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Evanston Ctub$★lt;$Tom Bendelow, GoderwasaTiieremeeting of the members of the Evanston Golf Club at the Avenue House In Evanston the other night. The object of the meeting was to determine whether it was advisable at this timeto consider the purchase of the grounds. The club bolds a lease for five years and an option of purchase on a considerable part of the links and the advisability of exercising the option was fully discussed. A resolution to submit the proposition to a vote of the whole membership was adopted. Circulars will be sent out very soon describing the whole situation and asking the letter-builots of members.I understand that there was a strong sentiment at the meeting In favor of purchase. Unless financial obstacles are insurmountable, the purchase of the grounds would be a fine thing for the club, placing It once for all 011 a permanent basis. Here’s hoping we may all play the Evanston course in 1920!* *I ran across Tom Bendelow the other day when 1 was hoping for a little golf news. He is tlie very person I like to see at such times, for he knows more golf angles than nil the rest of us put together. All over this country he has traveled laving out golf courses, and whileBY CHARLES (“CHICK”) EVANS.Is strenuous.courses spite of difficulty and theit has been done in the way of business, it has in the meantime done aninconceivable amount of good for the game of golf. Wherever one goes he may see golfconstructed in every natural of situationwhole Western country is literally covered with monuments of Tom’s industry. Perhaps if he had not done the work of golf course building another would, but it would be difficult to imagine any one better suited to the work, for in addition to his architectural skill he is a good organizer and that, 1 take it, means a gift for bringing together people of all kinds.Constructing courses on mountain sides and flat prairies, or hewing them out of forests,1 haveheard James J. Hillcalled the ’‘builder ofthe Northwest” andfrom the golfer’s pointof view Tom Bendelowmight be called the golfbuilder of the West.• *I think one of thefacts concerning hiswork that has most impressed me is the large number of nine-liolecourses laid out neartowns of five or tenthousand inhabitants. This is spreading the gospel of golf in themost effective way,bringing it to the back door, as it were, of the small-town people.When I met Tom the other day he had justreturned from Kansas City, where he has been at work on the remodeling of the present links of the Kansas City Country Club.About one hundred and thirty bunkers will be put In in the Spring.While in Kansas City Tom started a new eighteen-hole course on one hundred and forty acres of land that promises well. It Is for the Mission Hill Country Club, au organization that enjoys the distinction of a clubhouse in Missouri and a course in Kansas.Mr. Bendelow leaves soon to lay out a nine-liole course at Hillsboro, Ky., and another at Jackson, Tenn.It is pleasant to learn of this chain of links binding all parts of the country together.
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Chicago Examiner
Chicago, Illinois, US
Thu, Feb 12, 1914
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