B2 - Sunday News, December 21, 1980

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Major tournament comes to the North Shore

Imperial Tobacco Limited
announced it will sponsor
the Peter Jackson Cham-
pions, a new senior profes-
sional golf championship,
June 2-14 at the Capilano
Golf and Country Club.

Wilf Olson, British Colum-
bia Regional Sales manager
for Imperial Tobacco which
currently sponsors both the
Canadian Open Golf Cham-
pionship and the Peter
Jackson classic on the PGA
and LPGA Tours, said prize
money will be $200,000 with
the winner receiving
$30,000. The ‘sponsorship
agreement will run for five
years.

“We are extremely pleas-
ed to be able to join with our
friends in the Royal Cana-

dian Golf Association and
the PGA tour to present this

SAM SNEAD

outstanding tournament,”
Olson said. “We are entering
our second decade of spon-
sorship in Canadian golf, and
we have been gratified to

watch the Canadian Open
grow mature into one of the
truly significant champion-
ships in the world.”

In a_ simultaneous an-
nouncement made in Mon-
treal, L.E. Ricard, Chairman
of Imperial Tobacco, said,
“the problems of logistics
and dates have made it
necessary for the Canadian
Open to be played only in
Eastern Canada, and we
have been disappointed that
golf fans in Western Canada
have not had the opportunity
to participate in the excite-
ment that can be generated
by the great names in golf.
The Peter Jackson cham-
pions will, we believe, pro-
vide that excitement in

brief history of
the Capilano golf course

In 1891 Harvey Hadden
from Nottingham, England,
visited Vancouver. He pur-
chased several pieces of pro-
perty in downtown Van-
couver.

After returning to England
he consulted a close fnend
Eveleigh, a pioneer Van-
couver architect, who en-
couraged him to purchase
160 acres on the North Shore
west of the Capilano River in
1897. Hadden returned to
Vancouver in 1903 or 1904
and built Hadden Hall on the
site where the Clubhouse
now stands.

The Hadden property was
abandoned after the First
World War for taxes and re
mained a derelict for many
years until it
down by vandals

In the carly 1930's an im
aginalive propusal for long
term capital investment and
property development was
eamsoned by Mr AJIT
Taylor of Vancouver and a
group of associates They
were successful in having
ths plan accepted in carly
1933 by a wealthy famuily

was burned

holding company of the
Bntsh Isles. the Guinness
Estates This property, cn

compassing the land which ts
occupied by Capilano Golf
and Country Club was pur
chased from the Mumcipal
ty of West Vancouver

An
British was
plan for a golf course
development of

integral part of
Properties

the
the
The
the golf
course was the first: mayor
step in the Bnoush Pacific
Properties program In 1933
the whole arca represenicd a
tangle of huge stumps. oa

forest of second = growth

trees, and catensive rugged
rock

outcroppings Despite

these overwhelming = dif
fhoullics the course rapidly

took shape By September

f9IS othe first farrway ahd
Breen were completed
which as the present b2th
hole Dhe course was opeacd
to the publ an July 1936
The present Clubhouse tn

Ws conginabl state way com

pleted in 1935 but it remain-
ed devoid of locker rooms
and furnishings until 1939.
From the outset it was in-
tended to be a prestige club
to assist and promote pro-
perty development. To com-
plete this plan the British
Pacific Properties, under the
direction of Major PA.
Curry, called together a
group of prominent citizens
to consider the possibiltiy of

organizng a private golf
club. The reaction as this
meeting was favorable and

an organizing committee was
formed On October 5, 1938,
the first meeung of this com
mittee was held to develop a
plan to bring this about

On December 28, 1938. a
proposed 10-year agreement
was drawn up and Capilano
Golf and Country Club came
into being. On May 18, 1939,
the Vancouver Daily Pro-
vince included the following
article

“CAPILANO GOLF AND
COUNTRY CLUB CLUB
HOUSE OPENED ON

WEDNESDAY”

“Years ago, before dreams
of development of Van-
couver's North Shore
mountainside became a
reality, the late Harvey Had-
den built a palatial log home
there, as close to the skyline
as he could. Hand-made, it
was a pioneer’s work of art.
A lovely garden encircled it,
and its panelled walls of
cedar would have been the
envy of any modern
decorator.

It died as a dream. Time
passed, and unthinking
marauders despoiled it
Hikers marred tt Transients
destroyed tts plate glass win
dows Only a scarred
memento of past years re
mained

Ou Wednesday cvening.
300 of Vancouver's leading
families gathered on Uns scif
same spot to celebrate the
opening of the new
Clubhouse of the Capilano
Golf and Country Club ~

From the official opening
in 1939 through the

war

1981.”

James Bruce,a Governor
of the Royal Canadian Golf
Association has been ap
pointed RCGA tournament
chairman, Ken Newbury of
Capilano, Host Club chair-
man, and Chff Goddard,
Vice-Chairman.

“The format of the Peter
Jackson Champions will be
unique to Canada,” Bruce
said. “There will be a 36-hole
Pro-am event, with the pro-
fessionals’ second 18-hole
scores counting as the first-
round scores in the touran-
ment. Then, the profes-
sionals will play the final two
rounds by themselves.”

Bruce said the field will
consist of 52 professionals
and 104 amateurs. There will

years, the Club’s member-
ship increased despite the
operating problems en-
countered because of
absentee members who were
serving in the Armed Forces.
However, after the war, the
Club got going again and
became a focal point in the
life of Vancouver
businessmen.

During the years 1952-53,
it came to the attention of
Mr PE. Paulson, Club
President, that the Bmnitush
Pacific Properties might be
wilhng to consider the sale of
the Club and its assets to the
Capilano Golf and Country
Club

The agreement for
raghcauon of the member
ship and on March 23, 1955,
the new Company was form
ed to be known as the
“Capilano Golf and Country
Club (1955) Lid 7 The agree
ment with the Bnush Pacific
Properties was) complicted
under the ternms of the opbpon
on Apni 1, 1955

be no cutoff for
sionals.

profes-

“The
will consist of 40 foreign
players and 12 Canadians,”
Bruce said. “Exempted from

professional ficid

qualifying will be such
outstanding pros as Al
Balding, Stan Leonard,
Henry Martell, Bill Kerr, Bill
Kozak, Moe Norman and
Pat Fletcher.”

Brace said that com-
mitments for the 198! Peter
Jackson champions also in-
clude Julius Boros, Tommy
Bolt, Don January, Gardner
Dickinson, Lionel Hebert,
former Canadian Open
champions Doug Ford (1959,
1963) and Art Wall (1960),
and Open runners-up Bob
Goalby (1960) and Charlic
Sifford (1962). Sifford and
January were the champions
of PGA tour seniors events
this year.

Soccer champions
to battle it out

MONTEVIDO (UPI) - Six
of the world’s most powerful
soccer nations return to the
birthplace of the first World
Cup tournament Dec. 30-
Jan. 10 to decide the Cham-
pion of Champions.

The Gold Cup Tourna-
ment, celebrating the SOth
anniversary of the World
Cup. brings together five of
the six winners - reigning
champion Argemuna, Brazil
(winners in 1958, 1962 and
1970), Itaty (1934, 1938).
West Germany (1954, 1974)
and Uruguay (1930, 1950) -
while Holland. runner-up in
the last two finals. compictes
the hneup as substitute for
1966 champion England

The teams are split: into
two groups with the top team
from each sechon mecting in
the final Yhe draw has pro
duced a lop sided look with
Argecotina Hrazl and West

C;ermany probably — the
strongest three nations in the
competition, drawn tn the

same group with Uruguay
Holland and Italy contesting
the other

European champion West
Germany, undefeated in 23
matches since its Jast loss in

the 197K Wortd Cup ts

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arguably the World’s No. |
team on current form. but is
likely to be stretched by
Argentina.

Many of Argentina's
leading players have been
missing on the focal scene
having signed for European
clubs, but this has been com-
pensated by the emergence
of the talented Diego
Maradonna. Brazil 1s still in
the process of rebuilding and
has a long way to go to
match its former bnilhance
when “King” Pele reigned
supreme.

Italy. despite a disappoin-
ting fourth-place finish in the
European Championship fast
June. starts favonte m= the
other group. having logged
an undefeated II -match run

Uruguay fatled to
make the
world scene since its 1950
World Cup tnumph — but
home advantage could pro
vide a vital spur

has

any impact on

Holland 1s not expected to
mount much morc than a
token challenge. having
fallen rapidly in the world
rankings following the loss of
its leading players through
relircment