Kammala jumla mai zuwa: Whitaker ya shiga cikin rikici tare da masu gudanar da wasan chess a farkon shekarun 1930. Ya yi imanin cewa ya kamata a zaba shi a cikin tawagar Amurka don
3rd Chess Olympiad, Hamburg 1930 (maimakon Harold Meyer Phillips (0.5/2 a Hamburg) ko James Allan Anderson (6/17)), ko kuma na 4th Chess Olympiad, Prague 1931. Dangane da sakamakon gasar da ta gabata, da kuma raunin da Phillips da Anderson suka nuna a kan wata ƙungiyar Amurka mai kyau (matsayi na 6) a Hamburg, Whitaker na iya samun hujja mai ma'ana. Amma da alama cewa laifin da ya yi a baya (duba ƙasa) shi ma wani abu ne a cikin shawarar. Ya tafi har zuwa kai tsaye ya tuntuɓi Shugaban FIDE Alexander Rueb, yana ba da shawarar cewa a ba da izinin ƙungiyoyin chess biyu na Amurka a matsayin membobin FIDE, suna ba da izinin ƙungiyoyin Amurka biyu, yayin da sauran ƙasashe suna da ɗaya kawai, amma an yi watsi da hujjojinsa. Wannan kusanci da wani mutum ya yi wa Shugaban FIDE kan batun zaɓar ƙungiyar ƙasa ba zai iya samun abokai ga Whitaker ba. Duk da cewa kamar ba su da mahimmanci, tambayoyin da 'yan wasan suka fi dacewa su yi wasa a kan tawagar sun jagoranci masu gudanar da wasan kwaikwayo na Amurka don gudanar da gasar zakarun da suka cancanta, don zaɓar tawagar kasa don gasar Olympics ta 1933. A wannan lokacin, Whitaker yana fuskantar tuhumar aikata laifi (duba ƙasa); ba a taɓa zaɓar shi zuwa ƙungiyoyin gaba ba. Kungiyoyin Amurka ba tare da Whitaker ba sun sami damar da'awar lambobin zinare na Olympiad na 1931, 1933, 1935 da 1937, tare da lambobin mutum da yawa. A shekara ta 1939, Ƙungiyar Chess ta Yamma da Ƙungiyar Chess ta Ƙasa sun haɗu zuwa Ƙungiyar Chess ta Amurka.