Evening star., 1923-08-27
TALKS and TALES
With and about
CAPITALS GUESTS

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followers of the ancient Scotch game
/ IN all sections of the country. will
doubtless be pleased TO hear of the
success attained by the Department
Of Agriculture in developing a now
grass for green that promises TO rev
| olutionize golf courses in the United
States
The department has evolved @ %ya,
! tenn Of planting green's with ben,
grasses, and SO satisfactory have
| been the results that the Olympic
Athletic Club of San Francisco, on
| on advice of the United States Golf
Associations green section. has plant
ed one Of its two courses by the
method. This was learned from Ken.
meth Mcleod. manager of the Golden
Gate organization, who is stopping
at the New Willard Hotel while on
a tour of inspection of all athletic.
golf and country clubs in the ccun-
| try in an effort to secure valuable
hints for the new Olympic Club now
Being erected.
Mr.: Mcleod said he had come 70
Washington primarily to confer With
J the experts on the new covering.
/ "As yet there has been no sign os
the blight on our new course" said
! pared should any appear. The Asrf-
cultural Department deserves great
! credit for it's experiments
Since leaving the coast Mr.. MCL0oa
has visited all athletic and golf clubs
and large hotels in Portland. Ore
Seattle. Spokane. the Yellowstone,
| Denver, Detroit, Omaha, Kansas City
St Louis, Chicago. Boston. New York.
! Philadelphia and Washington. direct
ling his attention on the athletic, golf
and restaurant features, in the order
named.
home town is the oldest athletic cluh
in the country, having been founded
| in 1860, four years before the New
York Athletic Club came into being.
! The Olympic is now erecting a new
downtown building, at 524 Post street.
San Francisco, TO accommodate us
| 5000 members. The house is located
in the center of San Francisco club
dom. being surrounded by the Union
League, Elks, Woman's Athletic Club
and others.
! William F.. Humphrey, legal adviser
TO the Western Marine Salvage Com
lpany, is it's president, having served
was due entirely to his untiring
efforts that the club was held to-
gether after the fire.
The club has 400 acres within the
courses. 1t is popular resting place
for both United States Senators
iShortridge and Johnson. while former
Senator P@lan may be found there
any day.
Mr.. Mcleod was loud in his praise
iof local golf clubs. and said the new
Congressional Country Club, designed
by Phillips Julian, gives every evi-
dence TO suggest that 1t will function
as the equal OF the best on the con-
Itinent.
If such should happen that william
Henry Harrison Dempsey puts a
quietus on the aims and aspirations
of Louis Angel Firpo. the Argentine
firebrand. next month. the chances are
that the combined armies of all South
! American republics viii cut loose
for these United States, and the Mon
roe doctrine will be little more than
Ia hazy dream. Or at least so thinks
Robert l.. Downs, president OF the
National Capital Hotel Company, own
ers OF the Hotel Washington. who.
with his son, Donald. has just return
ed from an extended trip through
Latin America
Great excitement prevails in all
large cities down there over the com
ing fight" said Mr.. Downs. and the
unanimous opinion is that Firpo will
knock Dempsey out. I hate to think
| what will happen if he fails"
The local hotel man was loud in his
praise OF the beauties of Ruenos
Aires: Montevideo. Rio de Janeiro.
other places of interest visited. He
said that more than 100000 persons
attended the races at Buenos Aires
every Sunday.
Mr.. Downs sailed on the Munson
line steamer. American Legion, was
out of sight of land for fourteen days.
and had only good reports to render
about the service of the company
He was at MonteVideo when. the
recent tidal wave visited that place
and has many wonderful photographs
OF scenes in South America.
|
Reports of tremendous damage
caused by the overlooking of the
Colorado river that usually appear In
the eastern newspapers at this time
of the year are, as a rule. greatly
/ exaggerated, according to D. E. Car
penter Of Greeley. Col. who is stop
ping at the Shoreham for few days.
Mr.. Carpenter is her on business
with the Interstate Commerce Com
mission, and is the man who first
started the Colorado river commits
sion. over which Secretary Hoover
presides as chairman. and which at ~
last meeting in Santa Fe drew up the
| treaty of the seven states, which pro
tects the rights of all residents in those
states touched by the Colorado and its
tributaries, the first agreement OF the
| kind ever entered into by individual
states of the Union.
These reported foods are, for the
most part, nothing more than cloud
bursts" said Mr.. Carpenter" and are
really of far more benefit than dam
| age. They are localized and. as the
streams of the state are unusually
low at this season. aid materially in
filling bitches and furnishing the
much needed water for irrigation and
other purposes. OF course, some
damage is done. the washing away
of a few bridges. etc. but compared
with the good results attained is quite
negligible"
| Should a movement to impound the
waters Of the Clorado behind two great
dams for irrigation purposes. which now
tneeds only the Endorsement CT one of the
, seven states to the treaty be carried
out, one of the most wonderful inland
pieces of water ever known will be
the result.
This inland sea. formed from back
water at a great dam to be constructed
in the huge Colorado canyon, according
TO specifications, would cover more than
$50 miles in length and from fifteen TO
twenty five miles in width, and resting
at the bottom of two 5,000-feet high
Icliffs would present a spectacle un-
rivalled in the world.
At the meeting last year in Sante
Fe. over which Secretary Hoover pre-
| sided, California, Colorado, New Mexico,
Utah, Idaho and Nevada favored the
erection of the two DAMS Arizona being
the only state of the seven not CON
! forming.
1t is said that Secretary Hoover is
intensely interested in the project.
whether due to the passing OF the
old time billiard parlors, the ever
increasing interest in outdoor sports
or the advent of prohibition, a very
noticeable falling off in the small
army of newspaper grabbers that
used to infest local hotel lobbies is
quite perceptible today.
And never was there a more enjoy
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