The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-01-08
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Cheaper Golf

am for cheaper golf.
 believe in signs-and it's a goo, Ign to see the price of golf ball, foming down. Perhaps we are on tn,
 ay to the good old days, when good club could be bought for $1. M, lrst club cost me 95 cents, and it no bnly looked good to me for years But 1t surely laid good, firm foundation for lot of golf I have it Eet though I treasure it so that fever use it. 1t was "shined ant iPolished" so many times that it. Edges became almost knife sharp. Il ifyon my first championship. and try as l will I never can make myself Heel quite the confidence, with any fother mashie, that I learned to fee when playing my old original sharp shooter.
 Wants Cheaper Golf
 I want to see golf continue with rapid strides in It's tendency to be- come cheaper. The popularity of the saime has spread so greatly that we hasve beheld an almost amazing growth and this should be encour- aged in every possible way. Golf an swere the special need of the b,Si- ness fpan. More and more each year he se@ms to realize It.
 One great objective we should strive for now Is to make the game more accessible to boys and girls. Most of the good players we now have came up to thelr skill through beginnings as caddle boys. The public links is the answer in this instance-Iet's have them Everywhere, and then more Of them. Last summer the motorman on car on which 1 have occasion to rlde now md then had his bag of ciuos proppe9 in back of his operat- ing Ihechdrish on the car. That's a good sisn' let golf be democratic, our national tamel
 IT l couid figure out the balance sheet or golf an America 1t would make am sre, the most astonish- in the sporting, world. 1p
 PpuIar Game one or the eading sports editors or the country .tsked me to give him such iigures, plt how can they be arrived at! Try Q find out who plays golf today and you discover tb.+ nearly eVeryoooi is interested in it. It is popular, toS in every grade of life.
 And such popul$ltyt was ever an. other sport epud4to it? Here's one or the Eihcoih paS golf commi ssion- CTS, Chicaso' Wholn his enthusiasm told me the othe dav tba+ tbo,a should be golf holesaIl the way aionsr Lake Michigan, so Fellow conld r1ass himself down to wrl< in inc n,ar,,, 1 ing and back home pain at nioht ] He mentioned, when tried to sat some golf statistics fNm bi,, tSet all the holes in AmerieA strune o,,+ would reach around the Arld .eyyhat course to play on!' hFexclaimed , "Just the right diStaneeS. ,,,
 Looks For More Con,es l think that this year wil1.a new courses added than eveih afa,o There Is better understandfS ho,,, to build them now. Financing o.o,r, clubs has also been made easier. '" doubtedly great sums of money W be invested in the national sport but the money will be well spent be cause of it's abundant yield of healtl and enjoyment.
 And the best thing of all, perhaps is the astonishing way in which gol is catching hold in the smaller towns in places. I mean, of 5000 people o less. A few more years of this an ~ twe shall behold the equalization O America to golf, the royal, ancien and honorable pastime-the sport su preme.
 So let's make it less costly an more popular by every effort we ca pu. forth to that end.
 Copyright, John F. Dille Col