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Show BIG GOLF PRIZES WOULD GET CHAMPIONS Tribune Special Sporting Service. NEW YORK. .Tan, 9. A suggestion has been made by a western golfer not entirely en-tirely In accord with tho "all-wise" policy of the United Slates Golf association, to the effect that the parent organization might nut its funds to better use than hoard them up year after year. At present pres-ent tho association has about 511,000 In its treasury, and the amount continues to grow. The latest suggestion Is that when tho national open championship question is discussed at tho annual meeting now In progress in New York a demand should be made that the United States Golf association as-sociation spend some of Its surplus bv offering SIO00 as first prise for the oDen championship, thus making lt sufflciontiv attractive to bring Braid. Vardon Mas-soy, Mas-soy, Herd and possibly other leodlnVpro-fessloniils leodlnVpro-fessloniils of dreat Brlstaln and France to thoso shores. U1,1' Tho claim has been mado of late that America's leading resident "pros" are on a par with the big four abroad but unless some sort of an inducement Is mado to get these foreign Stoicave their native heath the question of supremacy su-premacy will probably remain unsettled. |