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Exmoor and its first president, : o 1896â€"1897 _ repeating at theâ€" Chicago Golf club the following year. P The club has been equally active in women‘s activities. Mrs. W. A. Alexander was the first president of the Women‘s Western Golf association, when it was organized in 1903 and continued in office in 1904. The first championship of the W. W.â€"G. A.. was held at Exmoor in 1903, Miss Bessie Anthony of Glen View winning. The folâ€" lowing year, at Glen View, Miss Frances Everett of Exmoor won. ~Two years later she was runnerup to Mrs. Charles .L. Dering at Exmoor. The twentieth anniversary tournament of the W. W. G. A. These â€"two Highland . Park boys set the stamp of Exmoor indelibly. on western golf activiâ€" ties,; H. Chandler winning the western â€"title ‘four times Bbeâ€" tween 1902 and 1907, while Walter won in 1903, in which yearâ€" his cousin was runnerup.: William A. Alexander, founder of Exmo»r is old by reason of thirtyâ€"four years of existence, and new, because it is upâ€"toâ€" date. It never has vegetated. Always noted for its social. acâ€" tivities, it is even more widely known as a‘golfing center. "As far back as 1901, Walter E. Egan gave it a place on the golf ng map when ‘he was runâ€" nerup to Walter J. Travis in the National Amateur championâ€" ship at Atlantic City. Three year: later, â€" his â€"cousin, H. Chardler Egan, put Exmoor in the premier position by winning In July the eyes of the local golfing world were focased on the Exmoor. Country club, where the Amateur championâ€" ship cf the Chicago District Golf. association was staged, July 17 to 19. â€"â€" > Baltusrol, and kept it there by T he Old and the New Exmoor They were willing to act as directors, butâ€"unwilling‘ to put any money in the experiment, so Mr. Alexander bought the propertyâ€" himseH. Early â€" in February he started to clean out the timber, removing sevâ€" eral thousand trees. After getâ€" ting the land ready for seeding he obtained permission from the city of Highland Park to lay ‘a six . inch water main from a standpipe to the clubhouse, which he paid for and deeded to the city. . Next day he got a saddle horse andâ€" rede over the Ridge to inspect some land. He liked the â€"present ‘site, and obtained an option an 100 acres. He callâ€" ed a meeting of a few Highland Park citizens at the Union League club and presented his plan. â€"Among those present were: Charles W. Fullerton, J. McGregor Adams, J.° Wallace Wakem, Everett Millard, S. M. Millard and Vernon Cassard. _ _A â€"concrete road from the enâ€" trance on Vine avenue to the clubhouse cost $8,000. He built and furnished a clubhouse, and employed a young Scotch proâ€" fessional named Tweedy. He made contracts and built a nine hole course with the able asâ€" sistance of Henry A. Towner and R. Harvey McElwee. The greens were sown, and following the old Seotch custom of having sheep on the course Mr. Alexander obtained 1,000 sheep from a Board of Trade man and hired a shepherd, who had two dokgs, to look after A good many yesirs later Mr. Alexander and : Mr. McElwee promoted the Old Elm club. Reprinted from the July issue Chicago Golfer By Joe G. Davis T HE â€"~P RES 8 â€"The club was opened July 4, 1896, when more than 1,500 people passed‘ through ~the gates, 800 being at the luncheon and 600 at the dinner. Exmoor was off to a great start. ~The club was incerporated in 1896 with W. A. Alexander. as president, the other directors being J. McGregor Adams, â€"H. T. Birch, J. W. Wakem, S. M. Millard, Vernon Cassard and Charles W Fullerton. Mr. < Alexander _ leased !*the house and â€"grounds to the club at a low rental. Anticipating that more ground would be needed, he bought forty more acres which the club ultimately bought.~ Ten or twelve years later the club sold bonds and purchased the property. W. A. taking: bonds in payment. Origâ€" inalâ€"entrance fee was $25, with $15 annual dues and the club was able to meet all its obligaâ€" tions. The membership of 150 filled the first year and Exmoor never has looked back. them. ~Tree ‘trunks were holâ€" lowed to make feeding trouglts: An old log cabin builtâ€"in 1845 was used as caddyâ€" house and did duty for many years. The name Ex moorâ€" was chosen from "Lorna Doone" by Mr. and Mrs. Alexander. â€" The new club met with some opposition by the Highland Park club, a social organization, whose members feared â€" the morals of the suburb would be injured by Sunday golf. "W.A." countered by giving â€" every priest and clergyman a memâ€" bership and by pot permitting Joe G. Davis â€"*> Editor Chicago Golfer Mr. Alexander in after years confessed that his philanthrpy was not exactly 100 per cent, as he had an idea that the game might prove a passing fad and ultimately he might get the clubhouse, now the central part of the present structure, and use it zs a residence. He adâ€" mits he was a poor prophet, as theâ€" club has gone: steadily !along. ; . Ccoming after Mr. Alexander, the club has had a line of highâ€" ly capable presidents, most of them captairs of industry. Trese have been .1898â€"1901, Charles® W.. ~Fulleftton ; : 1902, John M. Cutter; 1903â€"5, Benjaâ€" min F. â€"Cummins; 1906â€"9, Edâ€" ward F.. Carry; 1910â€"11, W. E. Carr; 1912â€"14, â€"Denis F. Kelly; 1915â€"16, Robert F. Carr; 1917â€" 18, F. Ed:on White; 1919, Percy ~B.. Eckhart; 1920â€"21, Thomas R. Wyles; 1922,; Fred A. Preston ; 1923â€"24, Hobart P. Young; 1925â€"26, Fred P. Boynâ€" ton; 1927â€"29, George W. Childs. â€" The .addition to the . clubâ€" house,récently . completed, ‘was designed : by Architect R. E. Pingrey, a member of the club. It is of Colonial design and conâ€" forms with the old building: Eventually the old building will be replaced by a new structure, the caddies to work until after midday on Sunday. So the opâ€" position faded. George W. Childs the present president Thursday, August 1, 1929 'I'burldl_Y. Au but for the bers are 94 new locker most needed The new cious and c all 24 by 24 sign. The those on Al special feal when open not shut off adjoining 4c soOMEF Left to â€"r 1917â€"1918; R« Denis F. Kel B. Eckhart, ing qy ears We