The People

Maj. Charles E. Kilbourne and his family were on the first membership list of the Sausalito Golf Club in May 1900, and the Call counted him among those who had "worked hard to form the club"^1,2. He came to the opening luncheon with Mrs. and Miss Kilbourne and was elected to the first council^3,4. At the end of September 1900 the family moved to the city, and the Sausalito News wrote that they would be greatly missed⁵. The papers do not mention him again in connection with the club.

T. W. M. Draper of Sausalito, whose full name was printed as Thomas Waln-Morgan Draper and who was called Colonel, Captain or Major as the paper pleased, was one of the two men who formed the Sausalito Golf Club in the spring of 1900^1,2,3. His letter asking leave for "a number of ladies and gentlemen of Sausalito" to play on the Fort Baker reservation drew the Army's reply of 2 May 1900: no objection, but no rights of occupancy¹. The Sausalito News gave the credit for the permission "largely" to his influence with General Shafter⁴.

The Chronicle listed him first among the club's charter members on 19 May 1900⁵. He was described as an engineer, and he supervised the work on the links himself¹. David Stephenson planned the nine holes and Draper laid them out^6,7. He was the first vice president and chairman of the Greens Committee⁶. In the club's first tournament he qualified eighth with 82 and went out to W. P. Horn^8,9. It was at his request, the Call reported, that Shafter took the unprecedented step of allowing a clubhouse on a military reservation¹⁰.

In May 1901 he succeeded A. D. Shepard as president^2,11. That spring he was one of the two Sausalito winners in the second match against San Rafael¹². He steered the club through the year the barracks took its holes, chairing the meeting that relaid the course and giving the men's driving and putting cups when the clubhouse opened on 19 October 1901^13,14. He was often away, at his mine in Oregon, in camp at Santa Cruz and in Chicago and the East^15,16,17,18. The last club meeting on record was a directors' dinner at his house in March 1902¹⁹.

General Shafter commanded the Army's department when the Sausalito golfers asked to play on Fort Baker. The order of 2 May 1900, signed on his behalf, said that "the Department Commander has no objection" to golf on the reservation, so long as the golfers understood that it conferred "no rights of occupancy"¹. Sausalito credited Col. T. W. M. Draper's influence with him².

His goodwill went further. By October 1900 he had promised to improve the wagon road to the links when money could be spared³. By December he had let the green committee use any part of the reservation and had allowed a small clubhouse, which the Call said had never before been permitted on a Western military reservation^4,5.

The captain's nine

By December 1923 Capt. Manly B. Gibson of the Coast Artillery was at Fort Baker, already lending the post's basketball court to Sausalito's young men,¹ and by the spring of 1924 he was its commanding officer.² The Sausalito News later said the idea of a golf course came to him soon after he took command. Being "a confirmed addict of the royal and ancient pastime," he set out to build the sort of course he had always hoped to find.³ The nine holes opened in late March 1924, laid out under his supervision, with Gibson as president of the new Fort Baker Golf Club.²

Army rules let civilians play only on invitations good for a month, with no charge but green fees. Gibson met them by issuing invitation cards at $3 a month, and by the autumn of 1924 there were 150 of them out.⁴ Sausalito's Chamber of Commerce made him an honorary member.⁵ In January 1926 the San Francisco Examiner's motoring section called him the exception among Army officers, one who believed his reservation should "serve the largest possible peace-time utility."⁶ The club notes called him one of its most enthusiastic golfers, a man who tried to go round the course at least once a day.⁷ In February 1925 he opened the course free to junior foursomes from Marin churches, schools and lodges.⁸ That April the Ninth Corps Area asked for the club's by-laws and plans as a model for golf at other Pacific Coast posts.⁹

He named his nine holes after the A.E.F.'s battles in France, from the Marne to the Meuse-Argonne, and he dreamed of a second nine of "ocean" holes, with a salvaged $30,000 barge in Horseshoe Bay as the 18th tee.³ In September 1925 he told the Chamber that workmen were starting on nine more holes.¹⁰ N. L. Fitzhenry of the Dipsea Highway Association said Gibson "deserves great credit for producing in Marin county this unique feature."¹¹

The commander

The Sausalito News later said his interest in the town built "a strong bond between civil life and the activities of Fort Baker."¹² He helped found the Sausalito Rifle Club in 1924,¹³ and in 1926 he arranged a trial boat service from San Francisco on which the golf club's civilian members rode free.¹⁴ When Sierra Club hikers "attacked" Battery Kirby that autumn, he ran up the white flag and then showed them the guns.¹⁵ In January 1927 the United Press reported his tests of the "Gibson code," a system of numbered words meant to let people write to one another across languages. Nine soldiers, each speaking a different tongue, were writing sentences in it within half an hour.¹⁶ His brother W. Gordon Gibson was secretary of the Sausalito Chamber of Commerce,¹⁷ and their father was the Rev. W. H. Gibson, a Salinas minister.¹⁸ A daughter was born to Captain and Mrs. Gibson at Fort Baker in January 1927.¹⁹ In June 1927 the Army ordered him from Fort Baker to the Coast Artillery School at Fort Monroe, Virginia,²⁰ though the Sausalito News still mentioned him at the post that November.²¹

The WPA course

By October 1937 Gibson was back as a major in the 6th Coast Artillery, commanding Forts Baker and Barry. He announced that the golf club would be reorganized.²² In 1938 he announced an $856,598 WPA project to rehabilitate the two posts,²³ and he set the guest card at $2 a month, with a limit of 100 players.²⁴ He commanded the Coast Artillery troops paraded for President Roosevelt at the north end of the Golden Gate Bridge,²⁵ and he tried to buy back for the post a silver service that had been presented in 1860 to Col. Edward D. Baker, the fort's namesake.²⁶ He gave the Tamalpais High golf team free use of the new course: "We are glad of the opportunity of being able to assist."²⁷

The course, nine holes with 18 tees, 6,137 yards long and par 71, was credited largely to his two years of effort.²⁸ It was dedicated on 9 July 1939 at an open house the Sausalito News called the culmination of his work.^29,12 A few days later he and Mrs. Gibson sailed on the Army transport Republic for Independence, Missouri, where he was to head the department of military science and tactics at the high school.³⁰ Maj. Evans R. Crowell succeeded him at Fort Baker.³¹ The Army and Navy Journal listed the same move as an order to the Seventh Corps Area at St. Louis, probably the headquarters he served under at Independence.³²

The rest of a long career

Gibson had entered the Coast Artillery as a second lieutenant in 1917.³³ His numbered-word language drew national notice in 1927 as the "World Figure Code," in which some 10,000 words were written with the digits 0 to 9.³⁴ Between his two Fort Baker tours he served in Hawaii and at Fort Banks, Massachusetts, twice commanding the harbor defenses of Boston for short spells,³⁵ and in 1936, as a major on Corregidor, he was the post's arboricultural officer.³⁶ In 1941, as a lieutenant colonel commanding the 56th Training Battalion at Camp Callan, he made news again with a device for teaching recruits to aim using BB guns.³⁷ He retired as a colonel on 31 August 1947.³⁸

When the Fort Baker course opened in late March 1924, Lt. William Warren Scott was secretary and treasurer of the golf club, with Capt. Manly B. Gibson as president. Marin residents who wanted to play were told to apply to one or the other.¹ Mrs. Scott entertained one of the large parties at the bridge games that marked the opening.¹ The Scotts were part of the post's social round, at the Gibsons' bridge evenings in 1924² and, in Mrs. Scott's case, as a hostess at an Officers' Club open house in April 1925, when a planned golf tournament was rained off.³ By June 1925 Lt. L. E. Imhoff had taken over as secretary-treasurer.⁴

Lt. Louis E. Imhoff and his wife were among the officers at Captain and Mrs. Gibson's bridge evenings at Fort Baker in 1924.¹ By June 1925 he was secretary and treasurer of the Fort Baker Golf Club, taking entries for its first tournament, an 18-hole invitational on 12 July.^2,3 Afterwards it was Imhoff who announced that Eddy Redell's 73 was a new record for the course, and he arranged an 18-hole playoff to settle a tie for one of the trophies.⁴ That August he invited outside golfers to play on weekdays, asking each foursome for its names, clubs, handicaps and two choices of date.⁵ In January 1926 he was still secretary-treasurer, serving on the executive committee under Capt. Manly B. Gibson.⁶ By the spring of 1927 Lt. Robert C. Padley (Radley in the Sausalito News) had succeeded him.^7,8

Capt. Louis A. La Garde was serving at Fort Baker when the golf course opened in March 1924, and Mrs. La Garde entertained one of the large parties at the opening-day bridge.¹ The La Gardes were regulars at the Gibsons' Fort Baker Evening Bridge Club.² In April 1925 Mrs. La Garde gave a luncheon for twenty guests from town before an open house at the Officers' Club; a golf tournament planned for the same afternoon had to be called off after two days of rain.³ By January 1926 Captain La Garde was vice president of the Fort Baker Golf Club, on its executive committee with Gibson as president and Louis E. Imhoff as secretary-treasurer.⁴

Maj. Evans R. Crowell came to Fort Baker in June 1939 from the General Staff School at Fort Leavenworth to succeed Maj. Manly B. Gibson in command of Forts Baker and Barry.¹ He was honored alongside Gibson at the dedication of the Lions Beach at Fort Baker on 28 June,² and the program for the golf course's opening on 9 July named him, of the 6th Coast Artillery, as president of the Fort Baker Golf Club.³ Saying goodbye to Gibson, the Sausalito News welcomed Crowell, who had told the town, "We will carry on!"⁴ In August 1939 he sat on the reception committee for Marin County's day at the exposition on Treasure Island.⁵ By January 1941, now a lieutenant colonel, he was still commanding the two posts, and he backed Sausalito's plan to turn its South School into clubrooms for soldiers.⁶

A. D. Shepard, "of the Southern Pacific Railroad service," was one of the organizers of the Sausalito Golf Club and was elected its first president in 1900^1,2. The Sausalito News thought that his name gave the club "a certain prestige which perhaps no other name in Sausalito could give"³. Mrs. Shepard sat on the House Committee, and he entered the first tournament that November^3,4. He was absent from the annual meeting of May 1901, where the paper called him Abram Shepard, and Col. T. W. M. Draper succeeded him as president⁵.

A. Starr Keeler, of the First National Bank, was by the Sausalito News's account the man who "first agitated the golf question in Sausalito," and the paper gave him "most of the prime credit"^1,2. With Col. T. W. M. Draper he formed the nucleus of the club in May 1900, and the Call named the two as its chief projectors^3,4.

The Chronicle named him among the charter members in May 1900⁵. He was elected secretary at the start and again in 1901^6,7, when he was praised as one of the members "untiring" for the club^2,8. Mrs. Keeler served on the first Greens Committee and chaired the 1901 House Committee^2,8. He refereed the first tournament and played in it^9,10. At the clubhouse opening on 19 October 1901 he won the men's putting prize, a pewter mug, in a play-off¹¹. On the six-hole course of December 1901 he went round in 74¹².

H. Clay Miller (Henry Clay Miller in full) was treasurer of the Sausalito Golf Club from its founding^1,2. The Sausalito News said he had been "enthusiastic in the golf movement since its inception" and that the finances had been "wisely placed in his keeping"³. He was re-elected in 1901 and named among the members "untiring" for the club².

For the first tournament he took charge of the arrangements as treasurer, "sparing no efforts to make it a success," the Chronicle said⁴. On the links he qualified for the first men's championship with 80 but lost to Leonard Chenery, 99 to 74^5,6. In April 1901 he acted in the comedy staged at the Yacht Club to raise money for the clubhouse⁷. In May 1901 he played his first team match, against San Rafael⁸. In the six-hole Foster cup of December 1901 he scored 68⁹.

C. T. Hamilton was on the first membership list of the Sausalito Golf Club and was named among those who "worked hard to form the club" in May 1900^1,2. He was also busy in Sausalito property: he sold Bruce Bonny the lots for a new house, and in 1901 he bought the McHugh property with a partner^3,4. Elected a director in May 1901, Claude Terry Hamilton became vice president under Col. T. W. M. Draper^5,6,7.

Capt. J. C. Cantwell was elected first vice president of the Sausalito Chamber of Commerce in April 1924, at the meeting where Capt. Manly B. Gibson invited the town's golfers to play at Fort Baker. Cantwell was put on the printing committee for a leaflet and on the membership campaign committee.¹ That August he seconded the motion that made Gibson an honorary member of the Chamber.² After nearly a year touring twelve countries in Europe and Africa, he wrote to the Sausalito News in January 1926 that a club near Menton cost over $1,000 to join. At home, he said, Sausalito had a links at Fort Baker ten minutes from town, with no membership fee, "where the cost of playing is so small as to be practically within reach of the poorest member of the community." He had been amazed at its progress.³

Late in 1926 or early in 1927 the Treasury demanded a monthly "membership tax" on the civilians who played the Fort Baker course, with more than $1,200 in back taxes, although Army regulations limited real membership to soldiers and their families. Civilians were then taxed on their green fees instead.¹ C. E. Persons of Sausalito took up the case, and Congressman Lea of California's First District pressed it. On 19 March 1927 the Treasury reversed itself and ruled that the club's green fees were not taxable.^1,2 In 1928 he was credited, with the California State Automobile Association, with getting money for Fort Baker's roads into the Army appropriation bill.³ In 1937 he was among the guests, with Maj. Manly B. Gibson, at Sausalito's Navy Day observance.⁴

Charles J. Foster was one of the Sausalito men who "worked hard to form the club" in 1900¹. For the first tournament that November he offered "a handsome Dutch silver cup"². He sat on the 1901 nominating committee, with James E. Bell and Dr. A. H. Mays,³ and was elected a director, and Mrs. Foster served on the House Committee^4,5.

The Foster cup was the club's men's trophy in 1901: F. B. Findley held it that June, when the rule was that it must be won three times to be kept⁶. Foster and W. G. Morrow gave the women's prizes when the clubhouse opened in October 1901⁷. The Thanksgiving contest for his cup was rained out and played on 21 December on only six holes, the rest lost to the new barracks; R. J. Davis won it with 57^8,9. The Chronicle had announced it that morning as a challenge cup "played for over eighteen holes, medal score," open to all members¹⁰.

In 1924 N. L. Fitzhenry of Stinson Beach reported to the Sausalito Chamber of Commerce on the widening of the Dipsea highway.¹ In October 1925, as secretary of the Dipsea Highway Association, he adopted the Fort Baker officers' golf course as a publicity vehicle for the county. He called it probably one of the most unique golf clubs in America: anyone recommended by two people could become "the guest of Uncle Sam" on the course for $5 a month.² He gave the credit to Capt. Manly B. Gibson and arranged for officials of the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce to play the links.² By January 1926 he sat on the golf club's civilian advisory committee,³ and his association had handed out more than 30,000 folders on Marin to motorists.⁴ He also wrote newspaper articles on the card game of bridge,⁵ and he led publicity for the Marvelous Marin council in 1931.⁶

Mrs. Charles Mason, her daughters Winifred and Mabel, and Reginald W. Mason were among the first members of the Sausalito Golf Club in 1900^1,2,3. When the club held its first tournament that November, all four played^4,5.

The Chronicle wrote that Winifred "has generally been accounted the best woman player on the Sausalito links"⁶. The sisters met in the women's final, and Winifred won; the Call called her "the strongest lady golfer on the Fort Baker links"⁷. Mabel and J. M. Kilgarif beat Mrs. Mason and Colonel Draper 1 up in the rain on 25 November and reached the final of the mixed foursomes, where they tied Grace Martin and W. P. Horn before losing the replay; Winifred and R. W. Mason lost the other semifinal to that pair by 1 up^8,9,10. At the clubhouse opening in October 1901 Mrs. Mason tied for both women's prizes before losing the play-offs to Ruth Miller¹¹.

R. W. Mason qualified with 75 and reached the men's semifinal in 1900^5,12. In 1901 he became chairman of the Greens Committee and captain of the team that played at Oakland, the club's first match outside Marin^13,14. He played in both matches against San Rafael and was second in the December 1901 Foster cup with 62^15,16,17.

David Stephenson had been the instructor of the San Francisco Golf Club at the Presidio^1,2. The Chronicle called him "the well-known professional" and reported that his nine holes were "so arranged that it can easily be converted into an eighteen-hole course"³. In May 1900 he laid out the Sausalito club's nine holes in the valley behind the Fort Baker barracks, and the Sausalito News reported his opinion that no more beautiful or appropriate site existed on the Pacific Coast⁴. In his plan the first five holes ran up the valley and the four coming home looked out over the bay⁴. The work was done under Col. T. W. M. Draper^1,5.

By the end of May 1900 Stephenson had "recently returned home to Scotland," so he probably never saw the course in play⁶. A few days later the Examiner reported that the San Francisco club's members found the form of its new instructor, Robert Johnstone, nearer the correct one than Stephenson's⁷. Within months the new barracks forced changes to his routing⁵.

Horace Rawlins and his brother Harry were the resident professionals of the Oakland Golf Club in 1900. The Call noted that one of them was "an open champion of the United States" and called Horace the more famous of the two^1,2. Harry was "an Englishman from the Isle of Wight"³.

On Sunday, 9 December 1900, they played an exhibition on the Sausalito club's Fort Baker links before an admiring crowd². The clay greens, which varied greatly in speed, gave them trouble, and balls were lost in the matted grass². Harry went round twice in 46 and beat Horace by eight strokes⁴. After consulting the brothers the club fixed a bogey of 44 for the nine holes^2,5. The Sausalito News reported that they thought the course could be done in 40⁵.

In January 1925 the Fort Baker Golf Club's professional was T. J. Muirhead, a Scot whom the Sausalito News called "a well known golfer." It said he had been with the Automobile Golf Club of Detroit, the Belvedere Country Club, the Vancouver Country Club and the California Golf Club.¹ Every Wednesday he took the post's officers round the course, and he said he had the names of 34 San Franciscans who wanted to join.¹ In the same issue he answered a Marin reader's questions on the low ball, clubhead speed and the slice, signing himself "Thos. M. Muirhead, Professional Fort Baker Golf Club" (the papers give his initials variously). His cure for a slice, a left-hand grip showing three knuckles, was "a desperate cure but slicing is a desperate disease."²

He did not stay long. By the first week of February 1925 Thomas McHugh was the Fort Baker professional,³ and Tom Muirhead had been teaching at Santa Rosa for several weeks, with Healdsburg arranging to share him. He played the Healdsburg course in an exhibition in 36, one over par.⁴ When the Healdsburg paper announced him as the new professional at Santa Rosa, it said he had "just recently come to this section after completing the building of the links at Fort Baker."⁵ By spring he was instructor at both clubs.⁶

In February 1925 the Fort Baker Golf Club secured as its professional Thomas McHugh, who had been playing professional golf around the bay for several years. He was on the course on Saturdays and Sundays and taught by appointment on other days.¹ Capt. Manly B. Gibson's letter opening the course to Marin juniors promised them free Saturday-morning instruction from him.² On 14 February about forty youngsters were due for lessons, in foursomes from Christ Church, Tamalpais High School, the Tamal Club and the Junior Yacht Club.³ The Tamalpais High notes called him "a player of notable repute," and he was to teach anyone under 20 every Saturday morning at nine.⁴

By the summer he was with the Emporium Golf School in San Francisco, but he served as handicapper for the club's first tournament in July 1925 and took its entries with the club secretary, Lt. L. E. Imhoff.^5,6

By September 1926 Harold Johnstone was the Fort Baker Golf Club's professional, and the club said the course was "constantly being improved" under his leadership. Nine holes were in play, the greens were in good condition, and lessons could be booked through the Post Exchange steward.¹ A week later Johnstone announced weekly medal-play handicap sweepstakes every Sunday, with golf balls for prizes. Golfers all over southern Marin, he said, were becoming interested, and new members were joining fast.²

William "Bill" Hackney took over as professional at the Fort Baker course in December 1927. With two assistants, between his regular duties, he laid out new greens for the second and ninth holes.¹ The Sausalito News said he was one of eight brothers, all professionals, who talked over their problems among themselves, so that he had "sound ideas and principles about building a golf course."¹ He planned nine more holes, four on the bluffs southeast of the course along the bay and five to the northeast near the rifle range, and he promised members "one of the sportiest courses in Marin county."¹ The clubhouse was redecorated that winter, and the Mill Valley Record reported the course in splendid condition for the spring of 1928.²

When Maj. Manly B. Gibson announced in October 1937 that the Fort Baker Golf Club would be reorganized, the new course was under construction under the supervision of Larry Brazil, professional at the Presidio Golf Club in San Francisco.¹ A 1936 profile credited him with turning the young Lawson Little into a real golfer,² and in 1937 he tied for the Northern California Open at Pebble Beach before losing the playoff to Harry Bassler.^3,4 By March 1938 James A. Warman had taken charge of the work at Fort Baker.⁵

In March 1938 the Sausalito News reported men and machinery at work on the new Fort Baker course, with Warman, "an expert in golf construction," in charge. Several practice holes were already in play.¹ A month later Maj. Manly B. Gibson introduced James A. Warman, formerly of Yosemite, as the club's new professional. Warman offered five free Saturday lessons to high school and junior college students² and to Army children, given at the Officers' Club while a driving range went up at the post entrance in view of the Golden Gate Bridge.³ Through 1938 construction went on "under the direction of James A. Warman, club professional,"⁴ and the paper called him "an excellent golf instructor."⁵ He was still the professional when the finished course, nine holes with 18 tees and 6,137 yards, opened in July 1939,⁶ and he ran free classes for juniors on Saturday mornings.⁷ (The papers sometimes give his name as William or James M.)

Frank B. Findley and Mrs. Findley were at the opening of the Sausalito links in 1900, and she sat on the first House Committee^1,2. He took the entries for the first tournament that November³. He reached the final, losing to Leonard Chenery by a stroke, but his 67 in an earlier round was the tournament's lowest score and won him the perpetual challenge cup^4,5.

The Call called him "one of the strongest Sausalito players" in May 1901, though out of practice⁶. He held the Foster cup that June⁷. When it was played again on 21 December 1901 he did not appear to defend it, and R. J. Davis took it⁸.

Miss Grace Martin was elected to the Sausalito Golf Club's first council in 1900 and served on its committees^1,2. Partnered with W. P. Horn, she won the mixed foursomes that closed the first tournament, beating J. M. Kilgarif and Mabel Mason 7 holes to 2 on 18 December 1900; her prize was a silver cup³. In January 1901 she won the women's putting and driving prize⁴. At the May 1901 annual meeting the Sausalito News gave Miss Grace Cutler Martin and Miss Constance Borrowe "special praise for their conscientious committee work"⁵.

Leonard Chenery played at the Presidio with the San Francisco Golf Club as well as at Sausalito¹. In the Sausalito club's first tournament, in November 1900, he qualified with 73². He then beat H. Clay Miller and R. W. Mason and took the final from F. B. Findley, 72 to 73^3,4,5. On a rain-soaked 25 November his 74 against Miller, said the Chronicle, showed "the excellence of his game"⁶. He received the first prize, while Findley's 67 earned him the challenge cup for low score^5,7.

In February 1901 the Chronicle called him "the winner of the inaugural tournament held at the Sausalito links" and the best all-round player in class B at the Presidio⁸. He won the men's putting and driving prize in January 1901 and played for Sausalito against San Rafael and Oakland^9,10,11. At the clubhouse opening on 19 October 1901 he won the driving prize, a pewter mug, and "quite outclassed his opponents"^12,13. By March 1902 he was captaining the San Francisco club's team¹⁴.

R. J. Davis was a San Rafael Golf Club player who twice beat Sausalito men in the interclub matches of 1901: Leonard Chenery 3 up in March and Worthington Ames 3 up in May^1,2. On 21 December 1901 a player of the same name won the Sausalito club's Foster cup at Fort Baker with 57 for nine holes³. The barracks construction had left so few holes that the round started at the fourth, ran through the eighth, then repeated the fourth to seventh³. He went on winning handicaps at San Rafael into 1904^4,5.

Miss Constance Borrowe was elected to the Sausalito Golf Club's first council and Greens Committee in 1900; Capt. William Borrowe chaired the House Committee¹. She helped run the first tournament as a committee member and scorer, then reached the semifinal of the women's championship, where she lost to the eventual champion, Winifred Mason^2,3. At the annual meeting of May 1901 she and Grace Martin were singled out for "special praise for their conscientious committee work"; she was named to the House Committee⁴. Her absence, with the Drapers and the Masons, was one reason no event was held on the Fort Baker links on 4 July 1901⁵.

Capt. Lloyd S. Shapley, U.S. Navy, and his wife lived at Fort Baker for many years and were part of its social life when the golf course opened. Mrs. Shapley was at the bridge tables on opening day in 1924,¹ and the Shapleys were guests of the Gibsons' Fort Baker Evening Bridge Club that summer.² In December 1925 the Sausalito News reported that Captain Shapley, recently retired after serving as a coordinator of the 9th Area, had been appointed Governor of Guam, succeeding Capt. John Prince. It added that he had been one of the charter members of the Fort Baker Golf Club.³