Evening star., 1947-01-12
AT Walker Cup Team
Selected by USGA;
0uimet Is Captain
All Future National
Journeys Placed on
| Match PIuy Bosis
By the Assoeioted Press

NEW YUM, Jan. ia QeIeil
amateur golfers, nine of whom will
be charged with the responsibility
of returning the Walker Cup to this
country, were selected today by the
U. S. Golf Association which also
decided to conduct it's future ma
tional tournaments entirely on a
match play basis.
Meeting in annual session, the
uSGA named these players as
a nine-man team to meet picked
squad of British amateurs at st.
Andrews, Scotland, May Is and II,
in the first Walker Cup Matches
since 1888:
Stanley E. (Ted) Bishop of South
Natick, Mass, present national anna
teur champion.
Marvin H. (Bud Ward of Spo-
kane, Wash, national amateur title
holder in 1889 and 1941.
Richard D. Chapman of Green
wich, Conn, national amateur
champion in 1910.
William P. Turnesa Of White
Plains, N. Y, national amateur
champion in 1888.
Public Links Champ Named.
Smiley l.. Quick of Los Angeles,
present national public links cham
pion.
Skee Reigel of Glendale, Calf,
who broke the qualifying record in
the 1916 national tournament.
A. Frederick Hammer, jr. of Crosse
Pointe, Mich, semifinalist in the
1916 national tournament.
DR.. E. Cary Middlecoff of Men,
phis, Tenn, quarter -finalist in the
1946 national amateur tournament.
Frank Stranahan of Toledo, Ohio,
western amateur champion.
AS nonplaying captain Of the team,
the USGA named Francis D. Ouimet
of Auburndale, Mass, former holder
of both the amateur and open cham
pionships who played with the U. S.
Forces in every previous Walker
Cup test except the last two.
And in the event any of the, nine
regulars declines, he will be re-
placed by one of three alternates-
George S. Hamer, jr., of Columbus,
Ga. Maurice Mccarthy of Gin
cinnati and Robert j. Sweeny of
New York and London-in that
order.
Ward Is Only Holdover.
Ward is the only player in the
group who was a member of the
u. S. team at st. Andrews in 1888,
when the Britons took several
matches, lost four and halved one,
to win the Walker Cup for the first
time. All nine previous meetings in
the series, which began in 1922,
had teen won by the Americans.
For the sixth time in history, the
u. S. Amateur Championships at
Del Monte, Calf, next September
will be run of entirely by match
play. In throwing out the 36-hole
medal play round to determine the
championship fight and substitute
ing two 18-hole rounds of match
play, the USGA opened the door
for 210 players to compete in the
tournament instead of the usual
$50.
The starters will be selected, as
in the past, by sectional qualifying
trials throughout the country. Once
the tournament field is reduced to
the round of four, matches viii be
increased from 18 to So holes for
the semi finals and finals.
Today's action was the result of
a poll among the 149 players in
the 1916 tourney, 81 of whom IA
vored the all-match-play system
now employed in Britain and used
i'll this country in 1895, 1903, 1884.
1885 and 1886.
The USGA also increased the
prize money for professionals in
the open championship. placed a
new restriction on amateurs and
reelected all its officers but it
failed to set a date for putting the
newly revised rules Of golf into ef-
feet.