MUNICIPAL GOLF

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2632, 1 December 1915, Page 2

MUNICIPAL GOLF

? :— FORWARD MOVEMENT IN AMERICA. Mr. Gerald Griffen, the Irish-Ameri-can singer now appearing- at His Majesty's Theatre, was a pressman on the Chicago "Inter-Ocean" before he discovered that there was a better return in his sweet tenor voice. His brother is connected with a popular American golf paper called the "Young American Golfer," and Mr. Griffen himself is very interested in the game. The municipal golf course is one of the most interesting developments in the sr>liere of City sports, and is rapidly spreading all over the States. In his-home town, Wheaton (111.), there are three clubs, and within a radius of ten miles there aro four others. In Chicago municipal courses have bean made in Jackson, Garfield, Humbolt, Lincoln, and Washington Parks, and on a block of laud reclaimed from the lake with the street sweepings, called Grant Park, still another courso is being formed. A few years ago it was only the idle rich that played golf in America, but it was now rapidly becoming a game.for the working man. Some of the clerks in Chicago were so keen on the game that they got ont to the links before sun-up, in order to: get a round before it was time to get, back to breakfast and work in the City. There were also municipal links in Seattle, Kansas City, San Francisco, Minneapolis, St. Louis, and New York. Another fine feature in city municipal life was the manner in which play areas were beinp; provided for the, children in crowded portions of the big cities— places where children had actually been taught how to play, because they had.' in the misery of their environment's, never known such- n. luxury. In some big tenement blocks had been acquired, and pulled down right in the heart of the poor area ; and there nretly playgrounds, with swinss, wood-blpcks. and heaps of clean sand wore provided for the youngsters. . There were instances whore isuch places could bo flooded in the winter, so .is to ninUo areas for ice-skating. When Muriel made her aerial flight The air, though keen, was clear and bright; She felt no fear, such risks to take, While Birdman Breknek gripped the brake. They volplaned, dived, and looped-the-loop, They 6wirled a .R-alo with every swoop! Such stress their lungs could thus endure, Sustained by Woods' Great Psppemiat Cure.—Advtfc.