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tion not more than a week in advance. A ticket is 

 issued entitling the holder to play at the time stated; 

 he signs one reservation blank at the time of drawing 

 the ticket, signing again when he starts to play on the 

 day specified so that the signatures may be compared 

 to insure against the transfer of the tickets. 



2. Daily reservation ticket. Daily reservation tickets, 

 which have similar provision as to signatures, are issued 

 on the day of play in the order in which applicants pre- 

 sent themselves. Foursomes play off five minutes past 

 the hour and every ten minutes thereafter, alternating 

 with foursomes of the class described above. The earli- 

 est applicant on the morning of any day has his choice 

 as to the precise time at which he will play and secures 

 a ticket stamped with the hour selected. 



j. Fill-in tickets. If a holder of a daily reservation 

 ticket or advance reservation ticket fails to appear, his 

 place is taken just before the foursome starts out by 

 a third class of applicants who either come too late to 

 get an advance hour or who elected to take their chance 

 that someone will fail to appear and who draw in con- 

 sequent order what is called a "fill-in ticket." These 

 fill-in tickets are subject to two conditions: 



Holders must play when the number of the ticket is 

 called and they are called in rotation. The first va- 

 cancy is taken by the man who first drew a ticket, the 

 second vacancy by the second man, and so on. If 

 holders of fill-in tickets fail to appear when their num- 

 bers are called and are passed, they have no further 

 rights to play. 



The second condition is that the holding of a ticket 

 does not guarantee that a man will have the privilege 

 of play. The ticket is sold subject to the condition that 

 only such vacancies as may arise will entitle holder to 

 play, and does not guarantee that any vacancies will 

 occur. Play is conditioned, therefore, upon vacancies 

 occurring. 



4. Issuing of tickets. None of the tickets are trans- 



ferable and all are issued through a cash register, which 

 stamps the hour of play, the type of person to whom 

 issued whether man, woman, boy or girl his place 

 in the foursome and the person by whom the ticket is 

 sold. 



5. Price and refunds. For daily and weekly reserva- 

 tion tickets a charge of twenty cents is made; the daily 

 fill-in ticket, fifteen cents. No refund is allowed, and 

 unless tickets are presented before play starts they 

 become void. 



6. Lockers. No season tickets for play are provided 

 for under this system, but season reservation of lockers 

 is provided for, lockers being subject to reservation on 

 and after March i of each year, until available locker 

 space is exhausted. Lockers are of sufficient capacity 

 to accommodate four occupants. Six dollars is the 

 charge for a full locker for the season. In the order of 

 application, those wishing to rent lockers may take a 

 full locker, one-half, one-third or one-fourth of a locker, 

 as desired, and the six dollars charge may be paid by 

 a single occupant or proportioned among the number 

 assigned to each locker. 



7. Tournament play. By arrangement not less than 

 two weeks in advance, so that notice advising the 

 public of the projected tournament may be made on 

 the bulletin boards, tournament committees may secure 

 the privilege of running tournaments on the course, by 

 reserving, in the name of the tournament to be held, 

 the required number of tickets, making advance pay- 

 ment for same, and agreeing to use tickets so secured 

 solely for tournament play. The committee is required 

 to keep in public view the schedule of tournament 

 drawings, so that anyone may see for himself that only 

 legitimate tournament players are given the privilege 

 of play under the tickets which the committee has 

 secured in advance, and that such play is part of the 

 scheduled tournament drawings. This does not permit 

 any consolation play or extra rounds arising out of dis- 

 pute or rivalries developed in the tournament. 



ADMINISTERING THE RECREATION PROGRAM 



All these activities of the park recreation program with their various 

 adaptations to the needs of children and adults call for leadership of the 

 highest type; hence the workers, their relationship to one another, their 

 responsibilities and the contributions they make are of primary importance. 



Staff organization. On the recreation staff of a bureau or department 

 of recreation under the Park Department there is first of all the executive 

 who, in some cities, may be the park superintendent himself. In others the 

 duties may be performed by a special assistant to the superintendent or 

 by a worker known as superintendent or supervisor of recreation in charge 

 of a special bureau or division. This is true of Minneapolis, St. Paul, 

 Memphis, Indianapolis and many other cities which might be mentioned. 



