Show Pay Reduction for Caddies Caddes Go CHICAGO March 16 Caddies Caddies are about to return t to normalcy acc according to plans made at a meeting of caddy committees of the golf clubs In the Chi Chicago Cht- Cht cago district to discuss the ways of re reducing reducing re- re I the caddy cost and Improving the status of the youths so that they willI will I become something more than mere club carriers REDUCTION OF PAY I The meeting favored pa payment of caddies caddies caddies cad cad- dies by the hour a a. reduction in the rate of pay and the tha stopping of tips Opposition Opposition was expected to the employment of at boys more than 16 years old as such lads ads would thereby become professionals and condemned the employment of special ape ape- cial caddies by players who refused to take the caddy assigned in rotation of ot application The discussion at the meeting brought reiteration of the fact that many champion champion champion cham cham- pion American golfers goiters learned the game as caddies lar largely el by observing the strokes of good players and being forced by poverty to confine themselves to one club until that stick had been mastered While caddying in America Is almost entirely a boys boy's Job British caddies are nearly all men frequently gray haired u 1 These mature caddies are all professionals profession profession- als and many of them can give competent ent advice to players The main difficulty difficulty culty among American caddies has been the fact act that man many of them take little or orno orno orno no Interest In the game disinterestedly trudging along with a large bag of golf golt clubs and even even neglecting to keep track of the ball PROFANITY INJURES Considerable opposition to the use of youths as caddies has developed in recent recent re recent re- re cent years ears because of the Jokes joltes so frequently frequently fre ire printed to indicate that all an golfers golfers golf golf- ers era use profane language fluently while playing and because of the fact that boys who carry clubs on Sunday are kept from Sunday school and church As a matter of fact according to men who handle caddies d profanity is no o more r widespread ll fl nn ds th esi on golf links than I In a any other game e and arrangements have been made of late on many courses to bar caddies from the links during Sunday forenoons so I that they might go to church On several golf golt courses Sunday school classes have been organized and the new Dixmoor club In Chicago has made arrangements ar ar- nr- nr I to fo have sermons delivered at atthA thA Mi J ft bv hv wireless |