Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-10-13
DUPONT CLUB HAS
BRIGHT FUTURE
Reports of Officers at Annual
Meeting Show What Has
Been Accomplished.

The du Pont Country Club held its first
annual meeting i'm the du Pont hotel last
night. when reports of tho progress we're
made and plats for the further develop
mcnt of the club were discussed before a
large number of members both men and
women. crowded the club room where the
meeting was held. X. W. Mcclellan. VICE
President presided and John l.. hrauss
was secretary.
Mr.. Mcclellan made complete report
of the clubs progress IN the short time IL
has been in existence. lie said: Dtrlhg
the past FIVE months there have been pro-
vidcd eight first class clay tennis courts
two girls baseball diamonds, nlre hole
golf course with wonderful possibilities
and vollcy ball court. Arrangements nh;
also been made TO take over the three
tennis courts nj the Experimental station
these courts being turned over to us by the
Experimental Station Tennis luh whose
members, approximately twenty IN mum
bcr. atItomaticallv become members OF our
club The clubhouse has been repaired,
lockers and showers installed, lOunglng
room suitably furnished. So that for the
present at least clubhouse facilities are
available for those members participating
in the various sports.
To accomplish all this IN such short
time was the result of uutTIng effort on
the part of your president and chairman OF
the grounds and house committees, and |
would like 10 take this opportunity to CON
gratulatc them. No one could have Wit
messed the recent activities at the club.
such as th, various baseball and tennis
tournaments, tennis exhibition matches,
etc. without realizing that the du Pont
Country Club Is not something 70 he
hoped for, but Is in fact reality
Mr. Mcclellan called attention 70 the
reed of acuualnting all cInplove@ who have
not vet joined of the great advantages 10"
at their disposal NJ the club grounds IT.
stated that there arc now t'26 members
and recommended that a vigorous Nom
hcrship campaign hc started So that the
members may realize thcr ambition;
which is tn have a country club that viii
compare favorablv with the best IN the
country He told of the help gwen hy
the du Pont Company TO the club and
SAID ''Wc would indeed, he ungratctul
II we did not take this opportunity u en-
pressing To the executive committee ot
our company our appreciation ot their
financial assistance. lie stated that
they had not only turned over the grounds
to the clubs use, but had provided tho
baseball diamond and gandStand and
appropriated money which was expended
for construction OF the tennis courts and
golf course.
A report on the financial condition ol
the club was also read hy 4. II LAYER
more. assistant treasurer. Encouraging
reports were gwen hv the chairman of the
following committees L " Harris,
grounds committee: c. p. Nillard houSc
committee: L. +. Chapman, golf commit
toe: Frank Palmer, tennis committee lG-
!. II Squircs. baseball committee. Major
r H. Whtlock who has been active IN
the formation and organization ot the
club also gave a short talk
An amendment was made to the bylaws
providing that the wife or husband Of any
active member NAV be admitted 70 nom
voting associate membership upon applica-
ton u the club and acceptance hy the
board of governors an interesting feature
was the showing of the film picturIng the
Warden and Ray gold match with Hagan
and Ross at The Detroit Country hub
The board Of governors for the nCNt
wear was elected unanimously. All ot them,
with the exception OF two, beng the same
who served from the inception Of tho
club untn the present time Tho COvCr-
nors elected last night are J + kTauss
Or. II. bradshaw. r W Harris, j
Clarence Hume T ". kclthlcy. a. i
Livcrmorc. /. z. Mahonv r W McClc-
Ian. c. P. Millard. " L ReisInCcr " \
>lmonton. G. Is Stout + f. Chapman
" :. Simpson and c. ;. Gwynne
The present officials Of the dn Pon'
Country Club arc, L. p. Mahony, pTcsr
dent: r ". Mcclellan, vice-prcSrdcnt
W L Reisingcr. treasurer, and John L
krauSs. secretary.