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Show uuw I 1 Golf Bug Stings I Chicago Scot as He Hunts in West H CHICAGO, Jan. 25 Born on the H banks of the Clyde and migrating to H America, scot free of golf, his nation's i H favorite game for ages, only to be H -stung by the golf b.ig in the f ist iu-s.se., H of the Rooky mountains. 300 mlirn 1 from the nearest links and later to B become head of the public links in the forest preserves of Chicago, was the ' H Story told of himself by Robert W. Mc- w Kiniay. who today announced his In- H tentlon of establishing a motorbcat j B service to make one of the public linkai H ii -c-sslblc to Chicago grolfere. How he I IH, r-scaped go!f In Scotland is something H McKtnlny cannot explain, but after H oA-elllng several years In Chicago, he went on a vacation to a secluded H' mountain den in Colorado, with three H friends, one of whom was a golfer H and, therefore a golf bug. Between H hunting stories, the golfer found a .small level stretch and dug four small H holes. He cut a stick with a crook at H one end and began to putt a small H rubber ball that he had found In the H, cabin they used. Hj After the others bad laughed at him. : Hl he challenged his mates to a contest H He won at first, but finally McKinlay , ft got the lead and he was Inoculated I H with golf fever. He returned to Chl- B c.igo and the next morning, went to' H; the Ilncoln park public links at 2 a m. 1 B in ordT to get to pin'.. He ha--, been; B at it ever since and when elected ai HJ county commissioner, took ud the! H work of building golf courses In the, H forest preserve. He Is now working; H to bave a fleet of motor boats enrr H' players from Iake Michigan to a links! Hi along the drainage canal. |