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July 15, 1927 WILMETTE LIFE 13 Great CoUrse, Star Players Feature Glen View Golf Fine Spirit "Makes" ClUb of 3 Decades History, Sentiment Play a . Big Part in Life of Organization .. Polo Fostered in Early Years THE PICTURES~ Glen View's picturesque c I u b- b o u s e (top)Miss Louise Fergus, club champion (lower left) -Jock Hutcbin- T HIS is the seventh article of a , . series on the great golf dubs of the north shore. It is the story of Glen View, one of the oldest clubs in the Chicago District, a story brimful of interesting information, a story that everybody should read. son, professional (center) -Harry W. Bishop, club champion (right) By Ray C. Pearson HERE is history, a romantic twist, a touch of pretty ~en timent. a fine golf course and ~ter ling- player~ to build out the story of Glen View, that great rluh of the ~orth Shore, which has gained a niche in golfdom's Hall of Fame. \Vriting about Glen Vie\v one finds hin1self deluged by a flood of incidents-incidents all worthy, all interesting -which f resro the existence of this club which spans a period of thirty years. The high light s may he put do,,·n in this fashion: 1. Glen View. which was inrmed in 1R()7 i~ one of the pioneer club~ of the Chicago district. There \\"ere on ly t\vo or three clubs when play was started on this course. 2. Cltn \·ic"· :'prang irum prai rie land in Niles Township and the formation oi the club was the direct cause oi t he naming of a town in the TmYn ship- Goli. There· may be other towns in th e country ca ll ed Golf. but if there are the writer doe s not know of them or where they are located. ). Gkn Vi ew enjoy s the distinction of being one golf club (perhaps the only one) which has operated a U. S. postoffice, officered by a club member. 4. Glen View has proceeded far in steps to further the comfort and happiness of its members by erecting on the club grounds two apartment buildings which members may lease for the summer months. These apartments, in conjunction with the clubhouse accommodations, make it possible ior the members to enjoy a summer home close to their favorite pastime. The Glen View club of today ~ould not by any stretch of imagination be pictured as the club which "arrived" thirty years ago. For one thing it was not exclusively a golf club. Its original charter was taken out under the name of "Glen View Golf and Polo club" on March 29, 1897. The originators of the corporation were \Villiam Holabird, Frederick Arnd and Ceorge T. Merrick. For some dozen years polo flouri:'hed as a major sport at the club and T Photo by Lehle .... I Started as Golf, Polo Club those years the members rode and swung the mallet for recreation and the honor and glory of Glen View. In those years golf was coming in leaps and b.o unds. And golf would not be denied. Polo is a fine sport, but polo could not withstand the charge of the golfing brigade. The march of time saw the disappearance of the polo field and the game at Glen View. And with the disappearance of the riding game there came a new order of things at the club. One of the officials of the club informs me that it was about 1910 that polo was given up and the name of the club changed to "Glen View club." 111 it became necessary to relinquish the postoffice. Non-members of the club who had located at the Golf were forc~d to go through the grounds to get their mail and as this was inconYenient not only to the club but to those seeking mail, the postoffice, was given up. Chicago Milwaukee and St. Paul ran through Niles Township and very close to the land which the club had purchased. The railroad solved the troubles 0£ the club members by consenting to build a station near the club's grounds. And the railroad called the station Golf. At this time homes and stores are springing up around Golf. It is quite a community and the name probably always will be Golf. The next step saw the necessity for a postoffice and the club arranged that by securing a postmastership for a member of the c1ub, Until two years ago the postoffice of Golf was the clubhouse. But with the building up of the territory adjacent to the cltth Land Sold for $1.25 in 1836 We have mentioned history and sentiment in this story so here is something along those lines. Officials of the club have gone to the trouble of digging back into the past to find out something about the land on which their club is located. They discovered that back in 1836 a man by the name of Robert Dewes came to America from Yorkshire, England. He came to Illinois and in Niles Township picked out a place to settle. He bought four hundred acres of ·land from the gov~ ernment, paying just one dollar and twenty-five cents an acre for it. When Robert Dewes died some years Ia ter his son John inherited the (Continued on Page 34) Town Called Golf The dub had made a fine start but in its earlier years the members were confronted by a problem. That problem concerned transportation and it appeared difficult of solution. The