Evening star., 1918-06-30

Despite all assertions to the con-
trary, golf clubs of the District OF
Columbia will not be closed by order
of the fuel administration next win
ter, 1t became known last night. A
literal Interpretation Of an order is
sued yesterday by Benjamin Wood
ruff, acting fuel administrator for the
District Of Columbia. means that res
taurants, cafes and business places
which have hot-air heating plants or
stoves that cannot use soft coal,
which would also apply to country
clubs, will keep open next winter.
The latest order addressed to dealers
follows: THE order Of June II. 1918,
restricting the delivery Of domestic
sizes Of anthracite coal to private res
licences Is hereby amended to the ex-
tent that you are permitted to deliver
these sizes to laundries using stoves.
apartments for hot-water heating
only, lunchrooms, cafes. restaurants
and hotels for cooking only, ana
heating plants or stoves that cannot
use soft coal. All other business
places should apply to the Distrlct
fuel administration for special per-
mits to use anthracite coal"
DR.. Walter S. Harlan. vice presi-
dent of the United States Golf As
ISOLATION. holding a similar office at
the Columbia Country Club, talked
last week with Edward H. Jones OF
the Federal Fuel Administration and
was advised that no anthracite coal
will be furnished golt clubs next win.
will be allowed only for cooking pur-
poses and that locker rooms and
rooms in the golf clubs other than the
kitchen will have to be heated by
wood fires. The use of a limited
amount of soft coal by the golf clubs
about Washington will be permitted.
according to announcement by the
fuel administration today. AS pa
triotic measure, however. 1t is prob
able that all the golf clubs will close
the larger part of their clubhouses, as
they did last year. using coal only
f1replaces.
Golf will be one Of the leading sports
at Army camps and cantonments next
Walter S. Harlan and enthusiastically
received by DR.. F. P. Kepple. second
assistant secretary of war, is pushed
through. The whole plan followed a
talk in DIR. Kepple's office in which
Paul B. Williams, field secretary of
lne National La" II 1tIIllS AbSoCidlIOH,
and Drs. Harlan and Kepple took
part and followed a call from DR..
Kepple to the other two men to find
out means of supplying recreation to
the men in camps. DR.. Harlan sug-
gested that a small golf course of
three, five or nine holes. or of any
size for which there Is available
ground. be laid out on the parade
grounds of the cantonments and that
members of the clubs throughout the
country send to the War Department
or to camps adjacent to their homes
their old spare clubs. The idea is
that the men will receive healthy
sport by swinging the clubs for a
short time each day. and DR.. Kepple
thought so we'll Of it that he imme-
diately had wires sent to command
ants at the camps asking their
opinion Of the plan. Following their
talk with DR.. Kepple. Harlan and
Williams talked with DR.. Joseph E.
Raycroft, director in charge Of Army
athletics and he also indorsed the
scheme.
Miss Louise Lacey. in winning the
annual competition for the cup pre-
sented by The Evening Star, demon
strated the value Of persistent and
painstaking practice. Day in and day
out, through all sorts Of weather, Miss
Lacey has plugged at the game until
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