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Colorado Springs itself does not benefit particularly from this tournament, for the town offers little that the hotel does not. A few visitors, who cannot get into the Broadmoor, usually end up in one of the town's hotels, but then again, it is hard to fill all of the Broadmoor's 450 rooms...
...founder of the Broadmoor, Spec Penrose, typifies the somewhat extravagant manner that the resort exudes. Penrose came west from Philadelphia in 1891 and parlayed $150 dollars into a fortune through his participation in the Cripple Creek gold boom. Penrose then practically took over the city of Colorado Springs. In 1918, however, when the management of the Antlers Hotel asked him not to shoot off his gun in their bar, Spec angrily stalked out and started building his own hotel, where he could "shoot his gun off any time he pleased." The result was the Broadmoor...
...many ways, the Broadmoor is the country club, the social and athletic center, and the chief attraction of Colorado Springs. Oil and cattle men from all over the west eventually come to stay at the hotel and mingle with the "society" of the Springs...
...teams at this tournament are not really staying at Colorado Springs. They are staying at the Broadmoor. Very few of the players have travelled the three miles from the hotel to the Springs, but if any of them should feel such a whim, there are cadillac limousines waiting just outside the door to take them wherever they wish...
...players, however, wish to go into town, for the town usually comes out to them. One of this tournament's chief attractions is that half of CC's enrollment is female. This half usually ends up out at the Broadmoor during the weekend. The Queen of the Tournament (this year Pauline Beck) has the responsibility of picking 50 other girls from CC to serve as her court. This group then has the responsibility of entertaining the visiting teams at a reception given for them, and in general of making themselves available for the visiting players' entertainment...