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A local sports- writer in course's main "appeal" as many parts of the city. "from dawn to dusk" for could golf all day fo weekends. the News -Times in 1934 described the its location within walking distance of He also stressed that one could play one fee. In the 1940's and 50's, one r thirty -five cents--fifty cents on In addition to the numerous golf tournaments that have been held on the course over the years, other neighborhood activities, including children's summer camps (the Jewish Day Camp in the 1950's, for example), have been held here. The use of the course by various social groups - -such as the Studebaker Corporation's Mary Ann Club- -have continually made Studebaker a dynamic recreational and community - gathering place since 1919.[11] Fred M. Holycross April, 1992 NOTES 1. Criteria from Preservation Plan for the City of South Bend (South Bend: Historic Preservation Commission, 1984):18 -19. The only structure on the site, the "pro shop," was built in 1955 -1956. 2. J. Timothy Keller and Genevieve P. Keller, National Reqister Bulletin #18: How To Evaluate and Nominate Desiqned Historic Landscapes (U.S. Dept. of the Interior). 3. Sports columnist Jim Terhune discussed the history of the sport locally in the South Bend Tribune: 5- 22 -66; reference to the game nationally can be had in George Peper, Ed. Golf in America: The First One Hundred Years (New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1988); a good source for the history of the golf course itself is: Geoffrey S. Cornish and Ronald E. Whitten The Golf Course (New York: Rutledge Press, 1981); the classic text on the philosophy of course construction is: George C. Thomas, Jr. Golf Architecture in America (Los Angeles, 1927). 4. Board of Park Commissioners Record #1 (South Bend, Indiana), 4 -16- 17:266. 5. Henry (1826- 1895), the eldest of the Studebaker brothers, was married twice, first in 1853 to Susan Studebaker (died 1871), daughter of another local pioneer family, and later to Priscilla Gresbaum of Elkhart County. Pictorial and Biographical Memoirs of - Elkhart and St. Joseph Counties. Indiana (Chicago, 1893):287; History of St. Joseph Countv. Indiana (Chicago: Chapman, 1880): 488,874,943. 6. Park Record #1, 1- 19- 12:68. T. South Bend Tribune 7- 20 -18; Park Commissioners' Record #1, 4 -6- 17:266. 8. South Bend Tribune Sunday Supp., 6 -20 -71:3. 9. "City buys tract near Erskine Park," South Bend News Times 7- 29 -25. 10. Board of Park Commissioners Record #2 (South Bend, Indiana), 3 -13- 23:63. 11. Walter Willey, "Over Wintry Fairways" South Bend News -Times 1- 31 -34. 5