The Broadmoor GC in Springs, Colo, starts off the summer re- sort season with an intercollegiate tourney, May 15-16 . . . Seven more events are scheduled through August . . . Other events at the Broadmoor include theater, beauty contests, rodeos, ice revues, ski and hockey events . . . The Dixie Amateur at Palmetto CC in , Fla. was won by Dave Smith of Gastonia, N.C. with a 72-hole total of 286, two-over-par . . . Held in mid-Feb., the Dixie provided early comment on the new USGA rules . . . Reaction was mixed, as could be ex- pected . . . Most of the discussion cent- ered on Rule 34, covering a ball striking an unattended flagstick . . . Feeling SWINGING seemed to be that this rule will slow play on the green. AROUND The next big Miami event is the Pan American Golf championship at Doral GOLF CC, April 13-19 . . . Sponsored by the newly-organized International Amateur News of the Golf Golf Association, invitations have been sent to leading amateurs in all Latin World in Brief American countries, the Bahamas, Jamaica and the Netherland Antilles . . . The 108- hole medal-play tourney is expected to By HERB GRAFFIS draw over 200 players who will compete for the championship crown at 72 holes and for the Smathers Cup at 36. All hazards on a course are not de- signed and planned to add interest to the FRONT COVER game ... A recent PGA report shows golf accidents up from 15,000 in 1961 to You can't always depend on the weather to tell if spring has arrived, so maybe 18,000 in 1962 ... The majority, 10,000 the best tipoff is a golf show. Or, at mishaps, were caused by golf balls hitting least, people in New York, , golfers and nine per cent were caused by and Chicago must have carelessly swung clubs . . . Heat prostra- thought that in recent weeks when they visited downtown hotels and exhibition tion felled 10 per cent and over-exertion halls and found that the golfers had disabled seven per cent . . . Golf cars taken over. On the cover you see Harlan caused seven per cent of the accidents Will, pro at Overbrook GC in the Philly . . . In terms of number of rounds played, area, helping a show visitor fight his way out of the sand. golf certainly can't be classed as a dan- gerous sport but still there are the physi-

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EDITORIAL INDEX Page 178 Details of a National Amateur Tourna- ment of Champions were recently an- nounced by Bob Drum in Philadelphia, Pa. . . . According to the plan, club champions in four flights will compete

Selfdem Is published monthly except Nov. and Dae. Accepted aa Controlled Circulation Postage Paid at eel* Plaaea addreee ell advertising, circulation & editorial correspondence to GOLFDOM. 407 S. Devbern St., Chl«i»e «0MS. sometime in May at selected courses in Antonio, Tex., originally scheduled a each state . . . State Champions in each $2,500 pro-amateur contest to be held on flight will be invited to compete at the opening day . . . Entry registration re- Doral CC in Miami, Fla. . . . Applications quests were greater than officials had ex- of 1963 club champions should be in pected, so tourney sponsors got an okay Drum's office in the Wellington Hotel, from PGA headquarters to add a second Philadelphia office by mid-April. $2,500 pro-am match at the Pecan Valley The Nevele CC in Ellenville, N.Y., CC in . . . About 50 pros and plans weekly hole-in-one tourneys on 150 amateurs will compete in each of the Saturday afternoons . . . Also in the offing pro-am events. at Nevele is a new 9-hole layout . . . , who finished third on Ground was broken last month for the the Ladies' PGA offical money list in new 18-hole course in Clinton, Pa. . . . 1963, has signed as playing pro at the The Clinton course will be open gratis Trelawny Club in Runaway Bay, Jamaica one day a week to students from the . . . Marilynn's contract calls for eight local high school . . . Fees at the Sleepy weeks a year at the club . . . Five-foot- Hollow and Manakiki courses in Cleve- three, 107-pound , the land, O., have been lowered and a new "Little " of the Ladies' PGA tour, nine-hole beginners' course is being finished sixth on the 1963 official money planned . . . Fear of airplane mishaps near list . . . However, Sandra points out, her MacArthur airport in Islip, N.Y., have led roughest shots are the wedge and three- to the purchase of vacant 287-acres from quarter nine-iron from 50 to 100 yards in a realty development firm . . . Planned to the green . . . Her performance on for the site is an 18-hole course plus play- these shots tends to be erratic, either too ground, picnic and recreation facilities. short or too long . . . Sandra hopes to Another winter-season assistant of overcome these difficulties by increasing Claude Harmon at Thunderbird CC in her weight and strengthening her hands Palm Springs, Calif., is Don Callahan . . . and arms. Don won't be returning to Echo Lake CC Copies of the PGA Professional Guide in Westfield, N.J. this spring . . . He's de- go to graduates of the PGA Business cided to join Harmon as assistant at schools and the Ladies' PGA National Winged Foot in Mamaroneck, N.Y. . . . Golf School . . . Containing some 40 It still looks as if the 1964 Tournament articles covering all phases of the golf of Champions at Desert Inn CC in Las profession, copies can be obtained from Vegas, Nev. April 30-May 1, will have a PGA headquarters or the Ladies' PGA record number of tourney winners to public relations office . . . Cost is $2. start . . . Lack of title claims in 1963-64 by any single circuit member has spread Fred Bove, president of the South the starting field. Calif. GCSA, spotlighted a sticky subject in the chapter's March newsletter ... It The 1964 Intercollegiate In- would have been easier for Bove to ignore vitational and the 1964 Intercollegiate discussion of kickbacks from manufactur- Championship were both scheduled at ers' representatives, but he felt it was a Cape Coral (Fla.) CC April 2-4 to attract subject that might need airing . . . Prob- the largest possible number of collegiate ably this sort of thing isn't common, but stars during the spring layoff . . . John when it does happen, as Bove points out, Derr, Jack Whitaker and Chris Schenkel it smears the whole profession of course will handle announcing duties for the supts. CBS telecasts of the Masters at Augusta (Ga.) National CC April 11-12 . . . Cam- To condense Bove's thoughts on the eras will be located at the 15th through matter: The supt. who accepts kickbacks 18th holes. is cheating his club, is guilty of con- spiracy and of maintaining improper rec- The $40,000 Texas Open, to be played ords of expenditures . . . Such action this month at Oak Hills CC in San doesn't go unnoticed for long by alert club officials . . . When such legally and been stopped by spectators on the mound morally corrupt practices are uncovered, before it went into the 16th hole pond chances are 10 to 1 the offending supt. . . . Now the green is almost an island and will lose his job ... In replacing such a a misplaced shot can easily hit either supt., club officials are likely to deny water hazard. purchasing responsibilities to the new Tommy Vaughn, for 15 years pro at man . . . When a job loses some of its Hillcrest CC, Indianapolis, resigns to be- responsibilities, it is logical that the salary come president, pro and manager at is decreased . . . Kickbacks are an un- Shady Hills GC, Inc., Marion, Ind. . . . savory practice, to use Bove's words, an Shady Hills formerly was known as the "ugly business", one that supts. with pro- AJC course . . . Vaughn, Joseph F. Sex- fessional responsibility scrupulously avoid. ton, W. Lawrence Sexton, and Richard Hylbert Hams, formerly manager at Shiel bought the 18-hole course and club- Barrington Hills, Sunset Ridge and Park house . . . Tommy is one of five brothers Bidge CCs in 111. and at Green Meadows who have been pros . . . Bronte, Tex., to Country Inn in Columbus, O., has been have 9-hole course . . . Twin Lakes CC to appointed manager at the new Long have two 18s in $35 million subdivision Grove (111.) CC . . . The course was de- east of Palm Springs, Calif. signed by Robert Bruce Harris of Chicago Dennis, Mass., to build municipal . . . Clubhouse facilities alone are said to course to plans of Henry C. Mitchell . . . represent a $2-million investment. Lone Palm 18 being built at Lakeland, Women's Western Golf Association Fla., is bordered by 300 home sites . . . championship set for July 20-25 at Oak Bill Markham and Fred Barnard building Park (111.) CC . . . Other events on the Ironwood GC at Gainesville, Fla. . . . WWGA schedule include the Junior In- Macon County Park commission plans to vitational at Glen Flora CC, Waukegan, build nine at Lafayette, Tenn. . . . Build- 111., Aug. 3-7 . . . Gene Borek is set for ing muny course at Ontario, Ida. . . . Ex- his first season as head pro at Pine Hollow pect to have municipal 18 at Concord, CC in East Norwich, L.I., N.Y. ... The Calif, in play by summer. new head pro at Bellport (N.Y.) GC is Carson Meadows, Inc., to build 18 in Nick Petrillo . . . The second annual edu- new development at Carson City, Nev. . . . cation forum of the Metropolitan Section Edward H. Conner, Lafayette, Calif., of the PGA will be held at Westchester building 9-hole course . . . Shadow Lake CC in Rye, N.Y., April 20 . . . Steve CC, near Littleton, Colo., opens this Sinko, former Duquesne University foot- spring . . . Walter Sikes, Amarillo, Tex., ball great, professional star, college coach is the architect . . . Erie County (N.Y.) and athletic director, has joined the plans new course near Hamburg . . . Athletic Institute as eastern field repre- Placid Lakes Development Co. is plan- sentative. ning to build 18 at Lake Placid, Fla. Several spectator improvements have Gordon Leishman goes from River been made at the Augusta (Ga.) National Road CC, Louisville, Ky., pro post to Idle GC for this year's Masters, April 9-12 . Hour CC, Lexington, Ky., succeeding the New and enlarged scoreboards have been late Alvey Hume . . . Leishman's assistant, placed on the 8th, 10th and 14th while Gary Feklman, succeeds him at River spectator mounds and bleachers have Road . . . Pete Grandison returns after been added or enlarged at the 7th, about 20 years absence to pro job at 14th and 15th . . . The major change in Bowling Green (Ky.) CC . . . Harold Sieg, the course affecting players is the elimina- pro at Golden Valley GC, Minneapolis, tion of the spectator mound behind the in association with a few physicians, has popular 15th green . . . Looking toward been making interesting use of an elec- the cup, competitors will have an un- tronic "tranquilizer" device in relieving obstructed view of the 16th hole pond as members' tension . . . Hartford (Conn.) well as the familiar 15th hole pond . . . GC is altering course to design of Bill In the past, a too-strong shot would have and Dave Gordon . . . Work being done E. C. Holt of Texas A&M is speaking to a group of supts. attending the Southern Turfgrass Association's annual meeting in Memphis, Tenn. The February meeting had a record attendance of 208. Andy Mortimer of the Lakewood GC, Grand Hotel, Point Clear, Ala. was elected president of STA. Geo. McKay of the U.S. Navy GC in Memphis is vice-president and Reg Perry of Turfaid, Inc., Memphis is secretary-treasurer. by staff of Supt. Don McKay ... Pro Bob at Okinawa, serving in the Marine Corps. Bodington at Hartford GC is getting new Ronald J. Reiner now pro at Fairmont pro shop as result of clubhouse remodel- CC, Chatham, N.J., succeeds the late ing . . . and Jock Hutchi- Ralph Romano ... V. W. Lee now man- son, Jr., this year were first father-son pair ager, Hoosier Heights CC, Tell City, Ind., in PGA Seniors . . . Tom Clark, pro replaced Tom Rittenhouse who now is emeritus at Blue Hills CC, Kansas City, manager at Mexico (Mo.) CC . . . Stan Mo., was oldest player in the Seniors' Dudas now director of golf at Princeton field . . . Tom is 86. CC, near Trenton, N.J. Popular feature of Lew Oder's new pro A $10,000 total purse was recently an- shop at Licking Springs GC, Newark, O., nounced for the Northern New Jersey and is a two-hole putting course . . . Sime Staten Island PGA match, May 13-15, at Braio, who has been supt. at Worcester Rockaway River CC in Denville, N.J. . . . (Mass.) CC for 42 years, has resigned and Making up the purse is a $4,000 Dodge is succeeeded by his son-in-law, John Al- Polara and $6,000 in cash prizes . . . The monte . . . Almonte has been Braio's as- Rockaway tourney is the richest available sistant since 1955 and graduated from U to N.J. and Staten Island pros in their of Mass. course management school in home area . . . Cash backer for the match 1950 . . . Braio was away from Worcester is the North N.J. Dodge Dealers Adver- CC 10 years while he was supt. at Wa- tising Association. chusett CC, West Boylston, Mass. . . . Bob Benning, former assistant to Wes Stewart L. Sprinkle now pro at Floridan Ellis at Mountain Ridge in West Cald- CC, Howey-in-the-Hills, Fla. well, N.J., returns from Palm Springs, High tribute to a golf professional as Calif, to take head pro spot at Plainfield a community leader was paid at funeral (N.J.) CC . . . While in Calif., Benning services for Earl Fry who had been pro was an assistant to Claude Harmon at at the Alameda (Calif.) municipal course Thunderbird . . . The Plainfield job was since it opened in 1927 . . . Earl is sur- formerly held by Bill Moran, who re- vived by four brothers, all professionals: signed Jan. 1 . . . The Plainfield pro shop Mark at Alameda, Fred at Pacific Grove, is a new $60,000 layout and includes a Dick at Oakland and Tom at San Mateo unique indoor teaching room. . . . Earl's widow and a daughter, Mrs. Illinois state championship of the an- Elizabeth Warner, also survive him . . . nual National Amateur Tournament of Edward, son of Mr. and Mrs. Earl Fry, Champions will be held at St. Andrews was one of the most promising young G&CC in West Chicago, 111., May 18th amateurs in California . . . He was killed . . . Supt. Bob Parvin and Pro-Manager Jimmy Todd will decide the opening date for new 18 built by Morris County, N.J. . . . They hope to permit play in early May . . . Total Morris golfers already signed up exceeds 1,000 at $5 per mem- bership . . . Billy Farrel of Scotch Plaines (N.J.) G&CC is the new head pro at Stanwich CC in Greenwich, Conn. . . . Sixty acres have been cleared and planted for a new course in Cape Haze, Fla. . . . Jefferson, (Pa.) CC plans to open 9-hole course and swimming pool on June 1. George Astor, pro at the Fountainebleau Hotel in Miami Beach, Fla., will take over the pro spot at Poland Spring (Me.) GC . . . The Heritage CC in Charlton, Mass., will have the first 12 of 18 holes com- pleted by mid-Julv . . . Pro Don Hoenig is a partner in the $350,000 Heritage lay- METE-R-MATIC out . . . Jimmy Nichols, the noted one- POWERED TOP DRESSER armed golf pro, has left his position at The only machine of its kind with exclusive re- the Hillandale Club in Trumbull. Conn., volving brush that drives top dressing down to the base of the turf . . . where it belongs! One and moved to the new Jabish CC in man can do the complete top dressing job alone Belchertown, Mass. . . . Jimmy's spring because raking, pole whipping, and mat dragging is practically eliminated. Mechanically positive schedule includes an exhibition with Chi dispensing mechanism does not depend on agita- Chi Bodriquez, and tion or vibration for spreading. Dock Goss in Atlanta, Ga. • Genuine Terra-Tires on traction wheels • Complete control system within reach of operator Hal Cahoon, Jr., assumed duties as head pro at Navesink CC on April 1 even though the Middletown, N.J., course EDGE-R-RITE won't officially open until Memorial Day POWERED TURF EDGER . . . Somers (N.Y.) CC, formerly a private • Safe (non-spinning), vertical oscillating operation, will open its improved facilities cutting blade. to the public, according to the new • Cleaner, sharper trim owners . . . The Ponderosa Estates and edges. Trimmings easily gathered. Golf Club, being developed in Sanford, • One setting for depth N. C., by pro Jim Overton, is a country and angle of cut. club and housing project . . . Pinecrest CC • Controls mounted on handle bar. in Emerson, N. J., will open for spring play . . . Cavalry Club in Manlius, N. Y., near Syracuse, is planning to build a Badan SOD CUTTER Though compact in size, the course . . . Eleven new courses are SOD MASTER Bantam is a giant for work . . . cutting sod clean- scheduled to open in the Philadelphia ly and easily at a rate in excess of 120 ft. per min- PGA area this year . . . N. C. Ginther, Jr., ute! Extremely easy to handle. Exclusive developer of the Eldorado GC in Hous- cutting action slices through sod. ton, Tex., has plans for a $60,000 pro • Duo-control handle controls shop and lockerroom. both depth and of c Luke Ross, a veteran golf pro and former caddy for , has been named head pro at Berkshire Hills CC Write for free catalogs 5DD [T]H5TER near Chesterland, O. . . . Delray Beach (Fla.) CC, onetime muny sold to private 3456 No. Washington Ave. • Minneapolis, Minn operators is up for re-sale ... A 9-hole course for beginning golfers is proposed new facilities to include pro shop, short for the Rocky River Reservation near course, new 9-hole layout and lounge . . . Cleveland, O. . . . Keenandoa Club, near Both San Bernadino County and River- Utica, N.Y., hopes to begin construction side County in Calif., plan public course of $190,000 course, clubhouse, tennis in the Prado Basin . . . Dec., 1964, has courts, swimming pool and picnic area been set as the target date for clubhouse with the backing of the federal Farmers construction at Miami Lakes CC in Home Administration as soon as weather Hialeah, Fla. permits . . . Delhi, N.Y., is showing con- New private CC is planned for Prentiss, siderable interest in golfing facilities for Miss., with golf, swimming, horseback- the area . . . Heavy bulldozers are at riding and tennis facilities . . . Inglewood, work on the new 18-hole course at Calif., has a new 18-hole Par 3 course Green's Folly farm near Sinai, Va. . . . under way as part of a condominium de- Completion is set for later this year. velopment . . . About 170 golfers out of Orange County, N.Y., plans to add the Chicago District Golf Association's second nine to existing layout and club- 20,758 members are listed as having house facilities . . . Bowling Green, O., handicaps of 3 or under . . . Average city council is considering the lease of handicap in the CDGA is 17.4 . . . Ken public lands for 15 years at $500 per, to Flanders, supt. at Brae Burn CC in Hous- local country club . . . The lease spells ton, Tex., is laid up with a serious back out a no race, color or creed restriction injury . . . Scheduled to speak to the . . . Immediate construction is slated for Texas Turfgrass group on May 12 are conversion of the old Studebaker Proving Tom Mascaro, president of West Point gounds in St. Joseph County near South Products, and lim Lipari of the Upjohn Bend, Ind. . . . Plans include 18-hole Co. course, ski facilities, swimming pools and Cherokee County, S. C., received a ice skating areas. loan of $248,000 from the federal govern- Board of Directors of the North Shore ment's Farmers Home Administration for CC in Milwaukee, Wis., have recom- construction of a course . . . The Cherokee mended relocation to the members . . . layout will be called Golf Ted Kroll, so the story goes, was recom- and Recreation Club ... In Indianapolis, mended for his new pro job at Franklin Ind., 188 acres have been set aside for Hills CC near Detroit, Mich., by former new muny 18 to be built next year . . . President Dwight D. Eisenhower . . . Cedar Rock CC, a new course and home Wally Burkemo has moved from Franklin development near Lenoir, N.C., should be Hills to of Detroit . . . ready for autumn play . . . Pine Ridge Fred Lindstrom and his wife, the former Golf Center in Waterville, Me., will open Murle McKenzie, return as co-pros to in early spring . . . Designed by James Pleasant Valley CC in Sutton, Mass. Schoenthaler, Pine Ridge is said to be Coke County, Tex., adding five holes the most modern and compact 9-hole lay- to existing four at Bronte, and plans to out in central Maine . . . Petersburg, Va., operate the course for the public . . . is selling its 9-hole muny to private rec- Fargo, N.D., is taking bids for construc- reation club for reported $25,000. tion of a 9-hole Par 3 . . . Columbus, O., plans 18-hole layout ... To be located Berrien Hills CC in St. Joseph, Mich., in the picturesque Rock River area of is ready for spring with its enlarged and north-central Illinois, a new 18-hole course remodeled clubhouse . . . Remodeling at will be started this fall as an early step in the Shore Hills CC in Rock Island, 111., a land development called "Lost Nations". will run about $180,000 for an improved Goshen, Conn., fire department razed clubhouse . . . New clubhouse construc- the New London CC clubhouse to make tion at Top O' the Hill CC in Bowie, Tex., way for new building which is to be com- is underway . . . Multi-million dollar pleted by July 1 ... El Camino CC in Silver Lake Estates near Las Vegas, Nev., South San Francisco, Calif., has slated includes 9-hole layout . . . Farmington, N. M., wants to build a 9-hole Par 3 at a cost of $30,000 . . . Robert Trent Jones is building the new Pebble Pines in Pebble Beach, Calif. . . . It's being financed by $2,500 memberships from When You're each of 200 founders . . . Annual dues at Pebble Pines will be only $50. Talking Turf... DOGOETT FISON COMPANY Howie Atten's Edgewater Golf Course in Grafton, Wis., opens for its first full season this spring . . . Atten's facilities in- clude a regulation nine, practice area and TURF HERBICIDES modern clubhouse with a good-sized pro shop . . . Los Robles (Calif.) Greens GC,

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Springfield, New Jersey Trelawny Club at Runaway Bay has Y signed Marilynn Smith as its representat- ive on the Ladies' PGA tour . . . Eleven events are slated for the Northern Cali- fornia PGA spring season with seven spots still to be filled . . . Scott Edwards returns to golf after a four-year layoff as head pro at the new Adams County (Colo.) GC, 10 miles north of Denver. Jim Bailey, former assistant to Marior Pfluger at Pinehurst CC in Littleton Colo., moves to the pro spot at the 27- hole Westminster, Colo., muny . . . Near- by is the 50-acre Westminster reereatior complete with facilities for swimming, tennis, skeet and trap shooting, football and baseball . . . Gene Conway is the general manager at the new Signal Point Club in Niles, Mich. . . . The 18-hole lay- out at Signal Point was designed by Robert Bruce Harris of Chicago . . . The amateur tourney at the Desert Inn CC in Las Vegas, Nev., is set for June 3-6 . . . 1,280 amateurs will compete for the 1964 Desert Inn Gold Cup on the resort's two courses. Comet Gibson has resigned his posi- WHOLE SEASON CONTROL tions as supt. of municipal enterprises for WITH ONE SPRAYING San Antonio, Tex., and as a regional di- One part of Solexto in 400 parts of water sprayed on two to four acres gives season-long control rector of the Texas Turfgrass Association of beetle grubs, ants, crickets, chinchbugs. cut . . . Chuck Colgin, supt. at Oak Hills CC worms, rose chafers, chiggers, fleas, ticks, in San Antonio, Tex., replaces Gibson as mosquitoes and many other pests. regional director . . . 61st to be played at Tam O'Shanter in Niles, GRUB-PROOFS 111., Aug. 6-9, will offer prizes of at least FOR TEN YEARS $50,000 . . . Pro Zell Eaton reports a One application of Solexto, two gallons to the continuing growth of income at the Palm acre (l-to-200 solution), grub-proofs the turf for at least ten years. Thus moles are also kept Springs (Calif.) GC . . . It was up $450 out by eliminating their food source. for Feb. over a year ago. Bill McCune leaves the pro spot at ECONOMICAL COVERAGE McConnellsville (N.Y.) Club after 14 Because such high dilutions are possible, exten- seasons to become pro-manager at the sive coverage is very economical. Labor can also DeLand (Fla.) CC . . . Mike Gresh has be saved by using EWT Weed Killer* in the same solution for general spraying of the grounds. left Crestbrook CC in Watertown, Mass. * Widely used selective weed killer . . . He has been replaced by co-pros, Bill manufactured by Dolge. Salvatore and Don Zabit . . . First season green and fairway problems at Crestwod Write to the C. B. Dolge Company, Westport, have been solved, according to Supt. Connecticut for information about other insecti- cides; also inquire about weed killers, golf ball George Christy. cleaners, mole and gopher killers. Metter, Ga., 21 miles from the nearest course, has begun a golf project under the cropland conversion program . . . The U. S. government-backed plan is designed to shift croplands to approved types of outdoor income-producing recreation use WESTPORT, CONNECTICUT . . . New Canaan, Conn., planning and

April, 1964 19 zoning commission has okayed construc- tion of an 18-hole course . . . Four-million dollar recreation project in Cincinnati, O., includes marina, motel and Par 3 . . . Mayor of Chicopee, Mass., is pushing con- struction of new mnny so that play can begin this fall . . . Stock sale of $100,000, needed to start Sidney, O., muny, is near its goal. Petitioners in Lamesa, Tex., want a $90,000 bond election to finance muny Checking over plans for a six-hole addition to the . . . Feasibility study given the go-ahead Norfolk (Neb.) CC are, I to r: Floyd Farley, course by Hurley, Mich., golf association . . . architect; William Applegate, construction partner to Harold Glissman (pointing); Don Roman, club Plans were recently announced in Tryon, president; and George Bree, supt. Norfolk CC has S. C., for 18-hole course . . . Scotch long been a 12-hole course. Recent acquisition of Plains, N. J., will operate a muny nine at 45 acres makes possible new six holes plus a club- the old Shady Rest CC . . . Pee Wee Tee house and pool. The new holes should be ready for play by July 1. Par Three, Inc., is the name of a new 9-hole layout at Coleman Airfield, Fla. . . . Genesee, Durand-Eastmen and Churchville CCs have consolidated efforts Groundbreaking ceremonies for new to retain private status and present facilit- clubhouse at Green Valley G&CC in ies on county property near Rochester, Fayettesville, N.C., were held in late Feb. N. Y. . . . A $1-million muny golf expan- . . . New clubhouse and course slated for sion bond issue was heavily defeated in Nolan River CC in Cleburne, Tex. . . . a recent McKinney, Tex., election . . . Newhall, Calif., Land and Farming Co. Blackhawk CC near Calena, O., hilled as has begun construction of course and 100- the workingman's CC, is slated to open to room hotel . . . Initial plans to form a the public on May 15. country club in the Manchester, Tenn., area are underway . . . MacArthur Air- Downey, Cailf., has okayed plans for port in Bohemia, N.Y., is site for new $367,000 clubhouse to be built at the county 18-hole course. proposed Los Amigos GC . . . Winter- Major A. Riddie, president of the wood CC in Las Vegas, Nev., began con- Dunes Hotel in Las Vegas, Nev., was in struction of 18 holes in mid-March . . . NYC in mid-March looking for a pro for Crowley Ridge CC in Wayne, Ark., will his new resort course . . . Lakewood CC construct new clubhouse this summer . . . in Westlake, O., started spring with a new Lake Arrowhead CC, a mile-in-the-sky clubhouse . . . Nearby, in Mayfield, O., above Los Angeles, Calif., has started con- Lander Haven CC is adding nine holes to struction of an unusual. A-Frame, $650,- existing 18, and a nine-hole Par 3 . . . 000 clubhouse to be completed by mid- summer. Ben W. Zink is the course designer . . . Conewango Forks GC in Randolph, N. Y., Lake Shore CC, the newest private is adding second nine. club in Atlanta, Ga., is moving toward Landa Park in San Antonio, Tex., is completion . . . Eighteen holes should be scheduled to add a second nine to its ready for play before fall . . . Construc- muny . . . The Port Arthur, Tex., golf tion of muny 18 in Ontario, Idaho, is right association is seeking to consolidate leases on schedule . . . Recreation commissioners on two pieces of land on Pleasure Island in Manaeca, Calif., recognize citizens' de- and extend the combined lease for five sire for muny and are investigating pos- years . . . Planned for the Pleasure Island siblity of 9-hole layout with swimming tract is an 18-hole Par 3 . . . Bids for Glen and tennis facilities . . . Ridgewood CC in Ellyn, 111., general obligations bonds of Waco, Tex., is expanding its clubhouse at $1,500,000 for course and drainage reser- cost of $750,000 to better serve the 700- voir development went as low as 3.124 plus member families. per cent . . . Omaha, Neb., is set to light new 9-hole course in Dodge Paik . . . John Bruck has been named pro at the new Laughlin AFB course in Del Rio, Tex. Muny nine is to be built at Kent, Wash. . . . Rusk, Tex. is nearing membership goal needed to start construction of a 9- hole course . . . Richmond, Calif, and Contra Costa County are considering joint development of a course in Oursan Valley . . . Costa Mesa, Calif, is con- sidering an 18-hole muny . . . Sunnyvale, Calif, is awaiting decision of the U.S. General Services Administration concern-

ing the price tag on government lands Pro (I) is seen with Captain Porter wanted for a muny 18 . . . Windham F. Bedell, commanding officer of the Pensacola (N.Y.) CC okays plans to acquire land Naval Air Station and president of the Pensacola and expand to 18. Sports Association, and Miss Janice Blackwell ot Pensacola's first annual sports banquet. The banquet Lloyd Kelly is the new pro at River was held in conjuction with the Naval Air Station's Road CC in Poolesville, Md. . . . Kelly 50th Anniversary pro-am tournament. had been pro at the Manor CC in Rock- ville, Md. for the past eight years . . . Fund for Cancer Research has received Walt Thiel has signed a 3-year contract more than $400,000 from the Tournament as head pro at Moorestown (N.J.) Field of Champions. Club . . . Ben Toski replaces Frank Di- Walter Greus, formerly assistant pro Masico as pro at the revamped Muscone- at Charles River, is the new pro at Ould tocag G&CC in Hackettstown, N.J. . . . Newbury . . . Geoffrey Cornish of Am- Navesink CC in Middletown, N.J. plans herst, Mass., course architect has found to open in June . . . Newest additions on four possible sites for course construction the Executive Golf Association Interna- near Hamden, Conn. . . . Palisades Inter tional's membership rolls are Richard state Park near Newburgh, N.Y. hopes to Nixon, former vice-president and Otto begin construction of an 18-hole course Graham, football "great." this year. Long Grove (111.) CC has adopted a Topeka Kan. is seeking 30 per cent of Civil War theme . . . Designed by Robert the anticipated cost of a new muny Bruce Harris the 18-hole layout includes from the federal Housing and Home Fi- five lakes, called Rebel, Sentinel, Yankee, nancing Agency . . . Construction started Antietam and Gettysburg . . . Dues and on new Potowamut GC clubhouse . initiation fees will, however, be paid in It is located near West Warwick, R. I, U.S. rather than Confederate currency, and was designed by Donald J. Prout. . according to Roy C. Anderson, founder Old clubhouse was destroyed by fire last of the $1,500,000 club . . . Nearby is the fall . . . Mt. Pleasant (Mich.) CC is plan- town of Wheeling which restricts business ning extensive modernization and improve- building architecture to quaint 19th cent- ment of its course, clubhouse and the con- ury style. struction of a swimming pool . . • C°n' Youth shows up at the $65,000 Tourna- struction of a new Robert Trent Jones ment of Champions at Desert Inn CC in course, called the Mount Vernon G&CC, Las Vegas ... Of the 25 qualifiers is to begin this summer near Atlanta, as of late February, five will be making Ga. . . . Part of a new subdivision, the their initial appearance . . . Jack Rule, club is to incorporate $1.5 million worth Jr., , Rex Baxter, Jr., Frank of facilities including 18-hole course, a Beard and Juan "Chi Chi" Rodriquez, all large clubhouse, swimming pool and ten- youngsters, are the newcomers . . . Over nis courts. the years, the Damon Runyon Memorial (Continued on page 112)

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like one of the seasoned ones . . . Jim Swinging Around Golf Yancey, supt., can take bows for the A-l (Continued from page 28) condition of the course . . . Jerry Dobin, What the tremendous ticket-selling Doral press agent, did a job that's hard to power of a well-regarded community beat in publicizing the event . . . One let- charity means in putting over a golf ter explained how each club in the Miami tournament is evident in the Thunderbird area can run its own tourney and get one Classic in Metropolitan New York . . . pro-celebrity place for each 20 Doral Last year the United Hospital Building season tickets sold at $10 per . . . That's Fund raised $150,000 through the tourna- an idea other clubs can use. ment sponsored by Thunderbird dealers The Cleveland $100,000 Open lost . . . Prize money was $100,000 . . . United money its first time on the circuit last Hospital Building Fund this year again year . . . Not enough to cause pain to any will be beneficiary of the tournament, of the eight commercial sponsors . . . The June 3-7 . . . Fred Corcoran directs the TV rights, which didn't / event. bring in much, went to the sponsors and The ticket-selling gimmick for the will go to them this year . . . That com- at Miami, Fla., included play paratively minor amount keeps the angels in preliminary "celebrity" pro-am event happy and the pros playing for $100,000 . . . sales plus the program "muscle" re- . . . Shows you how golf tournament TV duced deficit of the third Doral tourney situation needs realistic and foresighted to the extent that Doral CC and hotel handling. > owner, Alfred Kaskel, may increase the Loren Shook returns to Saginaw (Mich.) purse next year . . . Frank Strafaci as CC as pro succeeding Bill Markham who Doral tourney director, Johnny Dolan, is building a course at Gainesville, Fla. manager of the club, and Pro George . . . Shook was pro at Saginaw in 1936 Buck had the Doral tournament operating after serving there as assistant to Leo GOLFERS' REST The Newest Thing For Golf Courses!

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Fraser . . . Then, Shook went to pro jobs muny "executive type" course. at Flint (Mich.) CC, at Saugatuck, Mich., Oeeanside Land Co. is planning to and Warwick Hills G&CC, Flint ... His build Par-3 nine in San Diego area . . . daughter Patti is one of Michigan's girl Kenneth Polakowski plans to build Par-3 amateur stars . . . Ron Young, Clearwater near Williamsport, Pa., White Deer course (Fla.) Sun sports writer, says contestants . . . Gordon Hinn and Chick Adams are in American Seniors' championship last building 18 par-60 course at Yacht Club winter got valued expert help from their Estates, Clearwater, Fla. caddies' advice about greens . . . And New England amateurs and pros will some players hadn't the slightest idea that have their annual "Tee Party" with Ole several of the helpful caddies were hotel Clark, pro at Longmeadow (Mass.) CC, as bellboys who'd never caddied before but guest of honor, in Springfield, Mass., were mustered into service in a caddie April 15 ... At Amherst, during the Turf shortage. Council section of the turf management - Springfield (O.) Snyder Park public short course program, Orville Clapper, course had 36,541 rounds in 1958 . . . president of the Clapper Co., West New- Then Springfield's Reid Park course was ton, Mass., was presented with a plaque opened . . . Last year Snyder Park had on which was expressed gratitude for his 43,091 rounds and Reid had 40,133 . . . long and valuable service to New England Springfield is figuring on building two turf interests . . . The veteran Clapper more courses . . . E. C. Losch Co., Inc. served for the past three years as the wants to build 18-hole Par-3 at Costa Council's secretary-treasurer . . . The Mesa, Calif. . . . Open nine-hole Par-3 at Council signed 81 new members at the Driftwood Beach Club, Huntington Amherst meeting . . . There were 578 Beach, Calif., adjacent to motel and to registered at the University of Massa- mobile home community . . . Palm chusetts turf conference ... I doubt that Springs, Calif., is considering building a there were 50 present when Professor i Convert to RAIN BIRD'S completely automatic sprinkling system. MAKE THE EINAL MOVE THAT MAKES THE DIFFERENCE!

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L. S. Dickinson started that pioneer golf trict: Lloyd Kelley to River Road CC re- course management conference at Am- placing Jim Hightower who moved to herst . . . Assistant professor, Joe Troll, is Northwest Branch, new course to open in substantially developing the university's June . . . Kelley has been assistant to service to golf course supts., owners and Clagett Stevens at Brooke Manor . . . officials every day. Frank Abood now pro at Laurel Pines Building new course and clubhouse at . . . Abood has been assistant to Jimmy Corpus Christi (Tex.) CC . . . Present site Clark at Argyle CC . . . Nick Petrillo now ' has been sold . . . Robert Trent Jones is pro at Bellport (L.I., N.Y.) GC . . . architect of new course . . . Ben Gold- Lawrence Ostrander from Bethlehem smith from Scottsbluff (Neb.) moves to (N.H.) CC to pro job at Windham (N.Y.) manager post at Cheyenne (Wyo.) CC . . . CC . . . Paul Munro, for past six years Pittsburgh Parks Director, George B. Mc- assistant to Bill Barclay at Salem (Mass.) Donough, asked county commissioners for CC, now pro at Meadow Brook CC, Read- approximately $40,000 to improve North ing, Mass. Park course for 1965 USGA Public Links Richard J. Murphy, 55, pro at Chester championship. Valley GC, Fraser, Pa., died recently in James L. Kellerman now manager at his home at Merwood Park, Pa. . . . Prior Country Club of Indianapolis . . . Old to his service at Chester Valley, Mr. course and clubhouse of Grand Forks Murphy was at the Pennsylvania GC for (N.D.) CC has been bought by group in- 17 years . . . He is survived by his wife, cluding Douglas Blackmun, who has been daughter, Jean and son, Richard J. . . . the club's manager for some years . . . Terry Lally, son of veteran Joe Lally, New course and clubhouse are being built sr., pro at Louisville, Ky., Seneca club, . . . Blackmun and associates will operate and for three years assistant to Ed Kerby the old property as a daily fee course. at Fairlawn CC, Akron, O., now pro at Pro changes in Washington, D.C., dis- Owensboro (Ky.) CC . . . Terry was mm m* mm FUTURUS CARPET TILE HANDSOME, DURABLE FLOORCOVERING ECONOMICAL TO INSTALL—MAINTAIN

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retire unneeded crop land and make life son, Don, Jr., at Wethersfield (Conn.) CC more enjoyable for its neighbors . . . Mr. . . . He, also, was with George Stumpf Finley might turn to the Department of at the East Hartford GC. Agriculture for help in building a new Ernie Gerardi now is pro at Shennecos- stadium for his embattled baseball team sett CC at Groton, Conn., succeeding the in Kansas City. "... From Jamaica (N.Y.) late Vic Panciera . . . Gerardi is former - Long Island Press: "We spoke out in Connecticut and New England amateur righteous outrage here last Saturday champion who has served as pro at Edge- * against the idea of a federal loan to fin- wood and Manchester clubs in the Hart- ance a new golf course in Ellsworth. And ford area . . . Al Bove is new pro at now word filters back to us from the Hartford's Goodwin Park municipal course Pierce county seat that a lot of Ellsworth . . . He has Howard Pearson with him. people (golfers?) disagree. Their argu- More changes in Connecticut: Gifford < ment, as it reaches us second-hand, is not Nutbrown from Scarsdale (N.Y.) CC to unfamiliar. Everybody else is getting pro job at Brooklawn CC, Bridgeport . . . ^ federal aid, they say. Why not us?" His assistant is John Stevens . . . Bob A popular program on Channel 11 in (Spike) Repass now pro-manager at Edge- Pittsburgh, "Luncheon at the Ones," has wood CC . . . Floyd Gensler now pro at western Pennsylvania pros giving televi- CC of Waterbury, succeeding Ardy Guil- sion lessons to women on making the bault . . . Toby Lyons signed as pro by - shots, rules and etiquette . . . Owen Grif- Burning Tree CC, Greenwich . . . Johnny fith, Hartford Courant golf writer, pays Farrell's son, Billy, goes to another new " tribute in his column to Don McKay, who club in Greenwich, Stanwich, CC as pro. has retired after 27 years as supt., of Bill Salvatore, who won four Connecti- Hartford GC's 27 holes . . . Don built the cut Junior titles, and Don Zabat are co- third nine . . . His successor, A1 Hawkins, pros at Crestbrook CC, Watertown, suc- not only worked with Don but with Don's ceeding Mickey Cresh . . . Cresh was * > NEW ANSWERS ™ 3 GOLFERS' PROBLEMS So Id exclusively through pro shops

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Managing a golf course in D.C. in June the Cleveland club in September. separates the heroes from the ordinary Art Vogt, who has had 40 years in the mortals . . . Previous time an Open was golf business, has been named pro at the played in the Washington areas was in Sun and Surf Beach Club in Boca Raton 1921 at Columbia CC, Chevy Chase, Md. ... In recent years he has been associated . . Greens all went out and the disaster with clubs in Daytona Beach and Smyrna was so shocking it really was what started Beach . . . Prior to that he was connected the USGA Green Section . . . with Kahkwa CC in Erie, Pa. . . .Third won that year with 289 . . . Hagen and World Series of Golf will be played at the home pro, Freddie McLeod, were Firestone in Akron, Sept. 12-13 . . . Win- tied for second, nine strokes back. ners of the U.S. and British Opens, , who has been pro at Masters and PGA Championship will Canterbury GC in Shaker Heights, O., again be eligible for the $75,000 four-man tourney . . . Southern Seniors' GA to hold for the last 18 years, is retiring at the end a tournament in Kingsport, Tenn., May of the 1964 season ... He will continue 6-9 .. . The Association's fourth World's in his winter job as pro at Seminole in Senior Four-Ball will be played at Pine- West Palm Beach, Fla., however . . . hurst (N.C.) CC, Nov. 9-14 ... It was Picard, former Masters and PGA champ- originally carded for the first week of ion, was admitted to the PGA Hall of November but has been moved back be- Fame in 1961 ... He is generally credited cause of the national elections. with having encouraged to keep going when the then young Texan Colonial CC, Memphis, is considering threatened to quit the circuit more than selling its present course and clubhouse 25 years ago . . . One of Picard's last acts and moving to a new site in suburban at Canterbury will be to help run the Germantown . . . Coachella (Cal.) may USGA Amateur which will be played at build muny course . . . Cochella is study- Our business has been picking up for 18 years! Delivered

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£ • The Rutgers Turfgrass Course held a three-day ses- sion at Forsgate CC in Jamesburg N. J. to discuss course turf problems. Shown, (I to r) are Oliver Rogers, supt. at Forsgate; Ralph E. Engel of the College of Agriculture at Rutgers; J. Forster Abeel, president of Forsgate; and Edward M. Burke, gen- GOLF TURF EXPI eral manager of the club.

USE second nine to their public course . . . Fairfax County, Va., to build 18 . . . Plan to build Brae Loch Club 18 at New MILORGANITE Canaan, Conn. . . . Nicholas Berklich, Jr. and Harold Wittington propose to - ALL SEASON LONG build and operate, on split-of-revenue basis, course for Ypsilanti (Mich.) Town- They agree that regular, systematic feed- ship. ing, Spring, Summer and Fall, with this Nat- Columbus, Intl., opening its new Otter ural Organic Fertilizer builds durable, Creek 18 . . . Michael Powell is pro- healthy turf, curbs weeds, fights disease. Follow their lead and you, too, will find manager . . . Incorporate Fairlawn GC at that your fairways stay green, new roots and Poland, Me. . . . Urbandale (la.) G&CC shoots develop, turf becomes tougher and to build nine . . . Palisades Interstate park thicker' commission plans to build 18 at Rockland Lake near Newburgh, N.Y. . . . Centex Construction Co., Inc., , Tex., ex- pects to have its Tierra Verde 18 near St. Petersburg, Fla., ready for play in EASIER HANDLING! 1965.

MILORGANITE in the Incline Village CC 18 at Lake Tahoe, new 50 lb. bags is easier Calif., to be opened in June . . . Robert to handle, lends itself to Trent Jones is architect . . . George Bayer one man application, re- sults in less bag break- will be pro . . . Charleston, S.C., gets age, requires less stor- new residential development (Cassina age space. Trust) which will build 18 . . . Beaver Brook Land Corp., building 18 at Clinton, Pa., to give use of course one day a IF YOU HAVE A TURF PROBLEM, week to students of North Hunterdon WRITE TURF SERVICE BUREAU Regional High School . . . Bud Geog- hagen, pro at Crestmont CC, West THE SEWERAGE COMMISSION Orange, N.J., was among the notables at the ground-breaking of the Clinton course Milwaukee 1, Wis. . . . Alex Turnyei is architect. John Hubbard, PGA publicity Mgr., has sent information on National Golf MILORGANITE Day, May 30, to sports editors, golf rjhji NATURAL ORGANIC FERTILIZER writers and radio and TV sportscasters ... In 1963, 77,554 entered the Golf Day COMBINATION PADLOCKS For Locker Room Security!

The shovel gang was on hand for groundbreaking ceremon'es at the Rancho San Joaquin GC in Orange county, Calif., in March. Charles Thomas, president of the Irvine Co., Robert H. Greene, president of State Mutual Savings and Loan MASTER NO. 1525 association, and Marshall Duffie!d, course building KEY CONTROLLED chairmen, prepare to go to work. Duffield is a ^ onetime Southern Cal football star.

event . . . National Golf Day, in 12 years, has brought in $950,000 for golf educa- tional and welfare funds . . . PGA col- lectively has done a marvelous job for golf with this promotion . . . But poor, showing of some clubs, noted for mem- bership of generous gentlemen sportsmen, has been embarrassing to members and the clubs' pros. Miami, Fla., to fill northern shore of Key and build muny 18 . . . Eoch padlock has its Pinewood CC in Slidell, La., building own combination, yet your first nine . . . Walnut Ridge, Ark., build- control key opens every ing nine . . . Hendricks, Minn., golfers- one! Ideal for use in humid Nq 150Q to build 9-hole layout. locker rooms — cadmium without ,. j . • i key control Willow Point G&CC begins building its rustproofing and stainless 18 at Lake Martin, near Birmingham, steel case. Low initial cost Ala. . . . New club is being built by ...no installation expense... Russell Mills of Alexander City and will long-lasting, trouble free service. replace Alexander City CC whose acreage has been donated by Russell Mills as*" Master site of state Junior College . . . Prentice CUB PADLOCKS (Miss.) CC to build 18 . . . Bergen County for (N.J.) Park Commission plans to build GOLF BAGS 9-hole course at Overneck Park near Tea- neck . . . Nassau County (N.Y.) Advisory Committee on Recreation recommends A Best-Seller that the county should have 10 new pub-* for your Pro Shop lie courses, five of them being lighted Par-3 layouts. WRITE FOR FRit CATALOG Highland Park, 111. park commission to Master Ipck Company. Milwaukee 45.Wi». buy 60 acres of Northmoor CC course, TOviUl* VA

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«v for public course . . . Northmoor to build new 12 west of its present course . . . Princeton (N.J.) CC to open its new 18^ and clubhouse this month . . . Wm. and Dave Gordon were the golf architects . . * Stan Dudas is pro . . . K. M. Dunning, owner of Keswick CC, Charlottesville, Va., to build 18 at Carter's Bridge, Va. Interest in building of new courses1" continues to mount . . . Public recrea- tion bodies, real estate developers, par- ties interested in building daily-fee oh SPECIALIZED INTRODUCTIONS private clubs swamp us with inquiries Tallhedge (Plant Pat. 1388) is one of the about how to get started . . . Money it? finest of many patented new varieties easy to get in many cases with govern- introduced by Cole. ment financing aid . . . But even with the easy money there has to be some cash . . . There hasn't been a substitute ' You can get them all, in wide for cash found yet. . . We've been, through one of those slumps in golf busi- variety and in ample quan- ness and learned some answers . . . On*- , is that sound, foresighted management is tity, dug, packed and shipped harder to get than money . . . Too many * to reach you in good condition of the new operations fail to figure first on possible revenue, than on expenses. when you call Ohio's largest In building course costing over $100,-*" 000, or with a clubhouse over $80,000 wholesale nursery. if at least 20 per cent isn't added to thtf" tightest budget there is going to be trouble ... In one metropolitan dis- THE COLE NURSERY COMPANY trict home loan banks are caught for ^ Phone: A/C 216-352-3121 over $3 million on golf course proper- HEADQUARTERS: 2000 W. Jackson St., Palnesvllle, Ohio CIRCLEVILLE DIVISION: Old Route 23, Clrclevllle, Ohio ties that can't meet payments . . . With" 2. utility friended (vetting accent AQ

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AOUATROLS CORPORATION OF AMERICA in a year or so northwest of the city . . . ^ocu codC out (tiny aqeit Henderson, N.C., talking about building another course . . . Fox Hollow CC, near Hunterdon, N.J., to be opened in May, 1965 . . . John L. Grace is executive vp of the operating company . . . Hound Ears Golf & Ski Club, near Boone, N.C., opens its 18 . . . Leroy Lawrence is" building 9-hole course in Stamford, Vt. . . . Wareham (Mass.) to open its nf this spring . . . Pro Tanto, Inc., is owner . . . Nine new courses recently have been built in Maine and nine holes have been added at four other courses. Deauville CC, Tarzana, Calif., plans* big dinner, April 22, honoring its pro^ (?&e*Hic

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Alex Wilson, Sr., one of the fine old . . . Alex, Jr. is pro there . . . Mrs. Wil- pros who came from Scotland to build son and three daughters also survive the golf in the U.S., died recently at his veteran Scot. home in Indian Lake, O., following a Eddie Ault, Silver Springs, Md., golf heart attack ... He was born in St. architect, is having another big year . . Andrews, Jan. 14, 1885 . . . His widow, He is busier even than in 1963 when his Mrs. Davina Wilson, also is a St. An- jobs included second 18 for Baltimore* drews native . . . Alex learned club- CC; 18 for Blue Hill CC, Pearl River, making at Anderson's in St. Andrews and N.Y.; second nine for Bucknell Univer- came to the U.S. in 1908, serving at sity, Lewisburg, Pa.; 18 Par-3 at Sterling Onwentsia and Lake Shore clubs in the Park, Arlington, Va.; third nine at But- Chicago district with his brother-in-law, ler's course at McKeesport, Pa.; Caroline- Willie Marshall . . . Alex was pro-supt. CC, Denton, Md.; second nine at Clarks- at Brae Loch GC also in the Chicago burg (W. Va.) CC; nine for Crucible Man* district but spent most of his career as agement Club, Midland, Pa.; the Crof- a pro, supt. and course builder in Ohio ton course 18 at Annapolis, Md.; Hidden . . . Among the Ohio clubs to which he Valley GC, Pittsburgh, Northwest Re- gave valuable service were Piqua CC, gional Park 18; Henson Creek nine and Greenville CC, Sidney CC, Troy CC, Bel- Paint Branch 9-hole courses for the Mary-«- lefontaine CC, Kenton CC and the Spring- land-National Capital park and planning brook, Lost Creek and Shawnee clubs in commission and Montserrat nine in theA Lima and the Kettering CC at Defiance British West Indies. . . . He was for 10 years at his own Ed O'Toole, the minstrel lad of the course, Indian Lake, O. ... At 74, with Berkshire golfers, says that the 61st an- his son, Alex, Jr., he built the 9-hole nual meeting of the Allied Golf Clubs Sycamore Springs GC at Arlington, O. of Berkshire County, which will be held* FAST! ACCURATE! FREEDOM FROM STREAKS! Spreaders and Seeders

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at the CC of Pittsfield, Mass., will be the greatest ever . . . Joe Dey of the USGA will be there as will be Allied president-elect John English, formerly Joe's teammate at the USGA and Bob Jones III, Tournament committee chair- man of Allied . . . O'Toole says Rosamond Sherwood, American girl who played in the informal international competitions preceding the Curtis cup matches, con- tinues to play at Stockbridge — and pretty well, too. In the next few years you're going to see a lot of spring training trips (during

Easter holidays) of university golf squads John Caldwell, Don P. Dampf and G. C. Shows, . . . The University of Houston's 10th an- Jr. (I to r) will help run the Gulf Coast Oil Center nual All-American Intercollegiate cham- tournament which is to be played June 18-21 in pionship, played late in March, is an in- Lafayette, La. It is expected that the event will attract at least 800 golfers from 15 states. They dication of how the collegians' spring will play over two courses in Lafayette. Roebling golf programs are growing . . . Much rig trophy in the center is the big prize. better publicity for the collegians than those spring vacation southern and west- ern beach parties where varsity boys and girls meet more alcohol than they can a great deal of class to begin with. handle (which isn't very much) and wind Nelson Giddens for 35 years pro at ^ up in the blue cars with the stars . . . the Jackson (Miss.) CC resigned recently Well, maybe it shows they didn't have . . . He has had the pleasure of seeing* Complete Golf Course Construction MOORE GOLF, INC. DIVISION OF MOORE, KELLY & REDDISH, INC. Roads, Lakes, Playing Fields, Irrigation Systems Box 606, Orange, Va. Tel. 7357 his club grow up into a club with a The Tioga (N.Y.) recreation association million-dollar property . . . Nelson has reports that it is halfway to goal for funds seen many of his assistants grow up, too to construct an 18-hole layout, swimming . . . One of them, Norris Morgan, pro- and tennis facilities plus clubhouse. manager of the CC of Greenwood, Miss., New, nine-hole Par-3 in Cape Haze, says Nelson probably has helped more Fla., is expected to be completed early pros, amateurs and country clubs than next season . . . Pro Ted Smith from any other pro in the southeast . . . Boca Grande is serving as advisor to the That's the way all Nelson Giddens' pro- Cape Haze project ... A 9-hole Pitch teges feel . . . Four of them are in pro and Putt range adjoining the regulation jobs in Mississippi . . . When Giddens Galloping Hills GC in Union, N.J., opened resigned, his assistant, Ham Carothers, for early spring play . . . Philadelphia,1 was hired to succeed him . . . Carothers Pa., plans to spend $100,000 on city's had been on Ernie Sabayrac's sales force Torresdale Recreation Center GC, for- and was pro at Yazoo City (Miss.) CC merly the Holmesburg GC ... Ed Sams . . . Carothers has Garrard White, son has been named pro at the new Maple of the veteran playing and teaching star, Hill CC in Clarksburg, N.Y. . . . Maple Buck White, as an assistant. Hill CC is one of the 50 or so new courses Fairfax County (Va.) planning commis- scheduled to open in the Buffalo, N.Y., sion plans 18-hole public course with near- area this spring ... A second nine at by riding and nature trails . . . Additional Saranac Lake (N.Y.) GC is estimated to"* nine being added to Halifax County, Va., cost $70- to $90-thousand . . . Pinebrook course . . . Brookfield, Mass., is expected GC in Gloversville, N.Y., has set June to see a $4^ million real estate develop- 1 as the target date for the opening of ment build around a 7,070-yd. course, $60,000 improved clubhouse. clubhouse, cabana club and pool . . . Jim Slominski returns from a two-year'

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Hominy Hills CC . . . The excess land for the Newark News, and the New Jer- - will be used to raise prize-winning hay sey PGA for a terrific 1964 Golf Show and one of the nation's top herd of Gold- . . . Held inMeadowbrook CC in Cedar en Guernsey cows . . . Farm foreman, Grove, N. J., the show was packed with Larry Rising, is slated for the supt. spot, golf enthusiasts and district pros . . . The and if he is as good at babying fairways Newark News-PGA show has become the^ and greens as he has been with hay, traditional starting tee for the golf season. Mercer shouldn't have a worry . . . Hom- Lou Marffie moves to Pennbrook as as- <- iny Hills Farm has taken top honors with sistant to Jerry Masiello, and Art DiBlasi this crop in the last four N.J. Farm Shows. has moved from Upper Montclair, N. J.," Cumberland Vounty, Mass., is to have to assist Ray Ferguson at North Jersey CQ new 9-hole course . . . The Heritage CC . . . Andy La Pola of Preakness Hills in in Charlton, Mass., hopes to have 12 of Jersey will have Dick Bull from the Naples its 18 holes open by mid-July . . . Don (Fla.) CC as his assistant this season . . . Hoenig is one of the partners in this Windmill Driving Range in Plainfield,v $350,000 course. N. J., owned by Ray Malain, is slated to Alexander McKay, course architect op- give way to a new shopping site. ^ erating out of Morristown, Tenn., has George Slinderland, Sr., pro at Pine. started another 9-hole course at Link Brook Golf-O-Rama near Newark, N. J., Hills CC in Greenville . . . Improvements expects a second lighted-nine to be ready on the Link Hills clubhouse will run to for play about May 1 . . . Jim Morrissey $100,000 . . . Joe Greene, who keeps and Jay Halloran, insurance and securities f Golfdom posted on golf news in New brokers who set up the new supts.' pen- Jersey, reports that a lot of praise is due sion plan, have joined the GCSA. r Red Hoffman, Des Sullivan, golf writers

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