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Board of Park Commissioners 
At Sinton Park, in a mixed population, one evening a week was 
given to colored and one to white dances. No disorders or interrup- 
tions occurred. 
Just how this problem of the intermediate age can be handled is 
a matter for serious consideration. 
Golf. 
For those of our people desiring less strenuous amusement, those 
who have graduated from the ball field, was another problem, 
Burnet Woods had a small nine-hole golf course where few indi- 
viduals played. After a little study it was decided to turn Avon 
Field, then Blachly Farm, to use. At the beginning of the season 
it was practically a waste, grown up to brambles and weeds. A pro- 
fessional golfer, a graduate from St. Andrews Links, Scotland, was 
engaged and quickly laid out and inaugurated a nine-hole golf course. 
The experiment proved satisfactory. The expense was comparatively 
small and the attendance surprisingly large. At the end of the season 
the course became so crowded that work on an additional nine holes 
was begun. For 1915 the course will be eighteen holes. 
With the advent of the electric car extension to Bond Hill, which 
will run through the park, the eighteen holes will be in constant use. 
Another golf course of eighteen holes is being prepared in Mt. 
Airy Forest, starting and finishing within three minutes' walk of the 
car line. Our professional states this will be the longest course in 
the country, one of the best, and perhaps the most attractive. Starting 
on the West Fork Road, near Colerain Pike, three holes take one \o 
the upper plateau, fifteen holes are played through most beautiful 
surroundings and views, forests, glades, distant hills, far-reaching 
valleys and through young tree nurseries. The eighteenth hole, a 
drive and an approach, from the brow of the plateau to the low level, 
completes a 6,500-yard course, leaving the golfer within 100 yards of 
his car. 
