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Show mm must go 1 10 mjm I East Turns Down Opportunity Wt to Hold Olympic Cup Wt Competition. H THERE SEEMS TO BE A S LACK OF GOLF INTEREST 9 i English Players Are Not Taking S an Active Part to Bring '& About a Content. K Tribune Special Sporting Ssrvi :c. .Kl NEW YORK, Feb. 22. According to iff an oflicial of the Western Golf associar tion. those in control of the sport here' IK in the East recently turned down an opportunity to have the Olympic cup 'KL competition held over one of the courgea lH in this vicinity during the coming Bea-son. Bea-son. As the matter now stands, tlic Hf Wofitem Golf association has awarded Iff the- Olympic cup competition to the tiff Rock Island Arscual Golf club. HE It will be played on Saturday, Jul? JE U. This immediate!' precedes tho na- ISta nual championship tournament of the uff Western Golf association, which is to jff begin the following Monday over the iffl same links. There had been somo talk H of proscnting tho Olympic cup to the foreign committee having charge of the 3ff Olympic contests to bo held in England next summer, but this project was ubaudoucd because the Western direc- 3Kk tors were not assured of an American JH team going abroad. The alternative proposition was to". have the Olympic cup au adjunct to 'B the national amateur championship (H tournament, but as neither the United ;jB States Golf association nor the Metro-politan Metro-politan Golf association evidenced a d-sire d-sire to have it played for at Garden City, thus giving the Metropolitan team a chance to defend the cup at home, .H there was nothing left for the Western directors to do but tend it to Rock Island to be plaj'ed for in conuection AD with the Western amateur. Tt is (juito evident, therefore, that it the Metropolitan team wants to tiv to hold tho cup for another year it will haVc to travel lo Hock Island in July. fSjr The prevailing impression is that tho H Metropolitan team will let tho cup go by default. S Left to Yankees. There has been a genoral impression .B that whatever part this country is to -H take in the Olympic golf competition abroad next June will be left entirely to the TJuitcd States Golf association. Some time ago it was slated that the -H Amateur Athletic union had turned the $H golf invitation from tho other side ovei; H to the United States Golf association. VB but W. Felloes Morgan, secretary of :YB the latter body, said tho other day that jW no communication whatsoever had been 'jWf received from the Amateur Athletic jg union or the foreign committee. , There mav be somo excuse for the jjM lack of interest in golfing circles here sW for the Olympic tournament at Deal, as for some reason hard to explain many of tho leading golfers abroad re- qflfi sent tho action of the English commit- Mm lee in instituting a championship of iK such pretensions, wbilo a leading aut thoritS is quoted as saying: "It does $K) not appeal to ns as attractive or desira- JSB bio from any point of view." and "if it JMT, is advertised as a world's champion- 'H ship, or by any such pretentious desu? sHI nation, or if it is in the leaet degree iHS subsidized or engineered by trading in 'BE terests, our leading amateurs will liava tjXf nothing to do with it." This position h is in striking contrast to that taken hv Bf. the Henley stewards, who havo placed JBt their own pet Henley regatta second to 'R the Olympic regatta by barring for-eign for-eign crews for ono year, so as to make ijB! the latter ovent tiirst in public in- |
