Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1933-01-08
CINCINNATI LANDS
NATIONAL AMATEUR
Portland Gets Public Links
Title Event-Jaoues Is
Named President.
BY the Associated Press.

M Herbert JaqueS OF Boston
4 Y attained today the presi-
Dental post his father held
% years before him as the United
States Golf Association quietly
carried out the years business in
a brief annual session.
The National Amateur Championship
for 1888 was awarded the Kenwood
Country Club at Cincinnati on dates as
yet undetermined and the National
Open was assigned to the North Shore
Club at Glenview, Ill, June 8, 9 and
10, almost a month earlier than usual.
Two other championships we're dis
posed of, the wcman's annual play 60
ing to the EXmoor Country Club at
Highland Park, Ill, August % to Sep
TENDER 2, and the public links title hunt
to the Eastmoreland municipal course,
Portland, Greg, August l to August 5.
Only the selection of the dates for
the National Open provided anything
out of the ordinary in the short, calm
session. The change was made, Presi-
dent Jaques said in his brief address,
to evade "the usual hot weather We
have experienced in former years"
WITH the start of the British Open
Wv set for July 3, and the Ryder Cup
matches preceding on June 26,
professionals who make the trip abroad
will compete in the two major inter
national tournaments and the special
cup play all within a month in two
widely separated nations.
The new dates may work a particular
hardship on Gene Sarazen, the stocky
Italian professional who will attempt
to defend the two titles he won spec
Io
Ryder Cup team, including Sarazen,
will be forced to leave Immediately
after the American Open and compete
IN the cup play at Southport, England,
with only week of practice abroad at
the most. The professionals prefer two
weeks of acclimatization and practice
in England, at least.
President JaqueS. who became the
nominee upon the sudden death of Rob-
ert M Cutting of Chicago, originally
nominated for the post, commented in
his inaugural speech on the fine records
made by Americans in international
competition last year, when the woman
players captured series with England
the Walker Cup team trounced the Brit
iSh and Sarazen took both open titles.
TN his report for the Implements and
i Ball Committee, President Jaques
said the new ball, 1,68 inches in di-
ameter and l So ounces in weight, con-
t1nued to prove as satisfactory as it
had since inauguration January 1, 1892.
The reaction is so entirely favora-
BILE" jacques reported, that in review
ing the seasons play of 1892 your COM
mlttee feels its original purpose has
been fulflled-to produce better and
pleasanter ball with which to play the
game of golf"
The membership summary showed
that Sc clubs, presumably because of
financial reasons, had withdrawn from
: the u. S. G. A. during the year, but
the addition of 81 new member clubs
left total of 1,138.
IN his address, incoming President
i Jaques paid tribute to retiring Presi-
dent Ramsay and warned that I'VE
are still sailing in troubled waters, with
many clubs in financial distress"
Activities Of the green section must
be curtailed, he said but he pledged
every possible aid of the u. S. G. A. to
member clubs and golf in general Wher-
ever the pinch was felt
He paid tribute to the part profess
SIGNALS play in golf, out warned that
there were very definite distinctions
between amateurs and pros that must
MENTIONING, as he had promised,
w the subject of amateurism in
golf, President jacques defined and
praised the field of the professionals,
whose business, he said, was to supply
the needs of golf to the amateur"
THE fundamental purposes for which
the professional and the amateur play
the game" he continued ARE SO ob-
vious that am firmly of the opinion
there is no place in the game for the
individual who tries to straddle or en-
croach upon the field of either. If he
cannot afford to play for recreation or
to compete in tournaments, golf is
never denied him, for he can earn an
honest living in the respected vocation
OF golf professional.
1T shall be my policy, therefore, to
deal fairly but strictly with matters
involving amateur status"
Among the short and routine reports
was that of the Membership Committee.
which said that Sc clubs had withdrawn
from the association during the year,
presumably because of financial diff
culties, but that addition OF "a new
members kept the total up to 1,138.