Show h P CE os ANGELES Golf s Hall of into an moving Fame is s now the setting I 1 suggested and found im immediate ago ea two years yea b medIate sponsorship sponsor ship from the pro P ri Golf Asso n elation of America tt I more br hr efly etly known j as the P G AIt AIt A It was suggested that I name a corn com of veteran i golf writers inters who had the background of more than 30 years of American VT golf olf Th o Rice m Th s committee i cs Linde Fowler Y Boston ex 36 years Kerr Kerry Petrie Petr e experience 34 years a 0 06 New York ew ew Keeler Beeler Atlanta experience 34 ears along the paths of the anent anent an Idest ent game The committee will offer olTer Its iThe j shone to more than writers find and column conductors who oho ho go inor In writers covering the eoll or golf golf-golf landscape of the country and and their votes shall shaU be decisive i It was the ong nal idea of this thus omm to start things rolling by tour our men who ho certainly be- be ong be-ong hour Hagen Bob Bob- Boby Bob iy ong at the Walter top y Jones Francis Ouimet and Gene to put them alphabetically angle hey ey are cons every any question the four top en of ot American golf Jones and Hagen Dagen alone won 19 t at t t onal anal U championships U S Open nd d Amateur and British Open and Francis OUimet by beat g pardon ardon ardon and Ray in ID the U IT S Spen Sen Spen pen en back m in 1913 made American nth golf gol conscious removing golf rom rem the social and financial pages o the sporting page Gene Sara zen as won the British and U C S Opens andI i more nore than once the P G A and andler I ter ler 20 campaigns came back last une to tie Lawson Little for the fT g S Open at Cleveland S tAll All AIl four were wel e great golfers great sportsmen great fellows and with personal color I be beeve beeve eve the vast majority of the golf will support this selection or nomination The he Long Parade The idea was to make elIg ehg ble all who had lived or held club as tons t t ons m n the United States ThIS course would could leave out such stars S Harry Vardon Harold Hilton and ed Ray They were sere welcome m III maders aders but not U S golfers f In add t I t on to the and ande andie e it would leave such Lg Jig ble es as WIllie Wilhe Anderson ec Sm th MacDonald Smith Tomy Tom by y Armour Long Jim Barnes Bob Boby Bobly y Cruickshank and others who have yen ven most of their golfing time to met er caIn caIn ca caIn In add tion bon to these others there re other b g names left Jack left Jack Mc who tied for tor the Open in ini i and then won in m 1911 and 1912 e first homebred to roll back for Ign born bora dom dam nat on Jerry Tray Trav rs who won four U S Amateurs and andoe 9 oe e U S Open Chick Evans the st to win WID the U S Amateur and andS andS S Open in ID one year 1916 year 1916 Wal Waler r J Travis who starting golf at ati i was the first American player o win wm the Br t t sh Amateur m Amateur in 1904 awson Little a strong entry cur curent curent curL ent U S Open champ on and wm win x JI ler er of both U S and British Ama Amai eurs urs two years ears ears in m a rowe row e It If Jones Hagen and ulmet are named as the first four fouras fouras as as I believe they will the be-the be cramble amble for the next place should ie e wide open McDermott open McDermott Evans vans Cravers avers Aleo Alec and Mac Smith hue iUie Anderson winner of four our U S Spens Spens pens three Ina in a row Armour lames awes ames Travis Little Sweetser Robert A Gardner anden andLen and Len en the new crop coming en reel n a D Hogan Began Snead nead Guldahl and oth There is more than enough talt tal t In la sight The committee with the aid of eddy Corcoran tournament d roc rec r of st the P G Awill A will be ready to ake the first nominations by April d so open the main mam door to the theall all an n not ot of Fame dies and Location The The next two problems concern e lad lades es of ot golf and the loca location hon the e Hall of ot Fame Famei There also will be a Hall of Fame or the women stars to be consul consid rea ed separately Such golfers as asle le leu a Stir Stirling hog Genna Collett tt Man l Mann n Hollins Helen Hicks and Patty t erg should be near the top topa a There 6 has been bce a keen rush to l headquarters for thIs hall ball vannah Ga claiming the first fast oil olf club dab In 1811 mi Is already In with request So Is St Andrews ming the first golf course and oil olf andolf club combined s 's 1 Y BobY Atlanta Jones wants wanta n t It in behalf of Bob Bob- Boston In behalf of Fran Ouimet Rochester in behalf of i 1 alter Hagen Bagen u Lowell Lowell Thomas mas the well known orts commentator sponsored in a ait it off olf way by Gene Sara zen would e to o s a special hall at his ace Mul In r New w York and make this of golfing Kolling shriner shrine Tom TOfU r GA theA Walsh president of ot the A R acL-R Ai j asks A o me to delay any such lection which is welcome news to sir Dr Committee It might even be place to shift the 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