The New York herald., 1922-11-28
TAKES
BIG GOLF MEETING
U. s. G.. A. to Hold Annual
Session i'm Smoky City
January IS.
by KERR n. PETRIE.

by KERR n. PETRIE.
Many. many weeks after those close
to the inside trail had assured them
selves that the next annual meeting of
the United States Golf Association
would be held in Atlanta word comes
over the private wire that It is going to
Pittsburgh instead. What circumstances
or group of circumstances had arisen to
defeat the purpose Of those who hoped
for Southern invasion can only be
corjectured. but It appears TO be authen-
tic enough. In fact there is every rea-
son to believe that orders have been
given the u. S. c. A. glee choir TO
cease practicing up on Marching
Through Georgia and instead to substi-
tute the murky ditty Smoke. smoke,
smoke"
Latest dispatches from the South in
dicate that the Coca-Cola reception
committee is disbanding. Word also
comes from Pittsburgh that out there
the people have started in to do their
best. To make certain that the U. S.
G. A. officials and delegates will not
mistake the convention city for a part
Of the previous night and pass on, all
trains are to be met fifty miles out by
James Francis Burke and a committee,
the members Of which will be specially
appointed for their ability to recognize
golfers at a glance and to penetrate
the outer portals of Pittsburgh in the
first three attempts.
It had been understood that the u. s.
G. A. executive committee and dele
gates from the North would descend
upon Atlanta in a special train and
that by way of retaliation Thomas 3.
Paine. the honorable member from the
Georgia city, would then invite them
all out to the golf links for tourna-
ment and proceed TO sic Bobby Jones
on them.
South May Feel Slight.
Atlanta and tho South generally, it
is thought, will feel the cut greatly but
then, Atlanta and the South arc fairly
well used to disappointments by now
Having this year lost two national
championships that seemed all but won
in advance the side slipping of an an
nual meeting should no more than pene-
trate the cuticle.
There arc rot lacking indications that
Atlantans believe that strategy on the
part OF Pittsburgh has determined an
issue that they believed had been set
tied in their favor many weeks ago.
Advlces from st. Louis also are TO the
effect that the golfers there are going
about with rueful countenances and
generally acting as men who have been
caught mapping.
st. Louis, IL appears. was preparing
a heavy propaganda to cover Eastern
territory extolling tho merits of bever-
age as an accessory par excellence Of
the time honored cold collation. when the
tip was PASSED that 1t would be more
in keeping with the fitness OF things II
some other center of the soft drink in
dustry wherein the suggestion and re-
minder OF old times had been eliminated
entirely received the award. What
Pittsburgh has to offer cannot be
learned, but II Is understood that the
Inhabitants are as one I'm vowing that
the time honcred collation. will not be
allowed to perish from the program Of
the annual meeting.
The executive committee meeting at
which the meeting was torn from the
waiting hands of Atlanta and dropped
into the sooty lap Of Pittsburgh was
hsld last Friday at the Links Club.
Couriers dispatched to the Smoky City
have now returned. reporting that every
thing will be all right. Whether the
news has as yet been broken In Atlanta
cannot bo learned. However. the feat
of the couriers In carrying back word
within SO short a space Of time as four
days is taken as a happy augury for the
success OF the meeting.
Aids for Delegates.
Delegates who fear that they will not
be recognized by the committee OF well
como will be provided with maps of
western Pennsylvania, dark lanterns and
v.w.aftH Will xro a y
DISTINGUISHING marks and have a special
code of signals. Details of these Will
be given later. The meeting does not
fall due until Saturday, January IL.
While no positive dates have been Sc
lected as yet for the 1923 championships
IL is thought that the amateur and
women's Journeys will be held in Sep
tember The p. @. A has recommended
to the u. S. G.. A. that the open cham
pionship be held In June. The amateur
title event is to be decided at Flossmoor,
Chicago, and the women's on the links
of the Observation-Disclosures Country
Club.
Those in attendance at the recent ex-
ecutiyc session were J. Frederic Byers
tho president: w. ID. Vanderpool. vice.
president; Edward S. Moore. treasurer !;
James d. Stadish. Jr.; Allan Wilson,
Thomas B. Payne and James Francis
Burke, general counsel. Howard r.
Whitney and Frederick $. Wheeler. for
rner presidents, were also present by In
vitation.
Word has been received from willie
Ogg at the headquarters OF the p. G. A.
that the Worcester Country Club,
Worcester. Mass, OF which he is the pro-
fessional. has granted the use OF It's
links and club house for the national
open championship qualifying of the
Eastern section. Ogg In authority for
the statement that the Worcester course
meets all the necessary requirements.
Quite evidently 1t does, for II has taken
Willie several years to get the record
down to SO. As winner of the Shawnee
open tournament last year the playing
ability of Ogg Is recognized. The quail
flying rounds will in all likelihood be
held the Thursday and Friday before the
championship proper.