Show I GOLF P PROVES V S PENSIVE EXPENSIVE SPORT 0 o 0 o o 0 o o 0 o o 0 o o MANY PLA PLAYERS JOIN NEW V CLUBS T BY Br WALTER CAll U Copyright 1923 by The rhe Th Standard Standard- Standard Examiner Special Corr Correspondent of ot The Th Stand Stand- Examiner TEW MEW YORK Feb eb The 3 S Th subject I 1 of The Deflation of Golf Colt mIght I be takei up by most nio t of o the I golf tolt clubs s with great benefit to the th game tame to the players and to the clubs I The Th question of ot the tho th high cost ot of club golf colt is ts becoming verb vcr pressing Indeed Already many young men e hae e been forced to resign from clubs menI I all over oyer the countr and do thir club chub s on municipal links I many more will vill follow un- un unless un unless less there Is a 0 halt called caled on the r un-I un expenses ott attached che 1 to membership In Ina ina ina a golf colt club InI I The Tir writer receives many letters on this subject settlement of which Is Important not only from Irom the stand stand- standpoint stand standpoint point of ot de o of oC skill kill ot of young players but also as LS a question of social economics Hero here Is I an on excerpt from ono one of the letters It j It 1 i is too bad that every greens erens committee In the th coun- coun country country coun country try will Ill not read a r recent III article ot of sours ours on golf colt although It Is doubtful It If a k greens committee number member ouId get any real good rood out of It Greens committee seem to feel Ceel that they are ar Inspired that all th their lr ideas about remaking golf colt courses counes and pay pay- paying pay Inc log ing assessments are r wonderful while we weak kneed members rs sIt lit and vote vot Aye Ave MEMBERS II RESIGN Another r writer names name a 0 particular club and tells tell how cr l young members had to resIgn because of advancing costs and continual assess assess- asse ments And I soon lIoon oon will have havo to do dothe dothe dothe the same earne ame this golfer toiler continued aj aai for tho the same Ham reason rason although I am charter a 0 charter member In still another Is 15 I the th statement But as oneil one ot of the principal plutocrats plutocrats of ot our club said ald recently W Ve dont don't want anybody but members member m Hull HII enough off oct octto to own automobiles A municipal course court Is Indeed a 0 a tine fine thing The Tho more ot of them the better but the th municipal course cours fails tall to fill the want ant ot of many young men inca of oC o U 24 or 25 just married with Ith moderato moderate In- In in In come who with hIs hi wife ought to tobe tobe tob be a a member of a good tood prIvate club chub To be b compelled to do his hi golfing on ona ona ona a municipal course coune means to leave leav his Itc at home borne horn If It she h doesn't play on tJ the one or luo tuo days a 0 week that he gets a 0 chance to bo be out ot of doors door In Inmost inmost Inmost most of our private privat country clubs club to- to today to today day this man Is I forgotten Some ot of these young oung men have hav the th moral courage to realize that the th rIsing ex- ex expense ax pen x-pen pense of ot private privat club golf colt le Is I too big bl in n Item In their bUdgets and resign but buta buta n a good rood many of thorn them are ar tempted to stay in and run In debt to the butcher the baker bakr and the th candle condle candlestick stick tick maler maker DEBATe utilE There has ha been much nuch debate debit as IlS to ebether bether bother the th Golf Golt club will let Gene go so over to play n nI nth I the open A short time timo ago it very positive o that thy they th would not lot grant crant consent to their now new new newly h I ly acquired professional proe lonal but noW there are ar indications Indication that they th y might reconsider The Th truth of ot the th matter is that times ho hae ha changed chanced quite a a bittor bit bittor for tor us UI u and although the th golf colt prot atonal holds hold a a most enviable position the club members are ar not 10 BO 0 sure Buro ur that th object ot of their paying him a large alary salary is 18 I to have hav him competing In nf especially It If It tak takes oa hint him nay away a large portion ot of the th time from his duties dutle t at the tho th club Time was wa when Satisfaction tl of ot Inc hav ing a 0 clubS club'S club professional In In the tho mono la in the tk bIg bic tournaments wi 4 t J TI enough to satisfy the tile members IS out mth-out ith I out demanding too much of him from the harder and mor more onerous an and less exciting exciting- duties duties duties-at at the tit clu club But now th there re i Is an Increasing deman demand that ho he attend more mor strictly to business and the glamour clamour ot of his victories away from home has some somewhat hat worn off It I Is also true that th there re is I quite quit a change of spirit In many golf colt I as to the tho desirability of o holding thet thu I largo large and Important tournaments on their club course courle Formerly almost onI I all clubs had bad a vision that If It they developed what they th y called caned a cham chain course at the outlay of con con- con considerable money and to the Uon c Uon tion of ot their dub players they might I Toddy secure a big bic tournament To- To Today To day dy a 0 large lar proportion of fit the th clubs are of o the th opinion that they thoy 1 I rather not give u-p u 11 p their courso course for tor a eek to base e hav the th greens and nd generally put the course In pie apple ordet ordel I Ifor for a This is not to Sol say I sayI that there will not be b plenty of clubs I IlUng n hung to hold big biff tournaments but butI that a more mor sober lober second thought Is I apparent among the th genera general rank and file ClIe ot of the th members It thu thuI I takes shape In cutting down some ome of o Ithe the enormous expense that has ha been prevailing In tre last Jast few J I years In alterations of oC golf colt courses so 50 as a to tomake make mae them called to-called championship possibilities will Ill be b be b indeed worth I worthwhile while oo 00 |