Evening star., 1930-06-27
TAKE FOR GRANTED
JONES' SUPREMACY
Critic Suggests Team Tits
Lapse Until John Bull Can
Make Showing.
BY FRANCIS J. POWERS.

0HICAGO, June 27 (CP.AD.
Suggestion that a few
shreds of Great Britain's S
golf prestige might be SAL
vaged if it temporarily withdrew
from Walker Cup competition has
been made by prominent Brit
, ish golf writer The British seem
to be showing far more resent
ment over the slaughter of their
amateurs in the international
team matches than the loss Of
two national championships to
Bobby Jones.
The British accept Jones for what
he is-the world great golfer. They
are very fond of the American star
and were quite reconciled to his win
ming one or both of the champion
ships before he arrived in England. But
It seems to be the general opinion that
the selection of the Walker Cup team
was poorly done and that the 10-to-2
slaughter at Sandwich might partly
have been averted.
Seven Walker Cup matches have
been played since the gift of George
Walker started the international duel
in 1922, and the British have been
beaten every time. They did not COM
plain so long as their amateurs were
able to give the Americans close fight
on British links, such as happened
at st. Andrews in 1928 and 1926 when
the United States was fortunate to win
by one point.
But the 11-to-1 victory of the Amer
tcans at the Chicago Golf Club and
the recent debacle at Sandwich has
aroused the ire Of golfers in all parts
Of Britain.
No Obligation.
The magazine Golf, commenting ed
atorially on the 1880 matches, says:
"Is 1t worth Great Britain continuing
the match with United States. We
have lost every time, seven times in
all, and the last defeat was the worst
experienced in this country and ex-
celled only by the disastrous thraSh1ng
of two years ago at Chicago. AS things
are it would be futile for Great Britain
TO send a team to the United States
two years hence.
"It Is not necessary under the condi-
lions Of the Walker Cup to play every
second year. America is at the present
time supreme In golf. We need not en-
deavor to modify that position. There
Is no obligation upon us to play Amer
sca and we can wait until there Is q
subsistence of the fetish for developing
amateur golfers in the United States.
I'VE have heard it said that unless
some rich man comes along and pro-
Vides 8 or 10 British golfers with a
eufdcient annual income to allow them
to play golf all the year around we
never can win the Walker Cup match.
Such q procedure is unthinkable and
thoroughly opposed to the ideas we en-
eertain Of sport
The Society Angle.
Americans probably will be surprised
30 learn that there Is a fetish for the
development Of amateur golfers in this
country. glimpse at golf courses In
any city viii prove they are growing
without any cultivating. And In Amer
1ca social position does not initiate
against q youngster becoming a star
and playing In the internationalS, as 1t
seems to do In Great Britain.
It would be regretted If Great Britain
should ask for a moratorium in the
walker Cup matches. and 1t is un-
likely such action ever will be taken.
The feeling Is growing that Great Brit
tain no longer can depend upon the
Oxford Cambridge crowd to produce
winning golfers, and the artisan stars
may get their opportunity in the fu-
ture.