Width of Fairways Not Covered by Rules of Golf

them will be the excess of American wel- ^^ONDER WHAT has happened to the come. ™ old gag that teaching ruined a pro's * * # playing ability? That used to be a favor- THE PRO MAY THINK he is getting ite alibi until Johnny Farrell won a Na- ' some punishment from ball sales compe- tional open championship and came out tition with drug stores but he is not suf- with the comment that there was no sense fering in this respect as much as the sport- to the remark. ing goods stores, according to W. R. Checking over the list of champions Searles of Alex Taylor and Co., large New this year we find that without, exception York sporting goods retailers. the titles are held by fellows who are, Searles, in an issue of Sporting Goods kept extremely busy at the lesson tees Journal, writes: of their clubs. Considerably above the "Druggists are noted for the glee with average pro lesson business is that done which they cut-in on the other fellow's by Olin Dutra, Henry Cotton, Harry business. Sporting goods stores do not Cooper, Paul Runyan and Tommy Armour. realize and will never know the volume of Maybe the old moan should be revised business they have already lost to the to read: '"I don't get enough teaching drug-stores. business to make *m e *a playin* g champion." "What has Mr. Sporting Goods Merchant got to do to stop the manufacturers from THERE ARE 75 ardent golfers among the selling the chain drugstores? If he doesn't • 1,600 employees of Ringling Brothers do this, he is going to awaken some fine circus. They are so keen for the game morning and on his way to business find that they have their own professional, the neighborhood drugstore window proud- Lloyd Greenamyre, travel with them. For ly exhibiting his pet matched-sets, one of six years Lloyd was pro at the Bobby the few articles he has left where there is Jones course, Sarasota, Fla., where some a volume and a decent profit that the drug- of the circus folks winter. gist has not already taken advantage of When the circus was in Detroit Greena- and added to his line." myre visited the Hagen factory to get • * * some special playing equipment for mem- bers of his migratory club. An 8 ft. 2 in., ^LIN DUTRA makes his debut in radio giant had to be fitted and a contortionist Thanksgiving week. The National wanted a complete set of whippy shafted Open champion has a dramatized part in clubs. the Beech-Nut "Red Davis" feature over NBC. Part of the publicity on this is pic- ture releases showing Olin striding a fair- Width of Fairways Not Covered way accompanying a couple of young women in the Beech-Nut program. The by Rules of Golf girls are attired in shorts. Olin, in those THERE IS NOTHING in the Rules of publicity pictures, looks scared like a guy »Golf which differentiates between fair- who has just hooked a hard one into a gal- way and rough. This is because in the old lery at a nudist colony. days, before mowers were introduced to * * * keep the fairways smooth, a player took 11 his lies as he found them and was not £ RAB GRASS CONTROL on Lawns," favored with a carefully mowed path from the subject of a press release by the tee to green. From the standpoint of the New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Sta- Rules, there is no specified width for fair- tion and written by Prof. Howard B. Spra- ways. gue, is something that shows how closely Custom, however, has developed a fairly turf work on golf courses and lawns is al- common practice in this regard, influence lied. This sort of press material coming on the one hand by the desire of the play- to the attention of home owners puts the ers to have an area of reasonable width tax payers in a mood for approving turf into which to aim their shots, and on the research work. other hand by the desires of the club * * # officials to hold mowing expenses within THE GOLFERS are turning actors, and budget limits. Some courses hold their • the actors, golfers. Adolphe Menjou got fairways down to 150 feet; others are more a hole in one at Riviera's sixteenth. He generous and give their players 200 feet applied for a US Hole-in-One medal. He of mowed turf. The average is in the made his ace with a 444 US Royal. neighborhood of 180 feet. .

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