Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-12-25
CAPITAL PARADISE
IN ABILITIES, TOO
Game in Other Large Cities
Costly by Comparison.
Grant, LoeffIer Help.
BY w. X. McCALLUM.


Y Y ipal golf courses located
in the city get their golf
cheaper than in any other city
of comparable size in the United
States. Furthermore, they have
better facilities and-generally
speaking-better golf courses on
which to play than their less for
tunate brethren in other munich
palities.
1t is a tribute to the foresight and
good management OF Lieut.. Col. U. S.
Grant, Sd, director of Public Buildings
Public Welfare ana S. G. Loeffler, con-
cessionaire for three of the larger pub
lie courses that Washington not only
has adequate and almost unrivaled
municipal golf facilities, but that the
cost is so cheap that it can be truthfully
said public links golf in Washington
costs less than in any other large city.
In the first place the public rises
here are all located within a sou ride
OF the Go. ntoWn section. Not one OF
them is more than 3 miles away from
place the daily and season rates are
low, much lower than in most cities:
And in the third place the quality OF
the courses sets high standard Tor
municipal layouts. In all, 1t Is a Ger
tainty that your public links golfer Is
fortunate in living in city where
facilities for his favorite sport are SO
varied and so cheap. On the fiat, sun
CrenChed reaches of Potomac Park and
hillV tree
bordered fairways of Rock Creek Park,
nowhere in the Nation, so far as we
know, are comparable golf facilities or
fered at such low price as here.
A STANDARD rate of price has been
II established for the three larger
municipal layouts-the Sc holes in
Fast Potomac Park, the 9-hole layout
in AnacoStia Park and the 18-hole
course in Rock Greek Park. These
rates are: Daily. nine holes, Is cents;
IS holes. 25 cents: Saturdays, Sundays
and holidays, nine holes. 70 cents: 10
holes, so cents. The charges at West
Potomac Park-a short nine-hole layout
with sand greens are: Nine holes. daily,
s cents. Sunday, 10 cents. S. q. Loeffer
operates the East and West Potomac
Park courses and the course in Rock
Creek Park The course IN Anacostla
Park is under the supervision OF the
Welfare Board All OF them are good
golf courses. tough enough to test the
skill Of any type of player, with the
single exception Of the course IN West
Potomac Park, which is a beginners
course, and too short Tor the skilled
golfer.
THESE rates make the charges levied
i IN other cities seem high by COM
LariSOn. Here are the rates charged
on public golf courses in other cites
for layouts of excellence comparable
with those in washington:
Van CORTLAND Park, New York's Old
est municipal coursa-Daily fee, 81.
Cobbs Greek. Philadelphia, largest
and best of the public courses in that
citv-Dailv tee so cents.
Franklin Park. BoSton-Daily fee, 81;
satllrdavs Sundays and holidays, 50.
Chicago (EvanstCn DAILY. so cents:
Sunday. 81: Jackson Park. 18 holes, 40
cents Palos Park, daily, SO cents; Sun
day, 81.
San Francisco Harding Park)-Dai-
IL. rs cents; Sunday. 81.
Dayton. Ohio-DaiIy, 81.
Los Angeles. Warren G. Harding
Memorial course-Dailv, IS; SUNDAY. 81.
Indianapolis, Ind-Daily. ID holes, 80
cents.
BALTIMORE Clifton Park)-Daily,
ID . cents; Sunday, so cents. This
layout is not nearly as good as any
Of the larger municipal courses in
Washington. These figures are taken
at random from the larger cities OF the
country. and were furnished by Jim
Preston. the interchangeable promote OF
public links golf in the Capital. jim
knows his public links golf as few men
do. It is his Job to get up yearly sta
tistics on the public courses OF the
country. His figures show concluslvely
that Washington enjoys cheaper ana
better public golf than that for sale IN
on per cent of the municipalities over
the Nation.
East Potomac Park was deemed good
enough to serve as a venue for the ma
tional public links championship IN
1928 It is good enough for the same
purpose today. So would Rock Creek
Parl, be with a few added wards on that
hillv layout. In ali. Washington public
links golfers are lucky. They get more
for their money with less trouble, than
most others of their class.