The Archive · 1937

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Dairen, May 4.

Adult golfers are to be ousted In the near future from their favourite pastime ut the Hoshigaura course Which is to become a gigantic field play und camping ground for children. It is three years since the South Manchuria Railway. Company notified the directors of the Golf Club that their' ground was needed for other purposes but it was not until recently that they found a site which they considered suitable.

'A spot has now been selected at Yingehengtzu on. the" Dairen-Port Arthur Railway and the laying out fof the course will be started this Summer, The site verges on the Pohal Sea and it Is broader and far more picturesque that the links at Hoshigaura. In addition it is report ed that the new course will be far less destructive to the clubs used by esser players, the ground at the present course' having an uncommon humber of sharp rocks a little below the surface, "The seaside hamlet of Yingchengtz and the area are closely associated with history for the past fifteen or twenty centuries as Is attested by the Femains of antique gates and ram-aris as well as the unearthing of polley, metals and the tombs of Keeat personages of the Tang and Sung eras, Tu fact it is well known fu these parts that throughout the centuries this vicinity was famous for soluble and glamorous doings.

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