PICKED UP IN THE ROUGH By HERB GRAFFIS

^^ELL, GENTS, the Charley Hall-Wiffy all industries combined. In 1931 sporting ** Cox debate ended with the score noth- goods industry's wages were 22.8% of the ing to nothing, because there was nothing value of the product, compared with 17.5% to debate about. As we suspected and set for combined industries. forth in these columns, the brisk and Code increases of wages and reduction brilliant M'Lemore in his yarn interpreted of hours warrant an increase of 12% in Hall's statement incorrectly, and pal Wiffy costs. An excise tax of 10% also has been ran a temperature over what M'Lemore added to the industry's burdens. Still, thought Hall meant instead of what Hall sporting goods are selling for much less said. This procedure in stirring up a than in 1931. fracas is known as ribbing and is some- # * * thing to which the Dyker Grand Duke usually is immune. IIOW HOT the days are getting! A1 Now, again messing into other folks' Houghton's 61, made on the 70 business, we will express a doubt that Washington (D. C.) G&CC course at the meant that Paul Runyan start of season hit what many believed to was "too much of a lightweight to go the be a non-competitive record, although it distance" in the National Open as Gene wasn't. A1 had nine birdies and nine pars. recently was quoted. George Dunlap scored 63, eight under When Gene won at Skokie he was par, in the North and South Amateur. lighter and shorter than Paul will be when Harry Cooper got a 64 at the Cavalier he weighs in at Merion, and I will bet Open which Runyan won with 270. Run- Gene a dozen ears of Golden Bantam from yan's 270 lasted as the low scoring 72-hole my dwarf farm, Belchmore Acres, against tournament record for about six weeks a dozen Rhode island red fruit from his when Ky Lafoon won a tournament with Valley Ridge farm my comparative dope 267. is right. George Duncan made a 58 at Lucerne, But what the hell! It all goes in the Switzerland, in the Swiss Open many years "Who Cares?" department so far as the ago, and John Black once shot a 58 at golfing public is concerned although pros Claremont in California. often work themselves into a creamy lather Probably some guy will win a tourna- about such subjects. ment with a 232. Anyway, Victor East's * * * prophecy that 60 will be broken in the AIRWAY FANCIES, house organ of the National Open doesn't look as dizzy now F as it did a couple of years ago. Wood Hill GC (Kansas City district), is * * * one of the liveliest of the club publica- tions. It is a four-page affair and abounds nUFORD ACHILLES TYNES is the nifty with items mentioning members' doings. ® label pasted on the newest son of Mr. Its NRA code for golfers, printed in a re- and Mrs. Pinley Tynes. Tynes pere is Vul- cent issue, is one of the really funny code can's advertising manager. With a name gags. like Buford Achilles the kid got a swell It's a sheet that makes happy the heart start but already has suffered a bump. His 1 of the Wood Hill pro, Wolf Rimann. When old man calls him "Butch." a man or woman buys a set of clubs from • * «• Wolf, Fairway Fancies carries a clever A NY PRO in the territory of the Worn- little piece on the # purchase• * . ** en's Western Assn. should now EOPLE WHO say there's no reason for begin to take a special interest in the P golf playing equipment costing what it development of any of his young girl does are referred to some figures cited by players who are eligible to the Women's L. B. Icely, president of Wilson-Western. Western Junior Open championship, which In 1929 wages in the sporting goods in- will be held at the Park Ridge CC (Chi- dustry were 22.5% of the value of the in- cago district) July 9 to 12. The competi- dustry's products, compared to 16.5% for tion is open to all girls under 18 who never have competed in any other WWGA so well he bought manufacturing rights major championship tournament. The girls to the club. do not have to be club members. The first year Burke's gave away about There is no entry fee. Entries must be as many as they sold, but Christmas pres- sent to Mrs. H. D. Raymond, 1223 Grove ent business on this club for playing St., Evanston, 111. Entries for pairing close where other clubs aren't playable, hit a July 5. Later entries will be paired at surprising figure. Now the dwarf club the tee. really has started to sell.

There will be flights for all players. • * • One of the smartest things pros can do is to build up this event. If their kids A LMOST EVERY day I am reminded of acquit themselves creditably in the event ** the value of pro effort and results in the pros are given the best kind of ad- instructing women. It looks to me like vertising and an assurance of future big women talk about their golf games like business when these lassies grow up. they used to talk of their operations. They The event is constantly growing. It's boost pros like they used to boost their great experience and great fun for the favorite doctors. kids. Virginia Van Wie won this title as Among those pros who can boast of her first significant victory. women's instruction results for which they This year will be the first one in which are solely responsible is the veteran H. E. the winner will be awarded the custody Williams, for the last eight years at the of a new prize, the trophy L. B. Icely is Lehigh CC at Allentown, Pa. His daugh- presenting to the event. ter Frances appears to be destined for a * * • major championship role. She won the Women's Eastern championship when she HARRY COOPER, , Frank was 18. She also has won the South At- Walsh and are treat- lantic championship twice at Ormond ing their respective clubs to big league Beach, Fla., the Philadelphia district cham- golf. Each Sunday this foursome has been pionship twice, the 1933 Pennsylvania playing matches at one of the four clubs State women's championship and a flock served by them. The first match was of minor events. played at Glen Oak, Harry's club; the sec- ond at Walsh's Bryn Mawr, the third at The way the lassie is hitting the ball Oak Park and the fourth will be played now gives early indications that this may at Medinah, Armour's club, after the West- be her big year. Frances has had no ern Open. Cooper and Smith have been other golf tutor than her daddy, and if paired against Armour and Walsh for the you think that doesn't register with other girls and women with golfing ambitions matches with the exception of the one at you are wrong. Oak Park where Horton's brother and assistant, Ren, batted for Cooper. Her father has been a PGA member since its organization. He stuck through The exhibitions have drawn very well thick and thin and now figures that the and have been smart promotion and en- thick days are coming again with women tertainment for the clubs served by these taking so much interest in the game. playing stars. No admission has been charged to the * * * matches, but the galleries have been re- CREE TIME for youngster golfers at mu- stricted to members and their guests. r nicipal courses is advocated by Joe * * * Roseman. It strikes us that this is a good r\ON'T LAUGH at anything in the golf stunt for golf promotion. Four or five business. Some people may be taking hours of starting time spread during the it seriously and others making money out lighter days of the week would be giving of what looks nutty at first look to you. the kids a break. The nub iron of Burke's is an example. • • • It is about 16 in. long from its sole to the tip of its shaft, weighs about 14 oz. TOLLOWING the return of shop conces- and has a 4 iron loft. It is double faced. r sions to the pro at Baltusrol, which Frank Stewart Smith, inventor of the took effect when John Farrell was signed by Smithirons, invented this. Bob Crandall, the club, Essex County CC, another Jersey president of Burke's, happened to use it 36-hole establishment, goes to the pro con- in playing a ball lying on the edge of a cession basis, discontinuing the club opera- barranca at Wilshire. He made the shot tion of the shop, which has been the policy for some time. Bill Malcolm is the Essex ver. Howard B. Sharp, city commissioner County pro. for public improvements, was the moving Harry Nash gave the doings at Essex factor in getting this addition to Sheri- County a great story in the Newark News. dan's attractions. The yarn should influence other clubs to • * * restore concessions to professionals so the IN ALL of the excellent publicity put out clubs can retain the sort of pros they want ' by Cornell University's course in hotel and give these men chances to make the management I have noticed very few ref- money they deserve. erences to club management, although this Club operation of shops hasn't worked great school would be just the place for out with much profit or satisfaction to the young men aspiring to fame and fortune club members. through the house end of club operation. • * * Absence of this interest in club man- /*^OLF is beginning to get a lot of time agement is a dangerous sign. It indicates ^ on the air. In Cincinnati, C. R. Brown, that the club field is not attractive to the formerly supervisor of municipal recrea- young men the club may want as man- tion and a mainspring in the public golf agers. educational campaign, now broadcasts on • * * golf from the station in the Alms hotel. r\ECREASING BIRTH RATE in metro- The Chicago Daily Fee Golf Assn. profes- politan districts is forecast to reach a sionals take turns in broadcasting through point where death rate will exceed the WGN on Tuesday nights, and on Thurs- birth rate in metropolitan communities, day night Tom Walsh, Westgate Valley according to a study of the Pittsburgh dis- pro, works with the station's sports man, trict made by Frederick F. Stephan, direc- John Harrington, in a great series on golf. tor, Bureau of Social Research. * * * Foresighted young people should start breeding for the market. Fortunes CEYMOUR DUNN has written five little are founded in times like these. ^ booklets on "Standardized Golf In- struction." They are on the method of • * * learning and teaching, golf instruction ^^ENDELL KAY, professional at Hyde code, orthodox golf form, remedies for ™ Park, Niagara Falls (N. Y.) muny swing errors and golf swing illustrated. course, helps public course players get These books read simply and pros I con- started with proper instruction by giving sider among the first-class instruction group lessons at moderate rates. authorities say Seymour has done a fine Kay's charges on lessons are: Group of job in boiling down to essentials what he six, one hour, 50 cents a person; group of has observed in 35 years of teaching. four, one hour, 75 cents a person; group One of the interesting statements Dunn of three, one hour, $1 a person; group of makes in his first booklet is: "Teaching two, one hour, $1.50 a person; individual consists not so much in showing a pupil instruction, per hour, $2.25; playing lesson, what to do but in keeping him from doing per hour, $2. fees are included in what he should not do." these prices. It looks like wide circulation of these * * * books ought to help the lesson business of ROCHESTER (N. Y.) is planning on hav- able instructors. ^ ing a $4,000 Open tournament this year Dunn is located at the Madison Square as part of its centennial celebration. The Garden Golf school, , and event will be somewhat in the nature of I am sure would welcome pro inquiries a testimonial to a home-town boy who about his booklets. made good, . It is deserved • * • recognition of Hagen and it is hoped that q HERIDAN, WYO., in the heart of the the pros will be able to get away to Roch- ^ dude ranch. country, this year adds to ester and assure a big success of this its vacation attractions an 18-hole munici- thing, for Walter certainly had a lot to pal said to be one of the finest do with making a place in the sun for courses in the Rocky Mountain territory. professional golf players in this country The course was the gift of the late United and abroad. States Senator Kendrick to the city and It will be interesting to compare the has been enlarged and improved by Mc- treatment the pros will ¡get as distin- Crary and Culley, golf architects of Den- guished guests at Rochester's centennial with the treatment pros got back in those days before Walter began to remind the SPEAK PLAIN public that pros were not peons and were entitled to rating as white, polite and 21, Standardize Simple Golf in nice company. Terms to Make Pupils But before we get to that, let us men- tion that the tournament will not be held Understand unless Rochester is assured of enough prominent pro entries to make the tour- nament a first class one. By WALTER KELLER

• * * THERE has been much talk lately of HUNTER CC, Richmond, 111., northwest standardizing golf instruction, which is of Chicago, has all of its greens in the a good idea—if it can be done. shapes of states or countries. The holes While standardization is in the air, are as follows: Wisconsin, Scotland, North mightn't it be a good idea to try to stand- America, , Africa, South America, ardize golf terms so that instructors and New York, Maine and Australia on the pupils can understand one another? out nine. On the incoming nine are Illi- As an instructor I have many amusing nois, Colorado, France, Florida, Switzer- instances of the strange misuse of words land, Spain, Ohio, Ireland and . in golf that leads to much misunder- Yardage and par are 3,385-3,110—6,495; standing. 37-35—72. Perhaps the most frequent is the ever-

* * * lasting repetition of something the wrists have to do; whereas the wrists practically I APAN plans a National Open golf tour- do nothing at all, except act as a hinge on nament. According to the Golfers' which the hands move. Handbook there are 10 golf clubs in Japan, A pupil asked me the other day, "Where one of which has two 18-hole courses. should I break my wrists in the downward * * * swing?" and I said, somewhat flippantly, I am afraid, "I wouldn't do it at all if I were ST. PAUL is repeating its $5,000 Open you. They will be useful when you come tournament this year. Date will be to hit the ball." What he meant was, where July 12-15. This is the fifth year of a did he uncock or unbend his hands. An- tournament in St. Paul. other asked, "Where do I cock my wrists The Junior Chamber of Commerce did in the upward swing?" and the answer not go ahead with its plans until it had is you cannot "cock" your "wrist" any sent letters to leading pros asking them more than you can cock your ankle. whether or not they would play. They One can in the upward swing bend one's told the pros that if professional support hands upward, "cock" the hands, if one was not forthcoming the event would be wants to use the common word, but cock- cancelled for keeps. ing the wrist just cannot be done. • * * Let us therefore agree to say the part ONE OF THE bright remarks made by of the body we mean, which is hands and an expert observer of things in the not wrists. This would be a very useful golf field: "Members are starting to come start on standardized golf terms. back to clubs that haven't gone back." Then, again, I have pupils talking to me * * * of "throwing the club head through the ball." GREAT BRITAIN is to have a public It is important in golf to use the right course championship. Present plans words, for one gets one's mental picture call for 36 hole scratch competition the from the words used. We do not here want first day and a national handicap competi- a picture of a ruined ball with the club tion the second day of the tournament. emerging from the front of it. What we Players from the rounds of both days will want is a clear mental image of a ball on qualify for the final 36 holes. its way down the line to the hole and the An intercity team match will be played. club-head going on after it with its face Fred Pignon, golf writer for the Daily at a right angle to the flight line. Follow Mail, London, estimates there are 100,000 the ball with the club-head as far as you public course players in Great Britain. can is the mental picture desired here.