The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1923-03-22
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LlNkS UNDEk1WAI,
GOLFERS GLEEFUL
A.
Ground Broken a Few Days Ago
and Work Will Proceed. En-
thusiasm Insures Success
CLUBHOUSE ABOUT COMPLETED


club out on the Raleigh road.
This momentous event took place
without any ceremonies. There
was no solemn Masonic procession
with abbreviated smocks Topping
in the wind, no awesome incan-
tation said over the turning of the
first clod. w. G. George of the
University medical school, acting
on behalf Of the club, simply hired
a man with horse and -plow and
started them to work.
One of the hillsides has been
plowed, and others will receive the
same treatment. The sewing of
grass seed is underway. An attack
win be made in force before long,
in all likelihood, upon the count
less thousands of stones scattered
over the club territory. A little
while ago there was talk of a gen
eral mobilization of club members
for the reaping of this harvest, but
that is not settled yet. Maybe the
professors who compose the male
part of the organization will de-
eide that it is more economical to
engage in brain work and employ
others to pick up the stones. Some
of them are already committed to
this view, while others declare it
folly to miss such a good chance
for beneficial physical exercise.
Anyway, work upon the links is
to proceed. 1t can't be done all at
once, because funds are limited.
But there is a vast enthusiasm
among Chapel Hill golfers, and
they are not going to let the job
sleep. Various suggestions for
fastening it have heen made One
is that the golfing element raise a
special fund, to be contributed
both by themselves and by alumni
who have been badly bitten by the
golf bug and may want to come in
as nonresident members.
Then, there is the prospect of a
considerable student membership.
1t is already about decided to ad-
NIT students to the golf privi-
leges, at a certain fee to be fixed
later Since the building up Of
golf courses near the principal
cities of the State, the number of
University students interested in
the game has grown steadily.
Many of them have expressed their
delight at the prospect of playing
on the new course. OF course
there will be more and more golf
ers in the student body every year
The construction of the club
house is in it's final stages. Prob
ably the building will be finished
in the next three or four days. The
plasterers got to work with their
tools last Thursday. and the Aoor-
layers shortly afterward. In the
next day of two, if the weather is
good, there will no doubt be a trek
of members to look the place over.
An agreeable feature of it is a
broad veranda.
There is much concern about ac-
cess to the club grounds. For two
or three months the Raleigh road
has been we'll nigh impossible, but
the appearance Of a scraper the
other day cheered strollers. Event
ually there is going to be an exten-
sion of Cameron avenue from the
east gate Of the campus, to pass
through Battles Park and connect
with the turmoil from the Raleigh
road to the clubhouse. Nobody.
knows yet when this extension will
be put through. It is obliged to
come some day, because of the ap-
preaching erection of dormitories
on the west fringe of the park and
the almost certain opening-up of
nearby land for residence pur-
poses.