Those Darn Stakes! Betsy Cullen and Miss Dale Fleming, have In the days preceding the Junior Cham­ dominated the Women's State event for pionship, Ralph Miller and some of the the past four years. other Junior Championship Committee­ Children are accepted from the age of men worked tirelessly to stake the margins seven and are guided by talks and films in of the brooks that wind through the Manor the paths of etiquette and rules besides Counrty Club, Norbeck, Md., with the being introdcued to competitive golf. familiar little yellow and red stakes which The flights range from three-hole pee- denote regular and lateral water hazards wee tournaments to the State Junior Girls' in USGA competitions. Championship, won this year for the sec­ As luck would have it, on the first day ond time by Miss Beth Stone, of Muskogee, of play one boy's drive came to rest close with Miss Carlene Hotz, daughter of the behind one of the brooks. The boy could, chairman, runner-up. of course, have removed any stake which might interfere, as a movable obstruction. New Course for Old Club However, he didn't, and his low iron shot The Tuxedo Club, Tuxedo Park, N. Y., clipped a stake a few feet in front of his second in seniority in the Metropolitan ball and deflected into the brook. New York area to St. Andrew's Golf Club, "Wouldn't you think the Committee Hastings-on-Hudson, officially opened its would get all those stakes out of there be­ new golf course last month. fore the tournament begins!" his father ex­ As we mentioned in our June, 1954 claimed from the sidelines. issue, the Club was forced to abandon its original site when the New York State Oklahoma's Girls Thru-way bisected the course, leaving only Eight years ago the Women's Oklahoma four holes in its wake. Golf Association instituted a girls' junior The Club bought land in Orange County, golf program, and for their first tourna­ some two or three miles south of Tuxedo ment they had 19 entrants. Park, and appointed Robert Trent Jones Last month they ran eight flights for Q2 to lay out the new circuit. competitors. The result is a course which, with alter­ No program could have flourished to nate tees, has a variable length of 6,400 to such an extent without a strong driving 6,900 yards. force, largely supplied by Mrs. Carl Hotz. A relatively small golf house and shop of Tulsa, who has been associated with the will serve the golfers' needs. The original scheme from its inception and its chairman main clubhouse in Tuxedo Park will still the past five years. act as the Club's headquarters for its other Two of the scheme's graduates, Miss amenities.

USGA JOURNAL AND TURF MANAGEMENT: AUGUST, 1957 1 many times British Amateur Champion, NEW MEMBERS OF THE USGA owned the Royal Hotel, the original horn£:' of the Royal Liverpool Club. He himself Regular w~s a very good golfer and a bronze med- Bellefontaine Country Club, Ohio 1list, being beaten in the semi-final of the> Colonial at Lynnfield, Mass. Amateur Championship by Horace Hutch- Highlands Country Club, N. Y. inson. He often played foursomes with Mill Valley Golf Club, Cal. 'Pendulum' Brown and two other friends Minden Country Club, Mass. and one day when their match had reached Newtown Country Club, Conn. the ninth green he astonished the party by Northamption Country Club, Neb. announcing that he would have to interrupt Otterkill Golf & Country Club. N. Y. the game for a short time as he had to at- Pajaro Valley Country Club, Cal. tend a wedding at a nearby church, and he Pittsburg Golf & Country Club, Cal. hoped his three friends would accompany Plum Creek Golf Club, Kans. bim. Red Hook Golf Club, N. Y. .. We suspected some leg pull; Brown Sistersville Country Club, W. Va. told me, 'but he seemed so insistent that at Sodus Bay Heights Golf Club, Iowa last we agreed to go with him: When they Wav£'land Golf Association, N. y, arrived at the church the need for 's presence became abundantly clear Associate as it was his own wedding he was attend, Anderson Fields Golf Course, III. ing. Ausable Club, N. Y. "After the ceremony was over he put his Oakland Beach Golf Course, Po. bride into a waiting cab and ordered it to be driven to the Royal Hotel, whilst he and his three friends returned to the tenth Wedding Bells v. Golf tee to finish their interrupted foursome. "For a man to be married in the middle Miss Lorraine Lenczyk, of Indian Hill of a game must surely rank as a unique in- Country Club, N ewingron, Conn., got up cident, but perhaps the most amusing part of very early on the morning of July 19. the story was that 'Pendulum' Brown told it Three hours later as Mrs. Maurice Paqu'ette to me as if it were an everyday occurrence. she stepped onto the first tee at the Shuttle I honestly believe he thought sacrilege had Meadow Country Club, New Britain, to been committed by interrupting the solem- play her sister, Grace, Women's Amateur nities of a foursome, even to allow one of Champion of 1948, in the final of the Con- the contestants to take unto himself a wife. necticut Women's Golf Association Cham- 'We had an excellent wedding breakfast pionship. It was little wonder that Lor- at the end of the round; was his final raine lost 12 and 10. comment." This dash from the altar to the tee r~- calls a similar story recounted by Guy B. Farrar, Secretary of the Royal Liverpool Locke Emulates Hagen Golf Club, , . In British Open 'When writing the history of the Royal Although silver is non-magnetic, there liverpool Golf Club," says Farrar, "R. W seems to be a definite affinity between the 'Pendulum' Brown was of the greatest as- British Open Championship trophy and sistance to me, being the only one of the South African . 'ancients' who could clearly remember in- In winning the British tide last month cidents of the early days at Hoylake. It was at St. Andrews, , he duplicated the he who told me a story in which he himself feat of by being the second figured, a story, I think, unique in the his- overseas player to win the Championship tory of golf. iour times. Locke's previous successes wer~ "John Ball, senior, the father of the at Royal St. George's in 1949, Troon in 2 USGA JOURNAL AND TURF MANAGEMENT: AUGUST, 1957 1950 and Royal Lytham and St. Anne's "We talk and write a lot about it, but in 1952. nobody does anything. We invent two- Several other players had tight grips on stroke penalties for delay, but nobody has the trophy in the past. had the nerve to impose them." six titles to his credit; and J. H. Taylor, five; Robert T. Jones, Jr. Hogan, the Mentor and three, and Peter Thom­ son, who finished second this year, three No continental chef has ever worked in succession from 1954 through 1956. harder to perfect his specialty than to perfect his golf swing. won Belt in 1868-69-70 and was His goal has been "to master the move­ first holder of the present trophy when the ment that will result in a correct, powerful, event was restarted and extended to 72 repeating swing." And to that end he has holes in 1872. not merely spent hours a day on the prac­ tice ground, he has gone there notebook and pencil in hand to jot down his experi­ Amputees Gather at Toledo ments and deduce their relative merits or The Ninth National Amputee Tourna­ demerits as conscientiously as any research ment will be held August 16 and 17 at w orker. He has, in fact, treated his vocation Heather Downs Country Club, Toledo, as a science. Ohio. Last spring, in collaboration with golf Two new sections have been added to writer and artist this year's program, a girls' division and a Anthony Ravielli he presented his theiis uib-teen division for boys. on The Modern Fundamentals of Golf in five installments in Sports Illustrated. These The standard achieved by some of the received such acclaim that they have now amputees puts most four-limbed golfers to been published in book form by A. S. shame, a triumph of their courage and Barnes & Co. pertinacity. This book, the work of three men at the top of their professions, is one of the Golfing Tortoises most comprehensive instruction manuals Can golf spectators bear to watch the ever published. game grow slower and slower or will gal­ leries gradually dwindle? USGA Committee Changes Henry Longhurst, British golf writer and The USGA has regretfully accepted res­ crusader against slow play, commenting u ignations recently tendered by the follow­ long distance on the pace of part of the ing Committeemen: US Open and that of a recent British tour­ nament, came up with this gloomy LEE S. READ, of Louisville, Ky., who has prophecy: served since 1940 on the Sectional Affairs Committee and, more recently, on the "I believe that if they do not somehow Junior Championship. find means of speeding it up they will re­ duce the spectators to those who from time TOM P. HENDERSON, JR., of Nashville, to time turn on the television to see if they Tenn., Junior Championship Committee have finished another hole. and formerly Sectional Affairs, since 1948. "The trouble is," he continued, "that a HARRY HOPE, JR., of Bellaire, Texas, generation of ordinary club players who, Public Links Committee, 1956-1957. when all's said and done, 'make' the game GILBERT A. CURRIE, of Midland, Mich., of golf, is growing up in the belief that Green Section Committee, 1956-1957. this is how the game is normally played. A further change in the Public Links They copy the mannerisms of the masters Committee has been brought about by the and, with them, the pace. A creeping death last May of R. K. Phipps, of Kansas paralysis comes over club golf, too. City, Mo.

USGA JOURNAL AND TURF MANAGEMENT: AUGUST, 1957 3 National Golf Day Receipts SPORTSMAN'S CORNER

Early receipts from the 1957 sixth an­ Miss "Bunny" Zale, a sixteen-year-old member nual National Golf Day held on June 8, of the East Aurora Country Club, East Aurora, total $55,651.66 according to official fi­ N. Y., has faith and a smile. "Bunny" has faith in God, her doctors and mankind, and a smile for gures released by PGA President Harry L. everyone. Moffitt. This revenue to date compares favorably She contracted polio in 1950 and since then she with receipts at a similar point last year. has spent many long years in hospital and in a wheel chair. For the past two years she has been able to get around with the aid of two crutches, A Great Scottish Import but they are her means to an end, to be walking again. The small things that we take for granted American golf would be very much the are very important to this young lady. poorer had it not been for the great in­ flux of Scottish professionals in the two decades spanning the turn of the century. It would also have been the poorer had not a hie'landman by the name of D. Scott Chisholm slipped in, in 1899 at the behest of Andrew Carnegie. "Scotty," known affectionately through­ out the golfing world and more especially in California for his big heart and wealth of friends, is now 80 years of age. Unmistakable in his kilt and Balmoral bonnet, untradionally offset by loud, local shirts, he can look back on as checkered a career as any of his compatriots. He was 22 when he came to the States, having had a hand in the launching of Harry Lauder on an American audience. He was later, in turn, a porter, a salesman for ladies' hats, a riveter, an entertainment officer, a golf writer and a TV performer. His association with golf goes back 71 years when he used to play his way to school in Scotland. The "hole" measured MISS "BUNNY" ZALE 1,760 yards!

His versatility knows no bounds, and "Bunny" started to play golf last fall, applying he has had a finger in many golfing pies. the same determination to it as she has done to The fact that he is an honorary member life, and with the help of her professional, her of several clubs and associations is indic­ family and friends she has come a long way. She can now drive the ball an average of 150 yards ative of the affection in which this youth­ and is able to take part in the Buffalo District ful veteran is held. Girls' Junior tournaments. Her younger sister, Wendy, aged 11, for her and holds her crutches while she hits the ball. Necrology Her indomitable courage has been an inspiration It is with regret that we record the death to young and old alike in her immediate circle of of: friends and acquaintances. It is our hope that her CLIFTON W. INSLEE. of Kenwood, N.Y., fortitude in grappling with and conquering ad­ versity may have a bearing on the lives of our who reached the semi-finals of the USGA readers both on and off the course. There is no Amateur Championship in 1911 at the sportsman like the one who can smile in the face Apawamis Club, Rye, N. Y. of adversity.

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