Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-12-02
NEW GOLF|NG HEAD
RISES FROM RANKS
Bostonian Hailed as Fitting
Successor to the Popular
H. H. Ramsay.
BY w. r. McCALLUM.

WdIO-lOOhIllS pOl4CACo VI
" the United States Golf
Association toward i'm
provement of the game in this
country and maintenance OF
friendly relations with Britain in
golfing matters is assured by the
nomination of Herbert Jacques OF
Boston for president of the aSso-
citation. Jacques nomination is
tantamount to election at the an
nual meeting to be held in New
York on January 7, at which time
Herbert H. Ramsay will step out
as president.
Ramsay has been the mcst demo-
cratic president the U. S. G. A. has had
since Melvin A. Traylor, Chicago
banker and golf enthusiast, served a
one-year term back in 1923. Ramsay
came up through the ranks of the U. S.
G. A. just as Jacques has done, serving
in several executive posts before he be-
came president, in January, 1890. BY
his tact and unfailing grasp of the es-
sentials of a given situation Ramsay
has placed the U. S. G. A. on a higher
plane of popular estimation than it
ever has been.
WITH the newspaper men, who re-
w fleet the views of several millions
of golfers, Ramsay has been
popular figure Unlike one or two past
presidents, Ramsay has not donned the
high hat" in his dealings with the
public and with the press and always
has gone more than halfway to meet
the wishes of golfers at large His adj
miniStration, which was marked by the
introduction of the larger and lighter
ball and the subsequent change to a
large ball retaining the old weight, has
in many ways been the most demo-
cratic of any U. S. G. A. president.
Jacques has served as chairman of
the important Committee on Imple-
ments and the Ball for the past three
years. In other words, his committee
has, in many ways, affected more
closely the rank and file of golfers than
any other of the .. S. G. A. commit
tees. 1t was that committee which, in
the Fall of 1880, put through the old
large, light ball, weighing 1.55 ounces
and measuring 1.6S inches in diameter.
This ball lasted for approximately one
year. In September of 1881 the U. S.
G. A. announced the return to a ball
weighing 1.62 ounces ana measuring
1.68 inches. This is the ball now in
use, ball which generally is regarded
as the finest golf ball ever standardized.
Jacques committee also handled the
experiments with the sand wedge"
which made its appearance in 1880.
Fast photography revealed that the ball
struck twice on the concave face of this
implement and the club was barred
But variations of the wedge" princi-
pie still are in use, without the concave
face.
JACQUES is member of the Brook
j line Country Club of Brookline,
Mass, one of the old blue-blood
organizations of the game around Bos-
ton. But that does not mean that
Jacques himself is silk stocking"
The coming president Of the U. S. G. A.
is as democratic as they come. A thor
ough student Of the game and its prob
lens, he can be depended upon to main
tain the policies put forward by RAM
say and his co-workers. Jacques him.
self is quite a golfer. He is not in a
class with Ouimet, Guilford or Wright
around Boston, but he breaks 80 and
is good enough to hold his own in any
but first-class links company. His
father, the late Herbert jacques, served
as president of the U. S. G. A. in 1909
and 1910.
The nomination of Jacques by COM
mittee headed by Melvin A. Traylor
came after the death two weeks ago of
Robert M. Cutting of Chicago. Cutting
died within few days after his nomi-
nation was announced, just as Charles
o. Pfeil died in 1927 shortly after his
nomination for the post of president of
the U. S. G. A.
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w Club are looking forward to the
use OF two new putting greens on
the course tomorrow. The new sew
enth and thirteenth greens, which have
been reconstructed during the past
month by the green's forces, are to be
thrown open for play tomorrow If good
weather continues.
Both greens have been completely re-
built in record time and make better
holes than the old seventh and thir-
tenth. The humps have been taken
out Of both greens, which now are
practically fat with a slight slope
toward the front.
THERE'S new course record for the
i boys to shoot at over there at the
Army-Navy Country Club today.
j. Monro Hunter, gigantic club profess
out yesterday in SO, eclipsing by single
stroke the best previous mark, made by
Arthur B. Thorn of Woodmont on No
vember 10, 1929. The strange part of
Hunters card was that he failed to
get brides on the first and second holes,
which are usually brides for this ire
mmdouS hitter He started poorly, 4,
5, 5, which Is one above par for the
first three holes. His tee shot went out
of bounds at the third. But he poled
out two mighty cloutS at the 525-yard
fourth to nearly reach the green, and
he hit the pin with his third shot, Sc
curing a bird 4. He picked up three
deuceS on the round, these deuces COM
ing at the ninth, tenth and seventeenth.
At the tenth if the pin had been out
he might have made an ace, for the
ball, hit with a No. 2 iron, struck the
pin and bounced 2 inches away.
Hunter was playing with Col Scott
Fulton and Col Walter c. Sweeney.
Here is his card, with par for the
course:
Out, par. 4 5 4 5 4 4 3 4 3-36
Hunter ....4 S 5 4 4 4 3 3 2-34
In, par go. 3 4 4 5 4 5 4 435-71
Hunter 80. 2 4 4 5 5 4 2 f34-68
Strangely enough, Hunter did not Sc
Culc piIuieS OH the thirteenth anu III
teenth holes, which are capable of be-
Ing reached in two shots by this big hit
ter. He failed to reach either green
yesterday in two shots, but he banged
home 20-foot putt for a deuce on the
seventeenth to leave him par for a
new record. Next Summer, when the
course gets fast, we predict that Hunter
will play it in IS or 66. His game is
made to order for a layout like that OF
the Army-Navy Club.
Danny Burton, the big, red-headed
youngster who used to caddie for Harry
G. Pitt and was with Bob Barnett fol
q time in the Chevy Chase golf shop
has been appointed caddie master al
the Army-Navy Club. Danny took over
his new duties yesterday. He will be
able to play golf few times a week
In his new post.