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May 30, 1925.
PRESTO
FRIDAY, JUNE 12,
DEVOTED TO GOLF
Annual Sporting Event Open to Everyone
Connected with the Music Industry to Be
Held on Fine Course of Olympia
Fields Country Club.
In addition prizes will be given for first and second
low gross in the afternoon as well as for first and
second low net.
Entries along with check for $10 should be sent to
Kenneth W. Curtis, Kimball Building. Chicago. Ac-
companying each entry should be the name and ad-
dress of the player, his club handicap if he belongs
to a golf club, his live best scores for 1924, whether
or not he belongs to a golf club, and the address to
which he wishes his transportation and tournament
tickets sent. If he fails to obtain his tournament
tickets through the mail he can get them at the in-
formation desk in the lobby of the Drake Hotel.
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"Built on Family Prid*"
Doll & Sons
Represent the Artistic
in Piano and Player Piano
Construction
HOT COMPETITION
Transportation Facts.
Transportation tickets will be accepted only on
Illinois Central suburban trains leaving the station at
Entries for Mcrning and Afternoon Events Promise
Randolph street and Michigan boulevard at the fol-
a Lively Time on the Four Eighteen
lowing hours:
Hole Courses.
9 a. m., 11:22 a. m. and 12:44 p. m.
The Music Industries Convention Golf Tournament
Trains leave Olympia Fields station at 5:46 p. m.,
in connection with the gathering of the trade this 9:20 p. m. and 10:20 p. m. This applies only to the
year will be held Friday, June 12, at Olympia Fields day of the tournament.
Country Club, Chicago. The tournament is open to
Players are urged to get their entries in as early
everyone connected with the music industry, music as possible in order to expedite arrangements for
dealers, retail salesmen, phonograph men, small goods caddies and meals at the club. A certain number of
men, manufacturers, traveling men and supply men.
last-minute entries can be accepted at the iniormation
This event must not be confused with the tourna- desk at the Drake Hotel.
Players should allow 15 minutes by taxicab fron
ment of the National Piano Golf Association, which
is an organization with a limited membership. The the Drake Hotel to the Illinois Central suburban sta-
Music Industries Convention tournament is open to tion at Randolph and Michigan. Further information
all in the music industry whether members of asso- can be secured from Kenneth W. Curtis, Kimball
Building, Chicago.
ciations or not.
Location of Tournament.
The Expense Item.
The following are interesting facts about the Olym-
Players participating in the Music Industries Con-
vention Golf Tournament will pay an entrance fee of pia Fields Country Club, where the convention Golf
$10. This entrance fee covers all the player's tourna- Tournament will be held:
ment expenses, with the exception of caddie fees, and
The club is the largest private golf club in the
includes transportation to and from the club, world. The property owned by the club outright
luncheon and dinner. Each player will pay his own consists of 690 acres of rolling wooded land, more
caddie in cash at the completion of play.
than a full section a mile square twenty-five miles
Competition in the morning will be nine holes south of Chicago's loop.
medal play, handicaps to apply. Players will go off
There are four championship eighteen hole courses
in flights of four each, and there will be first and on the property. More than half the fairways of
second prizes for the low net scores in each foresome. the seventy-two holes are fringed on one or both
sides with fine growths of natural timber. A stream
Afternoon Competition.
of running water crosses twenty-three fairways on
Competition in the afternoon will be eighteen holes the four courses. The fourth course at Olympia
match play. There will be first and se.ond prizes for
Fields is said to be one of the wonder golf courses
the winners uf eacb nine boles in tlie afternoon play. of the United States It is 6,500 yards in length with
a par of seventy-two. The Professional Golf Asso-
ciation of the United States has its national tourna-
ment scheduled for this course later in the present
year.
Accommodations Ample.
A new clubhouse completed last year at a cost of
$875,000 is the largest private golf clubhouse in the
world and one of the most beautiful. It contains its
own ice-making plant, its own laundry and has a
main floor men's locker room with 1,500 steel lockers
and two shower rooms with a total of fifty shower
baths. The membership in the club numbers 1,000
resident and a few non-resident.
The main line of the Illinois Central Railroad bi-
sects a corner of the club's property and the club has
a private railroad station within three hundred yards
of the clubhouse. Illinois Central suburban trains are
A moderate priced reproducing piano,
run between Chicago's downtown lake front and the
beautiful in design and rich in tone.
Olympia Fields station nearly every hour during the
Write for our new explanatory Chart,
day.
the most complete and simple treat-
ment of the reproducing action.
The Lyon & Healy
Reproducing Piano
Wabash at Jackson - - - Chicago
QUALITY
in Name and in Fact
TONE, MATERIALS, CONSTRUCTION,
WORKMANSHIP, DESIGN—all in ac-
cord with the broadest experience—are
the elements which give character to
Bush & Lane Products.
BUSH&LANE PIANOS
BUSH & LANE GECIUAN PLAYER PIANOS
take high place, therefore, in any com-
parison of high grade pianos because of
the individuality of character which dis-
tinguishes them in all essentials of merit
and value.
MMH ft LANE PIANO GO.
Hottaml, Mich.
TO HOLD FORMAL OPENING.
V. [. Meuzel will huld the formal opening of his
new warerooms in the Northwood Bank Building.
West Palm Beach. Fla., next week. The business is
conducted under the name of Meuzel Piano Co. and
the following lines are handled: Hazleton, Doll,
Davenport & Treacy, Schumann and Sohmer.
KREITER
The Leading and Most Popular
Pianos and Players
Grands, Players, Uprights and
Reproducing Pianos
The Results of Over Forty Years'
of Experience.
Kreiter Pianos Cover the Entire Line
and no Piano Dealer who tries these m-
struments would supplant them by any
others. A trial will convince.
Kreiter Mfg. Co., Inc.
310-312 W. Water St., Milwaukee, Wis.
Factory: Marinette, Wis.
JACOB DOLL & SONS
STODART
WELLSM0RE
Jacob Doll & Sons, he,
Southern Boulevard, E. 13Brd St.
E. 134th St. and Cypress Are.
NEW YORK
Becker Bros.
Manufacturers of
HIGH GRADE PIANOS
and PLAYER PIANOS
Factory and Warerooms
767-769 Tenth Avenue, New York
STR1CH & ZEDLER, Inc.
GRAND, UPRIGHT and PLAYBR
AND
HOMER PIANOS
740-742 East 136th Street
NEW YORK
Schumann
PIANOS and PLAYER PIANOS
GRANDS and UPRIGHTS
Have no superiors in appearance, tone
power or other essentials of strictly
leaders in the trade.
Warning to Infringers
Tbla Trad* Mark Is cast
In the plat* and also ap-
pears upon th« fall board
of all s/enulne Schumann
Pianos, and all Infrtng-ers
will be prosecuted. Beware
of Imitations auch aa Schu-
mann A Company, Schu-
mann at Son, and alao
Shuman, aa all stencil
shops, dealera and users of
pianoa bearing; a u m * In
imitation of tha nama
Schumann with tha inten-
tion of deceiving the public
will ba proaeouted to the
full eat extent of tha law.
New Catalogue on Request.
Schumann Piano Co.
W. N. VAN MATRE, President
Rockford, I1L
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