Show 1 e of ofa leeJ de lee yee PI J v 7 g RICE I Golf has bas to be rather an e pens pens- pensIve lye Ive game but nothing lIke as a ex- ex expensive expensive pensive as It has been made The Tho cost of real estate estat and the high cot cost of labor Ibor have combined to run up the financial jolt But there has been an v sto aste In mot case cases the th average golfer goiter would prefer a nice plain club club- clubhouse clubhouse clubhouse house to place a palace And there thero ther has been no need to build bunkers tear them do down don n and r others other In the th last lot five ears wo we w should sa 51 that at least leat 1100 has i been wasted wast d In one on way or another betHen the th two ocean oceans A bit club tod today y should hould be bo a business proposition but It Ion 10 l t totton often otton run that way It I Is ridiculous Iou bus lous that a man can belong to a atine afine afine tine fine club In England or Scotland at a cost of ot 50 10 a year In dues or oven even lees a while bile over here her It Is often otten around plus 1200 plu assess assess- assessments meat ments There are ar good golf colt clubs club In England where here the th dues due are only 25 Why should hould they bo be eight Ight times that amount over here hereIt It if the club Is properly run Wo We Weare Weare are not referring to certain few tew club clubs here the th mem membership member member- bor- bor ship hip I Is kept well down to eliminate any chance chanc for tor course congestion and where expensive are desired dered We W e are ar speaking ot of the average golf rolf course cours for tor the tho th average average av- av business or professional pro man making something under a aI alear I ear The Tho onder Is with the tho heavy havy cot cost and the th amount mount of ot time need need- needed nd-cd nd ed d to set get back and In tho larger cities that the growth of o the game gome has hoa ha been ben so 0 o phenomenal In inthe Inthe the thc lost few fw soars eor ears It has hu swept wept on with something approaching a 0 tidal wao In spite of obstacles obstacle that would have hav smothered any other sport How Itow many golf colt clubs of the nine nino eighteen or hole alx variety are ar there thore ther now In the United States The Th list has leaped past the statisticians In the last lat few tew eks we have run across cros the nom names of ot over a hundred io- io lo located In small towns w e had hd never heard of ot to towns n I In iii n outlying places h re the population range Is from to 15 The Tho total lIt lilt has now passed clubs and the pace pao Isn ian t slackening It Isn't difficult to explain this growth The Tho Th game ganto lam has an appeal to a greater t r variety than n any other known sport The rb age oge r range is II from five or ten fn to ninety sears ear Down at Ormond one on mil might e see kids of ot eight or ten with two tao or three thre clubs hitting the th ball And Anda a bit further on John 0 V Rocke Rocke- Rockefeller feller at five eighty Is battling a itS General Ames Amos at ot ono one There has ha been no other game attracted such uch a ft following front from other sports ports Among those thole alto bo go TO In for tor golf golt rolf at every chance chanco are oro JACIC Dempsey Tom TOnt Gibbons Robe Babe b Ruth Vincent Richards Pep Pcp Young Trio Fri Trl Speaker Buck Harris Harrl Willie Hopp lopp Devereu Dv Milburn Stevenson Tad Jones Jons 1111 Hoper and on tite th long Jong parade parde Golt Golf was wa one of ot the tho th favor favor- tavor-lt tavor its Ite games gaines of Percy P rcy and Walter Camp A tame game at that can attract prizefighter r ball baIl pia er ers tennis players player polo poJo pl er and football players as 8 well as III old met men and oung kids aged ladles and nd oung girls Iris has hIlS a lure all Its own There are 10 other major league ball players plyers abe ho go so In for tor golf at atc ery e ery chance hanc Ono One On r an Is 10 the thrill that comes In a ball from to yards lards ard The Tite other Is the mlle mile hike through open country In a battle with wind Ind and hazard Zord Woods lakes pond ponds and rivers river whore here always ays the main bit t bittic tie bit tie tic Is Ith aith one ones one's Rei self f The Th hord hordes are now about road read I IThe to 10 S swarm back to the call caU ot of fait fait- way tali-way way Va green gren and hunker bunker back ck to green n turf and blue sk ki where whre the I dog Is hit In the groves that border the course And s aiwas Is the th great grat reat of each ach round whole hm e no ono one can con over tell teU In advance whether It will ho hi his best or best or his worst The coming season eason will III find the greatest golf golt array In history storming the th traps t pit pits and bunkers grappling Ki with the rough and sending again Its plaIntive cry to hea en as al a the mashie tall fails to work and the th br bras bras- bra sl sic goes toc-s listra Or the short hort putt falls fails to drop It Is a game earn that belongs to all the th people and nd for that reason wherever r possible should hould be bo brought broucht within their tl- tl fi ft financial reach go 00 |