San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1924-03-21
Promoters Seek Additional
20 to Insure Early
Sart of Work.
DIXON IS ENCOURAGED
Takes 1t for Granted Prof.
ect Will Go Through
and Makes Plans.

Intent on getting construction start
ed on the new golf course on the
kampmann estate. just off the St.
Hedwig road i'll tii.e 10 permit its
opening for play in the fall. San An
tonians interested in the project, CO.
operating with the National Golf AS
ISOLATION. an eastern syndicate OF golf
course builders. went 10 work Friday
morning 10 secure twenty more names
on the charter membership list. Names
of 80 prominent San Antonians already
appear on the list OF men who have
agreed to put up $3.50 each as pay
ment for lease and then renew that
lease at 500 year for the privilege
of using the new course. 7. j.
Dixon. president OF the National Golf
Association. declared at meeting at
the st. Anthony hotel Thursday that
his company would start work as soon
as 30 San Antonians agreed to go
into the project.
Mr.. Dixon was "highly encouraged"
Friday by prospects for the success OF
the new country club plan. which he
considers cs assured after the .isurs-
day meeting.
MCuIyn mn har0 az N0fk.
john McGlynn, golf construction en-
-iIcer, who has been here for some
time and has gone 30 far as to stake
out the holes for an eighteen-hole
course on the Kampmann property
along the Salado, is engaged in daily
work on the site. Four tons Of Bcr-
muda grass seed. which Mr.. Dixon
said was all that was available for
the time being, is now on the way to
San Antonio. Sodding of the fairways
and green's must be done before the
hot months begin, it is explained. Two
tractors will be bought here by the
Pittsourg concern which will build
the course, and work Of clearing rhe
land will start in a few days if in
terest develops as it gave promise to
do Thursday.
Those who have signed to take
leases and become charter members Of
the new club are: l.. L. Clegg. f. NJ.
Lewis. T. c. Frost, H. J.. Beach. r. s.
Kampmann, John Bennett, W. f..
Wroe. Frank G. Huntress, T.. l..
Brown. l.. J. Hart. r. j. Johnston.
&. T. Hennessey, J. Il. Martindale.
Charles Schreiner. Bob Scott, Bill
Scott. j. II. Frost. John Frost, Ike
). Kampmann, J. II. kampmann, II.
+. Dickinson, 7. s. Goggan, X. ].
Boyle, j. +. Jarratt, j. II. Laphnm,
J.. ]. LaPrellc, i. NJ. Ayres, X. l..
Burney and f. d. Henry.
Golf Will lie Main Thing.
The course, it is estimated. will
cost s1S5,000 Most Of this money
will be expended on the course proper.
although handsome club house will
be built. At Thursdays meeting,
speakers stressed the desire TO give
the golf feature precedence over all
other country club activity. The land
will be bought for $500 an acre. and
the size of the tract can be readily
imagined when it is known that the
builders expect TO spend S1O0.UGO for
the purchase of the grounds alone.
The course will be laid out so that
there il no danger of balls landing
on the wrong fairwayc. All the greens
will be exceptionally large and all
will be different. No green will be
less than 10000 square feet. These
plans have been worked out by Mr..
McGlynn and Emil Loeffler, celebrated
Pittsburg greenskeeper and course ar
chitect.
The location is three and seven
tenths miles from the San Fernando
cathedral, ten-minute drive from the
heart of the city. The St. Hedwig
road is a continuation Of Houston
street.
Among those who spoke Thursday
were: Mr.. Dixon. President L. B.
Clegg of the local golf association
+. NJ. Lewis ST., and W. G. Crush,
general passenger agent OF the NJ. X.
& T. out of Dallas. Mr.. Crush offered
the "Katy's" assistance in keeping
San Antonio in the forefront as a
golf center. Mr.. Lewis in his talk ex-
pressed his belief that the new club
would in no way injure the San An
tonic Country Club.