Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-10-22
The HQSkin Letter
By FREDERICK
J. HASkIN
PUBLIC GOLF COURSES

ed for IS holes or for a days play,
he annual or seasonal charge rarely
exceeds $40. In one city the fee is
Is cents for every round of Is holes
or less and lockers are maintained by
the city and rented for So per year
for two persons.
Philadelphia's municipal golf play
ground, the Cobb's Greek course, is
generally regarded as the best pub
lie links in the United States. There
the charge for one days play is so
cents, which entities one to a locker,
Privilege of the course for one year
costs only 81, but there is an annual
fee of $40 for a locker.
Toledo System Best
Considered from every standpoint,
the Toledo system of operating mu-
! nicipal golf courses is rated as the
best. In that city no fees are charged
on the theory that people will not
| abuse a privilege but may take adj
| vantage of what they regard as a
conditions on a golf course are de
pendent largely upon the habits and
| practices of the players. According to
the Toledo authorities if a man pays a
| fee for the use of q golf course he
| tends to assume a semi-proprietorial
I attitude and feels that he has a right
TO do what he wants to do without
regard to the rules that may have been
! established. On the other hand, if he
is permitted TO play without any charge
but with the possibility of being barred
| from the course if he violates any of
the rules he is far more likely to
conduct himself in a sportsmanlke
way and to be amenable to discipline.
~ - --AElnd r-nll IN
Toledo for many years. The only
charge is for lockers, which is fixed at
1878 annually. The courses are kept
in excellent condition and Toledo
standing is such that when the first
national tournament for public course
PLAYERS was held this year 1t went TO
the Ohio city.
Kansas City has one of the finest
| club houses maintained by a municipal
! ity. 1t cost $50 600 and affords 800
lockers for men and women at So each
per wear. Green fees are 80 cents a
( day. 81 a month and SO a year. The
| Kansas City cours is in Swope park
and the Swope Park Golf club has
been organized as n private affair
which virtually controls the links, al
though members have no privileges
that the non-member who uses the
T. course uObS HUI hdfN u VI tH|
ulkeep and Improvement of the course
is determined by the club and the park
beard always defers to the clubs plans
and recommendations in whatever 1t
does with respect TO golf.
In San Francisco is found an I'M
usual combination between the NUM-
cipality and private interests. An ex-
cellent IS hole course is maintained
by the city. with green fees of 90 cents
a day or 81 a month, but there is no
clubhouse and accordingly no locker
facilities are afforded. However, a
clubhouse has been erected on private
ground adjacent TO the course. MeU-
bership in this club costs $40 per year
and locker fees emitting one to shower
bath and towel privileges are 81 a
month.
Indianapolis is the only city to re
port a plan for controlling caddies. All
caddies are employed under caddy
masters from whom they receive their
pay by the week. They are divided into
three classes. A. B, and c. A caddies
receive 20 cents an hour, 3 caddies
Is cents. and C caddies 10 cents. They
nav ST for license buttons which indi-
cate their grade. and they receive 3
cents each for registered and marked
balls returned to the caddy master.
Chicago has more municipal golf
courses than any city in the country,
eight links now being in use, the fees
ranging from 10 to 90 cents a round.
In addition to these, community
courses are maintained in several Chi
cago suburbs which may be played over
for small daily fees.
Washington's public golf course in
Potomac Park is comparatively new,
but it promises to be one of the best
ir the country with all desired facilities
available TO the players. Fees charged
are % cents for IS holes on any day
except Saturday. Sundays and holidays
when the amount Is doubled.