BUDD BED BLADES Both of Which Factors Make a Little Go a Long Way

All Can Have Them Now! "Would like to have them but can't afford it" is a thing of the past. Increased production and decreased manufacturing cost bring this efficient, 4 cutting edge blade within the price of all. Write f«r new Price List "GG" and full details. A postal will do BUDD MFG. CO., Ravenna, Ohio BUDD BED BLADES both of which factors make a little go a long way. In controlling sod webworms, buy <-m;i;\s one gallon of finished spray will thorough- Hint u ilhsUtinl Uviii I ly treat about one square yard of surface, which makes the cost extremely moderate. Moreover, one thorough application will generally guard against a return of the pests for the balance of the season."

LAB REPORT APPROVES ALTA-CO AS GOLFER-FOOT PREVENTIVE Westport, Conn.—Tests made by Pease Laboratories, Inc., and citing confirmatory remarks of the government investigators, I.ay them down give an excellent showing to Alta-Co, ath- like a carpet! Hundreds of landscape architects, golf and lete's foot preventive, made by C. B. Dolge country clubs, greenkeepers, parks, athletic Co. Prevention of the disease is assured, fields. estates. homes. etc., use Illinois Grass Co.'s True Washington Strain Creeping according to reports of the tests, by im- Bent in solid turf form. Our greens with- mersion in a foot bath of Alta-Co and in stood the heat waves of the past two years like nothing else. Furnished in rolls ready other test cases cures were effected. De- to lav down like a carpet. Extremely hardy spite exposure to new infection, the cures and uniform in texture: is mowed with a were made lasting during the period of the putting green mower and is hand-weeded at our nurseries. Guaranteed to grow vigor- test by treatment with Alta-Co, which is a ously into rich, velvety greens if properly material supplied for use in bath depart- cared for. Our scientific nursery methods of propagation and growth are unexcelled. Also ments of golf clubs. sold in stolon form, packed 250 sq. ft. to the bag, same high quality as the turf. We also grow Blue Grass sod. W. C. TYSON NOW WITH BOLSA Write today for price«, samples and facts Chicago, 111.—W. C. (Bill) Tyson has re- about our unusual service. signed his position as general sales man- ,1. A. CARTER, Sales A»tent—75 E. Wmkrr ager of the Friend Mfg. Co. and has asso- I>rive, Chicago, or the nurseries at ciated himself with Bolsa Supply Co. of ILLINOIS GRASS CO. Oak Park, 111., mid-western distributors of 18455 Re i get Road, l>ept. »02. Home wood. 111. the Friend Co. Tyson will devote himself largely to fur- thering the golf course equipment business of the Bolsa company. FRASER'S 1932 "ELECTRIC CHAIR" DEALS DEATH (10th Annual Edition) TO INSECT OFFENDERS Ready Now—Price $2.50 Chicago, 111.—Frost Electric Screen Sales World-Wide Club Directory section, Co., 6 N. Michigan avenue, now has ex- 9,000 Clubs. clusive sales rights for Frost electric Separate alphabetical U. S. Golf Profes- screen. This is a device having adjacent sionals List 2657 names. wires of opposite polarity. Current is Fraser's Aims to answer every question stepped up by special transformer to volt- about Golf. age high enough to be fatal to insects but non-injurious to men or animals. FRASER'S INTERNATIONAL GOLF YEAR BOOK Golf club kitchens and resturants have numerous installations of the screen. 23 East 26th Street New York City OLD ORCHARD CREEPING RENT HARDY — SOFT — UPSTAXDIX« Economical to rare for OLD ORCHARD KENT «¿HAS* NURSERY Rox :i."»0 --- MadiNon. Wiw. Classified Ads* Rates: 10 cents a word per issue. Minimum charge $2.50

An advertisement in GOLFDOM saves the club officials time and money by getting responses from the best men available. The club department heads who advertise for positions in GOLFDOM obviously identify themselves as men who go after their problems in the right way. They are good men for you to give preference.

Manager for town or country club; first- General Manager successful Northern club class caterer. Can handle accounts. Good seeks Southern golf club for winter operation. supervisor of personnel. Wife is able assist- Specialist in building memberships, increasing ant. Will consider salary, concession or any patronage, adjusting finances, augmenting in- equitable arrangement. Address: Ad 7005, come, balancing budget, maintaining course % Golfdom, Chicago. and developing good will. Address: Ad 6002, % Golfdom, Chicago. Pro-Manager—Age 37, family. Three years at present position. College education; busi- Need capital? Golf club operator with ness experience. Good player, successful record of many years' experience in develop- teacher, with fine results in promotion and ing profitable club income, wishes to invest management. Member of I'. G. A. Best ref- in daily fee or non-equity membership propo- erences. Address: Ad 7004, % Gvlfdom, sition needing finances and well qualified Chicago. operator. Address: Ad 1505, % Golfdom, Club Manager—17 years' experience as Chicago. steward, accountant, secretary. Competent to manage all internal departments. Highest tes- Wanted—Position as greenkeeper. I am timonals. Address: John Benson. 315 W. employed as greenkeeper at present. Am mar- 94th St., New York. ried and could manage the clubhouse also. Can save money in maintenance. Address: Couple experienced in management of club- Ad 7008, % Golfdom, Chicago. house and grounds, desires connection. A-l references, available immediately, anywhere. Greenkeeper-Pro—D e s i r e s position any- Address: Ad 7001, % Golfdom. Chicago. where. Well-known authority on maintenance, First-class greenkeeper and course con- remodeling, landscaping, designing, construc- structor of extensive and successful experi- tion, irrigation, soil analysis, turf culture of ence now is available at moderate figure. Is golf courses. Ability and integrity unques- expert in operating on low budgets. Highest tionable. Available immediately. Address: recommendations. Address: Ad 7000, % Ad 7006, % Golfdom, Chicago. Golfdom, Chicago. Pro-Manager—Expert teacher, high credit Caddie master, starter, etc., with thorough standing, long experience, excellent references. experience; ten years at last club; desires Would consider assistant's berth. Prefers new location. Thoroughly competent, depend- opportunity where economical management of able and resourceful man. Scotch birth. 45 course and clubhouse is appreciated. Address: years old. University graduate. Due to war Ad 7007, % Golfdom, Chicago. injuries compelled to be in open air. Excel- lent man for private or fee club. Also com- Veteran greenkeeper, highest recommenda- petent in club repairing and general duties. tions and thorough experience in excellent Address: Ad 7002, % Golfdom, Chicago. maintenance at low cost, is available for new For Sale—Excellent and highly profitable location. Thoroughly versed in every detail 18-hole golf course joining limits of city of of maintenance and construction work. Can twenty thousand. Address: A. W. Cline, Cof- lie employed at moderate salary. For full feyuille, Kansas. details write: Ad 7003, % Golfdom, Chicago.

TRUE METROPOLITAN and WASHINGTON Racks Cards CREEPING BENT STOLONS HANDICAP Cheaper than you can grow them. I will have a supply John Willy Handicap Racks and Cards are of excellent Stolons of the Metropolitan and Washing- standard with practically all the leading ton Strain of Creeping Bent, which will be ready for fall delivery, beginning about the middle of August. American golf clubs. Write /or booklet. Let me book your order now. Special Prices. JOHN WILLY, Inc., Mcrchand.se Mart DR. H. B. PACK, Post Office and Telegraph Address, North Bank Drive, CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, U. S. A. Pamplin, Va. This Helps Your Buying Use this page to notify GOLFDOM of your club's requirements for course, clubhouse and pro shop, and you will get prompt and complete details from leading manufacturers. Mail to GOLFDOM, 205 W. Wacker Drive, Chicago.

Announcement Board« Floor, furniture wax Score cards Ant eradicators Fly and insect sprays Score card pencils Athlete» foot preventive*— Furniture—clubhouse, lawn. Scythes—motor driven Absorblne Jr. Foot-Rub porch, grounds Seed—fairway, green Arsenate of lead Garters, Gloves Seeders Awnings Ginger si* Shafts—hickory, steel Bars—canvas. leather Handicap cards, racks Shelters, course Bag Racks, tee Health scales Shoes Balls—what price? ( ) Hole cutters, rims Shoe trees Ball markers Hose—water Showers Ball washers Hosiery Shrubs, trees Bath slippers—paper, rub- Humus Silverware Soap—bath, flakes, laundry ber, wood Ice-cnbe machines Sockettes Bath towels Insecticides Sod cutters Benches—locker, tee Kitchen equipment Soda fountains Bent stolons Knickers—linen, wool Soil analysing service Bird houses Laundry equipment Soil screeners Bookkeeping system* Lawn sweepers Soil shredders Brown-patch preventives Leather Jacket« Soil—Sterilising equipment Buffing motors, supplies Linens Sprayers, power, hand Caddie badges l/ockers Spike Discs Caddie candy bars Meats, tinned—chicken, ham Spreaders Caddie time-clocks baked, ham boiled Sprinklers—portable, Caddie uniforms Mineral waters automatic Calks (for golf shoes) Mole traps, poisons Sprinkling carts Caps Movie cameras, projectors Sweaters Cheese Mowers—green, fairway, tee, Swimming pools Chlckweed eradicators rough Tags, tickets Cigars, Cigarettes Mower blades, sharpeners Tanks Clothes dryers Peats Tea room equipment Clubs—Irons, putters, wom- Pipe—drain, water Tee boxes en's, wood, matched sets riayground equipment Tee data-plates Club racks Playing cards Teeing devices Compost distributors Practice balls—knit, rubber Tee markers Compost mixers Practice driving device« Tee mats—cocoa, rubber Deodorants Practice nets Tees, patented Dishwashers Practice putting devices Tee umbrellas Dishwashing powder Prizes, trophies Tennis court equipment Disinfectants Pumps Tractors Putting cups Drinking fountains Tractor wheels, wheel spuds Ruin Jackets Dump carts Uniforms—waiters', maids', Refrigerators Electric systems caddies', bus-boys' Restaurant checks Fencing Water coolers Fertilizers Rollers—fairway, green. Water softeners spiked Water systems Fertilizer distributors Rugs Water system engineer Flags, flag poles Runners—corridors, locker Weed kiUers Flood lights aisles Worm eradicators

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Date 1932. AUGUST Vol. 6 1932 Qolflom No. 8

Editor Advertising Manager Published 1st of each month HERB GRAFFIS JOE GRAFFIS Eastern Representative 205 W. Wacker Drive Western Representative ALBRO GAYLOR Chicago, I1L DWIGHT H. EARLY 20 Vesey St., N. Y. City 100 N. LaSalle St., Chicago Tel. STAte 3160-1 Tel. Cortlandt 7-4031 Tel. CENtral 4158 Pacific Coast, HALLETT COLE, 211 New Orpheum Bldg. Tel. Tucker 6428, Los Angeles, Cai.

EDITORIAL CONTENTS Midseason Survey Shows Golf in Good Shape. By Herb Graffis 9 How False Economy Steals Greens Budget. By T. H. Riggs-Miller 12 "Back to Player" Is Pro Keynote. By Alex Pirie 16 Dubs Howl for Soft Greens. By Arthur Langton 18 Pros Should Look to Lessons for Income. By B. R. Leach 22 Science Wages Webworm War. By Richard H. Vose 26 Pro Builds Own Fee Course. By Herb Graffis 29 Greens Boss "Tells All" 31 P. G. A. Membership at New High 38 "Old Doc Schacht" Prescribes Sales Remedy 42 Aeration of Turf Important Conditioner. By G. H. Kaley 52

ADVERTISERS' INDEX Acme Mole Trap, The 60 McLaughlin-Gormley-King Co 55 Allerton House 58 Milorganite 32-33 American Cyanamid Co 5 Nelson Mfg. Co., L. R 6

Bayer-Semesan Co Second Cover Old Orchard Bent Grass Nursery. 61 Buckner Mfg. Co 2 Pack, Dr. H. B ) 62 Budd Mfg. Co., The 61 Peckham, A. N 57 Carrier, Lyman 60 Pere Marquette Hotel 59 Codeball Company of America 51 Piccadilly Hotel, Inc 59 Converse Co., Inc., F. S 2 Pletzcker, Geo 56 Premier Poultry Manure Co 4 I)es Moines Glove & Mfg. Co 50 Pyratone Products Corp 50 Diamond Calk Horseshoe Co 60 Dow Chemical Company 1 Roseman Tractor Mower Co 8 Dunlop Tire & Rubber Co 46 Royer Foundry & Machine Co 6 Florex Gardens, The 58 Scott & Sons Co., O. M 6 Fraser Publishing Co 61 Sewerage Commission, The 32-33 Staude Mak-A-Tractor Co., E. G 56 Glens Falls Open 50 Stokes Rubber Co., Jos 49 Godwin, Hiram F 4 Stumpp & Walter 3 Golf Course Commonsense Third Cover Toro Mfg. Co 7-54-57-59 Illinois Grass Co 61 United States Rubber Co Back Cover Kemp Mfg. Co 60 Kroydon Company 45 Wanamaker, John 48 Willy, John 62 Lewis Co., G. B 54 Wilson-Western Sporting Goods Co 41 McClain Brothers 54 Worthlngton Mower Co 53 McCormick Bros 2 Young Company, L. A 36-37 Soils? Use Your Grasses? Green Section Insects? Research Service The two United States Golf As- Diseases? sociation experimental turf gardens at Arlington, Va., and West Lake Forest, III., and the 20 demonstra- • • • • find your solution to tion turf gardens at golf clubs have these and other problems of the answers to many of your mainte- modern maintenance in nance problems. Practical, working course super- intendents and the internationally noted turf scientists of the Green GOLF COURSE section, working in close association on a definite plan, have made available for you at these stations a vast COMMON SENSE fund of valuable course maintenance By G. A. FARLEY information. These stations always are open to visitors interested. At the turf HIS valuable and practical gardens Green section men are in Tguide to successful greenkeeping attendance and at the demonstra- explains in detail, the methods of tion gardens the superintendent at the country's foremost greenkeepers. the club will gladly explain the A complete manual of greenkeeping work and its findings. in simple, usable form; each chapter Make use of the Green section 1 stations in correctly and thriftily is rich in working instructions. solving your turf problems.

Partial Table of Contents EXPERIMENTAL TURF GARDENS WHERE GREEN SECTION RESEARCH Soils, Fertilization and Growth. IS CONDUCTED: Grasses. Fairways. Hazard». Arlington Turf Garden, Arlington, Va. Weeds and Diseases. Mid-West Turf Garden, West Lake Forest, III. Equipment and Supplies. DEMONSTRATION TURF GARDENS ON Greenkeeping in the South. GOLF COURSES: Golf Course Trees. Drainage and Water System«. Charles River Country Club, Newton Centre, Mass. Hyde Park Golf & Country Club, Cincinnati, Ohio. Tees. Putting Greens. Detroit Golf Club, Detroit, Mich. Topdressings and Turf Repair. Lochmoor Club, Detroit, Mich. Birds, Animals and Insects. Meadowbrook Country Club, Detroit, Mich. Indian Trails Golf Club, Grand Rapids, Mich. Keeping Course Records. Century Country Club, New York, N. Y. Growing Choice Flower«. Upper Monclair Country Club, New York, N. Y. Wheatley Hills Golf Club, New York, N. Y. Keller Golf Club, St. Paul, Minn. t The price, postpaid, $4.00 Municipal Golf Course, Niagara Falls, N. Y. Philadelphia Country Club, Philadelphia, Pa. Pine Valley Golf Club, Clementon, N. J. Allegheny Country Club, Pittsburgh, Pa. Oakmont Country Club, Pittsburgh, Pa. GOLFDOM Country Club of Virginia, Richmond, Va. Westwood Country Club, St. Louis, Mo. BOOK DEPARTMENT Royal York Hotel Golf Club, Toronto, Ontario. Tulsa Country Club, Tulsa, Oklahoma. 205 W. Wacker Drive CHICAGO Sedgefield Country Club, Greensboro, N. Car.