Show l GOLF COURSE WOULD MEAN MUCH TO CITY OTHER COMMUNITIES PROVE VALUE OF OUTDOOR PASTIMES Explained 1000 Frequently Use os Angeles Experiment Field Expenses of Public Clubhouse to Be Paid by Players Themselves Takes Young Men Away yay From Polluted Atmosphere of Pool Hall and Saloon Into the Open Air By BURL AR ARMSTRONG Ib S RT ONG is as much a part of of municipal playgrounds T i-T HE establishment I T iTHE I as the maintenance of or a health depar de- de r 1 tho modern city government go par nant 1 mn h MUMS UI has taken the tho lead in in suggesting the establishment of thela the which is the tho highest development bf r f a municipal golf course real pleasure ex- ex more genuine genuino grounds la idea and encompasses r-ciso r other form of outdoor entertain entertain- else and athletic skill than any rent nt scoffed at as cow cow pasture pool A 1 few years alS ago golf golC was waR M mountain mountain billiards U an and all that sort of thing Golf said a wag wherein hit a little ball as hard as you cand can cand is is a p pastime you 1 0 L d if you fin find it the the- same day dar you win is spent an in in the TO Today RY more mort than being and amI supplies not counting the States for golf golC equipment fortune changing han hands s each year in the maintenance of and anti rouses courses More persons are playing golf in the United States than are en en- aged in playing amateur and professional baseball tennis basKet- basKet all handball and polo combined of all aB notwithstanding that in in the Golf is the most moat mo t popular sport West it is a pastime still in its infancy Those who know w the game i lever scoff at an ali any other sport other sportsmen how however ridicule tie e old English game enthusiasts of which of-which which I 1 have nave I Two years ears ago apo a number of golfing long eng ong been proud to count m myself elf a as one started an agitation for aroe a afree aree free roe ree municipal golf olf links at Griffith park in Los Angeles The idea was war old in ill the East where some excellent public courses I d been in operation for a decade When this i idea ea was wa broached in ill A Angeles sele the ity city council emitted one one large guffaw v. There was wasing waso wasa o a ing lug doing isle park commission however believed in in outdoor exercise exercise and amI Griffith park had luul ample room for a golf course and nothing lg but olfen Iten and anti runners road were using it a few dollars were vere scraped toa to- to an and a course lISe laid out Oe a of the councilmen got so ed In the heo sport that he w s singing na over the new course coune near near- tir and und Sunday and T t yea tt 1 tl tIli Is I n fastidious tan inn on khe he freN 8 t links other councilmen re Invited t t. t participate but hut they hi tl to b be consistent HO so they ther nile c fined The coarse was pas brought ht up to such lIuch standard dud th that t when we took n 1 num- num f tf of councilmen i out ut to the links on Saturday afternoon they saw sa nearly pl players pier en e either on the course or orto orto Slog to start aunt It HO so happens that t 0 vote and as most of or the were ere in the business of ot ob- ob the size of or this crowd C them very much R r there are more than pert per per- t JD m on the Griffith park course ourse In InI Yes I Old men and young oung men mono n find hd bd girls and nd women the lame t 1 aDe and the hat hall blind all bUnd all of or them themi thema e a i IM teen tramping over the green cart car car- lt et t with mountains on both sides s. rare i rating air and an nn Interest in the thet i it t tO e and health that never P- P rs To To Have Public Clubhouse Th The growth in popularity of ot the first in Los Angeles resulted the demand for an nn adequate club- club t oue The council appropriated 1300 1300 13 00 and the building was started An 1000 will b bo be forthcoming to I complete the structure It will wl contain 0 ado OC V lockers In the mens men's dressing oom om and In the ladles ladles' room It m have shower baths bath and all the con- con of or a clubhouse I 1 The Tho expense will be borne by bythe bythe bythe the players playe themselves who t twill will pay pay a nominal fee for locker 4 space pace The sale salo to the tho city ofF of F concessions in tho the clubhouse will willI I help to make mako the tho project self self- 1 supporting Two nine hole practice courses 1 I courses in other parks are aro now l F being planned 4 Golf Gol haa has fascinated tho the lovers love of or outdoors out out- i doors In California San Francisco has f ne public course and Is starting an- an titer Seattle Beattle and Portland have fol- fol ow owed d suit Salt Lake City should have a municipal pal II el golf olf course An outdoor attraction sf f this this kind takes the young men out pf f the polluted atmosphere of the pool 2 Hall all all away from the cigar stand and the tho 1 aloon akan I The body tissue Is built up by clean wholesome outdoor exercise exorcist The tired business man or the overwrought over over- rought wrought clerk elerk on Saturdays and Suni Sun- Sun i ys could find an attractive exercise a a. wholesome interest rt away from until unta that are aM anything but conducive l o the th of strong trong healthful I lea lies and aDd minds fot ot of Rich Mans Man's Game I. I And pit golf it is a It science JC which sitcom sitcom- 5 fill u. u Ute the whole range of oC mental and h lc l endeavor It elites does not require at strong TO non to 10 ph the game on he h. the big hi husky husk fellow rellow lly ly finds lIs la Is master In the smaller try II o t t whose nerves are arf us as M S and anil H ts h hose l l' l heart beart beats ron n ng eta crucial text There W ett etty park rk in Salt It Lake here ere are a could properly be I oat out but an o the tee east t bench there Is la lat pie t far Just Jam such men a course The mindful I of the th health b n n well wen befog at of tb the alae people governed n find no hither higher duty doty than B an outdoors playground of or this sort It II is ta s not nat a Ml aD me contrary I general DraI belief r It la is not a rich mans man's manse me e. e f A kit of clubs club can be purchased fd r S 1 which will wm last as long a as a layer desires Mils balls cost coat from 60 50 cents 75 cent cents each ach eh and are durable enough I Ir r several eral games I The average e gold course is I. SOO o yards ng with eighteen holes The course I Id be laid in acres but should shook ave SOO 00 acres Cr to b be more t nd afford the necessary diversity ot of o A beginner D needs S no special ton lion although to reach a 1 certain degree decree f r proficiency instruction i is I. always I I iT The city administration of Salt Lake should investigate thi H L t question of municipal playgrounds play play- H grounds the possession of which H stamps sump any city as a. abreast of oft H t 4 the times time in urban development H i I 4 |