The New York herald., 1921-11-24
GOLF FEVER RACES
IN NEW YORK A. c.
Winged Footers, at Dinner,
Hear Glowing Reports of Prog
ress on Private Links.
BY KERR N. PETRIE.

A striking evidence of the growth
of the game of golf in the New York
Athletic Club was produced the other
night at the second annual dinner held
In the big city clubhouse at Fifty-ninth
street and Sixth avenue. Between 200
and 900 golfers sat down together. and
1t was reported that despite the fact
that the function had competition in
another important affair which had
taken away many OF the prominent
members 1t was the largest gathering
OF any kind ever held in the home OF
the Winged Foot organization.
During the last season the ". Y.
A. c. linksmen have held a competition
each month on some course In the met :.
ropolitan district Entrants In these
events for the season numbered more
than 800 and occasionally che starting
list In a single tourney topped 200.
Quite naturally. chief interest centred
in the remarks Of the officials relative to
the launching of the organization which
Is to give to the athletic club golfers
their own club and links. An ideal prop
erty has been secured in the Wykagyl
section of Westchester, so close to the
Wykagyl Country Club. in fact. that one
could play from the fifteenth tee at the
latter course on to the N. Y. A. c.. prop
erty with mashie. tr!
as the Winged Foot Golf Club, and for
the 700 members that are expected to
express desire to play the royal and
ancient game two eighteen hole courses
are now being laid out One of these
will be about 6,100 yards, the other
trile longer. possibly $500 yards with
room for still further extension should
it ever be necessary. A. w. Tillinghast
is the designer and at the dinner 'srillie''
told the members that they had golflng
property that would rank second to none,
1t is the evident intention to confine
membership In the Winged Foot Golf
Club to those now identified with the
New York A. c., and as there are some
thing like 1000 members to draw from
this should not be difficult. Each men,
Der is required to own certificate OF
stock, the cost to the first 200 to sign up
being only $500. The next $50 or SO
will pay $500 and the remainder in all
probability $1,000. There was quite
rush to get aboard with the first batch
and when it was announced that only
twenty vacancies were left these were
rapidly snapped UP.
That the Winged Footers are getting
lot for their money there Is not a
shadow OF doubt, and judging by the
trend OF values in Westchester golfng
pTOperty AT tne present tllne the lucky
purchasers of membership certificates
will soon have GAUGE to congratulate
themselves. A sum of $4,000 or $4,000
is not considered too much to pay for
d share of stock in one Of the recently
organized Westchester golf clubs.
Several years ago Siwanoy launched
such project; in fact, it may be said
that this organization was one of the
pioneers of the stock certificate plan. Of
membership. At $1,000 the roster was
filed in short order and so great was
the demand that 1t was not long before
that 81 900 bond was worth almost dou--
bic the money originally paid for It.
1t is reasonable to suppose that there
will be an equally rapid, appreciation
in the value of the certificates or MEM
bership In the new organization. Siwa-
noy and the Winged Foot property are
In the same neighborhood, and. were
1t not for the fact that Wykagyl Is To-
Gated on higher ground n good deal OF
that course could be seen from the
Siwanoy links. ~