The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-01-15
INTEREST IN ANCIENT SPORT ON EX-
 CEEDINGLY RAPID INCREASE LOCALLY.
Country Club Possesses Three Miles of Fin est Links in South, and General Invitation May Be Issucd Next Year to Followers
 of Sport.

The fact that so far a general golf tour nament has never been held by the Mont gomery Country Club by no means insin- uates that such Q tournament will not De held On the contrary there has never been known the interest and enthusiasm in the ancient and honorable game that Is evt- dent among the members of the Country
 some six or seven years ago the first golf links ever had in Montgomery were laid out for a mile or so through the roll ing hillsides out in Cloverdale, the tennis courts of a number of members were also The Capital City Gun Club used to hold its tourpaments out there on the grounds Q. this sTcInb and some of the most ceieErateo sportsmen and crack shots Of the "orlo
 In May 1888, the last Southern Tennis Tournament was held in M0ntgomery suen men as Eskrigge, Seguin. Elliott, Logan oI New Orleans Bliss Edgar and Friedman Of Tuscaloosa, samuel Williams, Clarence An gier. Reynolds Tichnor. and Dinwiddie Of of Athens, Ga., who won the championship in Montgomery in May 1898. and Walker, Graves, Rambo and lots of & 9ansE Mansy Ioeal ssnv boys were some tennis players then. MaJos c. A. Flaglef, at that time the United was president of the Montgomery Tennis and Golf Club. There was no Country Club then.
 Southern Interstate Championship Cup that year as winner of the tournament; gold medals went to Clarence Angler and 5. C. Williams of the Atlanta Athletic Club Tor the championship in doubies. Sporadic tournaments were held for Q Dit after that, but for some reason intsrast dwtndieo ana everything in the Tennis and Golf line was off. The principal reason was that most of the ground on which the tennis courts ana golf links were located were being soIo for buildings lots. and where the old links and courts of ten years ago were located is now one of the most beautiful sections of Montgomery. picturesque Cioverdale.
 Some four or five years ago a movement was started by some of the most progressive e men of the city towards the organizing of Country Club. The property was % bought ing the prime mover in the undertaking
 For year so everything, golf links, ten- Inittees of the Club. Three years ago John M. Inglis, a .canny Scot, and one of the best fellows in the world, was secured by the Country Club to take charge of the golf Inglis was about as great an enthusiast over the game as one can find anywhere in the world, including Highland Mary and the Banks and Braes O Bonny DOon over which she tackled some bunkers. Inglis was a golf professional that had played with some of the cracks of the United States up East and at Pine Hurst, besides having been in charge of one of the big golf clubs up East, Insiis started right at the bottom in the work of recognizing the links ana golf affairs generally.
 Realizing that the old links were not large enough Ger Country cup as .arts1 imDort z movement for a the enlarging of the course. It was a big undertaking and required Q bunch of coin as vel as tne patlen1e 'nSt S ergy and perseverance, however, 1nglis Kept hammering until in about year he had the new links of something like three miles ready and they are now among the finest in
 Some good golf has been played on the l tournaments have all been local. but from the activity being displayed by Ingiis, back cd up by the golf committee ana prominent M Country Club. 1t won't be long before Mont Eomery will be a great center for holding | inc southern and Interstate Golf Tourna
 mentS me as the old Montgomery Tennis and Golf Club was prominent tn the tennis world of the South.
 The next. tournament of the Southern ! Golf Association may be held this year al l Memphis though that matter has not as yet been officially decided. During the | tournament of the Southern Golf Association | last summer Gen. Sam Carnes, President oi | the Memphis Country Club, and tho mar
 back of Charlie Franks ,.e.,o o1t,aW oeseIS t th. 1 Association to hold the 1909 tournament on | the Memphis links The Memphis Country 1 Tournament. and it is possible that 1t will | be held there during the coming summer:
 The Athletic Club of Atlanta has started | nament on the new Eastlake links Tht | date has not been set yet, but IS sale | that the prizes will be handsome enoukkl k | to draw golfers from all over the South | Tho same club will offer tournament opeE l to all Southern golfers during the coming | tion -tournament for Georgia golfers. tht
 plan being to rganize Georgia State Coll | Association. .. ,- | lion has never been organized ts mystery | with the enthusiastic golfers in Montgom | cry, Mobile. Birmingham, Selma, HuntsVnI' | and other points in this State. one Of th' l most successful golf associationR In tn!
 country could be organized in Alabama Ant | hold of the movement 1t will be easy t' l carry 1t through. The only state Golf As | recitation in the South now is the one II | Texas and 1t is a great success. The one | In this State and Georgia would max, kthrse In the South, and at the rate tna