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Show GOLFERS NUKE CHANGEINCQDE Western Association Issues1 New Rule for Cleaning Ball; Other Changes Made CHIC AO Ot Oct, 29. Directors of the Western Golf association, have adopted general rules on the cleaning Of colt balls on putting greens lh playing Of a ball from an extraneous green nd 'or the ItftlnK of hall embedded In mud, it wajs announced Tlnirs.lu b. Assistant Sc retao Crafts Hlggl'ns. rhc directors also retained re-tained the western association stymie ruc but voted to ndopl the new rules of the I'nlted States Golf association regarding a lost bull, a bull out of bounds and nn unplayabU lie l hese new rules provide for losa of a strike and the dlstanco In all three Instances, whereas the previous law .. ,.. i,, s et distance only for a hall out of bounds and tnc to an oi iwu Strokes In modal and th. hole in the match for an unplayable lie A lost ball penalty was the same a." now. the new Western association rules have been common as local rules on r es and had hcen used at western tournaments There nr' In now force for play at all clubs of ihe association at times when conditions' were deemed to de-rna de-rna nd them. Thev are "When a ball is nt rest on the put-ling put-ling green, if there be mud or other .substance adhering to the ball it may be lifted, denied and then replaced without penalty; provided such act be done with the knowledge of an opponent oppon-ent or another competitor. M W RULING "A ball embedded In soft mud, except ex-cept In a refCOg lised water hazard, sl all be deemed t- be in casual water (In such i i ISC It may be lifted without with-out penalty and dropped not nearer the hole) If the ball be played on to a put-tine put-tine green other than that of the hale i i ..i.. ,i k.II .Ov.ll he lifted and placed off such green, as near as possible to the place where the ball lay but not nearer the hole, without penalty" The rule to allow the cleaning of a muddy ball was first used at the Western Open Championship at Nor-mandle Nor-mandle Golf club St. Louis In 190S. rain for 20 das having made it nec- The S-tvmie rule of the Western Golf association, which differs from the U. Is. O. -V rule which docfi not abolish stl mies when laid by one's self, follows fol-lows , "When both balls are on the putting put-ting green, If the players 01 the ball farthest from the hole claims that the nearer ball interferes with his putt, the nearer ball upon rCQUCSt shall be lifted oi played at the option of the owner' This rule has been In effect for three years while the U. S. G. A , rule w.ns made effective on September 1. this year |