Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-11-24
Bannockb1n Faces Financial Crisis Dartmouth Stanford Attract
CLUB WILL BE DISBANDED
UNLESS MORTGAGE is MET
Fate of Organization Be Settled at General Meet.
ing of Members December l-Course Was
Hard Hit by Drought

of the other clubs. The tip-off Is that
two Of our largest golf clubs about
Washington have gone into the loan
market during the last four months and
one of them has put fairly large as
sessment on its members.
Golf Cheap Here.
Which brought the subject around to
the general question of the cost of golf,
and a comparison of the cost of belong
ing to a private club near Washington
with similar costs in other cities of
larger size and the neighboring city of
Baltimore. The consensus was that the
people who belong to private golf clubs
about the Capital are getting of very
lightly with regard to initiation fees
and dues, and that the cost Of playing
golf at O private club near Washington
Is very much lower than it is in any
other city Of comparable size and i'm
portance.
Only two clubs charge as much as
$500 initiation fee for regular admission,
and most of them charge 500 or less.
This compares with the initiation fees
of 81 900 and more, running up to
$4,000 at clubs in the metropolitan area
and around Philadelphia. Even in the
neighboring city of Baltimore initiation
fees are far ABOVE the Washington scale.
The general level of dues, we should eS-
innate is lower than 500 on the aver
age. Only three clubs charge more
than 500 dues, and most of them are
clubs about Washington, with a men,
bership of more than 1000, charges con-
siderably less than 500 yearly dues, in
Guiding golf privileges. Dues at large
private clubs around New York average
in the neighborhood of 5000 q year, and
the courses themselves are considerably
father away from the downtown neigh
borhood than the courses near the Cap
ital.
The slight cost of golf even extends
to the public courses here. Municipal
links devotees get their golf at a cost
of Is cents for nine holes, or Is cents
for Is holes, while in other cities the
cost of a single round of golf runs
from so cents to q dollar and more. Any
man who knows the facts Is aware
that Washington is town in which golf
comes cheap.
Hold Turkey Events.
Turkey tournaments were held at
three clubs Yesterday. Indian Spring
held a turkey tourney in f1ve classes,
with Basil M. Manly and Leroy D.
Sasscer winning in class A. In class
B, Fred Walen, DR.. Walter B. Vogel and
H. S. Mihills wsre the winners, and in
class C the prizes went to John T..
Harris, Neil Burkinshaw, DR.. A. T. Utz
and w. B. O'Connell. H. z. Phillips
end r. r. Krumm were the winners in
class D. In the woman's class, Mrs.
Perry B. Hoover was the victor.
Mai. F.. G. Odom won the tourney at
Argyle, en- le-hole medal play handicap
event, with a card of 92-26-66. John
Dudley. Don nlIdlAv and II. w. Little
tied for second place and all four were
awarded turkeys.
Beaver Dam held q tourney in which
the winners were: w. U. Kirsch. 90
23-67; j. r. Vance, 94-26-68; r. M.
Nash. 97-27-70; e. B. Harmer, 90
2O-70; Louis Nelson, SS-18-70. and
L. L. NettletUn, 92-22-70. Forrest
Thompson won the low medal score
with q card of 80.