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For Visitors and Local Citizens.All local golf players will be pleased with the announcement that the contract for a new $20,000 clubhouse at the Schifferdecker municipal golf course has been let, but satisfaction over the development will not be limited to those who play golf. The new clubhouse will be a substantial improvement for Joplin in which every citizen can and shouldtake pleasure.There was a day when golf was sneered at as a “sissy game. Later on it was looked upon as an old man’s game, and then, still later, a sport in which rich men only could participate. Today all this is changed, and it comes very nearly being the most popular outdoor sport in America, with millions enjoying it.Because this is true, enterprising towns would about as soon be without electric lights as without golf courses. A big percentage of tourists and traveling men play golf and liko to stoD in those towns where eolf is possible. If, in1addition to a course, there is a clubhouse where it is possible to take a shower bath and clean up after a game, the enjoyment of the sport is greatly increased and the townquickly is placed on the “preferred” list by periodical or occasional visitors.The new clubhouse at our municipal course is going to be a very practical and valuable addition to the beautiful park that Charles Schifferdecker so generously bequeathed to us, and much satisfaction must be taken, not only in the mere announcement that it is to be built but in thefact that it is going to be big enough and fine enough— though not a bit too big or too fine—to insure its being a permanently important addition to our city’s assets.sea. re much with andW1 now Ejirl hcire; he»* t mothnel:entsherAftei(akcsviewNcnE1' pitelt; ning besp in k had fath her.Aiwasham that It v ing.“I gasp stocx mov' he r “Ipaywentgranher.«nieeishoolaug:Iyoushar;ham,“E thinl for ]lnntrf
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Joplin News Herald
Joplin, Missouri, US
Sat, Sep 14, 1929
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