News of the Golf World in Brief
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NEWS OF THE GOLF WORLD IN BRIEF Another one of the second light to its big annual 4-ball generation of great golf course invitation tournament. supts. is making good . Son James Small now pro at Paris of John Anderson, many years (111.) CC . N. J. State High- a leader in New Jersey course way Authority started condem- maintenance and a president of nation proceedings to acquire the national association of 14 acres of Broadacres GC in supts., now is supt. at Standard Bloomfield, N. J., after owner Club, Atlanta, Ga. .. John, Sr. Robt. L. M. Axt rejected offer is retired and living in Florida of $100,000 for land of 9-hole . The Felice Torzas back course . N. J. Garden State home in St. Charles, 111., bring- HERB GRAFFIS Parkway also cutting across ing with them beautiful young adjacent Upper Montclair 9- doll named Donna Ann . She was born hole west course . Upper Montclair CC in Port Arthur, Tex., while Felice was retaining 27 holes by building new holes on playing in the Masters' . Brother Doug- club property . Land to expand Jefferson las, aged 3, not yet started in his pro Park muny course, Seattle, Wash., acquired career. by condemnation proceedings for $39,150. Jim Livingstone, pro at American Le- Lexington (Va.) GC to build new club- gion CC, Avondale Estates, Ga., now in house . Halifax (Va.) GC completes his 43d year of pro golf in the U. S. pool . Discussing construction of $500,- Jim and his brother George came from 000 golf club between Grass Valley and North Berwick, Scotland, to do great jobs Marysville, Calif. inter City GC to of building golf in this country . Jim build 18-hole course near Selma, Calif. still talks with a Scotch burr and George has learned to speak Tennesseean like a Robert White, first pres. of the PGA, native. got a fee of $10.50 as architect for the original course of the Salem (Mass.) CC Babe Zaharias' life story to be done in where the USGA second annual Women's movies . Highland GC, North Truro, Open championship was played July 1, 2 Mass., 9-hole course rebuilt and reopened and 3 ... Tom Bonnar, pro at Elmira (N.Y.) by Hal Conklin after several years shut- CC since 1919, retires and is succeeded by down . George Bayer, 6 ft., 6 in. asst. his asst. Frank Socash . Jerry Gian- to Fred Grieve at Glen Head (N. Y.) CC ferante now pro at Springfield (Mass.) showed during National Open he sure CC . Jack Schneiderman now pro at enough is longest hitter in golf . The Blue Hill CC, Canton, Mass. big guy has good grip and good swing . He knocks them farther into the Bob Williams, supt., Beverly CC (Chi- woods than most first class players can cago dist.) and chmn., Educational com- hit them off the tee . And when he mittee, GCSA reports that the committee whammed them into the forests border- has completed program for 1955 annual ing Baltusrol's fairways his shots tore out conference at St. Louis next Jan. Pro- stumps. gram is one that will be worth money to Geneva, Neb., revives its golf course; every course in the nation . It's cer- closed for some years . Ben King now tainly completed far enough ahead to have pro at Circle R GC, Escondido, Calif. advance copies of addresses for press re- Green River (Wyo.) course, built in part lease and otherwise improve publicity for by members' work, opened . Wyante- supts.' convention. nuck CC, Great Barrington, Mass., aban- Houston, Mo., opens 9-hole sand green dons Calcutta which long has been a side- course at airport . San Haven 9-hole course at Dunseith, N. D. opened . Fred Miller now mgr., Blue Ridge CC, Harris- Glean out Crabgrass burg, Pa. Pvt. Toney Penna, Jr., made an ace on 151 yd. 11th hole at the Armed Forces course, Ft. Jackson, S. C. A month later his pappy knocked in a hole- in-one at Baltusrol, in a practice round before the National Open. Long time since there's been the walk- away Patty Berg scored with her plus 73 in winning the Triangle Round Robin at Cascades Course, Virgnia Hot Springs . Patty was 51 points ahead of Betty Jame- son in second place . Charles and Frank Jones open night-lighted par-3 course at Ft. Smith, Ark. Jock Hutchison, Sr. and wife after visit with home folks in St. Andrews motoring thru Europe on 3 month vacation . Joe Ball, veteran supt., honored at dinner by fellow supts. at Chartiers CC (Pittsburgh dist.) . Tige Stanley, supt., Yuma (Ariz.) CC, and his wife given big din- ner by club in recognition of his valuable performance . Stanley presented with No mixing, apply SCUTL as it comes from bag. honorary membership in the club and 3 or 4 treatments scuttles crabgrass without wrist watch. discoloring good grass. Controls fungus too! AsIc for estimate. New Jersey turf field day at Rutgers university, New Brunswick, N. J., Aug. 3 O Scott & SONS CO., Marysville, Ohio REDUCE SHARPENING COSTS! with a SIMPLEX Portable Lapping Machine This compact, portable Simplex Lapping Ma- be used on a bench or on the floor too. Couples chine will recondition with lapping compound to either side of a mower. Gang mowers need any reel-type hand, power, or gang mower. not be unhitched. Drive shaft is adjustable from 3" to 17" and runs either direction at the Keeps them in top cutting condition between flick of a switch. No noisy gears — operation grinding jobs. Just carry the Simplex out to is quiet, simple, dependable. Write today for the mower and use it right on the grassl Can illustrated, descriptive folder. The FATE-ROOT-HEATH CO. Dept. G-7, Plymouth, Ohio . Supts. probably will bring many chairmen to view results of research by Ralph Engel and his teammates . Ex- pect big attendance at University of Flo- rida annual turf conference and field days, Aug. 5 and 6 at Gainesville, Fla. Gene Nutter has valuable program planned . Another "must" for a section's supts. next month is 23d annual turf conference and field days at University of Rhode Island, Kingston . Jesse De France and as- sociates have much to show that can be used with profit on courses in that part of the U. S. Edina, Mo. opens 9-hole sand green course two months after a few local fel- lows got the idea Edina had to have a DAVIS SPRINKLERS course or be a nothing town . New Or- The prtme requisite of fine turf, greens, tees, fairways leans, La. getting another muny 18 ad- and lawns is a sprinkler which can give uniform distribution and coverage of large areas, rotate joining present 18 at City Park. evenly and stand up under hard usage. We have Blackfoot, Ida., getting 9-hole course sprinklers with these and many more qualities. financed by "300 Club" of 300 who'll pay Write us today $100 each in monthly installments of $10 toward construction of course and by "Big Nine Club" of nine organizations or in- dividuals who'll each pay $1000 toward construction of a green . Dwight Tra- vis, one of Mike Murra's assistants at Wichita (Ks.) CC to Bartlesville (Okla.) CC as pro. No matter what your top dressing require- superior product . light, fluffy, completely ments may be — from 1 to 150 cubic yards mixed and blended, ready to use . and at per hour — there is a Royer Compost Mixer a saving in labor of as much as 89%. to supply the need. The small Junior Model Shown above is an "over-the-road" model, is easily fed by one man hand shoveling . powered with a 36 HP air cooled Wisconsin the huge NCYP-EG is built wth extension hop- gasoline engine and mounted on four 6.00x16 per for tractor bucket feeding . and there tires, with tow bar and automotive steering. are other Royers in capacities between these A model of similar capacity is also avail- ranges. able with a 15 HP electric motor drive. Write All Royer models — gasoline engine, electric for Bulletin 46 giving complete data on motor or belt-to-tractor driven — produce a all models. ROYER foundry & machine co 171 PRINGLE ST., KINGSTON, PA. Organizing El Refugio CC at Albuquer- que, N. M., and plan to start building 18- hole course soon ... St. Petersburg, Fla., Grass retarded surrenders lease on Pasadena muny course to Dixie Hollins, owner of course land who leases the course to Gilbert and Boswell, with MH-40*! builders . L. H. Boswell of the firm is a former club mgr. Lloyd Gullickson will continue as winter season pro-mgr. and Les Frisinger remains as year-around asst. pro-mgr. Ray Jenkins, golf editor, Columbus (Ga.) Ledger-Enquirer, with pro coopera- tion, this year extended Ledger golf clinic and hole-in-one contest from Columbus where it started last year, to four more adjacent cities . Clinics were held in a different city for five consecutive nights . Ness City and Ransom, Ks., golfers united to build 9-hole course between the two communities. Modesto, Calif., to build 18-hole muny course . Now has 9-hole muny course . Tri-Cities G&CC to build 9-hole course near Radford, Va. Western Village 18-hole course, Tulsa, Okla., to open late this summer . Eddie Miller signed as Western Village pro . Jaycees head ftWMI I W Quality Built Mowing costs GOLF COURSE EQUIPMENT cut drastically! Lawn Groomer Now, with MH-40, you can TRIMS and EDGES! actually slow the growth of your roughs without harming their quality or appearance. You can reduce mowings to as few as twice a season.