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Two-Week-Old Founder pionship this year. In all, there will be 25. There are, of course, no age limits for The qualifying rounds will be played on Founders of "Golf House." All of which Monday, June 6, except at Los Angeles, lends added interest to the following let where the qualifying will occur on Thurs ter, in part, from Mrs. Elizabeth K. Miller, day and Friday, June 2 and 3, and at San of Monroe, La.: Francisco, where the dates will be Monday Please enroll Elizabeth Stuart Miller and Tuesday, June 6 and 7. The qualify as a Founder of "Golf House." She is ing sites at Los Angeles will be the Bel- only two weeks old, but some day I Air Country Club and the Brentwood hope she will become a golfer and de Country Club; at San Francisco, the Lake rive as much pleasure from the game Merced Golf and Country Club and the as her mother. San Francisco Golf Club. The starting field in the Championship The "Golf House" Fund has increased proper at the Olympic Country Club, San to $103,5 84 and the number of Founders Francisco, on June 16, will consist of 162 now stands at 5,615. We still need $6,410. players. The Fund is for the purchase, equipment Entries must reach the USGA office by and maintenance of "Golf House." Those 5 P.M. on Friday, May 20. who have enrolled as Founders recently In addition to Los Angeles and San are: Francisco, the sectional qualifying sites Individuals are: Country Club of Birmingham, Bir Thomas Wilson Beck Mr. & Mrs. James L. Hall, Richard D. Chapman Jr. mingham, Ala.; Phoenix Country Club, F. B. Dickinson Fred T. Hogan Phoenix, Ariz.; Lakewood Country Club, J. A. Ducournau A. Patton Janssen Denver, Colo.; Columbia Country Club, C. L. Egenroad Benno Janssen, Jr. Washington, D. C; West Palm Beach Edward M. Farrell Mrs. Edith Patton Janssen Mrs. Helen Anderson Mary Patton Janssen Country Club, West Palm Beach, Fla.; Firth James V. Kelley Waialae Country Club, Honolulu, Hawaii; Mrs. Vivienne Gemmell Mrs. Winifred Campbell Lincolnshire Country Club, Chicago, 111.; Mr. & Mrs. Clarke L. Hall Kregloe New Orleans Country Club, New Orleans, Dr. & Mrs. Cameron B. Elizabeth Stuart Miller Hall Mrs. Llewellyn Miller La.; Essex County Club, Manchester, Mr. & Mrs. James L. Hall Mass.; Birmingham Country Club and Association Red Run Golf Club, Detroit, Mich.; Western Seniors' Golf Association Woodhill Country Club, Minneapolis, Minn.; Kansas City Country Club, Kansas The Open Championship City, Mo.; Bellerive Country Club, St. There will be seven fewer sectional qual Louis, Mo.; Baltusrol Golf Club (New ifying sites for the USGA Open Cham- York metropolitan), Springfield, N. J.; USGA JOURNAL AND TURF MANAGEMENT: APRIL, 1955 1 Highland Country Club, Fayetteville, Golf Day, $23,700 of which has been N. C.; Hyde Park Golf and Country Club, allotted to turfgrass research and educa- Cincinnati, Ohio; Pine Ridge Country tion, disbursed at the direction of the Club, Cleveland, Ohio; Waverley Country USGA Green Section. Club, Portland, Ore.; Philmont Country Club (North Course), Philadelphia, Pa.; .1956 Amateur Championship Chartiers Country Club, Pittsburgh, Pa.; An invitation from the Knollwood Colonial Country Club, Fort Worth, Club, Lake Forest, IlL, to entertain the Texas; The Country Club, Salt Lake City, 1956 Amateur Championship has been ac- Utah, and Seattle Golf Club, Seattle, cepted by the United States Golf Associa- \Vash. tion. The dates will be Monday through National Golf Day Saturday, September 10 to 15, inclusive. How would you like to match strokes W l D b "D S " with the reigning USGA Open Champions as tington e ates •• -on a handicap basis, that is? A topic which concerned neither world Such an opportunity will be presented problems nor the 1956 Presidential carn- to men and women golfers throughout the paign was the talk of political Washington United States on National Golf Day, Sat- recently. True to custom, it was given urday, June 4. Competition will be at 18 the alphabetical classification of uD.S."- holes handicap stroke play. Each entrant Displaced Squirrels. will pay a $1 fee and all proceeds, with When squirrels were first observed no deductions for expenses, will go to the romping about on the President's putting National Golf Fund, Inc., for disburse- green on the White House lawn, presented ment to the American Red Cross, which to him by the USGA, nothing was thought will be the principal beneficiary this year, of it. However, when the rodents began and worth-while golf charities and enter- scratching up the putting surface, it he- prises. came a serious matter. Ed Furgol, USGA Open Champion, will First, an expert in electronics was called be the opponent for men. Women will in. He suggested the use of extremely match strokes with Mrs. George Zaharias, high-pitched sound which theoretically USGA \Vornen"s Open Champion. Furgol would send the squirrels scampering. They and Mrs. Zaharias, accompanied by Gene didn't scamper. Next the Army Signal Andrews, USGA Amateur Public Links Corps tried putting together a tape re- Champion, and Allen Lee Geiberger, Jay- cording of sounds allegedly offensive to cee Junior Champion, will play at the squirrels, but it didn't offend. Olympic Country Club, San Francisco, Whereupon box-type traps were baited which will be the scene of the USGA and placed around the golf green at night. Open Championship later in June. Three squirrels were caught and transport- The USGA, which is cooperating with ed to new and roomier "homes" in wooded Life Magazine and the Professional Golfers' park areas. Association, sponsors of National Golf Then Washington became divided into Day, has urged its Member Clubs to in- two camps-Pro Squirrel and Con Squir- clude this event in their schedule of tour- reI. The former declared that squirrels on naments. Men who beat Furgol's score will the White House lawn had become a tra- receive medals. Women who top Mrs. dition which should be perpetuated. It was Zaharias' card will receive charm bracelet even hinted in some circles that banish- medals. At clubs where women's competi- ment of the little animals might be used tions are not permitted on Saturday, some as anti-capitalistic propaganda by the other day preceding June 4 may be used. Russians. In the last t~re~ years more than $317,- To which the Con Squirrel group re- 000 has been dlstnbuted through National plied that it was all very nutsy. 2 USGA JOURNAL AND TURF MANAGEMENT: APRIL. 1955 SPORTSMAN'S CORNER USCA uETIQUETTE" FILM James G. Jackson, of Glendale, Mo., a mem- CIVEN A NATIONAL AWARD ber of the 1955 Walker Cup Team, was 5 up The new USGA motion picture on Don Pegler, Jr., of Lincoln, Neb., after entitled uThe Rules of Golf-Eti- eleven holes in the first round of the Trans- Mississippi Tournament at the Cherry Hills quette" has been awarded a Recogni- Country Club, Denver, Colo., last year. tion of Merit by the Film Council of On the par 3 twelfth hole, Jackson's tee shot America. The film had been selected finished about twenty feet past the cup. Pegler's by pre-screening jurors for final com- shot landed in a dry creek-bed in front of the green. After his fourth shot, Pegler, unfor- petition in the 1955 Golden Reel Film tunately, .was still some fifteen feet from the Festival in New York, in the recrea- hole. tion class. A winner was determined At this juncture, Jackson's caddie, a lad of in each class, and Recognitions of some 14 years, who was not familiar with the rules, noticed a ball-mark between Jackson's Merit were given to a few other ball and the hole. Before Jackson could' stop leading films, of which the USGA him, the youngster repaired the ball-mark. picture was one. Whereupon Jackson immediately called the hole on himself. Pegler insisted he wouldn't There have been more than 200 take the hole, inasmuch as Jackson had a pos- bookings of the "Etiquette" picture. sible 2 and an almost certain 3 to win, but the The film is a 16 mm. Kodachrome latter was adamant. with a running time of 17¥z minutes. Pegler finally took the hole, but Jackson, after a few anxious moments, finally won the The importance of etiquette is empha- match, 3 and 2, and went on to win the tour- sized visually through various viola- nament, defeating Rex Baxter, Jr., 4 and 3, in tions of the code in the course of a the final. family four-ball match. Ben Hogan appears in several scenes. Robert T. USGA Handicap System Adopted Jones, Jr., makes the introductory The Metropolitan Golf Association has statement. approved use of the USGA Basic System Shipping of prints will be handled for computing all men's handicaps. Met- by National Educational Films, Inc., ropolitan clubs which still prefer to use 165 West 46th Street, New York 36, the USGA Current System may do so. N. Y., which produced the film in The MGA Executive Committee is ad- cooperation with the USGA. The vocating the change from the Current to rental fee is $15, which includes the the Basic System because it believes a cost of shipping the print to the Basic handicap is a truer indication of a renter. player's potential playing ability, because there will be less fluctuation in handicaps, Necrology due to erratic rounds, and because it will be easier to keep handicaps up to date. We record with much regret the pass- ing of: Partners Shoot Aces C. Dewey Allen, of Grand Rapids, on Same Hole Mich., a member of the USGA Sectional This oddity happened recently on the Affairs and Junior Championship Com- 9-hole Fort McPherson, Ga., Golf Course.