no longer to de-
velop what have facetiously been
called 'iceless" hockey teams. The
victory over Princeton last Satur- |
day did the Yale players a great |
deal Of good and if they could come |
through to the top this year it
would be a great boom for hockey
at the New Haven university at a |
time when it has its first opportun-
1ty TO get really on its feet