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Show ""ua"""ssm-m WMMHHHBHMHHMMMHBMHMHHlMMHHMMaMMaHHMHMHaM X XX ft X X X -X-- Waits to Gain Reinstatement $ . j J TV MAKY K. IIKOWNIO tins, ns she says, luloplod n wntcl.ful waltlnR j; I pulley so far as her reinstatement as a golf nmnleur Is concerned, J $ she will e obliged to maintain It for the full length of the usual three-year good conduct period proscribed by the United Slates Golf Hj association. i Miss r.rowne has been quoted ns saying she won't nsk for rein- j fc statement, but the U, S. G. A. has made it clour thai no action Is pos- slhle on her status without u formal appll- cm ion to lift the ban Imposed Inst April I lifter the former tennis champion toured 4j the country with Suzanne Lenglon and (hu rest of the C C. I '.vie professional troupe. This Is how Miss Itrowne set forth her case recently In the Cleveland News: "They said I was Ineligible and It's up to tlieiu to make me eligible.- 1 have never boon n professional In golf, and no mailer ! what they said 1 have never considered my-I my-I jj self ns a golf professional. OT course, I'm anxious to be iilloweil to play In all those Jj tournaments, but It's up to lliem. Under the circumstances 1 do not care to go beg-ging beg-ging before the U. S. J. A. 1 have scon reports that 1 asked or would ask for rein j statement, but I do not Intend to ask for II.' V The association's point of view, as ex Jl, -M-ossed tiy 11. II. Ramsey, now vice presl dent ii ml chairman last year of the coin -Is mittoe that ruled Miss l!rovne out of nma .--'1 V V lA i fir i ; , - 1 t n nn tour competition. Is this: Mary Browne. "We cannot consider the status of Miss r.rowne or of any other Ineligible player without actual application for reinstatement. Obviously the U. S. G. A. tannot go about the counlry calling the roil of Ineligible players, asking whether they wish to be considered for reinstatement, especially ir the usual llireeyear good J conduct period has not yet elapsed. If an exception to this rule were to lie made in Miss l'.rowne's case, and 1 do not know that It would, It could not be considered without an application from her. We have no controversy with Miss P.rownc. We have hud no word from her since jji our action last spring. I went over the case thoroughly w'tli her then and I think she understands our position." So It would seem that unless Mary changes her expressed position J there is no prospect of her returning to the amateur golf fold this year. -x--:x--if--x |