Evening star., 1940-02-15
Frank Emmeh's Plan
Would Create Title
OF Major Rank
Figures South Atlantic
Body Needed to Erase
Dues Duplication
BY WALTER McCALLUM.

BY WALTER McCALLUM.
Formation of a golf association
embracing the entire South Atlantic
territory, and taking the place of
the District, Maryland and Virginia
links organizations, is advocated by
Frank x. Emmett, spark plug Of
Junior and schoolboy golf in WASH
tngton. Just now Frank Is busy
working out the details of the met
ropolitan schoolboy championships
for teams and individuals.
Ralph Bogart holds the individual
schoolboy title and Western holds
the Dawes Cup. The team cham
pionship will start in April, and
Emmett has been assured OF Dis
trict Golf Association backing for
the schoolboys to the point where
the District association secures the
courses on which matches are
played without green fees.
But Emmett sees in duplication of
annual dues of the clubs in the
Washington area and overlapping
of effort danger to all the as
sociations. Some of the clubs close
to Washington, he says, pay five
association dues.
Wouldn't Lose Identities.
II believe that the time has come" {"
says Emmett, "for the establishment
Of one large central golf association
to be known as the South Atlantic
Golf Association. This body would
be formed from the Middle Allan
tic Golf Association, the Virginia
State Golf Association, the District
Golf Association and the Maryland
Golf Association. The name-South
Atlantic-would be more appropri-
ate then Middle Atlantic since the
Middle Atlantic States are New
Jersey, Pennsylvania and Delaware.
The other three golf bodies, namely,
Virginia, Maryland and District,
would not lose their identity entire
" since they would be known as
the Maryland section of the South
Atlantic, Virginia section and Dis
trtct section. The president of the
South Atlantic would be selected for
two years, and the Office would ro-
tate from section to section. This
new association, embracing some IS
to 40 clubs, would collect all the
dues and thus some of the local
clubs would do away with the need
for paying four separate dues bills.
Would Create Big Title.
This South Atlantic Golf Asso-
ciation would command some at
tention in the United States Golf
Association. 1t should have paid
secretary or business manager with
Offices here in Washington. It could
assist the pros with their prob
1ems, the schoolboys, with clubs with
their purchasing difnculties, the
greenkeepers and the chairmen of
the club committees. The South
Atlantic amateur championship
would be on a par with some of the
better known tournaments, such as
the Trans-Mississippi and Western
Amateur.
"The South Atlantic Open would
step up III line with the Western
Open, New York State Open or the
Massachusetts, Open.
with the millions of dollars tied
up in clubhouses and real estate
and the thousands of golfers af-
fected by such a reorganization I
consider this a very serious prob
lem and all the associations men
toned should take immediate steps
TO get together and bring about this
new setup."
Frank has something there, but
organization of such an association
has its problems. Unless the State
associations held their own tourna-
ments 1t would be hard to imagine
the Mid-Atlantic, the District, the
Maryland or Virginia associations
subordinating themselves to such
an organization. The main function,
so stated in their constitutions, of
the various smaller associations, is
to promote tournament play and the
game itself. Without tournaments
they wouldn't function. But the
idea of dues reduction is a good
one. I'VE pay around $40 year
in annual dues to all the associa-
tions to which we belong" said DR..
o. U. Singer, tournament chairman
ut Congressional. That happens
to be quite an item for any club"
10 to Make Dixie Trip.
Next Wednesday night group Of
about 10 Washington businessmen
will toss their gclf clubs to Pull
man porter and steam away from
Union Station for four days of golf
under a warm co Georgia sun. They
hope it will be warm at Augusta,
even though Georgia has been get
ting a share of the cold weather
this winter, along with the rest of
the South.
For a lot of golf-hungry gents,
barred from the local courses for
two months by snow and frigid
blasts, anything in the way of sun
shine and moderately warm weather
will look good. The party will be
In charge of Rudolph Nefty) Har-
rell of the Washington Golf and
Country Club, who has headed the
annual Washington's birthday golf
parties for well over a decade.
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