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Show CKE II GOLF RULES PROBABLE Many Changes Will Be in Order Or-der at Next Meeting. CHICAGO, April 2S, Represcnta-, elves or the Western Golf association at a meeting in Chicago today planned to continue the campaign to abolish the stymie by including a recommendation recommen-dation for this action among a number num-ber of .others for Important changes 'in golfing- rules which will be pre-sente'd pre-sente'd at the rules' conference In New York on Friday. Wilbur H. Brooks, of Cleveland, president pres-ident of the Western Golf association, and James E. Nugent, of Kansas City, president of tho trans-Mississippi Golf association, will make the recoromen datlons on behalf of western golfers, at tle New York gathering. Following are the recommendations: Tuat tho stymie be abolished. That tho penalty Jfor a lost ball be made the same as for a ball out of bounds. That the honor is a privilege and. it should be optional with the side that wins a hole who plays first at the next teeing ground. That the concession of putts be prohibited. pro-hibited. That a ball to be out of bounds must be wholly beyond the bounds of the course. ' That the general rules should include in-clude a provision for lifting a ball played play-ed onto the wrong green. That the rules be changed so that when a player wishes his ball lifted for the purpose of identification, Cho opponent shall, on request, lift the ball and then carefully replace 1L 1 That practice strokes be clearly in dicatcd. A re-wording of the rules also will I be recommended, and a protest will be ! made against the standardization of golf balls. I nn |