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Show I TROUBLE BREWING IN RANKS OF GOLFERS t Latest Scheme of Handicapping Cause of Row Among the Professionals. Tribune Speclul Snorlln? Service. NEW TOItK. Sept. 2. Thcro Is trouble brcwlnjr In iho ranks of tho prof4nlonaI eolfers. It In cnURod by tho luteal polionio of handicapping evolved by tho uecrctnry of tho Metropolian Golf association, Lclghton Calkins. Cal-kins. Tho atlr is the wult of tho printed announcement an-nouncement In connection with tho proKTammo for inn nm Metropolitan Golf association open clininplonylilp, to bo held ovor tho Fox IUiln links tho nilddlu of Suptomber. On tho third day, or after tho championship has been concluded, con-cluded, tho plnn In to run oft nn clirhtoun-hrtlo medal play liundlcup. open to nil, when Cal-klns'8 Cal-klns'8 pot scheme will coinu Into piny. Ho would rate professionals alone lines similar to the molhod prevailing among tho amateurs. . View of Weil-Known Player. Ono well-known player paid In an Interview: "I confess I do not like- tho Idea. We cannot nil bo on the scratch. so It Is bound to cheapen a mnn dvon a lone mark. No, sir, If I am not Rood enough to play from scratch my place Is at homo In tho shop." Slnco golf has been kaown In this country professionals have boen placed on nn equality. They have bron th Instructors, regarded nnd rocosnlred as past mooters of their art, over ready and wllilnc to tako a chanco with all In their cins. Now ihoy nro to be clvcn a rating soino plnced on a higher piano than oilier, and po officially regarded by tho Metropolitan Golf association. What Is Feared. The fenr In that with n handicap system prevailing pre-vailing professionals would rooncr or later become be-come known and esteemed according: to their rnllnc. Then tho question presents Itself, would clubs of any prominence, taking a certain cer-tain prldo In their professional!;, caro to employ em-ploy a man stamped as a third or fourth-rater? |