The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-01-25
Tee, Faiiruay and Green
By CHICK EVANS
A Golf Club Achievement

What was the outstanding achieve ment in golf in the last year?
 While searching my mind for the answer to that question. for a New York banker and golf enthusiast who asked it, the mail man happened in and dropped the answer on my desk.
 It came in the form of a pamph- let with an annual golf club report. One glance therein revealed figures which established that a new golf club could at it's outset be remark able only to cease abruptly to be re- markable and become amazing. The story related to the experienced eye by these figures constitutes the big gest golf achievement I know of in the last year. The story is of inn portance to every new golf club and to every prospective golf club mem Der in America.
 This Club Advances
 Here, in limited space, was re- flected in cold figures the record of Chicago club only two years old and which, at the end of it's first full playing season, found itself pos sessed of these valuables:
 1. An 1S-hole course of the finest class designed by one of the fore most golf course architects in the world and described by him as his wonder course;" the course is meant to meet every requirement. of the modern game; it occupies the enor- nous space of 161 acres.
 2. A membership totaling 262 en- thusiastic golfers.
 3. A cash balance in the bank which would discharge all this clubs liquid obligations and leave several thousand dollars.
 These statistics ann1v tho Rriar. gate club of Chicago, and lest the reader miss it let me point out that the shocker in these facts is that Item showing that. this new, first class club could meet all it's current obligations and still have money in its pockets. At that point Briergate passes from the ranks of the remark able golf clubs and becomes amaz- ing. It does that because the re- port shows that the members have never been called upon for special assessments. and that none is con- templated.
 There you have the biggest achievement I know of in golf in the last year. It is of national impor- tance in this era in which golf is gaining so tremendously in popular favor for the reason that this re- port proves the new club can, with pioPeT management, come into exist ence on a basis that has the para mount aim of making first-class golf cheaper and at the same time profitable for the membership. That is what Briergate has accomplished
 The report is signed by President William NJ. Reay. MT. Reay, in busi- ness life, Is the comptroller of the International Harvester company, which Is where he no doubt learned how to make the figures of a golf club annual report easy for the mem bers to look at. He sponsored the Briergate club and has been the en- ergy back of it since its start. The members should give him set of -spangled knickerbockers, to say the least.
 Enter Hall of Fame
 MT. Reay and his energetic helper. Robert D. Hessey, secretary of the club, who has been in charge of the selection of its membership, are here with nominated for places in Golf's Hall of Fame. I can only swing open the doors, but I am sure the hall notables will most willingly crowd over little for the two newcomers.
 These two golf officials have cre- iated a golf club of the first-class