Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-11-06
GOOD FOR HEALTHFUL EXERCISE

wit ha combination lock on it, and the
club supplies all the first aids to cock
tails and fancy mixed drinks, like bit
ters and lemon and, lines and oranges.
There are taps in every locker which
spout soda water, just like the foun-
tainS do in the drug stores. II you
want drink while you go out on the
course the locker boy will fix it up for
you while your dresser is laying out
your golf clothes. Of course they have
dressers. You practically don't have
anything to do but go into the place,
and the first thing you know you are
all logged out and ready to play.
1--WE have SO holes so there won't be
any overcrowding and posted along
every fairWay at intervals OF few
hundred feet are special caddies to see
where the balls drop, so you won't
have to waste any time hunting for
them The caddie who carries your
clubs has q bunch of new golf balls in
his pocket, and plenty of little wooden
tees. If you find a ball is getting
worn down from too much clouting,
you just give him sign, and he takes
the wrapper off a fresh one and
hands it to you
Instead Of having paths or stone
steps up to the high tees we have
nothing but marble staircases, with
alcoves here and there SO you can sit
down and rest, if you feel tired, and
maybe have a smoke or a drink. There
is an attendant on every stair who
telephones to your locker boy when he
sees you coming to send out what you
are most likely to need, and there are
little stands where you can get cigars
or cigarettes or chewing gum.
"The water on the course is one OF
the trickiest things about it. The
brooks instead of trickling down
through stone and mud are. in nice
little winding cement troughs and the
water is iced, so when it runs into lit
tie pools here and there you can dip it
up and take a drink if you are old
fashioned enough to remember that
you used to be a boy. If you are
afraid of microbes, there is ice water
piled along every hole, with taps at in
tervals so you can always refresh
yourself.
"The big ponds, instead of being
Just puddles are all paved with ce-
ment, and filled with gold fish. The
water is so clear that every ball that
falls in it can be distinctly seen and
there are nets around all OF them SO
the balls can be retrieved. For hot
days there are little dressing noSkS
beside the ponds, where you can go IN,
put on bathing suit and take a dip
before you finish the. course. When
YOU come in off the eighteenth, you
walk right into an elevator which
takes you up to the locker room level
of the club house. and there is always
somebody waiting there, to give you
your favorite drink. How does he
know what is your favorite drink?
You write it down on a pad before
you start out Ac
eff it's very hot weather and you
do not feel like walking after every
shot there are elittle cars beside the
fairWays, and you can climb into them
and ride up to your lie, play your shot,
and then go on again The manage
ment is trying to figure out now how
to fix these cars so you can stand on
the running board and play your shot,
and then follow it right up, but the
course is so hilly, and it is so hard to |
build car that will navigate bunk |
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some time to get that done.
"What have I done the course in?
Well to tell you the truth I haven't
played it yet. You see I've only been |
member six months, and during that
time we're had so many distinguished
neople like the artists and writers. |
and the Employing Plumbers assocla-1
ton, and the Presidents OF South
American railroads, and the Society OF
st. Andrews and the Exempt Ffremen,
that there hasn't been much chance
to play.
"a club like that is bound to attract
attention, and of course we need some /
advertising, so we always try to get
groups of well known business men
and professional men to give their
tournaments there, and that makes it
tough proposition to get in any pr1-
yate playing But it is certainly
prold privilege to belong to club
that Bobby Jones will be invited to
next year, and that the Professional
tournament was held on last summer.
When the tournament season is over
along in December you must come
down and have game with me. wei
can get in three OF four holes anyway
before the caddies and the walters
have their match, and the association
of Green keepers comes over to in
spect the place.
"Well, don't forget the engagement.
I'll telephone you the date when I
learn what it is. I'm going to a gym
up town to do a little boxing. The
doctor says I need some sort of ex-
ercise right away, and don't know
where else to get it."
Copyright, 1927, by the Bell