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News of the Golf World in Brief NEWS OF THE GOLF WORLD IN BRIEF Ed Furgol's story done with found this year's affairs costing Will Grimsley of Associated their respective organizations Press, which ran in the Post about $100,000 each ... Visiting Sept. 4, is a great yarn . Ed foreign pros get expenses and speaks the score and Will writes some more ... May and Hopkins it perfectly . It's blunt, but organizations now split costs of correct, in spots . Ed sure bringing foreign stars to their proved himself a pretty fair events. picker in his penultimate para- Victory of Australian team of graph in forecasting victories Thomson and Nagle in Canada for Bob Toski and Bud Holscher Cup event with 536, second of . They came thru, Toski with HERB GRAFFIS Argentina's Cerda and De Vi- world championship and Höl- cenzo with 560, had U. S. team scher with Labatt, before that issue of the of Demaret and Snead running third with Post hit the stands ... Ed figures he can 565, among teams of 25 countries . These make $100,000 out of the Open . Hope he international pro competitions are grow- can . He's always behaved himself when ing and Hopkins deserves to have more the going was rough and he and Helen have attention paid by U. S. pro stars to his a bunch of good breaks coming . They event . Doesn't look good when Yanks always did their crying and complaining in finish third . Laval-sur-Lac course at private and were cheerful in public. Montreal with 6,589 yardage and par 72 not a tough test but certainly the same Bob Toski already collecting bonus on test for all the field . International his World championship victory . Fly- competition at May event won by U. S. ing to Brazil for a week at $5000 . He's team from foreign all-stars by 6y2 to 5Vk, in preliminary work on a book with a dif- somewhat smothered by All-American and ferent slant on learning golf . George S. World championships fore and aft . May in great shape again after hospitali- Barber, Littler, Cooper, Toski, Mangrum, zation during his championships . Ulrich, Middlecoff, Riegel on U. S. team Switch of medical treatment worked won- . Thomson, Von Donck, Cerda, De Vi- ders on him. cenzo, Von Nida, Faulkner, Gonzales, An- George Bayer, longest hitter we've ever gelina on foreign team. seen in golf, being booked for exhibitions America's Cup matches at London by MacGregor Golf . Elmer Lemke, (Ont.) Hunt & CC brought victory to U. S. snpt., Tarn O'Shanter CC, had greens in amateur team by 14 points to Canada's superb condition during Tam champion- 13 and Mexico's 0 in second playing of the ships, despite tricky August weather . event . U. S. won in 1952 with 12, Cana- Meadowbrook in Detroit district far along da's 10 and Mexico's 5. with work preparing for 1955 PGA cham- Wm. Barrett, 64, for 34 years pro at pionship. Lafayette Club, Minneapolis, died Aug. 10 Glass shafts given tests on practice tee at his home in Minnetonka Beach, Minn., at Tam O'Shanter . Pinehurst's 60th after a 3 years illness . He was born season opens Oct. 2 . Record entry as- in England . He and his brother Percy, sured for 3d annual invitation North and also deceased, went to Canada as pros . South Seniors' championship Oct. 25-30 Bill went to Interlachen at Minneapolis in with big waiting list already. 1916 as asst. to George Sargent . His John Jay Hopkins, U. S. and Canadian daughter Beatrice, now Mrs. Rollie Alt- industrialist, who sponsors international myer was an amateur star . Bill is sur- pro matches in Canada, and George S. vived by his widow; a son, Douglas W., May, sponsor of the international pro Mrs. Altmyer and another daughter, Mrs. matches (except Ryder Cup) in U. S., Charles Sturgis. Central Counties (Pa.) PGA tourney . Hot exhaust from jet planes heating drew its biggest field; 88 entries of whom his No. 8 green. 69 were pros . Stan Dudas, Shawnee Oil companies now using fuel trucks for CC, shot 65 at Centre Hills CC, State summer liquid fertilization of lawns and College, Pa., to win first . Henry Wil- some golf course areas . Tianna G&CC, liams, 2d and Johnny Weitzell, 3d . Walker, Minn., being revitalized with Ol- Tournament promoted by Harold B. Har- lie A. Lower, Dallas, Tex., businessman as rison and PGA neighborhood teammates sparkplug . Ridge CC (Chicago dist.) cleared $750 for crippled children. in beautiful new clubhouse . One of few New 3155 yd. par 36 course of Walt new clubhouses built in Chicago dist. in Clark and Bob Baldock, Sierra Sky Ranch, years . Club also recently opened new northwest of Madera, Calif., getting lot of pool. play . Baldock also designed Madera Southern Calif. PGA $4000 champion- CC 9-hole course which opened July 7 . ship biggest money PGA sectional cham- Saucon Valley junior course at Bethlehem, pionship . Event at Recreation Park, Pa., and Hillendale CC, Towson, Md., both Long Beach, won by Ralph Evans on designed by Bill and Dave Gordon, opened whom SC PGA waived 5-year PGA eligi- in July . Other courses of Gordon father bility rule . Ralph was one month short and son design opened this year are 9 at . Evans beat Ellie Vines 4 and 2 in Sparrows Point (Md.) CC; 18 at Indian finals . Ellie had beaten him a stroke Valley CC, Telford, Pa., and rebuilt 9 at in the California State . Wisconsin State Lawrenceville (N. J.) School. Open at Milwaukee gets $3000 prize money Mrs. Margaret M. Green, 87, mother of from Miller Brewing Co. and biggest pub- Joe, former golf pro well known in Phila- licity event ever has had. delphia and N. J. died July 14 . She Walter Nagorski, pres. Hawaiian PGA was a keen fan of golf and other sports. on vacation trip to US . Showed pro Marine Barracks 9-hole course at Ports- playmates in Detroit dist. he still swings mouth, Va., being rebuilt under super- a collecting stick . Walter says Ed vision of Capt. G. S. Murphy with pro- (Spud) Murphy, pro at Schofield GC, mak- supt. Russel Emig giving an expert help- ing fine comeback to health after tough ing hand . Course is called Marbak spell in Leahi hospital . Walter tells Manor . Will care for USMC personnel, that Frankie Stranahan's visits to military personnel from adjoining U. S. Navy ship- hospitals in Hawaii scored in a great way yard and Naval hospital . Two more with the patients . Says other headline courses in Norfolk, Va. area opened. athletes should follow Frankie's lead. Kempsville Meadows G&CC, 18-holes with Willie Kidd, pro at Interlachen CC, Min- 300 members and Johnny Kelly as pro, and neapolis, designing new 9-hole course for Aero Pines 9-holes, 3,305 yds., with Walter Princeton (Minn.) CC and 9 (eventually Beckett as pro . Aero-Pines is at 18) for new layout of Fairibault (Minn.) Oceana Naval Air station . Navy also CC . E. Delss McCauley, pro at Jaycee has Norfolk Officers' club and Sewells muny course, Pine Bluff, Ark., advises 9- Point courses and is building a course at hole course is to be converted to grass Little Creek in Norfolk dist. greens soon . Don Cherry won first Johnny Bobich, pro at Eberhart Park Sunnehanna CC, invitation amateur at muny course, Mishawaka, Ind., offers Johnstown, Pa., from field including cham- course of 6 lessons (5 in group of 6 pupils pions of 5 states . Sunnehanna officials and one private) to women for $7.50 . and pro Bob Gutwein put on an event Johnny furnishes clubs for lessons . that's going to grow great. Then if pupils decide to buy clubs Johnny Newell E. Baker, Jr. pro at Oakwoods allows them $7.50 lesson fee as credit on CC, North Wilkesboro, N. C., says his club's club purchase. officials and members have done one of Ira Malbrough of Great Lakes Golf Co. the best golf promotion jobs in the country chm., Chicagoland Sports Industries 5th . Club has beautiful 9-hole course and annual golf tournament at Midwest CC, fine ranch-style clubhouse . Oakwoods Aug. 17 . Archie Campbell's new par-3 200 members see expansion to 18-hole Norwood GC, Knoxville, Tenn., getting big course as probability before long . Pat play ... Joe Kennedy is pro and doing a Williams, Jr. one of the club's founders raft of lesson business . Bill Schreiber, recently scored first ace on the course. supt., Cedar Point GC, Naval Air Station, Julius Gaffo, formerly pro at Chapel Patuxent River, Md., adds another to the Hill CC, McHenry, 111., now pro at Mc- long list of greens maintenance problems Henry (111.) CC . Club has attractive new clubhouse . Gaifo and his wife do- ing excellent promotion job and club is getting plenty of play . First class ad- Çfufhorse vance publicity and information job being done by CC of Detroit on National Ama- teur . Herbert Warren Wind, author of Story of American Golf, and with Gene Sarazen "30 Years of Championship Golf," and "The Complete Golfer" to be published by Simon and Schuster, appointed golf edi- tor of new Sports Illustrated magazine. Jimmy Deniaret and his wife are jubi- lant young grandparents . Miss Susan Ann born July 23 in Houston, Tex., to the Demaret's daughter, Peggy Jackson. Great publicity for course supts. in il- lustrated article "Keepers of the Greens" by Brian Bell, Jr., in Washington (D. C.) Star . Springfield, Ore., discussing building course . Earl B. Hunter and Carl M. Rutherford, lease 42 acres of Mission Bay land at San Diego, Calif, for building 9 holes.
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