Joe, thanks for posting these. Are you sure it was the Evening Bulletin? I thought it was the Public Ledger.
Anyway, my understanding is his writing career led directly to his becoming the USGA's first executive director.
A brief resume of the remarkable early career of Joe Dey:
*He started writing at age 16 for the Public Ledger when his family moved from New Orleans to Philadelphia.
*He went to Penn for 1.5 years then at age 19 returned to the sports page of the Ledger.
*At the time of these articles he was 24. Three years after these articles, his reputation as a golf writer was such that it led Herbert Jacques to ask him to run the New York office of the USGA.
*Dey had just applied to the Princeton Theological Seminary, but apparently wasn't confident he'd get in -- and the more he thought about the USGA position, the more it appealed to him, perhaps for similar reasons as the clergy!
*In December 1934 he became the USGA's Executive Secretary.
*One of his early "decisions" -- to his credit he owned up to it only as: he "brought the matter to the committee's attention" -- was to spread USGA tournaments across the country. He noted that in 1936 all four USGA championships plus the Walker Cup were held within 100 miles of NYC.
Mark