The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-10-27
GraymOnt Citizen Says PeO- pie in His Section All
 Approve Links
ENTHUSIASM IN
 PROJECT GROWS
Hall Will Begin Laying Out Course Just as Soon as the Contour Maps Are
 Finished

Engineers in charge of making con- tour map of the Green Springs puphc golf course finished all surveys yesterday afternoon.
 Plans are now being worked out by Engineers Meade and Totten and As sistant City Engineer Nicholson, and will be completed by tomorrow night.
 The progress on the golf course is being made on schedule time. Thus far there has not been single hitch. The so1 course will be laid out within few snort weeks. C. w. Hall, who will have charge of this work, announced last night that he was ready to go to work on the course as soon as all the plans and maps were completed.
 It is safe to estimate that the citizens of Birmingham will have an opportunity to try their skill as golfers within the next 60 days, maybe sooner
 Arrangements are now being made whereby the clubhouse. consisting Of LOCK- CTS, shower baths, and rest rooms TOT the players, will be built by the time the course Is put in condition.
 ENTHUSIASM KEEPS UP
 There will be ample room for gem eral recreation ground, tennis courts baseball diamond and other forms Of amusement. The enthusiasm of the ciu- zens is unbounded and words of praise for the project are on the lips Of every man who is asked for his opinion.
 q am very heartily in favor of mu- nicipal golf course" said Judge William M Walker. "I think the city of Bir- mingham is to be congratulated upon it's enterprise in providing golf course TOT the public Most men, or I might say, all the men in Birmingham, are in Ia vor of this golf course. It IS great thing for the city, It's residents ana the county of Jefferson"
 Capt. John B. Reid expresses himself as being enthusiastic over the golf course Its success is a surety. l daily note the progress heinz made on this course, he said The work of the engineers, the plans of the architects, the comment or the people is all very interesting and en- Tightening. The entire United States IS progressing, but Birmingham is alive and ready to progress, and IS doing so. An evidence of this is the building of the golf links at Green Springs. It will be a source of much pleasure to many of the inhabitants of this district and should receive the unqualified support of the citizenry, as whole.
 BROYLES FAVORS IT
 w O. Broyles says there have been hundreds of citizens interviewed on the golf course proposition. ''They have all said they are in favor of it, and am like they are, said MT. Broyles.
 There are a lot of people who know nothing about golf. l am among this crowd, but I am glad the people Of this will have the opportunity of learning all they want to know about the game without paying out any great amount of money. The golf course is great thing for the city. For any citizen to argue against it would be absurd. This is one of the things that are going to be made reality in this city,
 Anderson B. Jaffe. optcian, says he is ready to go out on the Green Springs golf course and try a game as soon as the park is opened for the public. Golf pastime in the United States" he said There is a reason for everything. IT the game were not interesting, or ln- structive and did not afford the player enough excitement to forget business wor- ries, it would not be popular The Amerl- can people are quick to take to any game that is exceptional. Golf Is one or the oldest and best games played today. expect to learn all the rudiments or the game out at Green Springs"
 F. P. Merritt, sales manager of the Alabama Motors Inc, is of the opinion that the golf course will mean greater things in the future for the recreation of people. Why should Bir- mingham be among the few cities in the without golf course?' he said. There can be no answer to rn1s ques- ton, therefore we are going to have one In fact I now say we have golf course, for I believe it will be built within a very short time. The sooner it is built the more popular golf will become in All the people will be out on the green playing within a few days after this course is built. Those who can not play will be watching and before long the spectators will be as big golf fiends as the ones who know the game now"
 GRAYMONT WANTS IT
 C.. F. Reinecke, who owns a grocery store in Graymont says the people of hat section talk golf and the new course which will be built at Green Springs. They all want it," he says. And when they get it they will take advantage of t. The golf game has become daily topic with many people in this city who never thought of the game until The Age Herald started this agitation in favor Of l place for the people to enjoy themselves and play this game if they wanted to. everywhere, seems to be in 'ayor of the golf course and they should be-"
 John McCarty says he Is a booster for he golf course and has been since the first day The Age-Herald came out for It