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The world's finest line of large-area mowing equipment WORTHINGTON MOWER COMPANY STROUDSBURG, PENNSYLVANIA "Ike" Grainger Renamed to Munro, Waverley CC, Portland, Ore.; Head USGA Charles L. Peirson, The Country Club, Brookline, Mass.; Richard S. Tufts, Pine- SSAC B. Grainger of the Montclair hurst CC, Pinehurst, N. C.; John M. Win- I (N. J.) GC will be re-elected President ters, Jr., Southern Hills CC, Tulsa, Okla. of the USGA at the association's 61st annual meeting to be held at the Vander- bilt hotel, New York, Jan. 29. "Soils Clinic" Is Practical Along with Grainger 12 of the 14 other School for Midwest Supts. members of his 1954 USGA teammates have been nominated for re-election. The IFTY superintendents attended the USGA custom is to nominate officers for FSoils Clinic, Dec. 2 and 3, at Univer- a second term. sity of Illinois Medical School campus, John D. Ames, Onwentsia Club, Lake Chicago, and got highly valuable school- Forest, 111., and Richard S. Tufts, Pine- ing in the foundation of their profession. hurst (N. C.), CC will continue as vps. The majority of those present were from Charles L. Peirson of the Country Club Illinois, with Roy Nelson and Milt Wylie of Brookline, Mass., will be re-elected from Minnesota and several others from treas., and Fraser M. Horn, National adjacent states also attending. Golf Links of America will continue as The clinic was co-sponsored by the the USGA's General Counsel. Midwest Assn. of Golf Course Supts., Uni- USGA Nominating committee report is versity of Illinois Drug Plant division of tantamount to election. George W. Blos- the Pharmacy school and the Toro Mfg. som, Jr., heads the Nominating commit- Co. tee, which includes C. W. Benedict of Don Strand and Bob Williams, Educa- Winged Foot, Robert W. Goldwater of tional committee chmn. of supts.' associa- Phoenix CC, Richmond Gray of the Coun- tions, planned the program with Dean try Club of Virginia and Hal A. White of Searles, Dr. Voight and Dr. Crain of the Plum Hollow CC. U of I, James Watson, chief agronomist of Toro and his asst., Jack Kolb. Wm. P. Castleman, Jr., Dallas, Tex., The initial clinic, last year, was on and Frederick L. Dold, Wichita, Ks., plant diseases. The clinic next year prob- withdrew from USGA Executive commit- ably will be on plant feeding. tee due to demands of other duties. Their Lectures and experiments conducted by replacements are Emerson Carey, Jr., Watson covered The History and Develop- Denver, Colo, and John M. Winters, Jr., ment of Soil Science, Fundamental Con- Tulsa, Okla. cept of the Soil, Origin of Soils, Weather- Carey was Western Golf Assn. junior ing Processes, Formation and Classifica- champion in 1925, captain of Cornell's tions of Soils, Soil Classification and Sur- 1925 football team, and pres., Trans-Mis- vey, Mineral Constituents of Soil, Soil sissippi GA in 1939. Organic Matter, Air, Soil and Water Re- Winters was captain of the University lationships, Soil Temperature, Soil Micro- of Michigan golf team in 1923. He also biology. served as pres., Oklahoma GA. Experienced, successful superintendents The USGA Executive committee to were unanimous in declaring the clinic serve this year: valuable basic training and refresher edu- John D. Ames, Onwentsia Club, Lake cation that is bound to have a profitable Forest, 111.; J. Frederic Byers, Jr., Al- reflection in their turf management prac- legheny CC, Sewickley, Pa.; Emerson tice. Carey, Jr., Denver CC, Denver, Colo.; Thomas H. Choate, Meadow Brook Club, Westbury, N. Y.; John G. Clock, Virginia Golf Club Sales Up in 1954. CC, Long Beach, Cal.; John W. Fischer, Manufacturers Report Western Hills CC, Cincinnati, O.; T. R. ATIONAL Association of Golf Club Garlington, Atlanta Athletic Club, At- N Manufacturers reports that members lanta, Ga. sold 3,700,953 golf clubs from Nov. 1, 1953 Also Charles B. Grace, Gulph Mills GC, to Oct. 31, 1954. This is 328,352 more than Bridgeport, Pa.; Isaac B. Grainger, Mont- the previous 12 month period's sales. clair GC, Montclair, N. J.; Gordon E. The latest report showed sales of 2,574,- Kummer, Milwaukee CC, Milwaukee, 140 irons (233,495 more than previous 12 Wis.; Edward E. Lowery, San Francisco months), and 1,126,813 woods (94,857 more GC, San Francisco, Cal.; F. Warren than previous 12 months.) Fairway "Face-lifter"Saves nicipal courses the job was occupying at Seattle $7800 a Year least four men an average of 40 days a year. And they appeared to be fighting a By WILLIAM F. STEEDMAN losing battle. Each year it seemed there ACE-LIFTING for fairways has be- were more holes than the year before. F come a much simpler operation At last Pete got an idea. Why not raise through the use of a method devised by the depressed surface to the level of the Pierre M. (Pete) Masterson, Seattle's di- surrounding fairway by forcing soil UN- rector of municipal golf. DER the turf by some method of injec- An enthusiastic and capable golfer him- tion, so as to avoid the actual cutting of self, Masterson has personal acquaintance with the tribulations of the player. Like others, he often has had the frustrating experience of having the reward of a good drive canceled by a bad lie in the middle of the fairway. Playing 'em as they lie is a principal of golf Pete is willing to accept. The lie in a divot hole he can take as a torment that's part of the game. But there are bad lies that can be prevented and he be- lieves in doing everything possible to prevent them. Masterson Injector forcing mud filling into fairway depression. The golfer, he contends, is just as much entitled to good fairways as to good the turf itself and the long process of greens. "A bad lie on the fairway," he healing the scars? says, "can be just as disastrous and un- His experimental equipment was an in- deserved as a missed putt resulting from teresting adventure in improvisation. It a badly kept green." was assembled by using the motor from Among the preventable causes of bad an abandoned green-mower and an old lies are those spots on fairways where pump. The device was tried out on the the ground drops abruptly below the level city's municipal courses and the results of the surrounding turf. Such depressions surpassed the inventor's fondest hopes. may be caused by burrowing animals or, Soil in semiliquid form was injected un- as frequently is the case in the Pacific der the sunken turf through a nozzle. The Northwest, by the rotting of long-sub- surface was forced up to the level of the merged tree roots. adjacent fairway in a matter of seconds. Over such spots the mowers pass with- Evenness was easily obtained by making out effect, leaving holes in which the the injections from different angles. And grass is long, tough and tufty. The player there was the bad spot all leveled up with whose drive down the middle finishes in the surrounding ground without injury to one of these spots will encounter a lie the surface of the turf. that is anywhere from difficult to abso- Further, experience showed th^t the lutely unplayable, while his opponent's turf thus raised stayed put. The injector ball, no better hit, lies a foot away on plan produced a solid surface, packed perfectly groomed turf. firmly in every corner. That meant few All kinds of efficient methods and "repeats." The machine isn't a cure-all for equipment had been introduced for mani- large depressions but it has been com- curing and upkeep of the course, but here pletely satisfactory in filling old mole and was a fairway problem that was as old as gopher runs and small declivities where the game itself and that was being han- tree stumps have decayed. dled by methods just as old. Standard practice was to cut away the In actual practice Masterson has found sod, fill the hole with soil, tamp down that two men, using the new method, can firmly, replace the sod and wait for it to fill 350 holes in an eight-hour day. By the knit together again. Such scars sometimes old method four men could fill 70 holes. took a long, long time to heal. Almost any type of soil can be used in the injector operation. A soil heavy in Losing Maintenance Battle clay content appears to be particularly Surely, Masterson told himself, there adaptable to the purpose. Whatever soil must be some more efficient way of han- is used, it must be screened through a dling the problem. On Seattle's three mu- mesh of not more than half an inch. Masterson has made important im- naming Bobby as a beloved representa- provements on his original machine.