The Ridley Park Golf Club House still stands at 214 W. Ridley Ave. It is now a private home. Local boys would meet golfers at the Crum Lynne Train Station and caddy the 18 hole golf course for 25 cents and if lucky a 5 cent tip!! The course closed in 1914.
NOTE: The Ridley Park 18 hole golf course was created in 1899 to bring more people to visit Ridley Park and to also generate money for the Ridley Park Association. The golf course was on the west side of Ridley Lake and extended into Crum Lynne proper.
RIDLEY PARK GOLF CLUB TOTALS OVER HUNDRED
Organization
is in Flourishing Condition and is Rounding Out the Twelfth Year
The
Ridley Golf Club is purely a community organization as the membership of one
hundred and twenty is made up almost entirely of the residents of Ridley
Park. While the club has among its
members some of the best players around Philadelphia, few of them compete in
the numerous tournaments held in the Philadelphia district each year. It is not that the Ridley players are afraid
of not being able to hold their own against other players, for they have proved
the contrary at various times. Outside
tournaments to them do not make the special appeal that attracts golfers from
other clubs.
The
Ridley Golf Club is now in its twelfth year and is in a most flourishing
condition. Three men were largely
responsible for the inception of the club, George C. Hetzel, Z.T. Hall and H.F.
Kenney. Hetzel is and always has been the life of the club and has probably
done more towards making it a successful organization than any other member of
the organization. Ridley has had its
hard times as has any other small country club.
It was a
nine hole course from the start and while the golfing possibilities of the club
have materially increased in the past few years, it is still a nine hole course
and probably will remain as such. The
club is fortunate that the plot of ground covered by the links is adapted
naturally to golfing conditions. While
it is not and never has claimed to be a championship course, there are holes at
Ridley that are as chuck full of good golf as any one wishes to find around
Philadelphia.
The
course is over a rolling country and the fairway well as the greens are
always kept in splendid condition.
There
are plenty of natural hazards and after a player has gone over the course a few
times he is frank to confess that the course is by no means an easy one.
The
present officers of the club are:
President, George C. Hetzel; vice president, E. P. Williams; secretary,
Earl V. Deane; treasurer, J. Miller Sinclair.
The board of governors in addition to the officers are made up of Bert
Egbert, H.E. Vanden, R.W. Shurter, H.W. Avise, Jr. and W.E. Hetzel. Bert Egbert is chairman of the green
committee and the chairman of the other committees are: House, H. E. Vanden, match, W.E. Hetzel, and
entertainment, R.W. Shurter. The club
champion is G. Hetzel Atherholt.
Ridley
made the best showing of any nine-hole club in the Club Cup Record competition
this year, fi the women members are eliminated.
It scored a total of 80 odd points and was excelled only by Huntingdon
Valley, Merion and the Philadelphia Cricket Club. These points were made entirely by the team
in the Suburban Cup series. In its own
division Ridley beat Camden County, Belfield and the Athletic Club of
Philadelphia. In the semi-finals with
Overbrook, Ridley lost the match by a single point. In its division matches Ridley scored more
individual victories than any of the other eleven clubs.
Ridley’s
suburban Cup team varies but little from year to year. Each season finds the same RELIABLE FIFTEEN
MEN PLAYING ON THE TEAM. No golfers are
ASKED TO JOIN FOR THE PURPOSE OF STRENGTHENING THE TEAM FOR Ridley takes the
very sportsman like view of winning or losing solely on the strength of a team
almost entirely recruited from Ridley Park.
E.P. Williams, a member of the golf
team has given a cup for the best composite score and the trophy is now in the
possession of Robert Tyson. The
Dickinson Cup, given to the player who wins a handicap tournament based on
match play, is the property of J. E. Gilmore.
The
links are most conveniently situated to Ridley Park, and as has been said, the
great majority of players are residents of Ridley Park, with a fair sprinkling
of Chester men. A number of changes will
be made in the course next year. The
only bad feature has been the absence of a long hole. This defect will be remedied and a sterling
hole is now being arranged, which promises to be one of the best long holes
around Philadelphia.
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This
Weekend's Mini-Workshop: Block Printing on Textiles
Saturday, May 26, 2018
11:00am - 4:00pm
Last
entry at 3:00pm
In the 18th century, block printing was a
common way to create patterned fabrics. Many of these fabrics were created in
India using hand carved wooden blocks and natural dyes. This Saturday May 26th, our staff
will be experimenting with using black walnut dye to print a piece of linen.
Come out and see how our experiments are going, and try your hand at printing
with acrylic paint on paper! The Plantation is open from 11am-4pm, with last
admission at 3:00pm.
Remember, admission is FREE on most weekends
for members, so take advantage of your membership by visiting
often!
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