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VOL. XLII -NO. 8.
OMAHA, 'SUNDAY MORNING, AUGUST 11, 1912.
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Summer Clubs of Omaha Attractive Feature of City Life
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City Folks to Out-of-Doors
HEN the TransmlssissippI and International exposition was
drawing to its close in 1898 some Omaha men conceived
the idea of purchasing the cosy and altogether attractive
bungalow erected by Minnesota for Its state headquarters
on the grounds and removing it to a site on the hilltop
' ' to the northwest of the city. This was the germ of the
country club movement In Omaha. The Omaha Country
club was formed, the bungalow bought and the club began its life the
next season. Some golf had been tentatively practiced for a few
seasons at Happy Hollow, on the Patrick links, and as early as 1896
an enthusiastic youth, writing sports for one of the Omaha papers, pre
dicted that golf was to become the great American game, supplanting
base ball. This did not quite come to pass, but the impetus given to
the Country club's links set the game far ahead, in popular estimation,
and in 1900 the Field club was organized. Others of these clubB hav
, come to lively existence in the years that have followed, and seem to
prosper, in spite of the increasing cost of living.
. Omaha's outdoor clubs now are the Country, the Field, Happy Hol
low, Seymour Lake, Dietz, Rod and Gun and Miller Park, each well
equipped with club houses and other arrangements for tie comforts
and conveniences of life in the open. Every sort of outdoor sport is
fostered by these organizations. In golf Omaha players are respected,
for their prowess has been shown in many important tournaments. In
tennis the Field club has achieved a reputation that is potent wherever
tennis Is known. The Rod and Gua club gives more attention to aquatic
and its allied sports than the others, but does not neglect any. The
hospitality of these organizations is as ample as the acres of fair rolling
meadow and the unbounded blue of the glorious sky that smiles above.
Their growth is the best possible evidence of the interest tp.ken in them,
and their prosperity is duo entirely to the fact that they are really
needed by the busy city men and their families. They Lave mad Omaha
a true- summer home for its people,
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