Evening star., 1951-01-28
Willie Turnesa Heads
Lineup for Invasion
Of Britain in MAY
BY the Assoeioted Press

NEW YORK, Jan. 27.-The
United States Golf Association in
meeting today named nine
man team. including five veteran
internationalists, to defend the
Walker Cup against Britain's best
amateur golfers at Birkdale, Eng
land. May 11-12.
Four United States national
title winners and two time Brit
ish champion are on the squad
which Playing Captain Willie
Turnesa of Elmsford, N. Y, will
lead across the Atlantic to try for
the 18th American victory in 13
matches.
Here's the team chosen today:
Willie Turnesa. captain. national
amateur champion in 1888 and
l948. British amateur champion
in 1947.
Richard Chapman. Pinehurst
IN. c.. 1910 national champion.
Charles Coe. Oklahoma City,
l949 national champion.
Sam Urzetta. Rochester, N. Y,
1850 national champion.
Frank Stranahan, Toledo, Ohio.
1948-l950 British amateur cham
pion.
William Campbell, Huntington,
West Va. 1948-49 Tam O'Shanter
world amateur" champion.
James McHale, Philadelphia.
Harold Paddock. jr., Cleveland.
Robert w. Knowles. jr., Brook
line. Mass.
UrZetta Youngest Chosen.
Turnesa, Chapman. Stranahan
Coe and McHale are veterans of
the Walker Cup team. Campbell,
the golflng legislator, played in
British tournaments the last two
years.
Urzetta, who defeated Strana-
han IN the finals of the 1850 Ma
tlonal Amateur at Minneapolis, is
the youngest member of the team
IA years old. Chapman is the
oldest. He'll be 40 next month.
Knowles. 81, was semifnalist in
last years National Amateur and
is winner of numerous New Eng
land championships. Paddock is
time winner of the Ohio
State championship. He gained
the fifth round in the amateur
last year.
Alternates named are: Alfred ].
Mengert, Spokane, Wash; Harvie
Ward, jr., Tarboro. N. c.; Frank
(Bud) Holscher. Santa Monica,
Calf; William L. Dynamite)
Goodloe, Vandosta. Ga, and Dow
Finsterwald, Athens, Ohio.
Turnesa attended today's meet
ing. along with young Urzetta, and
said he felt this is strong United
States team that should keep the
trophy.
Il am glad we have so many
men on the team who are accus-
toned to British playing condi-
tions," the captain declared.
That will be a big help since
those conditions are so different
from our own.'
Will Play in British Amateur,
The Walker Cuppers will sail
April q and will participate in
the British Amateur championship
at the Royal Porthcawl Golf Club
near Cardiff. Wales. May 2l-26.
Stranahan is defending champion.
In other business. the United
States Golf Association decided to
cut down the field in the National
Amateur to 200, a reduction of 10
from last year, and to raise the
purse of the National Open from
$4,000 to $4,000 offering 20
additional 500 prizes.
The Amateur. all match play. is
scheduled at Bethlehem, Pa, Sep
tember 10-15. The Open will be
staged at Oakland Hills, Birming-
ham, Mich. June 14-16.
Isaac B. Granger of Montclair.
N. j., chairman of the rules COM
mlttee, announced the Royal and
Ancient Club of st. Andrews.
Scotland, ruling body of British
golf, has expressed interest in a
uniform set of rules between the
two countries.
The main difference today is in
penalties. The British penalize
only distance for lost ball, out-of-
bounds and unplayable lies where
as the United States penalties
stroke and distance for lost balls
and unplayable lies.
Granger predicted the stricter
penalty soon may be added to an
-of-bounds shot, which now
carries only loss of distance.
James D. Standish of Detroit
was reelected president and all
other officers were returned.
After the meeting, the dele
gates repaired to the golf house,
in mid Manhattan. to hear
formal dedication by 76-year-old
Findlay Douglas, United States
amateur champion in 1898.