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News of the Golf World in Brief NEWS OF THE GOLF WORLD IN BRIEF ^ From the operating end the layout... One player came into National Amateur at Saucon Hutchison's shop on Sunday Valley set a new high that'll be before tournament started, se- tough to equal . Charles lected a putter and took it Adams, chmn. of Seattle away, forgetting to pay or sign (Wash.) GC 1952 Amateur . That's display that really • championship committee makes customers eager to get looked over operations at Sau- pro shop merchandise. con Valley .. Chuck saw what Tom Kelly, Saucon Valley par is for a championship . caddy master, had conducted But there are very few chances caddy classes weekly for a i any other club can or would month before the tournament, afford what Saucon Valley gets taking the boys 9 holes and . Eugene Grace, Bethlehem Steel chief showing them every condition that might who shoots his age (75) is the Saucon Val- arise . Tom's been a caddy master (in ley powerhouse and engineer. Philadelphia dist. and at Shawnee and Sau- con Valley) 23 years with 3 years out for a • Probably about as much spent on Sau- hitch in the Navy . The kids were con Valley tree care as is spent on entire smartly uniformed and very well trained. maintenance of most good American courses . Despite fat budget not a nickel Course was given DDT fog before tour- is tossed away under vigilant eye of Supt. nament play, kept bugs from bothering . • Leonard Strong . Course condition and Program of the National Amateur, classi- beauty is magnificent and the little details est of all tournament programs, didn't have that make perfection abound . Mornings any paid advertising . Program publi- before championship rounds started Strong cation was held up while new illustrations had fairways dragged by hose hauled by of 10th hole with revised trapping, were tractors on sides of fairways, to take heavy made and inserted . Contestants and *dew off fail-ways . Gallery ropes were press served in grill with free coffee, fruit yellow . Taller, green-painted pipes juice and rolls breakfast . Cheese and marked player entrances to tees. crackers in the grill on the house in the afternoon . Bob Harlow had three broad- Best grounds policing to keep refresh- casts daily during championship over sta- ment areas clean, ever seen at a champion- tion WGPA with most extensive array of ship . No bottles, cans and papers scat- player, gallery and press "guest stars" ever tered about . Coca Cola portable rolling on a golf championship broadcast . Lo- stands, classiest outfits at any champion- cal Coca Cola bQttling company was spon- ship, convenient waste receptacles and su- sor. pervisory grounds force kept Saucon Val- fcley clean and the gallery served . .. Service Saucon Valley officials set a new high in in clubhouse, under management of Dan hospitality . They acted like everybody White, graduate of Atlantic liner and other at the tournament was a house guest. fine club service, was handled in amazingly Saucon Valley was designed by the late good shape, without increase in prices . Herbert Strong, brother of its supt., Leon- »Gross gate of 'Championship was $48,000 ard . Some revisions were made by . Second to Jones finale in 1930 at Mer- Perry Maxwell and later by Wm. Gordon. ion . Press tent location, facilities and service, better than ever before. Press registration, parking and locker assignments at Saucon Valley, perfectly Ralph Hutchison, Saucon Valley's pro, handled by committee headed by John C. •applied all he'd learned around major Long, Bethlehem Steel press agent and championships . Ralph gave every con- Championship publicity committee chmn. testant bag tags that carried their own names and which made substantial souve- . Visitors took back to their clubs some nirs of the 1951 National Amateur . All excellent Saucon Valley information fold- ,bags were placed, prior to starting times, ers for members . Among this material in alphabetical arrangement outside the was copy of Saucon Valley Times (the club pro shop . Public address system at Sap- monthly publication), a folder of golf rules, con Valley practice range called for play- another of fees, dues and charges, a tele- ers 15 minutes before starting times . phone directory of championship officials Players saw a fine pro shop in Hutchison's and committee members and a fine book- let on members' responsibility to the course. USGA party to contestants, Canadiar CONGRATULATIONS & BEST WISHES GA officials and team members and press To Saturday night in Bethlehem Steel plant officials' dining room was a merry gather- GOLFDOM — 25th ANNIVERSARY ing . Jim Standish, Gene Grace, Ike Grainger, Sandy Sommerville, John Ames, From Charley Grace, Willie Turnesa, Sam Ur- zetta and Charley Bartlett were speakers Connecticut's Oldest Complete Golf . Grainger gave reasons for the rules agreements . Bartlett, as sec. of Golf Course Equipment and Supply House Writers' Assn., congratulated Saucon Val- Distributors & Dealers — Toro — ley on press arrangements and wondered if the club was going to supply reporters with Whirlwind Mowing Equipment — secretaries . Gene Grace gave a great Milorganite Fertilizer — Buckner talk on amateurism . Said that written definitions of amateurism are hard to get Watering Equipment — Standard exact but anybody can tell in his heart whether he's an amateur. Accessories — Tried & Proven Turf George Shafer signs as pro with Hartley & Grass Maintenance Equipment & Halls CC, Hagerstown, Ind. ... Although Fungicides — Seed — General Babe Zaharias had to settle for third place (back of winner Betsy Rawls and Louise Supplies Suggs) at Open of Ladies' PGA, at Druid Hills, Atlanta, the Babe's $900 show money, Parts — Sales — Service brought her 1951 total so far to $14,487 . ! . She heads the girl purse collectors . THE KYLANDER COMPANY Mangrum leading the men is over $24,000 so far for the year . Unofficial leader is 93 Talcott Road West Hartford, Conn. Hogan with what he got at Tam o' Shanter. One Price To Everybody • Good Service To All Gerald Hall pro at Red Oak (la.) CC says there hasn't been an ace scored in FULLY GUARANTEED A compact, light-weight machine for lapping all models of Hand, Power and Gang Mowers! p May be easily used on work bench or floor, eliminating the lifting of heavy mowers. The simple height adjustment for the reel shaft may be used from 4V2" to 10y4". Equipped with several attachments to fit different reel shafts. Metal blocks for rollers. Steel stands to support the mower. Atlas Lawn Equipment Co. 9761 Olive Street Rd. St. Louis 24, Missouri three years on their course but members get out of town and have an epidemic of MR. SUPERINTENDENT- aces . Closing down of slot machines has Let us quote on your needs meant reduction of clubhouse service in moderate- and smaller-sized clubs and has Dependable Seeds: Bents; Fescues; reduced salaries . Doesn't seem to have Kentucky, Canada and shade Blue- hurt the Gorilla Empire . The pols blun- grasses. Straight or in mixture. dered on that one . Wonder where the "protection money" for slot machines that Fertilizers: all-organic, part-organic used to be split between the gorillas and or chemical. the politicians is coming from now. Chlordane, 2,4-D, PMAS Dennis Powers, Savannah (Ga.) News Whipping-poles. Mower repair- golf writer, ran an instruction series by parts; blades. Savannah pros that's about the best basic golf instruction writing we're read . NEW! Haynes Waters, pro, Mary Calder GC, Savannah, Ga., proud pappy of a new son MODERN TEE MIXTURE . PGA screening candidates to take over Good for Approaches Also tournament management job to be vacated 30% Merion B 27 Bluegrass by Howard Capps • .. Chicago district club 10% Highland Bent with a lot of highly solvent enthusiastic 60% lllahee Fescue members considering invitation pro-ama- $175. per 100 lbs. teur in 1952 with big money for pros . Use 3 lbs. per 1,000 sq. ft., 125 lbs. per acre. Getting a date on the circuit is the hard Sow from Washington, D. C., north to the Arctic, in autumn, winter (on the snow) or part . That's another problem for PGA spring. tournament committee . Big name pros like the rich rewards of events like the ^augharis Seed Company Seminole pro-am but promoters of open tournaments need the big names. Established 1876 Club invitation amateur tournaments 47 Barclay Street, New York 7, N. Y. with big Calcutta pools this year again had Chicago office: 601 W. Jackson Blvd. John Melady, golf representative trouble with handicaps . Guests with letters from their home club pros attest- ^MILORGANITE Helped Mississauga Golf Club^ Produce Superb Turf For The CANADIAN OPEN William Bluett, the Superintendent in charge of turf maintenance at Mississauga Golf Club in Toronto, is one of the outstanding turf maintenance men in Canada. He conditioned the course for the Canadian Open Golf Tourament, which was played during July. It was the biggest and best tournament ever held in Canada. Contestants found the turf in superb condition, and were unstinting in their praise of the course, which was a tribute to Bill Bluett. Year after year for more than two decades Missis- sauga has been a user of Milorganite fertilizer on greens, tees, and fairways. Since the war they have applied a carload or more every year. Bill Bluett and club officials know from experience that Milorganite feeding rather than seeding is the way to develop dense weed-free turf. Heartiest Congratulations on Golfdom's 25th Anniversary THE SEWERAGE COMMISSION. Milwaukee 1, Wis. ing to handicaps got around in net 65s or so and hauled away loads of prize money . Some clubs restricted prize winning to The Best those with district handicaps . Safe policy seems to be to award major net prizes on basis of lowest handicaps al- Course though this discriminates against fellows with honest high handicaps ..
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