Don't Be Rattled Writers.H onor Russell So you think you have troubles! Golfers Clinton F. Russell, of Duluth, Minn., re- at the Bisbee Golf Course, Bisbee, Arizona, ceived the trophy at the Metro- take their troubles, including rattlesnakes, politan Golf Writers Dinner in New York in stride. A Local Rule permits the golfer last month. Mr. Russell, who lost his sight who finds his ball within a club length in an accident in 1924, was honored for of a t"attlesnake to move the ball two club overcoming his physical handicap to con- lengths without penalty. The unanswered tinue playing golf and for the inspiration question: Do you keep your eye on the his struggle against blindness has been to ball or the snake when playing the next others. He is a former world blind golf shot? champion and an organizer of the Blind Golfers Association. From Tee To Wrong Green John Jay Hopkins, founder of the Inter- Is it possible to hit a ball from the sec- national Golf Association, was awarded the ond tee straight down the middle of the Gold Tee award in recognition of his con- second fairway for a distance of 230 yards tributions to golf. Due to Mr. Hopkins' and, on the same stroke, end up on the illness, the award was accepted on his be- third green? John M. MacKenzie, of the half by Frank Pace, International Golf As- Seawane Harbor Club, Hewlett, N. Y., says sociation vice-president. it is and offers the corroborating testimony The ceremony was recorded by the of his golfing partner, William J. Hanley, Armed Forces Radio for rebroadcast to the to back up his contention. armed forces overseas on the following Mr. MacKenzie hit such a drive. He Sunday. knew where it landed because it sent a flock of seagulls fluttering noisily into the WGA Elects Officers air when the ball landed among them. Carleton Blunt, of Chicago, Ill., has suc- However, when he reached the area there ceeded James 1. O'Keefe, of Chicago, as was no golf ball. President of the Western Golf Associa- Mr. MacKenzie dropped a new ball and tion. Mr. Blunt, Chairman of the Evans played on. As he and Mr. Hanley ap- Scholar Foundation for the past six years, proached the third green they saw three has been associated with the W.G.A. since balls on the green where two should have 1936. been. A closer inspection revealed the third Elected with Mr. Blunt as officers of the ball to be the one Mr. MacKenzie lost on Association for 1956 were: Vice-Presi- the second hole. A dent on the ball in the dents - Norman G. Copland, Chicago; shape of a gull's beak revealed the culpir. Cameron Eddy, Chicago; Frank H. Hoy,

USGA JOURNAL AND TURF MANAGEMENT: FEBRUARY, 1957 1 PREPARING FO'R THE AMATEUR

OHicials of the Massachusetts Golf Association presented a novel pre-Christmas package in connection with the 1957 USGA Amateur Championship to be held at The Country Club, Brookline, Mass., Sep- tember 9 to 14. The plan offered ticket purchasers an opportunity to buy season tickets providing grounds and clubhouse privileges for the six days of the tournament and the three practice days for $15. Regular season tickets, for grounds only, will cost $12. From left to right are: Joseph A. Galvin, Jt., President; John W. Goodrich, B. F. Jaques and William O. Blaney, former M.G.A. Presidents.

Milwaukee; Harold A. Moore, Chicago; votes. Burke is the ninth recipient of the James M. Royer, Chicago; George K. award. Whyte, St. Louis; Secretary-A. R. Car- Harry C. Shepard, of the Mark Twain man, Jr., Chicago; Treasurer-Walter W. Golf Course in Elmira, N. Y., was also Cruttenden, Chicago; General Counsel- honored as "Golf Professional of the Year"' Lynford Lardner, Jr., Milwaukee. for 1956 by the PGA. In receiving the award, Mr. Shepard was PGA Choices cited for contributions to the game over a period of 40 years. An active advocate of Jack Burke, Jr., winner of the 1956 PGA junior golf, Mr. Shepard has served as a and Master's Championships, has been member of many youth organization com- named " of the Year" mittees in his community. He has pro- for 1956 by the Professional Golfers' As- moted many golf tournaments and has en- sociation of America. couraged industrial golf leagues as well as The Houston, Texas, professional re- service club leagues in his community. ceived a total of lIB votes in winning the award. Dr. , of Memphis, Beharrell Honored Tenn., the 1956 USGA Open Champion, John Beharrell, 18 year old winner of was runnerup in the balloting with 82 the 1956 British Amateur Golf Champion-

2 USGA JOURNAL AND TURF MANAGEMENT: FEBRUARY, 1957 ship, was recently named Golfer of the birthday until he was just short of 80. On Year by the British Association of Golf a number of occasions he accomplished the Writers. He received the honor as the feat on his birthday. player who did most for British golf in Mr. Lyon was one a f the colorful fig- 1956. ures in Canadian sport. He played his first round of golf at the age of 38 after Wedding Bells distinctive success as a tennis player, crick- Marriage is foremost in the future plans eter, swimmer and baseball player. He was of Misses Patricia Ann Lesser, of Seattle, eight times Canadian Amateur Champion, Wash., and Barbara Romack, of Sacra- winner of the Canadian Seniors title on mento, CaL, both of whom recently became ten occasions and runner-up in the USGA engaged. Miss Lesser and Miss Romack are Amateur Championship in 1906. both former USGA Women's Amateur Champions and were members of the 1954 Miss Hoyt's Age and 1956 Curtis Cup Teams. It now develops that Miss Beatrix Hoyt Miss Lesser, the 1955 USGA Women's was 16 years old, not 17, when she won Amateur Champion, is the fiancee of John her first USGA Women's Amateur Cham- Harbottle, Jr., of Tacoma, Wash. Both are pionship in 1896 at the Morris County graduates of Seattle University where they Golf Club, in Morristown, N. J. Her cor- were members of the golf team. Mr. Har- rect birth date is July 5, 1880. bottle is currently studying at the Univer- Newspapers at the time of her victory sity of Washington Dental School. uniformly carried her age as 17, but Miss Miss Romack, the 1954 USGA Warn- Hoyt, who is living in Thomasville, Ga., ed'S Amateur Champion, is engaged to Ed- informs us that they were in error. She is, ward Wayne (Bud) Porter, a native of of course, the youngest to win the event. Alturas, Cal. The couple will be married on May I!. In addition to her competitive Education Through Goll accomplishments, Miss Romack is a mem- Golfers of the Westchester County (N. ber of the USGA Girls' Junior Committee. Y.) Golf Association have contributed a Mr. Porter is currently the associate golf total of $37,785 to the Reinach-Turnesa professional at Haggin Oaks Golf Course Scholarship Fund since its begin- in Sacramento, Cal. ning a year ago. As a result, six Time 01 Decision from Westchester County are now pursu- ing a course of study at either New York The last months of 1956 were a time of University or Fordham University. decision for five of the country's promi- nent amateur golfers. In quick succession Tournament Sites Changed came the news that , Miss Gasoline rationing resulting from the Margaret (WifH) Smith, Tommy Jacobs, Suez crisis is responsible for a change in Doug Sanders and Joe Conrad were leav- the sites of the British Amateur and Open ing amateur ranks to pursue professional Championships for 1957. golf careers. They leave amateur golf with The amateur, scheduled to be played records of distinction and best wishes for from May 27 to June I at the Royal St. future success as professional golfers. George's Golf Club, Sandwich, has been changed to the Formby Golf Club, Lan- Equalled His Age cashire, England. The Royal Canadian Golf Association will be played over The Old Course at St. has added another name to the roster of Andrews, Scotland, from July 1 through 5,. golfers who have matched their age and instead of at Muirfield, Scotland. golf score. The late George S. Lyon, of To- The new sites are nearer population ronto, Ontario, President of the R.C.G.A. centers and have much better railway trans- in 1923, equalled his age from his 69th portation than St. George's and Muirfield.

USGA JOURNAL AND TURF MANAGEMENT: FEBRUARY, 1957 3: Good News in Books before returning to Japan he reached the quarter-finals of the Metropolitan Amateur An addition to many golfing libraries Golf Championship. during the Christmas season was the new $4.95 edition of Herbert Warren Wind's epic The Story of American Golf, which Fraser M. Horn was originally published by Simon and We record with great sorrow the passing Schuster in a boxed, $15 edition in 1948. of Fraser M. Horn, General Counsel for In the interim, the text has been com- the USGA, on November 13, 1956. Mr. pletely up-dated to take into account all Horn, a partner in the New York firm developments since 1948, and the up-dat- of Curtis, Mallet-Prevost, Colt & MosIe, ing includes an entire new chapter en- had been General Counsel for the Asso- titled, appropriately, "The Age of Hogan." ciation since 1950. Anyone who could only gaze wistfully at A graduate of and the the first, expensive edition can now take Harvard Law School, Mr. Horn was a mem- the same material into his home and spend ber of the American Bar Association, New many happy winter hours getting acquaint- York State Bar Association and the Bar ed with the golfing greats-because Mr. Association of the City of New York. Wind has tremendous zest for golf history Mr. Horn had entries for many years in and a great talent for characterization. field trial circuits. His retriever, Major VI, A second pre-Christmas edition, The was the 1954 national champion of his Golfers Own Book, is a potpourri of golf class. history, a guide to golfing facilities throughout the country, golf instruction and prose in one volume. Edited by Dave Necrology Stanley and George G. Ross, the volume It is with deep regret that we record the contains a variety of information calcu- death of: lated to supply specific facts and a back- , prominent golf profes- ground of many golf subjects. Articles by sionaL Mr. Espinosa tied for Bobby Jones, , Johnny Re- the 1929 USGA Open Championship at volta, Cary Middlecoff, P. G. Wodehouse, , Mamaroneck, N. Paul Gallico, and many others, are delight- Y., but was defeated in the playoff. He was fully interspersed with a choice selection a member of the team on three of golf cartoons. occasions and won the Mexican Open Championship five times. Prince Fumitaka Konoye CLIVE T. JAFFRAY, a member of the Executive Committee of the USGA in The death of Prince Fumitaka Konoye 1909 and 1910. A well-known banker and iD. a Soviet prison camp was recently an- industrial leader in Minneapolis, Minn., nounced by the Japanese Foreign Office Mr. Jaffray was a member of the Minikahda in Tokyo. Prince Fumitaka, son of Prince Club in Minneapolis. Fumimaro, former Premier of Japan, was a well-known amateur golfer and captain WILLIE KLEIN, golf professional for the of the Princeton University golf team in past thirty years at the Wheatley Hills Golf 1937. Club, East Williston, N. Y. Mr. Klein was Educated in the United States, he was the 1938 Champion a graduate of the Lawrenceville School, and won the in 1925. Lawrenceville, N. J., in 1934. He captained REGINALD A. WHITCOMBE, 1938 Brit- the Lawrenceville golf team and reached ish Open Champion. Mr. Whitcombe was the semi-final round in the championship the Irish Open Champion in 1936 and division of the Eastern interscholastic golf played in Ryder Cup competition against tournament in Greenwich, Conn. Shortly the United States.

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