Title: The Story of Golf - in Proceedings of the Nantucket Historical Association, 1921 Author: Chase, Sidney Place: Nantucket Publisher: The Inquirer and Mirror Press Date: 1921 Description: Pp. 30-34. With 1 photo plate containing 3 images. Entire volume of proceedings of the 27th Annual Meeting offered, 68 pp. 21.3x15 cm. (9x6"), original printed wrappers. Sidney Chase was the founder of golf on Nantucket and tells the story of golf in Nantucket in the first person. Chase proudly states that he introduced Miss Pauline Mackey to play her first games (of golf) on Nantucket. Miss Mackey became the USGA Women's Open Champion in 1905 at the Morris County Golf Club. Contains within the chapter an interesting letter from 1921 from the Secretary of the USGA, Mr. Wynant D. Vanderpool, in which he states that just having returned from the U. S. Open at Columbia Country Club in Washington, that "for the first time the Press has recognized and given golf the same prominence that the other major sports have; it is now on a par with Polo, Yachting, etc., as an International event." Important and rare documentation of the founding of golf on Nantucket. Lot Amendments Condition: Fine or nearly so. Item number: 224266
Title: The Story of Golf - in Proceedings of the Nantucket Historical Association, 1921 Author: Chase, Sidney Place: Nantucket Publisher: The Inquirer and Mirror Press Date: 1921 Description: Pp. 30-34. With 1 photo plate containing 3 images. Entire volume of proceedings of the 27th Annual Meeting offered, 68 pp. 21.3x15 cm. (9x6"), original printed wrappers. Sidney Chase was the founder of golf on Nantucket and tells the story of golf in Nantucket in the first person. Chase proudly states that he introduced Miss Pauline Mackey to play her first games (of golf) on Nantucket. Miss Mackey became the USGA Women's Open Champion in 1905 at the Morris County Golf Club. Contains within the chapter an interesting letter from 1921 from the Secretary of the USGA, Mr. Wynant D. Vanderpool, in which he states that just having returned from the U. S. Open at Columbia Country Club in Washington, that "for the first time the Press has recognized and given golf the same prominence that the other major sports have; it is now on a par with Polo, Yachting, etc., as an International event." Important and rare documentation of the founding of golf on Nantucket. Lot Amendments Condition: Fine or nearly so. Item number: 224266
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