New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-04-04
GOLF GERM GETS
BUSY ON LINKS
IN CITY PARKS
Spring Weather Rouses
WielderS of Clubs from
Winter Lethargy.
BY FRED HAWTHORNE.


at Van Cortland and Pelham Bay
Parks. in The Bronx, will be opened
for play about the middle OF this
month. and then the thousands OF the
golfng cohorts will swarm over the
courses from sun-up to sunset.
On Sunday We took a trip to Van
( Cortlandt, via the Broadway subway,
and on every hand there were indi-
cations that the golf germ was srous-
ing itself from its winter lethargy and
stretching its arms and legs, IL 1t has
such things.
II was early in the morning, yet at
least a score o. golfers boarded the
train at different stations, carrying
their clubs and dressed for field ser
vice." gray flannel shirts, caps, spiked
shoes, and all.
The links are not yet in commits
sion, but Thomas ". White, the
/ Park Commissioner Of The Bronx, has
had force of men at work for several
days getting things into shape. The
tees arc being repaired where the
winter freshets have done damage and
dead leaves, twigs and other OBJ
q
greens and fairwGys.
The greens seem to have been
greatly improved, by the heavy
blankets Of snow that have covered
them for considerable portion of the
winter. and the turf IS already of a
healthy green color 1t looks very
promising.
The municipal golf house, sitting on
the bank Of the lake. has also been
refurbished and rendered spick and
span for the reception Of the locker
holders. Although there are several
hundreds Of these lockers, the last one
had been taken on Sunday and there
will be enough applications on hhnd
by the time the season begins TO I'LL
as many more.
Across the road. at Alfred j. Hay
/ bursts Tremper House, there are two
or three hundred more lockers, already
claimed. The string orchestra dis
courses topical and classical music on
the yeranda and everything awaits the
arrival of the golfer.
The big parade grounds, to the west
of the main lake, are at present the
only outlet for the man with nlDlck
and driver. and on Sunday there were
at least two hundred men, women and
J. children OUT luele' stbNlHs ny hit'N'
out of their muscles and educating
their eyes TO "watch the ball"
Up on the hilly section, 70 the east
Of the Van Cortlandt Park links, lies
the new Mosholu course, the eighteen
holes Of which are expected to do much
toward relieving the cOrgested condi-
tions OF last season. The holes at
Mosholu are all inclined to be sporty
and it will take a straight ball 70 keep
out of trouble. In spite ofthis difficulty
il is planned TO conhne the beginners
and those not able TO do the regular
course under 100 strokes, TO Mosholu,
leaving the old links to the more adept.
When the contestants in the women's
national championship at the Belmont
Spring Country Club, near Boston,
gather there next October, they will
find one of the most complete and spa
cious locker houses in the cUlntry az
their disposal. The club first intended
10 erect $4,000 building for the
lockers, but at the last moment 1t was
decided to do the thing in better style.
with building $50 feet in length and
30 feet in width. A veranda will extend
along the entire length OF the locker
house.
Printers. advertising men and others
interested in the graphic arts and allied
professions will have a golf links or
their own when the new course now
being laid out on the estate OF Robert
W. Nelson, president Of the American
Type Founders Company, just outside
of Plainfield, is completed. The now
organization will be known as the
Shackamaxon Country Club, and the
playing length will be about 6,6l5 yards,
as planned by A. W. Tillinghast, the
golf architect.
Down the centre Of the course lies a
lake. three-quarters Of mile long and
from 100 10 300 feet wide. On small
island in the lake will be placed the
ninth green, while the seventeenth Will
necessitate a long carry.
Work on the club house was started
last week, and the plans call for bed
rooms with private baths, power plant,
dining and billiard rooms. Besides its
goliing uses, the lake will be dotted with
a feet of small boats in the summer.
Who would not be printers devil IN
Plalnield?
The many professionals who have
been improving each snowy hour the
last winter By giving lessons at the
various indoor golf schools are packing
up preparatory to resuming their reg
uiar work out ofGoors. Within the next
two or three weeks they will all be
back at their summer posts.