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Show GOLF'S IIALL OF FAME I HE P. G. A., meaning the Pro-A Pro-A fessional Golfers' association, is concluding arrangements to establish estab-lish golfs Hall of Fame for the United Unit-ed Slates. We suggested this idea some months back, and now Tom Walsh and Freddie Corcoran are completing a plan to carry the matter mat-ter through along correct lines. The plan is to have a small, acting committee composed of those who have written golf for j over 30 years and s have most of th( background needei for the earlier day; of play. But the ac tual voting will b carried on by a fai larger group, repre senting every section of the country's golfing golf-ing press. The plan also will Include the names of only four or five Grantland Rice stars in the first selection, to be made from the champions who have paraded U. S. fairways in the last 40 or more years. After this first selection is named, there will be additions voted upon each year, largely after the manner of baseball's base-ball's similar hall of lasting luminaries. lumi-naries. The Long List The list of our leading stars is both long and brilliant. There will be many arguments after the first few are fixed in their higher places, especially when the yearly additions face the vote. In this list the electors have the following cast, in partial array, to pick from Bobby Jones, Walter Hagen, Gene Sarazen, Francis Ouimet, Jerry Travers, Willie Anderson, Jack Mc-Dcrmott, Mc-Dcrmott, Alex Smith, Chick Evans, Mac Smith, Walter J. Travis, Jess Swcctser, Lawson Little, Johnny Goodman, Ralph Guldahl, Long Jim Barnes, Denny Shute, Tommy Armour, Arm-our, Freddie McLeod, Johnny Far-rcll Far-rcll and many others. For example, there are only five men who have won both the U. S. ' S ! s v ; - x 1 1 BOBBY JONES and British Opens. They are Walter Hagen, Bobby Jones, Gene Sarazen, Jim Barnes and Tommy Armour. There are only three players who have won the U. S. and British amateur ama-teur championships. They are Jess Sweetser, Bobby Jones and Lawson Little. There are only six players who have won both the U. S. amateur and the U. S. Open they are Francis Fran-cis Ouimet, Jerry Travers, Chick Evans, Bobby Jones, Johnny Goodman Good-man and Lawson Little. There are only four ontries who have won the P. G. A., the British and the U. S. Open. They are Hagen, Ha-gen, Sarazen, Armour and Barnes. Jones is the lone entry who has won the U. S. Open, the British Open, the U. S. Amateur and the British Amateur. He was never eligible eli-gible for the P. G. A. Denny Shute has won the P. G. A. and the British Open. Four Divisions There are really four divisions or epochs in U. S. golf. 1. The domination of the Scotch and English for so many of the earlier years Anderson, Smith, Auchterlonie, and others. 2. The advent of John J. McDer-mott, McDer-mott, ex-caddie, who first cracked this monopoly in 1911 and 1912. 3. The Ouimet miracle at Brook-line Brook-line in 1913 that sent the lure of the game spinning to more than a million mil-lion kids that took golf from the society to the sporting pages. 4. The arrival of Bobby Jones and his 13 national titles acquired in just eight years before he stepped aside. Two of the most amazing records were wri'.tjn for golf history by Bobby Bob-by Jones and Walter Hagen. Jones, by running 1-2 in the C S Open through a matter of eight out of nine years against brilliant competition. com-petition. Hagen, by winning something like 23 consecutive P. G. A. matches, 2S out of 29, in five successive P. G. A. title tournaments against the pick of professional golf. To these one might add Lawson Littie's feat in winning 31 consecutive consecu-tive battles in the U. S. and British Amateur championships. This brief summary shows the I |