By MISS MARGARET BALL FINDING CURTIS Women's Amateur Champion, BY GREAT LADY OF THE GAME 1907.11-12 • here is a "side-show" to golf that can T be very good fun-ball finding! And Balls Found in 1959 Included: it can serve several good turns. ACE Nassau We have a Veterans Mental Hospital Air Flite Nike A.M.C. Jimmy Crane Olympic near Manchester, Mass., where a group A.lVI.C. Square Ould Newbury of us helped to create a very popular and Armstrong Tires Palmer useful . The authorities say Atomic 72 Autograph Par King that as the men don't do more than Bedford Par Maker "swipe" the ball, they can use those that Bel Aire Phil Friel Pin-Hi are so bad no one could play with them. Blue Diamond Plastic So, they usually get between 200 and 300 Bob Toski Rawlings British Comet Plymouth Champion a season from me. Bromford Po-Do Then we have Girl Scouts and Legion Championship Pro-Croydon Clix Tru Test Pro-flite sales where the next better balls sell Club Special Queen Royal very well. Then come my buddies and Custom Ram Danny Morgan Revolta myself. Don Fairfield Rocket My routine is to go down to the Essex Dot Rock-it Doubleduty 75 Royal Special County Club, Manchester, about dawn Dyna F'lite S.W. TNC on Sunday mornings-also at other times Eagle St. Regis Eastern Air Route Sam Dion when there is a tournament on. There Fairway Sam Snead are two instruments that I find very help- Field GPO Sandy Howard Fifty Sarazen ful to find and get balls with, in fact, I Finalist S;.nzen Squire might say indispensable. A stick to swish First Flight Silver Jet Flag Hi Silver King Plus the tall grass and bushes is one. I use an Floater Swan Snead Blueridge old headless steel . The other-a Flying K Star-flite retrieve-it, meant, of course, for scoop- Frisque Special Stranahan Gold Comet Supercharge Morkik ing out balls from brooks and ponds- Gold Cup Super Whippet which I use even when I'm not going near Golfcraft Sweet Shot Golf-rite Synthetic any water. I scoop into undergrowth and Tam-O-Shanter it saves me from briar and poison ivy! Powersinc Target Greenway I leave the pond to the -they Hol Hi Three Star evidently have heard that I do things J. C. Higgins Titleist J. Homan Tommv Armour with the balls I find, for last summer J. Lloyd two of them, at different times, offered a Gutta Perch a ball Top-flite Jack Burke Top Notch me some they had found-which pleased Jerry Barber Tourney me. Jet 707 True Blue A year or two ago I became conscious Johnny Palmer Turf Master K. 28 U. S. Royal that I was finding a lot of balls I'd never Lady Burke Van Gaubeau heard of, so I put them in a special Lady Spalding Victor Lake Sunapee basket. I've asked many golfers to guess Les Strokes War Flite how many different makes I'd found-the Longwear Warwick Master Wilson Jet usual answer is around 30-actually last Maxfli Wilson Star summer it was 132-with many funny Max Tuf Wil-Win Meteor Wyatt names mostly misspelled. Middlecoff 444 The queerest to me-"Square"-who Mike Souchak 50-50 would want to try to play with a square Mike Turnesa 65 Monogram - ball? Vin Gorham -.- Diamond- There are certain tricks of the trade Mustang White Power of finding balls that one learns. It ap-

USGA JOURNAL AND TURF MANAGEMENT: SEPTEMBER, 1960 17 pears that more golfers slice than hook, so if you have a hole cut through woods and haven't time to cover both sides, USGA FILM LIBRARY best choose the righthand. Naturally, more balls are lost on the "Famous Golf Courses: ," is a 18- minute film in full color. Famous holes were than the other shots except per- photographed at Troon, Prestwick, Carnous- haps for well placed brooks. Also, tie, St. Andrews, North Berwick and Muir- naturally, more are lost when they land field. out of sight of the player. "Walker CuP Highlights," is a 16-mlnute It is surprising how many one finds film tracing the early history and play for the first international golf trophy. Bob Jones, with one's feet-in both deep grass and and other Walker Cup stars leaves. are shown. The latter half of the film is in One year I found a ball made by an color. English company, with red hearts on it "St. Andrews, Cradle Of Golf," is a 14. minute, full color, 16mm travelogue of his- where we used spots. I thought how de- toric St. Andrews, Scotland, its Old Course lightfully sentimental it seemed. A little and the Royal and Ancient club- later I found one by the same company house. marked with spades. Finally I got the "First World Amateur Team Champion- ship for ," Is a 14-minute, whole set with the diamonds and clubs. full color, 16mm film of the first World Ama- I was amazed that I found between 450 teur Team Championship at St. Andrews. Twenty-nine countries compete for the and 500 a summer but I met a friend the Eisenhower Trophy. other day who makes me a piker. He goes to a hole at low tide, on the coast of "On the Green," a 17-minute, full color, 16mm presentation filmed at the Mid-Ocean Maine that is practically on an island. Club, Bermuda, illustrates correct procedures He goes in a kayak with scooping net and under the governing situations last summer got just over 1,500! arising on the putting green. I am giving to the USGA Museum at "Golf's Longest Hour," a 16mm full color production of 17112 minutes, depicts the clos- "Golf House" my collection of 133 dif- ing stages of the 1956 Open Championship. ferent makes with their unusual as well Filmed at the beautiful Oak Hill Country Club, Rochester, N.Y., it shows the eventual as well.known names. About half are winner, , set a target at marked with their maker's names- which Ben Hogan, and Ted familiar to all of us-the others don't Kroll strive in vain to beat. bother to say who made them. "Play Them As They Lie," a 16mm color production of 16V2 minutes in which Johnny One of the most interesting balls I Farrell, Open Champion of 1928,acts as In- found in 1959 was a gutta percha with termediary between Wilbur Mulligan, a be- the name "Joe Lloyd" stamped on it. ginner of unimpeachable integrity, and Joshua P. Slve, a past master in the art of Joe Lloyd won the 1897 Open Cham- breaking the Rules. The film was made at pionship at the , the Baltusrol Golf Club, Springfield, N. J., Wheaton, Ill., and he was an Englishman where Farrell is professional. who was in the United States only part "Great Moments in Golf," lets the viewer see the many interesting exhibits In "Golf of each year as a professional. He spent House," USGA headquarters in New York, his winters at Pau, France. and re-Iive golf triumphs of the past with many of the game's immortals. The film is a Now here is more of interest. Joe Lloyd 16mm black and white production and runs worked at the Essex County Club, Man- 28 minutes. chester, Mass., during those long-ago "The Rules of Golf-Etiquette" stresses summers and he undoubtedly made the the importance of etiquette by portrayal of various violations of the code in the course gutty ball which I found. of a family four-ball match. Ben Hogan ap- How did it come to be in the rough pears in several scenes, and Robert T. Jones, Jr., makes the introductory state- on the first hole?Who knows for sure? ment. A 16mm color production of 17V2 But, this I know, it had not lain there minutes. for 60-odd years. I've been through that The distribution of prints is handled by grass hundreds of times and would have National Educational Films, Inc., 165 West 46th Street, New York 36, N. Y., which pro- found the ball long ago. duced the films in cooperation with the USGA. The rental is $20 per film; $35 for It is my guess that someone either two; $50 for three; $60 for four and $70 for dropped the old ball recently or took it five, in combination at the same time, in- out and hit it to see how a gutty acted. cluding the cost of shipping prints to the renter. They probably could not find the ball but I'm so glad that I did.

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