Salt Lake Telegram | 1928-09-23 | Page 6 | Royal, Ancient Golf May Change Matches May All be over 36 Holes

Royal Ancient Golf Calf May Change I 4 I Larger Ball Steel Shafts Loom 9 Matches May All Be Over 36 Holes ST. ST ANDREWS Scotland Sept 22 After AP-After next week they may have to call jt it the Royal Modern instead of of the Royal and AnCient Golf Golt club The solos solons o golf goIt gathered gathered gath- gath ered jn in the old grey grey- city for the annual meeting of the governing body ot of the game are about to sit siti i in laUe session o oh revolutionary revolution revolution- ary issues concerned w with with- th the lem world in its of getting the little white ball Into the CUP In the fewest num num- num ber ot of strokes 1 AmerIcans may have answered lb 10 theIr own satisfaction most bf t the problems befOre the St. St An- An 1 drews sagES whether to have 1 ia bigger and perhaps better r ball whether to permit dubs clubs whether hether to institute qualifying rounds for the champion amateur ship and hole 36 matches thereafter thereafter there there- after and wh what t and when is an amateur HAS STOOD STOOD SOLID But the Royal and Ancient In the past has stood as solid soUd against Innovations innovations in- in I as s the sea rocks hard b by bythe the St. St Andrews club course When it tomes omes to innovations the Hand R H Rand and N A is a as unchanging as the tides that roll on the white beach near the course new but I Iolder older as a golfing ground than any layout In the tho United States Tradition has ruled It In st. st Andrews Andrews An- An drews for generations In Scotland golf has been as unchanging as the constitution the American constitution not the British but this year yeal th there re are are- signs that subversIve subversive sIve propaganda fostered by AmerIcan Arner- Arner lean Ican agents some say has been at work and changes that will shake the British game to its depths are expected to be an- an REDUCE WEIGHT WEIGHT The first concerns tile the golf soU ban ball Itself The Royal Roal and Ancient club will act on a proposal to adopt a anew now new ball to supercede supercede- the Present ono one on January 1 1 1930 and Is expected ex- ex to act favorably This despite te a howl of protest from British golf experts who howling for the rank and file of the golf very lIt In fact the dubs duffers and IS 18 handicappers aCCUSe the tho Royal and Ancient of betraying British golf Into th thO hands bands of oC America They say this new ball baU is the ball AmerIca has been trying to foist on tile the old country for several several sev- sev eral years ears As everyone everone knows or perhaps hasn't been trouble toubie-d about the dimensions ions of the present golf goU ball I before fore it has been battered about by the player is Inches In diameter I. I and ounces In weight The new ball is j to be larger inches In diameter and lighter ounces After the got lall omes the question of oC the stell shafted club outlawed In British championshIp and therefore bad form torm In all competitive competition even to a putting match 1 St. St Andrews hasn't anything particularly par par- agaInst the steel stee in tact act might be expected to be en- en about this tool tor or the ln ot of ste Imide In this country oun- oun try while all hickory is Imported from America America- And ADd the hickory shafts while expensive trent arent as good as they used to be f Save the fine hickory the golfing the Bobby 1 I Jack White who makes many clubs Jor for the told the writer Let all the others use all the steel they want The ban Of oC the steel shaft m may maybe y ye e be at St. St Andrews this week Weel TOLLEY SPEAKS Then como come questions about ama ama- upon which no ono one In all the wIde world of golf doubts the theno no Royal al and AncIents AncIent's ability to act Wisely and with the tho best Interests Interests Inter Inter- ests ot of the game always alwa's at heart lIna Finally that subject of wIdespread wIde wIde- spread concern not to say alarm in this country particularly since the debacle of the British Walker Valker cup attackIng force at ChIcago What is the matter with British golf solf CyrIl Tolley former indeed very former British amateur champion he hasn't done much since he won In 1920 declared in detail with emphasis tn in the public prints that the old fogies of the Royal noyal and AncI An- An cI cleat nt who govern the same game In this country are mainly what's whal's the matier matter mat mat- ter ier wIth BrItish golf with a second second- nIl Dry ailment of eIghteen hole matches instead ot of the double distance In major eom LIKELY TO REMEDY WIthout loss ot of an Iota of dignity but n less somewhat In deSpair and no doubt a a. little hurt by criticism from such sucha a callow allow youth tIle the Venerable golf golfI surgeons of tile the Royal and Ancient I are In the mood for a kill or cure remedy They are believed to favor fa- fa avor a- a vor any sort of J to so- so store storo British golf to Its former fonner high prestige prestle If the they approve qualifying rounds for the amateur champIonship and andI prescribe hole 36 doses for the sur- sur I then then It will be up to tho likes ot of Mr rolley