The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-10-23
By JACK CUDOY

United Press Staff COrrespOndent)
 New York, Oct. 23.--(PU)-It is almost certain that the Profession al Golfers Association will aban- don plans for tournament play this winter, because of transportation difficulties.
 Gas and rubber rationing and shortage of railroad facilities would prevent the usually large caravan of linksmen from trekking along golfs golden trail"
 A series of war-relief exhibitions involving only a few top-fiight pro- fessionals probably will be substi- tuted for the normal string of big time journeys stagedseach winter in Florida, California, Texas, Arizona and the Carolinas.
 Announcement of the change is expected at the annual P. G. A.. meeting nj Chicago, Nov. g. Five members of the associations tour nament committee met in New York yesterday to consider the situation. Apparently they had been slow in appreciating the transportation problem because only two weeks ago their tournament manager, Fred Corcoran, announced that plans were being completed for the tour neys which would start with the Miami (Fla) open, Dec. 3-6, and continue through the usual ttin- erary.
 No Travel, No Tourney
 After yesterdays meeting, Ed Dudley, president of the P. G. A., held hope that some of the tourna- ments might be played on a war; relief basis, but off-the-record con- versations with other committee members revealed that there was virtually no change of staging any of the journeys. It seems that sev- eral pros already had tried to ar- range for suitable transportation to the Miami Open without success. And they figured that the same situation would confront them with respect to the other winter classics.
 Were 1t not for this all-impor- tant problem of transportation, the winter tour could have been held as usual. Sponsors of only two tour neys had withdrawn for the dura- tion-the Oakland, Calf, Open and the Augusta, Ga, Masters Invita- ton. Sponsors at all the other sites had asked for dates and many were assigned. Moreover, tournament Manager Corcoran was confident he could muster plenty of talent for the tour, although several stellar performers already are in service, including Sam Snead, P. c. A. champion. and others including Ben Hogan, Craig Wood and Horton Smith expect to don uniforms soon. Possibility
 One lone, faint hope remains for winter tournament play. If the PGA could convince the proper authori- ties at Washington that the tour- neys would raise $l00000 or so for war relief, special transportation arrangements might be made. But before such argument could be of- fered, sponsors of the various tour- neys must guarantee the PGA suf- f1cient relief money from their re- spective competitions, above all ex- penses, to bring the total up to a hundred grand. Accordingly, Cor coran will poll the sponsors and have their replies ready for the Nov. 9th meeting at Chicago.
 Even if the PGA gets its guaran- tees of $l00,000 for relief, we know it will have tough job convincing Washington that special trRnspor- tation arrangements should be made for the golfing caravan, espe- cially now that the Army Navy football game has been transferred from Philadelphia to Annapolis be- cause of the transportation situa- ftnY1