Show New Yorkers Consider Special Golf Buses fuses By JACK MAHON NEW YORK May 7 INS You INS You You may not have been too concerned concerned concerned con con- about the effects of the government gas rationing program program program pro pro- gram on your private life yet Buddy but sports and the people who make them run are letting no grass grow under their feet Golf and baseball nave taken the lead today in planning the best means to keep interest alive in their sport when those tires start to wheeze and the old tanks start screaming for sustenance New Bus Line At a special meeting called by directors of various golf clubs and representatives of sporting goods houses a plan was approved yesterday yesterday yesterday yes yes- to have a bus run inaugurated inaugurated inaugurated rated from upper Manhattan here hereon on which New Yorkers could visit any anyone one of four Long Island clubs Fare would be only 1 round trip tripper tripper tripper per person and customers would be guaranteed a starting time and arrival time at their favorite course The plan was suggested by Henry Henry Henry Hen Hen- ry Modell well known sports merchant merchant merchant mer mer- chant who felt something would have to be worked out soon to insure insure insure in in- sure the city's golfers adequate and cheap transportation It was agreed by all present that once gas rationing went into effect the east gets it on May 15 there will be a crying need for comfortable and rapid trans trans- The first test of the idea will take fake place on May 13 starting at 9 30 a a. a m. m from the Park Central hotel in midtown Manhattan Gas Saving Bus The bus will carry a banner reading Gas Saving Golf Bus and will have a capacity of 40 citizens If more show a second bus will be ordered If the idea clicks and almost everyone everyone at the meeting thought sure it would arrangements willbe will willbe willbe be made by bythe the other clubs and this plan includes not only private private Private vate but also the semiprivate and municipal golf courses to arrange a regular bus schedule The bus companies compani are anxious to cooperate and would chart take-off take spots all over the city and Brooklyn Meanwhile the baseball people released a statement which pointed point point- ed out that lack of gas or tires should not keep fans away from their favorite ball park Near Track Lines ines Baseball wants you to know that ever since the game became lar in the ball parks were built with an eye on the nearest rail or trolley lines not lines not on automobiles automobiles automobiles auto auto- mobiles or any other form of transportation and nd nd that the rule still holds goon today The golf bus plan is expected to catch on here and undoubtedly will be put into effect either intact intact in intact in- in tact or in some modified form wherever the game is played Whether this one clicks or not it is a step in the right direction and definitely shows sports is on the alert and ard determined to keep things hopping in this time of great emergency |