Tom-Thumb Golf Courses Wilt Take Much Lumber

Washington, June 10.-The amusement field is develop- ing another extensive outlet for lumber. Lilliputian or Tom-Thumb golf, which can be played on a course about twice the size of a tennis court, is taking thousands of feet of two-by-fours for frames for greens, fairways and, hazards. The game is taking hold in all sections and courses are being built on a commercial basis on many vacant city lots.

The game is arranged tb simulate on a very small scale the ancient Scottish pastime. Green are a few feet in diameter and fairways may be twenty to thirty feet long and barely more than a yard wide, depending upon the lot space available. Commercial returns from the game are said to be very high and it is frequently conducted in conjunction with "Bar-B-9" ot refreshment stands.

The average course requires about one hundred 2x4s, turned along one side, l2-foot lengths, for frames. While a contractor's installation on a commercial site, including sand and stone traps, may cost several thousand dollars, the layout can be duplicated on private grounds in homemade fashion at a cost comparable with construction of a tennis court. Since the courses can be moved. the improvement is of a semi-permanent nature, It affords a profitable way of temporarily using vacant building lots.