Ogden Daily Standard | 1917-04-24 | Page 2 | War Medals to be Given instead of Golf Trophies

War Medals To Be Given Instead of Golf Trophies CHICAGO, April 23. Bronze war medals instead of cups will be awarded award-ed winners ofamateur golf events held under the auspices of the Western West-ern Golf association, and the sum usually spent for cups and the entry fees will be contributed to the American Ameri-can Red Cross or some similar fund to relieve war suffering, it was announced an-nounced today by Assistant Secretary Crafts W. Higgins. This decision was reached by President Presi-dent Charles F. Thompson and tho executive ex-ecutive committee of tho Western Golf association, who urged golfers to do all they could to aid the country in carrying on the war and tfo demonstrate dem-onstrate that golfers are "perpetually and pleasantly prepared by the nature of golf." The announcement adds: "No change will be made in the western open championship for professionals, pro-fessionals, and winners in this event will receive the various amounts stipulated stip-ulated for prizes in cash as usual, but the entry fees will be given to the Red Cross the same as in the amateur championship and the junior championship."