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Take the Chair for That Matter

Take the Chair for That Matter

Not the Half of It likely to upset the long standing record of Mrs. Tom Angove, a Sourh Australian , who won the first Open State golfer, was practising at the Koo- Championship in 1895 at the age of 19. yonga Club, Adelaide. Her eight year The following list of other yOU!)g and ~ging champions prove that major events old son was gallantly picking up the balls for his mother. When he had retrieved the can be won from the teens to the fifties: balls several times he was told not to go Miss Beatrix Hoyt, 16, U.S. Women's far away, she was going to hit some half Amateur, 1896. Miss May Hezlett, 17, British Women's, eights. "Bur mother," queried the child, "why 1899. don't you use your NO.4?" Miss Nancy JuPP, 13, British Girls', I934. Tom Morris, Jr., 18, British Open, 1868. Age In The Open John Beharrell, 18, British Amateur, The currents of history could come to- 1956. gether at the , in Toledo, Louis N. James, 19, U.S. Amateur, 1902. Ohio, this month. , 44, British Open, 1914. When , the Englishman, won Jack Westland, 47, U.S. Amateur, 1952. there in 1920, he Hon. Michael Scott, 54, British Amateur, was 4 3 years, 4 Y2 months old. He was 1933. born on March 28, 1877, and the Cham- pionship was held on August 10, I I, 12 John B. Beck to ~lld 13, 1920. No one so old has won since, or before Take the Chair for that matter. However, there are at John B. Beck has been nominated by the least two older than Ray who are fully past Captains of the Royal and Ancient capable of winning as the Championship of St. Andrews, , as returns to Inverness. Captain for the year 1957-58. He will is 44 years, 10 months old. play himself in in September. He was born on August 13, 1912. Mr. Beck has been one of Britain's lead- is 45 years, I month. He was ing players and administrators for the past born on May 27, 1912. thirty-five years. He captained Britain's Even the 46 year old cnly winning Team in 1938 at can not be over-ruled as a serious con- St. Andrews and was chosen again to lead tender on his present showing. Britain in the first post-war matches in Bur while golfers speculate on the older 1947. He played on the 1928 team which school, there is no youngster on the horizon lost to the at the Chicago

USGA JOURNAL AND TURF MANAGEMENT: JUNE, 1957 Skirts For Women's Open NEW MEMBERS OF THE USGA The accent will be on decorum when Regular the competitors in the Women's Open Antelope Valley Golf Association, Cal. Championship off at the Winged Foot Berrien Hills Country Club, Mich. Golf Club, Mamaroneck, N. Y. on June Bradenton Country Club, Pa. 27-28-29. City Golf Club, Ore. Clinton County Country Club, Mich. Entrants have been asked to observe of Peoria, III. Club's ruling that shorts will not be worn, Dayton Meadowbrook Country Club, Ohio. and so for the first time in four years all DeAnza Desert Country Club, Cal. competitors will step skirted onto the first Dunedin Isle Country Club, Cal. tee. Elizabethtown Country Club, Ky. Fort Bliss Golf Association, Texas The controversy over shorts has been Fox Meadows Country Club, Tenn. raging now for twenty-three years, since Golf Club of Wayne, N. J. a furor arose when a shorts clad competitor Graham Air Base Golf Club, Fla. took part in a Metropolitan Hendersonville Country Club, N. C. Women's event in 1934. Itasca Country Club, III. L & N. Golf Club, Ky. The USGA banned shorts in 1953 but Lakeside Golf and Country Club, Okla. withdrew the ban the following year. The Laurel Country Club, Miss. USGA now has no clothing regulations Meadowbrook Country Club, Ohio of its own but always requests players to Moses Lake Golf Club, Wash. honor any such regulations in effect at North Conway Country Club, N. H. Panama Country Club, Fla. Clubs where it is conducting Champion- Portland Country Club, Ind. ships. Putnam Country Club, Texas Riverside Country Club, Texas Rock Creek Golf Club, D. C. A Break rVith Tradition Rolling Hills Country Club, Colo. The Country Club, Brookline, Mass., Scranton Canoe Club, Pa. which this year celebrates its seventy-fifth Sedalia Country C!ub, Mo. Sepulveda Men's Golf Club, Cal. anniversary, has broken with tradition sur- Spencer Golf & Country Club, Iowa rounding its famous old championship Top Notch Country Club, Colo. course in order to provide a longer test and Valley Country Club, Colo. better facilities for the Amateur Cham- Associate pionship. Brookfield , Conn. When the qualifiers gather there for the Carson City Golf Course, Nev. match-play stages in September, they will Cherry Poi~t Golf Course, N. C. be: faced with a new, -72 alignment Dayton Golf and Country Club, Tenn. Langhorne Golf Club, Pa. measuring close on 6,700 yards, 300 yards Par 3 Golf Club, Fla. longer than the old course which has Paskamansett , Mass. played host to one Open, three Amateurs, Tahoe City Golf Course, Cal. two Women's Amateurs, one Girls' Junior and one Walker Cup Match. The new course, which comprises the Golf Club, Wheaton, Ill. best features of the Club's three nine-hole He and his wife have set a precedent units, will also afford additional parking which may never be equalled. Mrs. Beck space and a practice area near the club- emulated her husband by captaining the house. last team to visit this country The Amateur was last held at The in 1954, but she stole a march on him Country Club in 1934 when , by being elected Chairman of the Execu- Jr., won the title which he successfully de- tive Countil of the Ladies' Golf Union in fended the following year. It was there, 1955. too, that became the first She just stepped down from office this amateur to win the Open, in 1913, when year. Now it is his turn to take the chair. he streaked away to a clear-cut victory in

2 USGA JOURNAL AND TURF MANAGEMENT, JUNE, 1957 the play-off with Harry Vardon and Ted young Miss Collett sitting on a bench at a Ray. Yet despite the strong sway of senti- golf course. She could have been waiting to ment, Ouimet himself was forced to admit tee off or watching others coming to the that the change now is for the best. last green. The result is natural and alive and will recall for posterity the young Mrs. Vare's Portrait woman who set an unprecedented record in in "Golf House" women's competitive golf in the United The USGA headquarters in "Golf States. House" is gradually acquiring a portrait The picture now hangs at the top of the gallery of golf's greats. Now, in addition to first flight of stairs. It was unveiled at a the canvases of Robert T. Jones, Jr. and simple ceremony in "Golf House" in the Francis Ouimet, comes a striking picture of presence of Richard S. Tufts, President of United States' six times Women's Cham- the USGA, and a small gathering of Mrs. ion, Mrs. Glenna Collett Vare. Yare's close friends. Champions Were Spring Brides Our Women's Amateur Champion is now Mrs. J. Douglas Streit. The former Miss Marlene Stewart was married in April and will live in Toronto. Miss Barbara Romack, Women's Ama- teur Champion in 1954, was also an April bride to Mr. Edward Wayne Porter. They have set up home in Sacramento, Cal. USGA Insignia The Association has taken the occasion during the winter to review its entire sar- torial system of blazers, pocket emblems and neckties. As a result its committeemen will be modeling new insignia and regalia this summer. The Executive Committee will continue One hundred and ninety-five of her to wear the familiar navy blue blazers and golfing friends from Providence, R. 1., to blue, silver and scarlet regimental neckties. Philadelphia subscribed to a fund to spon- However, the blazers will bear a new wr this newest portrait in confirmation of pocket emblem, the official seal of the As- the warm esteem in which Mrs. Vare is sociation. Retired members henceforth will held. The Committee which obtained the wear their years of service below their funds comprised Mrs. Harrison F. Flippin, pocket emblems. of Ardmore, Pa., Mrs. Warren B. Pond, of Committees which conduct competitions New York, N. Y., and Mrs. J. Albert -the Public Links, Junior Championship, Hayes, of Rosemont, Pa. Girls' Junior, Senior Championship and Through the good office of Erwin S. Bar- Sectional Affairs-will wear a brand-new rie, of New York, Director and Manager tan blazer bearing an equally brand-new of the Grand Central Art Galleries and pocket emblem featuring the American member of the USGA Museum Commit- e~gle, with a tan and green regimental tee, the well-known artist Frank C. Bensing necktie. was commissioned to paint the portrait. Other committees are authorized to wear All who see it will agree that the choice the necktie but not the blazer. was a happy one. The Walker Cup Team will continue The work was done from a photograph to wear the traditional green blazers but taken in her championship days of the will display a new pocket emblem and

USGA JOURNAL AND TURF MANAGEMENT: JUNE, 1957 3 necktie, both featuring the American turf research and education which has ben- eagle with a silver background. The Ameri- efited by $47,700 in the past five years, cas Cup Team, next year, will wear ex- golfers will have the opportunity of pitting actly the same regalia, rather than the their full strength against the brown blazers of the past. Only the words reigning champions during the week com- encircling the pocket emblem will dis- mencing June 2 and "investing" $1 for the tinguish the two teams' regalia. good of the game. The Curtis Cup Team, next year, will continue to wear the traditional white Patty Likes Winged Foot blazers, but they will bear the new pocket Miss has been over the East emblem of the other international teams. Course of the , Mamaroneck, N. Y., in preparation for the Calling All Women's Open. Here are her comments Metropolitan Golf Association's recently and predictions: published "A Manual of Instruction" 1. It's a great course. is really a companion piece to "Caddie 2. The gal who wins will have to be a Management and Control" which was pub- mighty fine iron and sand player. lished a year ago. The 1956 booklet was 3. The last three holes are great, and addressed to Caddie Committees at golf the Open will be won on those last three and country clubs, whereas the present one holes. is addressed to the Caddies. 4. Spectators will see two of the biAAest Written in a down-to-earth vein and hitters in the game in Miss profusely illustrated with comic sketches and Miss Betty Dodd. from the pen of Tom Paprocki, of the Associated Press, it will be easily under- PGA Liaison Officer stood by caddies of any age. The table of Marty Cromb, president of the Northern contents includes chapters on Rules Which Ohio Section of the 's Affect Caddies, Often-used Terms, Advice Association of America, has been appointed and Instruction from Tee to Green, Carry- by the PGA as its liaison with the USGA ing Double and many more. Boys are Championship Committee in matter relat- given such rudimentals as, how to watch and ing to the Open Championship at the In- locate a ball, how to help a younger and verness Club, Toledo, Ohio. less experienced caddie and what benefits they may expect from caddying. Golf's "Queen Mother" Orders in lots of ten copies at $3.00 the Passes Away lot may be sent to Metropolitan Golf As- A few weeks ago a little old lady of sociation, 40 East 38th Street, New York seventy-nine passed quietly away at her 16, N. Y. home in Elmsford, N. Y., where she had lived for over fifty years. National Golf Day She was known to few golfers, yet her The two Open Champions, Cary Middle. donation to the game will be talked of coff and Mrs. , are devot- for generations to come. ing Saturday, June 8 to playing the nation's Her name was Anna Antonia Turnesa; golfers on National Golf Day. Middlecoff her gift, her six golfing sons, Willie, Jim, is playing at the Inverness Club, Toledo, Phil, Joe, Mike and Doug. Ohio, site of the Open Championship the She has been aptly referred to as the following week. Mrs. Cornelius will be "Queen Mother" of golf's "Royal Family," competing in the Women's PGA Cham- yet she was just as proud of the many pionship at Churchill Valley Country Club, local achievements of her boys as of the Pittsburgh, Pa. Walker and honors accorded Sponsored by the Professional Golfers' Willie and Jim. Association for many worthy golfing pro- Hers had been a life of self -sacrifice, and jects and charities, not least among them because of that a happy one.

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