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Show PEOPLE OF SPOKANE BECOME GOLF BUGS SPOKANE, Wash. i May S. Golf in Spokane this it boasts 25 per cent more converts than last year, with the immediate result that two of the three greens of the city are being standardized, and the third lengthened at an aggregate eost of nearly $30,000 for land and Improvements Golfers of the Manito Golf club have given up the nine-hole green leased Ijv them for a number of y ar . and have bought a new green sltv ixi a cost of $21,000. Work of building I the links Is already In progress. liny on the first nine will start probably sometime in July, and the second nine will be finished In time, for the ll-'3 season Ground for an additional nine holes on the Downriver municipal links has been purchased by the p. irk hoard for IS.oOCT. The second nine, completing the 18-hole standard course, will be finished by December 1. l!l'J Dotal golfers contributed $2,500 of the purchase pur-chase price as a comumntty gift, the board not being able t,o Include the first payment on the land in this year's budget The upper nine of the Spokane Country club course Is being lengthened lengthen-ed ,ilout 300 yards. The course already al-ready w.-is standaj-d. but the Increased distance Is expected to help Improve the play. Plans are being made for organization organiza-tion of women golfers on the municipal munici-pal course No exa i estimate of the number playing the game this year is available so far. |