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Show 00 NAMED TO PROMOTE PUBLIC GOLF LINKS CHICAGO, Fob. 18. Robert W. Me- Ktnley, Cook county commissioner and BJ head of the forest preserve public BJ golf links, has received appointment BJ as a member of a now committee of the BJ United States Golf association, ap- BB pointed bv President J Frederick BB Byers of Pittsburg, to promote public BB links golf. BJ Tho coinrnytee. which is headed by BB James D. Standlsh. Jr . Detroit, was BB named in compliance with a promise BB made by President Byers at the recent BB annual meeting of the U. S. G. A at which Commissioner McKlnley made BB a plea for public links golf- Accord- BB Ing to an announcement by President BB ByefS, the committee shall do all it BB can "to encourage and promote play- BB ing golf on public and municipal cour- BB ses, and to render any possible assist- BB ance to municipalities interested in the BV great army of persons playing on the:- BB courses." BB The committee will meet when necessary nec-essary and report through C S- Lee of BJ New York, secretary of tho 1". S. G. A. BB President Albert B. Gates of the Western Golf association appointed a similar committee of that organization BB last month after an appeal by Com- BB mlssloner McKlnley. BB oo |