Stanton Heights Golf Club has lost their fight to gain Sunday golf.
The American Golfer May 1913
Members of the Stanton Heights Golf Club have lost their fight to
gain Sunday golf. The defeat was brought about through the objections of some of
the most prominent ministers of Pittsburgh. The influences which they brought to
bear upon the owners of the property upon which the course is located were very
effective, and the excellent chances which the members had planned for Sunday
golf went glimmering when the ministers started their campaign. The first nine
holes of the Stanton Heights course is situated upon the Allerton property,
while the remainder is controlled by the Schenley estate. When Attorney Richard
C. Long, one of the prominent members of the club, and chairman of the
committee, which had the matter of Sunday golf in hand, took up the proposition
with persons controlling the Allerton property, he received much encouragement.
The sentiment of the members of the club was asked and the committee was given
the impression that if a majority of the members favored Sunday golf the action
would be given a favorable consideration by the owners of the property. In order
to secure the sentiment of the members, it was decided to take a mail vote upon
the proposition. A letter was sent to each member in which the situation was
explained clearly, and a ballot enclosed which the recipient was requested to
return. Out of a total membership of 240, some 167 ballots were received in
response to the communications. Later a meeting of the club was held and after
the votes were counted it was discovered that over 67 per cent, of the members
who voted, favored Sunday golf. Some of the most active members were among those
who favored indulgence in the game on Sunday. However, despite the sentiment of
the majority of the club members, a communication was received from the owners
of the Allerton estate in which they announced they would not permit Sunday golf
playing, because prominent members of the ministry of the East End had exerted
their efforts in the agitation to restrain the playing of golf in the exclusive
residential section.
The addition on right of the Croghan-Schenley
Mansion
served as the clubhouse for the Stanton Heights Golf Club
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