Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1920-04-11 | Page 27 | Golf is Chief Sport in East

; GOLF IS IIs SPORT EAST Chicago Sports Bring Game to ' Fore During Past 5 Years; Many Stars Play H Eastern golfers and golC officials H should wonder at the progress of the H ancient and honorable game in and m about Chicago, where the pastime has H grown by leaps and bounds during the H past five years. If some of the cast- H crners could have looked in upon the banquet of the Chicago golf officials H and boosters a fow wecks ago they H Avould have been able to .answer for H themselves, the question of Chicago's - supremacy. N r" ' .t Every winter golf offic'als in ChJ- cago stage a ""get-together" session at HH pe" which plans for the approncli'ng sca- son are discussed pro and con and ar- Hl rangements made to keep the fair HB name of the Windy City very much on the golf map. Ilt And these sessions are not all talk. I , For instance, each year there is a Chicago District tournament in which J none but members of the various clubs forming the association take pan. The meet for thi3 year was I awarded" to the Shckle c'ub and will be I held on July. 53rd. 1 The spirit of optimism that is niani- li. fested at one of these sessions and ho I ' . manner in which a'l officials get down I ( .-, to the business of help!ng one another I can easily be classed as the model rr- 1 ' rangement of the golf world cn this I side of the Atlantic. It mipht even 1 be called the ideal condition to which 1 eastern centers have been striving Q without success for many years. mj Another feature of the Chicago ses- I" sion aranged this year to tke place 1 on August 26th is a ' Club R latl ns" M tournament into which every club iu uie association senui leiJicsuuidmcn P ; by the score. As well as golf, all j " hands are made acquainted and the en- j tire day devoted to getting acquai ted, playing golf and. having an old fash- ; y ioned good time. Tb" club cxecuti.es also receive soma valuabl3 informa-tion informa-tion and suggest ons at this midwin-! midwin-! ter gathering. Such matters as club and course management are brought up and dealt with in a ih roiish'y modern fashion, and as a rule, every J .-. official present is able to take back to j his club some rca!ly practical infor- I 7 ination that would prb bly never bo I interchanged under any other c ndi- 1 Hon. At the last meeting several prom- lnent golfers gave short talks on a courses and two landscape gardeners ; of national reputation gave some pvac- jj tical information on keeping up the ' i crounds. The ilea may be adopted iu