San Antonio Warriors Embrace Golf Bug Across City
A lighthearted chronicle says golf fever grips San Antonio as residents from doctors to mayors pick up clubs. Two local golfers tie a match on Laurel Heights course while public links expand and instructors like Bobby McWatt boost the sport year round.
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Africa
Woodrow Wilson
Teddy
Laurel Heights
W. J. Lyons
Frank Richardson
Richardson
Lyons
San Antonio
Brown
Lancaster
Wright
Phil Wright
Country Club
He Rubber Trust
Chester Terrell
House of Representatives
Laurel Heights Golf Club
Symons
Gertrude
Mary
Lizzy Green
Foozles on the Ninteenth Green at the Country Club
A humorous look at golfer Bobby McWatt at the Country Club described as a Scotchman with an English accent. The piece notes his slow speech hides the accent but his golf prowess stands out as he chases the ball around the green.
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Nick
Boggey
Rockefeller
Taft
Woodrow Wilson
United States
Teddy Roosevelt
Bobby” McWatt
Lyons Targets Golf Patent For Unconventional Drive
W J Lyons, Laurel Heights club champion, uses an unusual "pad dling" drive praised by Frank Lewis for extra distance. Lyons plans a patent for the "Lyons patent paddler" claiming 250 yards per shot and envisions profits beyond selling cider or soda pop.
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W. J. Lyons
Laurel Heights
Frank Lewis
Lewis
Lyons
Frank Lewis Dominates Local Country Club Championship
The piece notes Frank Lewis, champion golfer of the local country club and a sugar broker by trade, known for his buoyant temper. It adds that he buys dollar golf balls during sugar upswings and 50 to 75 cent balls in slumps, with Hugo Goodman of Goodman Grocer and Hugo’s brother Leon both showing interest when Lewis purchases balls.
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Scoffer
Travers
United States
Walker J. Travis
Frank Lewis
Lewis
Hugo Goodman
Goodman Grocer Company
Hugo
Leon
Quiet Laurel Heights Golfer Among Old Timers
T. T. Dillon of the Laurel Heights Club is highlighted as an enduring figure on the course. A quiet, largely speechless veteran, he epitomizes the laid back ethos of local golf circles observed around the Laurel Heights links and its regular players.
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T. T. Dillon
Laurel Heights Club
First US golf course built at Rhode Island site debated
Tradition claims Fort Sam Houston hosted the nation’s first golf course with Major McCullough teaching officers. The record shows a Rhode Island course as the earliest, denying the city’s claim.
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United States
Army Post
McCullouth
Scotland
Fort Sam Houston
Rhode Island
Newspaper Row at Laurel Heights Club Featured
A scene known as newspaper row gathers about twenty scribes in the Laurel Heights Club locker room. Each door lock is unique, and thus too are the keys, illustrating the close but diverse ties among the local press corps.
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Laurel Heights Club
Mahncke Park Suggested for Public Golf Course
San Antonio considers a nine hole municipal golf course at Mahncke Park using land south of the Country Club grounds. Mayor Brown would permit use of the land if the city incurs no expense and private funding covers construction. Hotels, tourists, and the Chamber of Commerce might fund a course seen as a draw for winter visitors.
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Bill” Symons
Chicago
San Antonio
Laurel Heights
Symons
United States
Mahneke
Chamber of Commerce
Brown
Mahncke Park
Antonio
Chimney Worker Reports Heat Loss Details at Power Plant
A senior mechanical engineer at the University of Minnesota describes heat loss in a 285 foot chimney atop the new twin cities power plant. He notes wind gusts reach seventy five miles an hour and discusses gas loss paths along the stack walls.
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University of Minnesota
Twin Cities
Crane
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