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June 24, 1927 WILMETTE LIFE 21 llllllllllllfllllllllllllfiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiUIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIflllllfflllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllltllllllljllllllllllllllllfllllllllllllllllfllllllllllltllttllllltlllllllllllllllllllllllllllllfllllllllllllllllllllllllllfllllllllllllllllllllllllltttllttltllfllllllllllllllllllfflllllllllll North Shore Golf Clubs lllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll lllllllllllflll llllllfllllllllll llllllflllltlllllllllllllll llllllll llllllllllllllflllfllllllf llflllllll llllllll:llllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllfllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll llllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllflllllllllllllllflll North Shore, a Club · Built on Shrewd Judgment Players Find Joys of Golf; Course Hard . Site Bought on Leasehold Money Now Possesses a Beautiful Clubhouse !. I ' This is the fourth of a aeries of atories deacribing the great golf clubs of the north shore. The story herewith presented explains how shrewd judgment "made" the North Shore Golf club. By RAY C. PEARSON I F golf clubs of the north shore. or in fact any other district. required advertising to assure ~uccess, the :!\orth Shore Golf club. possessor of a beautiful clubhouse and an equally beautiful roursc, probably \Yonld play a:' it~ big "line" in bold face type this informatory: "~ orth Shore-. \ club estah~i:'hed on ~ound judgment." "Sound judgment" - nothing origina l, or particularly catchy about it. But read about North ;--:.hon: and learn the interesting--tnrv of how this fine golf club on the nort-h shore became what it is today because the officials and the members looked into the future with Solomonlike wi sdom, listened and heard th ~ knock of opportunity and using the aforementioned sound judgment promptly opened the door wide. One knock was sufficient. Shrewd and Alert Shre\',·d and akrt were th ose men who started North Shore back in 1909 and just as . hrewd and alert '"ere th,~ men of North Shore who a little more than three vcars ago saw the "main cha;1ce" and -took advantage of it. But "·e'll let Hugh Kuhl. tell it in his own ,yay. "\Vhcn we formed our cluh eig·hteen years ago we leased forty ~crc:s of land ~yc~t of the railroad tracks on Lake --trl'tt." hl' :-.ays. "Our dub. then. \\'e thought, was a fine one. Originally it was of nine hole length. Later we expanded and constructed an eighteen hole course and then we thought we'd <h'complished a great feat. "The growth of golf was in leaps and bounds in those years arid we had a nin· romfortablt.' club on Lake ~trl'd until four years ago, when along cam .:: Old Man Opportunity, represented by a group of men who had formed the THE PICTURES: North Shore's fine clubhouse ( rop) ; Earl R. Green. club champion (lower left) ; Mrs. Homer H. Harrison. club champion (lower right) ; No. 3. a water hole (bottom). Nort hmnrc Golf club. The chance to ~e ll. our lea se came. \V e sold. "B 11 t t i 1at ·s g c t: in g <l Iit t ll' a h l' <ttl n i the story. Some little time before we :-,!lld. :-.o!lle of our "navigators" had spot ted a plot of farm land on the bend of Glenview road just this side 0f Waukegan road . They got inquisitive and di scov red that another golf club, a big one in Chicago, held an option on the !and. PHOTO BY LBHLB "\Vc wanted that ground for our new waiting to see what the Chicago goli mitted their option to expire. Then we club, wanted it so badly, that we de.- club was going to do. Our patience · went after it hot and heavy. And cided ,\·e'd take a spell of watchful \Vas re,yarded for the Chicago club per(Continued ori Page 23)