Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-08-15

/ board to give me another twenty-five
thousand dollars to experiment with.
Then Bill went to work.
"He didn't make the course any
shorter, but he just sort of scooped theI
were sort of grooved like, and he cut
down all the rough till there was no
trouble about clouting ball out of it.
"He shortened the water holes sol
! that a chap with one of those slanting
clubs would get a ball over them. Also
| he cut down forty or fifty trees and
moved the sandtraps over to where you
couldn't get into them except by acci-
dent.
"The next thing he done was to re-
build the greens, so that nearly all of
them were bowl shaped, although only
two or three of them showed it when
you looked at EN-. But they were all
arranged so that a ball which reachedl
the edges of them would skitter right
down to the hole and stop within a
Efew inches of it.
1T took him all the fall to get theI
job done and the grass started on the
places he'd changed Then he asked
me to come out and play over the,
course with him. I'm dub golfer my
self, but to my surprise, I got aroundI
nine holes in As, which, considering
that it usually took me so for the
same nine, seemed little short of a.
miracle. Bill did them in &c.
."'Now, get a crowd up here next
year., he says, and watch what hap
pens.
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for advertising and we did get a crowd
up, at the start.
"Most of 'em went right out on the
course as soon as they got here andl
that night they all come in smiling
and happy and comparing their scores.
"'Great air in this place. heard one
old gentleman say that night. Puts
me right on my game. I've played bet
ter than have for two years.
"'It's tricky course, all right said
his playing partner, but when you've
mastered it's difficulties, you do yeryj
well on it. 1 got around in 49, Not
bad for an old man, what?"
"They all had the same story to tell
1t was the food and the bracing eli
mate that did it. They said they would
go back home and show their cards, andl
the boys would see that they were out
of the duffer class. The home course
was all right, but fellow never was
in top form down at sea level, while
here he got into shape right away,
and shot the way he ought to shoot. 1
! "We didn't get any professionals up,
! for Bill warned me against it. He did,
however, hire a school mate of his who
was a rotten player to be our pro, and
he made him go out and play with all
the guests who didn't have a match,
and let the guests beat him. And the
old birds would come in and tell all
over the place that they had got so
good they could beat the pro, and say
this was the most wonderful hotel, and
had the most wonderful golf course to
be found in the world.
Now and then some kid would come
up and play around in about SO, and
kick because the course was so easy,
but even he would be proud Of his So,
and figure that maybe it was his good
playing that did it. So we got the
house full right away and it's been
that way ever since.
''I believe if you started ball off
the first tee and kicked it along with
your feet, you would sink it on the
third kick, for if it just followed the
line of least resistance it wouldn't
help rolling right to the pin. But no.
body got onto that yet, and they
wouldn't care if they did. They thought
their skill was what had done it.
80 1 gave Bill the extra five dollars
week, for he'd earned it. We de
clared a 25 per cent dividend that fal
and my salary was raised five thousan,
4 year The board kicked when / ask
ed for it, but when I convinced ther
that / was responsible for the big i'm