Show British I Dont Don't Pick Best Golfers For Their Walker Cup Encounters i i Exclusive St. St Andrews Moguls Ignore Many lany Good Players s Because They Are Are- Artisans i Y t 1 V By Dr HENRY McLEMORE TJ United Press Sports Writer i PRESTWICK Scotland May As 24 As 24 As long as ast the e business of or picking the British Walker cup team is in the hands of the Royal and Ancient club ot of otiSt St 1St Andrews the international golfing trophy will remain in the theU U United 1 d States This is not t a private opinion It belongs to halt half the citizens of the British Isles It is founded on the belief belief be be- lief lid that the B R uR and A with its overpowering snobbishness consistently consistently consist consist- refuses to name nama a team on merit preferring to to- choose a side which while It couldn't whip a good club team is n not tainted d with artisans r f If the R uR and A it is said uld had the choice between an Oxford Ox ox- ford lord man who couldn't break 57 If you yon ou conceded him alt all pulls putU under under un un- der 12 feet and a a. bank bet clerk who could break par nine out oat of ten times it would choose the gentleman ten gen Half Halt a dozen golfers were left off the 1934 Walker cup team who could beat most of the teams team's te ms m's members John Woolam who won wan the tho English championship l last t year is one And AndT T T. T Tt A. A Bourne up runner-up In both the E English and British amateurs a year ago o is another So ore ore Eustace torey crey and and J. J A. A Stout But they dont don't belong Instead th the R fiR and andA andIA A IA prefers Roger ROler Wethered say who wio does belong but who cant can't play much golf gait i roll Foil for Yankees So 50 strong is the feeling against the theR theR theR R and A UA that it Isn't an exaggeration exaggeration CX tion to say that tha except for tor the Scots who hoped for and McLean Ii portion of the St. St Andrews Gallery callery at the recent matches hoped America would win wm I 1 overheard a typical comment the second day of the matches while standing by the ninth green A great shout came booming across the hills from rom the tho thirteenth tee and an En En- standing by me rue turned to toa toa toa a friend and said bitter bitterly I I guess ues one of the R and A At boys bos must have halved a hole eh rh The sudden withdrawal of Lionel Munn didn't help the feeling feel feel- lug InK The official announcement said Munn lonn was ill UI Nobody believed be be- believed this as the Irishman had shot a beautiful bei round earlier culler Inthe Inthe in inthe the day It was common gossip that he had been high by the Cyril Tolley clique Munn Munna caddie caddle told me sue that in a practice threesome the day before Tolley and Wethered didn't speak A single single sin sin- gle rIe word to the veteran Irishman in eighteen holes Munn was not asked to join the p players ers when the official cup pictures were made The only time I got near the Rand uR R and A Au was on my first day at St St. Andrews when I accidentally across the steps of the clubhouse An attendant came tearing out the front fron door and striking a n stance like a aman aman l man w watching a steeplejack said ald archly Members only If It you please lIe Ho seemed a trifle puzzled by my reply of Nuts to you babel |