Evening star., 1932-11-19
PROS PLAY IN MAY
ABROAD, June HERE
Will Mean Better Course for
National Event in This
Country.

~HICAGO, November 19.-
For the convenience OF
" United States professionals
the 1888 British open golf
championship will be played late
In May rather than early June.
This change, made at the request
Of the United States Golf Associa-
ton, brings the British open
ahead of the amateur for the first
time since the Inauguration OF the
two championships.
Although golfers from the United
States have been monopolizing the Brit
ish open title for more than a decade,
the Britons want to do nothing to dis
courage the annual invasion OF the
Yankee Ear breakers. As one British
golf authority puts it, I'VE want to
make our arrangements, as far as we
can. suitable to contenders from other
parts of the world, and thus preserve
and strengthen the open championship
In its unchallenged position OF cham
pionship of the world" Which is bit
sporting, one must say, since the British
were in no way obliged to accede to the
request of the U. S. G. A.
THE May dating of the British open
i enables the U. S. G, A. to schedule
the United States open champion
ship that will be played next year at
the North Shore Club, Chicago, for late
June. That time of the season always
finds Midwestern courses in their best
condition, and the heat Is not too In
tense to annoy the players.
Next years British amateur will be
played in mid-June, and that time
seems agreeable to all the probable con-
testants, since the United States will
Hoylake. The old idea of playing the
British amateur in advance of the open
goes back into the early years of the
event, when, to quote, The champion
ship used to be fixed in May to suit the
convenience of Scottish lawyers who
had what they called a May week,
when courts were not sitting"
THE British p C. A. has selected q
4 Leeds course as the site Of the 1888
Ryder Cup matches. and the inter-
nationalists will play the week preced-
ing the open at st. Andrews. The
American professionals also will be able
to compete in the 1,500-guinea tourna-
ment at Southport Just before going to
Leeds, so their time in Britain will be
well occupied.
Selection of the United States Ryder
Cup team will be one of the important
matters for discussion at the annual
meeting of the American P. q. A. at
Peoria Ill Whether the team Will be
chosen by selection or elimination is
something that will come in for warm
debate: In 1881 part of the United
States team was chosen by the COM
nittee and the remainder by elimina-
ton rounds. There was no end OF crit
i-ism hurled at the P. G. A., so this
YER it viii be one or the other.
Cnly three professionals seem GER
tain of places on the 1888 Ryder Cup
tearl, they being Gene Sarazen, the
6orble open champion; Olin Dutra, the
p. C. A. title holder, and Walter Hagen,
the perpetual captain of the American
forces.
AN effort also will be made to have
~ the P. G. A. championship played
earlier in the season. The custom
of staging the professional champion
ship in September does not permit the
winner much opportunity for capitaliz-
ing on his victory through exhibition
matches, and gallery interest in the
game usually is tagging out at that time
of the year.
Some of the leading professionals have
suggested that the P. G. A. champion
ship be played Immediately after the
United States open, which would per-
NIT many of them to compete in both
championships at the expense OF only
many instances are on the other side Of
the country