Evening star., 1922-09-24

The nne-hole public course in
Newark is under the supervision of
a county park commission and Is
located in a county park. The fees
s5 year to non-residents and %
cents for daily use. A limited num-
ber of lockers is available the charge
being $3.50 for the season The rev.
enue derived from the links goes to
the general fund of the park COM
part of its appropriation on the
course
Game Popular In Memphis.
Memphis. really golf-wild city.
has two eighteen-hole courses and
intends to build two more this fall.
No fee is charged for playing, but
players must have their own para
The caddy masters are employed by
the city. At one of the courses there
is professional. who receives no
salary from the city. but earns quite
an amount teaching. There are no
lockers at the courses. The munich
commission and are kept in salts
factory playing condition.
Chicago is spotted with public
courses. There are eighteen and
nine hole links at jackson Park. one
of eighteen holes at Marquette Park.
and Columbus parks; a nine-hole
course at Edgewood. and ten holes
completed of a planned eighteen
hole links at Palos Park. These
courses, maintained by various city
park boards and commissions. take
in enough money to pay for their
upkeep and have something left over.
The Jackson, Lincoln. Garfield. Co
lumbus and Marquette courses charge
from 10 to 20, cents a round. At
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80 cents. Lockers are rented at from
81 to SO year. there generally being
four players to a locker. Communi-
ty courses are maintained at Evans
ton. Winnetka. Glencoe and High
land Park. which may be played over
for small daily fee.
kansns City Well Fixed.
Kansas City's eighteen-hole mu-
nicipal golf course in Swope Park.
run by the city. charges so cents a
day, 81 a month or $40 a year. 1t
has a $4,000 clubhouse built by the.
city. There are about 500 lockers
for men and fifty for women. Lock-
ers are rented for S. a year. A pro-
fessional is hired by the city park
board.
The Swope Park Golf Club. a pri-
vate club that uses the public course.
practically controls the links. al
though its members have no privi-
the course. does not have. Much of
the upkeep and improvement of the
course is left to the judgment of the
Swope Park Club, however. and the
park board always has acted upon
the clubs recommendations in this
respect. The non-Club member who
uses the course profits as much from
the clubs good work as. the club
members
Something similar to the work of
the Swope Park Club. is that of the
Forest Park Club in st. Louis. The
course in the Missouri metropolis is
operated by the city government and
there is no charge for playing. but
the Forest Park Golf Club. which is
run under the sanction of the park
department as part of the Munich
pal Athletic Association. with head
quarters in the golf house on the
course, charges a membership fee of
IS year and uses the amount to sup
plement the funds provided by the
city.
This club fund goes toward paying
part of the golf instructors salaries,
viding prizes for tournaments and
entertaining stellar visiting players.
It's expenditure Is In the hands of the
golf club members. subject to SUPER.
vision by the Municipal Athletic As
s6ciation. There are lockers at the
year by the city.
No Charge in Toledo.
While other cities charge for the
use of their courses that a main
tenance fund may be created. Toledo,
which operates several public links,
acts on the principle that good order
may be maintained on municipal
courses only If no green's fees are
charged. The Ohio city has had pub
lie courses for years and has found
that rules. governing the conduct of
players must be rigidly enforced if
the public is to benefit.
According to Toledo authorities,
whenever a man pays a fee to play
over a course he feels that he is en-
titled to certain privileges and the
only way for a city to keep control of
the situation Is to let him play for
nothing and bar him from the course
if he violates the rules.
This has worked well in Toledo for
many years. The only charge there
Is for locker and that is 1915 a
year The city welfare department.,
operates the two links in the Ohio
municipality and the excellent facili-
ties offered have so impressed park
commissions of other cities that they
are about ready to admit that Toledo's
no-fee theory Is the soundest of all.
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