The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1920-05-20
Directors Decide Unanimously to Lay over
Program for Opening of New Links
in the Year of 1921
SAYS PRESENT COST Is PROHIBITIVE
Members May Seek New Leases for Short Term on
Land Now Used for the Links but Would
Not Stand in Way of City Purchase

Old high cost of everything, and
particularly everything that has any
thing to do with building operations,
has put another crimp into one Of the
big dreams of Kenosha, and this morn
ing directors of the Kenosha Country
club announced that the plans for the
building of the new golf links and
the attending club houses on the land
recently purchased at the Berryville
Road, had gone into the discard for
the year. This does not mean that
the club is not to be opened some
time later, but for the present the big
plans which suggested an expenditure
in the neighborhood of $125,000 have
been put away in the hope chest of
the board of directors. They are to
be taken out again at the annual meet
ing Of the stockholders and directors
Of the club late in the year and it
is possible that they will be taken
up again at that time. The purchase
of the land for the new golf links
had been completed but instead of it
proving the happy hunting grounds for
the golfers in the late fall, it will be
turned over to farmers in the neigh
borhood to be used as pasture land.
Ross Told to Wait Year.
Donald Ross, premier architect Of
the country, who has been engaged to
lay out the links for the club, has
been advised that the work will not
be done before the spring of 1921, and
that possibly it may go over until some
time even later on if conditions in
the building world do not show an
improvement
"It would be the height of foolish
ness to go ahead with the work at
this time" said 2. G. Simmons, chair
man of the committee to get the new
club ready for the members. "The
present costs and the demand for ma
terials in other lines is such that the
members of the board and the com
mittee were agreed that we would have
to wait for the new golf club. We are
not giving up the idea at all. 1t is
going to be all carried out just as it
has been planned but the carrying out
has been delayed. 1t may be that we
can see the way clear to improve the
property next season. That is our ex-
pectation at the present time"
While it was evident that the plans
for the new club could be financed
it is declared that the members of
the directors were practically unani-
nous in laying the work over. Plans
for the club house had been prepared
but is was held that there would be
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months and that as it could not be
completed before the late fall at any
rate, the club would not suffer greatly
by laying the whole program over.
The members of the committee are
determined to make the new Kenosha
links notable among the golf courses
in the middlewest and it is not thought
that the delay will in any way take
away the ardor Of the golfers for the
new greens and fair green's.
The question that is now being
asked is what Kenosha golfers will
do for playground in 1921 1t had
been originally planned to have the
new links opened for play with the
opening of the 1921 season.
May Take Short Time Lease.
The lease of the club on the present
quarters will expire at the close of
the present season and it is possible
that short time lease on all or a
part of the property will be made in
order to keep the golfers with some
kind of home until the new club is
ready, 1t is suggested that possibly
only a portion of the property now
in use may be taken over for the new
year and that the course may be cut
from an eighteen to nine hole course.
1t is thought that an excellent nine
hole course could be laid out on the
property on the east side of Durkee
avenue, now used by the club with
the expenditure of only a small sum
of money. With no big events sche-
duled for the year, it is possible that
nine hole course would meet the
demands of the Kenosha golfers for
the 1921 season.
Directors of the club have declared
that the decision to lay the work on
the new club over for another year
would not in any way interfere with
the city provide such playground for
if the park board and the council
agree to such a purchase. eve may be
left homeless" said one of the direc-
tors Of the club, "but if the way is
opened for public golf links in Keno
sha, the country club will not stand
in the way Of the city getting poses
sion and immediate possession Of the
property. We would be glad to see
the city provide such a playground for
the people, and we believe that it
would prove one of the most popular
places in the city"