Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-12
MANY CHAMPIONS !. !.
WI wv VIII WI tStSS =
IN GOLF|NG SQUAD.
Mackenzie, Mccarthy Are
Picked as AIternates.
Voigt a Regular.
BY BRAIN BELL,


"A YEw YORK, January 11-From :.
M a list of 10 star golf players
" named today, a team of eight
will be selected to sail for Eng
land in April to make the Walker Cup,
emblem of International team SUI
premacy, safe for America. The sixth
Walker Cup series will be played at
Sandwich May 1915.
Those named to support Capt Bobby
Jones are Harrison r. Johnston, George
Won Elm, Francis Ouimet, DR.. .. r.
Willing. George Votgt. Jess w. SWeetser.
and Donald K. Moe. Alternates IN oroer
are Roland Mackenzie of Washington
and Maurice Mccarthy, jr., Georgetown.
University star.
Eight players will go to England for
the competition at singles and four
somes. The alternates will be called to
the golf colors only If any OF the first
eight cannot make the voyage.
Jones, Johnston, Won Elm, Ouimet,
| Willing and Sweetser are Walker Cup
team veterans. iSweetser and Ouimet
have been members of all flve OF tina
| teams, Jones was absent only In 1928!
The 1880 participation will be the third
| for Won Elm and Willing. Willing.
however, has not played since 1924.
Mackenzie, too, has played on two of
the international teams.
Voigt and Moe are the only new.
Corners. Mccarthy was an alternate in
| 1928. Voigt, after series Of successes
In 1929 found the going harder last
important title, the North and South
amateur. Moe won the Western
amateur.
Champions on Team. +.
The team invading England will in
clude champions and ex-champions.
Joees is the open champion, Johnston
amateur champion, Won Elm former
amateur champion, Ouimet former open
and amateur champion, Sweetser for.
States and Great Britain. DR.. Willing
was runner-up in the last amateur
championship and former Oregon open
title holder.
Three of the previous international.
meetings have been in the United States
and two in Great Britain.
The announcement of the personnel
of the Walker Cup team by H. H. RAM
say, chairman of the championship
committee, was the outstanding news Of
the annual meeting of the U. S. G. A..
Findlay S. Douglas Of New York was
reelected president, as were all other
officers except Roger d. Lapham of San
|
Robert M. Cutting. Chicago. was named
to I'LL the vacant vice presidency. Two
new members of the executive commit
tee are e. H. Seaver of Los Angeles and
A. S. Kerry of Seattle. =,
The association adopted the report Of
the committee on amateur status and
conduct, ruling against payment Of ex-t
penses of teams representing State and
sectional golf associations, but the guess
| ton was discussed on the floor by fours
speakers after the action had been,
| taken.
Protests Expense Rule.
/ Alvah w. Rydstrom, president of tho
| Massachusetts, Golf Association, vigor-
! Gus prepayment of extending the scope of
payment Of expenses Of amateur golfers.
suggested that the matter will be
brought up again in the future. The
rule restricting part payment OF ey-
penses to members of the Walker Cup
team, intercollegiate golf teams and
participants in the national public links
championship cannot readily be en-
forced to the letter, he suggested.
H. H. Ramsay. vice president of the
U. 8. G. A, defended the position OF
the executive committee against amend
ing the rules, intimating that violations
of the code may result in embarrass-
ment. He said that ignorance of the
law cannot be offered as a Defense
Harold B. Chase, Worcester. Mass, and
w. C. Miller, Greensboro. N. c., COM
pleted the brief discussion.
The green section committee an
! nounced the appropriation of $1,000 by
the New Jersey Legislature for work to
be carried on at the New Jersey Agri-
cultural Experiment Station, at New
Brunswick, where problems in turf will
| be studied. r.
The membership of the United States
/ Enf ASc0rfafi0Y IN Navnnnher IN 1000
was 100. Sixty-four clubs were elected
to membership during the year, two
were reinstated and 20 resigned or were
dropped from membership.