The Washington herald., 1922-08-10
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Ing situation at the beginnerr
golf course In West Potomac PARK
has won q battle for the -dubs'
and they are all happy. The sand
greens have been done over in an
endeayor TO soften them and take
the billiard table bounce out OF the
asphalt foundation But the prof
iteering goes on at both courses
just the same. Soda pop 10 still 10
cents bottle, and at the East Po-
tomac Park they sell you "sinkers-
at the rate Of 40 cents a dozen.
Twenty-Five cents q round for
nine holes Of golf on Saturday
afternoon and Sunday means 81 for
a thirty-stx hole game In BaltI-
more at Clifton Park you can play
eighteen holes on a real golf course
for nothing. Does anybady know
why Baltimore and many cities half
as big a. Washington can have
free golf courses for the workers
while the Nations Capital handles
the situation 90 differentlyf
II you want TO know Just how
valuable golf and other r1mes are
to the public state Of MIND. read
Earl Derr Biggers in Golfers
Weekly II should make the prof
iteers on government property
ashamed of themselves AT East
Potomac Park the fve-hole course
that has been cut to four holes.
with no cut IN price. should be free
to the players and thus Il would
take care OF the overflow waiting
to get of on the long course. But
you see none Of that spirit down
there. Take a half hour some day
and listen to the golf players rave
at the way things are handled at
the East Potomac Park course.
In the book Il says Jean Paul
Muller. CPA, which sta nds for Ger
tined Public Accountant. Yester-
day I strolled past Jean Paul leg
| ging IL up Sixteenth street and
wondered. for knew that Muller
| lived away out at Hamilton and
Fourteenth streets and had seen
him driving an automobile now and
| then. As / watched the clock-like
swinging OF Muller's cane saw
him turn into NJ street and 70 into
the Emerson and orme garage. Al
! / said to myself. here 10 mystery
and j must run IL down
You see it is this way" connded
Muller. Parking down town
around the Woodward Building j.
impossible. Then. too. need the
exercise. ! have figured out just
how much exercise / need. ] need
what walking gives me twice a day
! from NJ and Sixteenth TO the Wood
ward Building. With a jsunt over
to the Press Club at noon for a bit
Of lunch. and then back. ] get the
| walking. ] have IL all figured out.
Figures being my business. IL Was
easy to figure. People should walk
more, for the auto is going to get
them out OF the habit Of the great
est exercise in the world-walkinz.
Your Sunrise Club is a fine thing.
Golf Is good. but am not old
enough TO play that game as yet"
Therefore. decided 10 chang
| Muller's title. CPA. 70 Capital
Pedestrians Association. Inspector
Headley of the Traffic Squad. should
be a captain. with Muller and all
jsy-walkers barred. II you are a
walker and want to Join the cPA
write The Stroller.
The death OF Alexander Graham
Bell recalls to the mind OF c. n.
Thomas. OF Philadelphia. a Curl
osity shop" on the Lincoln Highway
as you near Chadd's Ford. ThI
house was washington's hesdN
quarters at the Battle Of Brandy
wine. 1t was there Lafayette was
| wounded. In this house, which
stands .ust as u did 200 years ago.
l. the first telephone receiver ever
used in Philadelphia. The occu
pant of the house has a great co.
| lection Of curios. according 10
Thomas. as well as many thinrs
pertaining To the battle. The houS-
has thousands OF auto visitors dur
ing the year and should he pur-
chased by Congress and made a
national shrine.
charter members Of the cPA Ger
tsinly should be DOC" White ana
Sutton. his golf-plsyinE pal. Re-
member the days Of the 'Hitless
Wonders" when the Chicago white
SoN stopped everything that came
along Get Doc" to tell you about
the good old days" But the doc
tor does his walking on the Ess'
Potomac golf course. The pair ar
out early enough TO see the boat
/ from Norfolk set in every morning.
which Of course automatically
makes them members OF the Sun
| rise Club.
Ohio hovs in Washington hos
pitfalls will be guests Of the ohie
! Girls Club at = picnic on August
IL at the Reservoir Grounds o,It
sixteenth street Gladys Prince,
Leona Shields and Mrs. T. c. Lugin-
buhl are the COMMITTEES making the
plans for the big time. W C. Hard
ing. Simeon y. Fees. Nick Long
worth. Harry Daugher'y Geor-e
Christian. Miner C. Norton. Atlee
Pomerene. Frank Willis. T. f. Bur
ton. Gus KarGer and Walker Buell.
should be put on sides in horse
shoe pitching contest for the all
! Chic championship at the picnic.
That would be some show.