Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-02-08
WRITER
HINTS FOR A
VALLEY TRIP
Heitkamp of Chicago
American Seeking
Winter Sunshine and
Good Links

Ernest L. Heitkamp. gclf writer for
the Chicago Evening American, drops
q delicate hint tc his boss through
the columns Of the sport page that ne
| would ike 10 sample Valley sunshine
! and golf courses with a group OF Hi
wants who are TO visit this section
soon.
Heitkamp tells or sampling the
links and weather OF California, Flor.
ida, and many other sections, leaving
the impression that he was not wholly
satisfied. Now he has heard Of the
Valley.
His story follows:
There seems 10 be q erlou differ
ence of opinion as TO just where 1.-THE
sunshine spends the winter Thi:
difference of opinion is serious be-
cause IL il important that the golfers
Of cities like Chicago, where the sun
shine certainly does not spend the
| winter know just who Is right ~
this matter-vithout running al.
over the map to find out.
A number OF years ago. believing
all / read, ] trekked all the way ouI
TO southern California in pursuit
Of the winter sun-and winter golf
Three years ago word from the west
coast OF Florida assured me that the
sunshine had changed its winter
quarters and was then located around
st. Petersburg, Clearwater ant
Tampa. packed up a few things and
went along.
Two years ago, according to WORD
which again reached me, the sun
shine had shifted its winter hiding
out" place to Biloxi and the Missls'
| sippi coast. Again | followed its trail
! Last year the east coast of Florios
and Cuba were quite sure that they
were ~harboring the restless sunshine
| for the cold months. and l hurried e
Miami, Key West, Havana and Palm
Beach to enjoy its company-and ms
golf.
Now Texas Calls
Now this year along m Jamie
| Heron, who used TO live in Texas
with the following no doubt vcracious
words:
There's a land that was planned
yes. BY God, il was planned,
| And II lies BY the mouth OF the Ole
Rio Grande,
Where the silt Of the mountain, the
plain and the hill
Have been sweeping for centuries
into the fill;
Where the growth Of the forest
the tropical air
And the glorious sun have been doing
their share
In building a soil where a nation
might rally
To establish Gods Garden, the Rio
Grande Valley.
Now / ask you, as a golfer, wEa'
can southern California, Mississippi
Florida or Cuba offer to equal tni:
fair prospect that jamie Heron lays
out before US on a day when th'
temperature is around the zero poin'
in Chicago? OF course. all Jamie
saws may be quite true, and yel
they may have no golf courses; bu'
happened upon Harry Smead, whC
! used 10 be champion OF Olympus
Fields. on Michigan Ave. a couple o.
days ago. and Harry confirmed Al
jamie said and added that there
we're come great golf courses dowr
Texas way.
But / am net writing this TO con.
| vince myself. The magic Of Jamie
Herron's sonorous rhyming already
has convinced the kiwanis crowd Of
enthusiastic golfers who never seen
10 think n winter in Chicago - com.
plete without some part OF its worst
weeks spent in the South.
And in three weeks or 20 the bill
that fringe the Valley or the klc
Crsnde will be echoing the shout o:
"Fors," nth q decided Chicsgo az
cent. A.. what is more, these NJ
wants golfers. impatient over the
slow process By which the centuries
have been sweeping the "silt OF the
mountain, the plain and the hill
into the fiji. will themselves do
I couple az centuries work with theii
mashics and mashie niblieks.
Having already decided that :
| golfer should not leave his family
even 20 chase the sunshine, ! have
no personal interest in this klwani'
adventuring: but II my hos shoulc
saw that I must go-well. that y
another story, as the family wouic
cav