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18 WILMETTE LIFE July 2, 1.926 each time, so that this estimate is conservative. Thus Chicago is the playing center for 10 per cent of the golfing population ' and is rightly called the golfing center. There are 33 public fee courses around Chicago which seems a ·great many, comparatively speaking. We would add 33 more and still have congestion on all of them." 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"Considering that 300 Chicago is-the golfing center of the is an average membership for each world insofar as golf interest is con- dub, we may conservatively estimate cerned and ·chicago could well ac- that there are about 1.000,000 people commodate over thirty new golf playing golf in this country . Chicago course s and still the crowds would has 150 private courses within a racome. according to Prof. Leon G. diu s oi 50 miles and an estimated 100, Kranz of ~orthwc s tern university., 000 person s playing the se cour ses. who talked over...· The Chicago Daily That will seem con servative to the News radio this week on "Golfing in public course golfer. as he will tell Chicago." Professor Kranz who has \'OU that there are at least 25 per cent successfully coached Purple golf teams of that numb er playing th e course he during the la st few · vears and who choose s, each week. The public ha s made a careful study of golfing courses take care of from 500 to 1.000 produced a champion team last year, players each week-end and we know ha s made a careful study of golfing these are not the sam e people playing SAYS WE'RE IN CENTER OF GOLFING UNIVERSE Dedarea T ella Lure of Linka The speaker thus proved the ever lasting lure of the links and said th at a remarkable situation had be en brought about by rea son of the beau t\ of the average golf course. Beaut\· < :1 view. he said, means that the lamf ha , been greatly improved , and that , ii. turn, means that real e state peopl. will swarm down upon a course wh i. 1 is well located. and make tempt i1 offers for it as a real estate propo' . tion. This being so. the speaker !>et i·· that from a practical standpo int ·t seeme(l money well spent for a d nl· to <lcvelop excellent link s and t o m akt them attractive . Regarding the game it self. he cla i!ll ed it is no ,,· the mo st popular in t lll ' nation . It serves a s a good excu se ,, , get out in the open . ln th e old da'..; peo ple would urge picnics in the wood s and make a da" of it- no\\ they g o to a golf club . · Anlyzing t h1· game it self. and the causes of th e <h·s ire to play good golf which s eem~ tn deYClop like a di sease in most peoplt·. the Korthwcstern expert said: "1-Imv well I remember (}riving ],_\ the golf course s in the vicinit\' of E,·_ an ston one Sunday morning \,·hen 111' attention was attracted hv some " il;l screaming and mad dashes up . and down the fairway. Stopping the r ar I ran over, thinking that perha!J' somcone had been struck hv a hall a nd wa ~ in need of a ssistance. On arrivi ng. however, I learned from one oi tlw members o f the foursom e that the m an had not gone crazy, nor had he h l'l'll struck hy a ball; he had ju st mad e a 75-yard hole in 'one'. Now, there w a.; a man who had no more convc r:-.;1 tional worrie s the re s t of his life: Ill will beg;n to te II hO\\ he <1 id it t lw very moment conversation lags. c' n any occasion. and golf storie·s , lik (· fi sh stories, have a tendencv to beco111(' inflated." - EVANSTON CHAMBER OF COMMERCE A Rome lor a Song! When you purchase a home for ~ small down payment with the bal- LEADS NORSHORE ORCHESTRA The orchestra of Balahan and Kat :' new Korshore theatre is under tl h· direction of ]. \Vatter Davidson, Wt 11 known to musical circles of New York . Philadelphia, Atlantic City and Ch ica)Zo. Six years have passed since ~f r. Davidson has conduct(;(} in Chica~o. J. vValtcr Davidson is an American h~· birth and musical education. Phila delphia claims his birthplace and j..; the scene of most of his concert acti,·ities. 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