Swinging around golf

by Herb Graffis A bright spot will be missing at bed for weeks after returning to his major golf tournaments now that home in Chicago from the interna- Charley Bartlett is gone . . . Pres- tional senior amateur tournament ence of the very able, beloved golf at Colorado Springs . . . Chick play- writer of the Chicago Tribune, made ed 11 consecutive days in 5,980 ft. a tournament a major affair . . . altitude ... At 77, he couldn't take it. I had the great luck to know Charley Somehow when we hear the belly- . as a very warm friend and an admi- aching about three-putting (includ- rable fellow worker in golf since ing our own) and lousy greens and he began covering the game in 1931 changing the rules for players with ... In all that time I never heard early starting times we happen to him say an unkind word about any- think of Charley Boswell, who again body . . . With his ability, his con- won the Blind Golfers Association sideration and his immense memory annual championship . . . Boswell and knowledge of golf he was most shot 108-101 at Edgemont GC, valuable to his colleagues; the vet- Media, Pa., to win by one stroke erans and the youngsters, alike . . . ing and study of the effect of weath- from Claude Pattemore, five-time He was versatile in sports coverage, er on golf business revenue. There Canadian blind champion . . . Bos- a keen observer and a writer whose is, however, a lot of record-keep- well has won the U.S. title umpteen stories took you with him . . . His ing and study concerning rainfall times ... He was blinded in the service as secretary of the Golf and temperature effect in course Battle of the Bulge. Writers' Association since its found- maintenence work. Women's Western GA decision to ing in 1946, and as its treasurer un- There have been shocking sur- drop Women's Western Open from til two years ago, was immeasurably prises on taxes demanded by the the WWGA calendar could be a tip valuable to the golf writers, their government on checks and other to manufacturers who have girl pros readers and the players . . . His box gifts given to pros at their "retire- on their staffs and who have a lot score gave significant detail of a ment parties." . . . There have been to gain from development of wom- difficult game to cover and involved pained yowls from famous athletes en's golf . . . The Ladies PGA could much work which he faithfully who've had to pay taxes on automo- use a lot of the same sort of advice did . . . In score by strokes Charley biles, belts, etc., awarded them . . . and support it got from leading wasn't a good golfer but in scor- Reminds me that some years ago manufacturers in the days when the ing as a human he was one of the Tommy Armour spent plenty trying organization was new. very greatest ... He will be cheer- to get Washington to give pro ath- Randy Smith and wife have bought fully at home in the Green Pastures. letes a break on the order of the Oakville CC, Sterling, 111., from Weather is bound to be better for depletion allowance given oil and Mr. and Mrs. Robert Hartman and golf business in many districts this other natural resource companies are improving the course . . . John year, say optimists who survived . . . PGA, pro baseball and foot- Marschall, assistant to Jack Bell the bad days of 1967 ... In parts ball player organizations were deaf at Medinah (111.) GC for two years of New England last spring and and dumb when it was suggested moved up to the boss job when the summer, there were 11 consecutive that they go along and work with personable Bell resigned to go in weekends of rain . . . Fee course tax experts and favorably inclined another business . . . There's talk revenue in wet areas was off 40 per Washington people Tommy and Stell about a PGA memorial award in cent . . . You can imagine what hap- Armour knew well . . . Now the big appreciation of the services to the pened to pro shop sales and sales thing in management of athletes is association and its members of the of modern irrigation equipment . . . ducking taxes like real rich men. late Warren Cantrell . . . Cantrell's With weather being the main factor Looking at golf in the old-fash- judgment, foresight and courage in pro shop, restaurant, bar and ioned way when the biggest man during the difficult years of his pay-play ticket sales at golf clubs, was the one who put the most in: presidency straightened out the PGA it's strange there isn't muchrecord- Chick Evans has been sick and in National Golf Club and course deal. continued on page 12 GRAFFIS continued from page 10

World Senior Amateur team cham- DPOEIT is the name pionship which brought teams of three or four players from 11 coun- • IVL/n I of the game tries to Pinehurst for the first play of the new title event, is the result of a conversation between the late Shun Normura, Japan Golf Associa- tion head, and Juan Trippe, a direc- tor of the International Golf Asso- ciation during the Canada Cup tournament near Tokyo in 1957 . . . Mr. Nomura proposed a match between high handicap golfers of Japan and the United States, as an amateur expression of the interna- tional "friendship through golf" idea John Jay Hopkins had when he founded the IGA with its pro team and individual competitions . . . Nomura, an oil man, asked CLUB CAR is the Profit Machine Trippe, head of Pan American air- The game is played for pay charges." In fact, some people find it so lines, to see what the USGA thought Let's say you're a club pro, fleet owner, incredible they will not bother to ask for of the proposal . . . The result was or just interested. You know that the a demonstration. That amazes us, for it the world-wide senior amateur rental of electric golf cars is the highest directly affects their profits. For in- single source of revenue for most golf stance, a golf car battery should (never) tourney started last year . . . That courses. So, aren't you interested in be drained below 50% reserve. CLUB 1957 Canada Cup (now World Cup) cutting the operating expenses on your CAR can go 54 holes (3 rounds) and still competition also was the beginning fleet of golf cars in half and at the same retain the 50% reserve required if you are of the Japanese golf boom . . . The time doubling gross rental income? toobtain 800 or more charges on the bat- IGA tournament return to Mexico teries. Most golf cars —if driven 36 We decided to build the best golf car holes —have their batteries deep-cycled last November where the 1958 in the world to such a point that they will have to be Canada Cup event had been played We cut fat from the weight (200 to 500 replaced after as little as 200 charges. was in an Olympic Games atmos- pounds) through our pioneering in fiber- phere with teams of 40 nations Guaranteed for Two Years glass bodies and development of theonly playing in the event. aluminum frame used in golf car manu- The CLUB CAR patented drive unit, facture. This accomplished two things: motor and light aluminum frame are Benefit tournament staged by Il- saves your fairways for golfers and saves guaranteed for two years. The beauty of linois section for scholarship fund your golf car batteries for extra holes. this guarantee may be that nobody of Christine Whalen, daughter of We developed our own drive unit and needs it. CLUB CARS are going approxi- the late Danny Whalen and his obtained a patent for it. So? This elimi- mately three times further than any widow, Gerda, was a substantial nated power-wasting solenoids, belts, other golf car between charges, and bat- success . . . Better financially than other dissipators of current, and delivers teries are lasting approximately 3 times 96% of the battery power to the rear longer. most such affairs are . . . Whalen wheels. This stream-lined car with its was killed in an auto accident while patented drive unit results in CLUB CAR If You're Interested in Profits, You'll on the Latin-American tour . . . drawing as little as 28 Amps of electric be Interested in a Demonstration Gerda, fraulein who met and mar- Please make us prove this statement: current from the batteries versus the 60 ried Danny when he was a GI in to 90 Amps heavier cars draw. "We guarantee CLUB CAR to out-per- form any golf car on any golf course Germany, now is assistant to Earl 108 Holes Without Recharging? anywhere at any time." Puckett, pro at Northmoor GC, Some people still don't understand this After all, the name of the game is profit. Highland Park, 111 . . .Paul Hahn statement: "ClubCar will operate for 108 If you want to play, call or write us for contributed his services to the ben- golfing holes (6 rounds) between battery a demonstration. efit . . . Hahn shows in far more benefits than any other fellow we've CLUBCAR DIVISION-Stevens Appliance ever known in golf . . . Must cost 'M Truck Co. Box 897, Augusta, Georgia him plenty in passed-up cash fees w flta • Send technical bulletins: "Care and II /• Feeding of Coif Car Batteries," etc. and inconvenience and expenses Ctubt • We'dlikeaCLUBCARdemonstration . . . Hahn scored another interna- NAME tional success with his show at the Alcan tourney at St. Andrews. CLUB Ralph Hutchison, pro at Saucon ADDRESS Valley GC, Bethlehem, Pa. and at COUNTY CITY Cotton Bay Club, Eleuthera, Baha- STATE ZIP mas, in winter had a set of Spald- Limited Numberof DistributorshipsAvailable. Write for Details ing Elite irons uniquely marked; driving iron, mid-iron, mid-mashie, GRAFFIS continued from page 12 and Tommy Armour talk about "I have been playing golf for 3,967 World War I when Cruicky and * + #!& years and asked a five-year wedge and niblick . . . When you Sandy were prisoners in the same old caddie what club to use." see close-up and in the field the ab- camp . . . That was a rare perfor- I thought I'd heard everything solutely great job the PGA has done mance; the only time I'd heard them when a pro told me he had a mem- for tournament golf and its public on the subject . . . Cruicky almost ber who had bought a set of cut- with the Approved Tournament broke the heart of the PW com- price woods "down town", then Players training program, you are mandant by getting the German asked the pro for a trade-in on a more than ever convinced it would guards and prisoner detail on a bur- used set of head-covers. be a costly, knuckle-headed thing it ial assignment blind, roaring, rough- Just as sure as teeing up, public the tourney players ever would split housing stoned . . . When Cruicky course fees this year will be raised from the basic PGA. blew himself out of a National Open in many cities . . . Demand for Largest lighted course we know of at Oakland Hills at a critical time, I higher maintenance standards as is new Westlake Village 100 acre, asked him how come? He replied, continued on page 90 4750 yd. course in Ventura County, Calif. . . . It's in an American-Ha- waiian Steamship Co. community development . . . Clint Airey is pro- mgr. . . . R. Albert Anderson is ar- chitect of 18 under construction at Terra du Lac in St. Louis area for Fred Weber, St. Louis road contrac- tor .. . Anderson also designed Tower-Tee par-3 nine at St. Louis . . . Big winter golf tourist season forecast by the Fifth Annual Jamaica Jamboree tournament at Montego Bay, Jamaica, Jan. 2-14 . . . John Derr, veteran golf radio and TV broadcaster, conducts this event . . . Invitations are issued to USGA and Royal Canadian GC member clubs . . . This year, members of clubs from Scotland, England and Sweden also were accepted . . . By October, entry limit had been reached and applications from 17 clubs had to be turned down.

Robert B. Kiersky, former USGA Senior champion, has a suggestion about speeding play that seems to make good sense . . . Bob says uni- formity in standing off the greens of par-3 holes while following players hit off the tee would save time on four holes per round . . . Now there is no uniformity in procedure at the par-3 holes . . . Nobody knows just what to do and only GOLFTILE Interlocking Rubber Flooring courtesy or local rule, sometimes ob- Stays beautiful under heaviest spike traffic... won't mar, scratch, served, suggest the time-saving or- chip or dent. Prevents slipping and sliding. Eliminates clatter. For der . . . Maybe suggestion by the USGA or a local rule might help. locker rooms, lounges and pro shops. Golftile is Vz inch thick rubber tile. Exclusive interlocking design makes it easy to install Bobby Cruickshank being elected over wood or concrete, without mastic. Attractive marbleized as 38th man in PGA Hall of Fame gets loud cheers and glasses lifted colors. Guaranteed 5 years prorata. Write for Free Sample. on high from us . . . Wee Bobby is one of the really big men we have MITCHELL ROYAL DIVISION J ^Wv\ | INDUSTRIES ever met in sports or other sectors of public life . . . With Frank 2130 San Fernando Road, Los Angeles, Calif. 90065, Dept. G18 Waish, I heard Bobby and Sandy GRAFFIS continued from page 89 Hayward, Calif. . . . Werner AJ- well as higher costs force the fees brecht now manager CC of Roches- up . . . New Mexico Tech's 18 at ter, N.Y., succeeds the late Edwin Socorro has beenremodeled and de- Johannisson. cidedly improved, although it should Started building Makaha Inn & CC The play easier than the old course, says on the island of Oahu, Hawaii. . . . Proven Mechanical pro LeRoy Olson . . . Well, why It's a $6 million project financed by Stonepicker shouldn't you have fun out of play- Capital Investment Co., and Weyer- Let us explain at Booth #500 ing a course instead of pounding haeuser interests and will be opera- in San Francisco your brains out? . . . Horace Ervin, ted by Western International Hotels. Bridgeport Implement Works, Inc. formerly Carolina amateur cham- Ron Hoetmer, for 8 years assistant Box 491G —Stratford, Conn. 06497 pion, now pro at new Falling Creek to his father at Sand Point (Wash.) Phone 203-378-0060 CC, Kingston, N.C. . . . Although ¡G&CC named pro at new Fairwood For more information circle number 150 on card short course (not always par-3s) G&CC, a residential-golf develop- construction has fallen off sharply, it ment in suburban Seattle, Wash . .. seems that most of them recently Fairwood's first nine scheduled to MANUAL & AUTOMATIC built are first class in design and con- open in January. TURF IRRIGATION struction . . . They are working out Not many golf club managers get Design—Installation well as features of superior real es- the editorial praise such as Jay De Complete Pumping Installation tate developments. France got in the Bend (Ore.) Bul- Joe Frasea named Carolinas Pro- letin when DeFrance left Bend GC SKINNER/BUCKNER/J-M of-the-Year after he had retired from for club management in Tacoma ... PVC/TRANSITE/RAIN BIRD Parris Island (S.C.) CC where he had B^nd Bulletin said "Golf club mem- been pro for the Marines for 19 years bership increased about one-third in Alcoa Aluminum Portable Pipe—Pumps . . . Trans-Mississippi GA $400 the relatively short time since De RENTAL & SALES awards to turf management students France was here. A lot of that in- OLDFIELD EQUIPMENT CO. at Texas Tech made to Billy Burk crease must have been due to the 430 W. Seymour Ave., Cincinnati, O. 45216 Johnson, Plain view; Andrew H. San- way the place was run and the qual- Phone:821-5582 som, Lake Jackson; Paul Milton Lef- ity of food and service furnished." forge, Corpus Christi and Clarence Another newspaper tribute to a W. DeWitt, Hobbs, N.M. manager appeared in Marion (111.) For more information circle number 149 on card John Ezzo to rebuild his Mahoning Republican which commented CC Clubhouse, Girard, O., destroy- "Things are coming up roses at the COMPLETE ed by $200,000 fire . . . Don Street Southern Illinois G&CC under the GOLF COURSE resigns as pro at Delaware CC, Mun- new management of Robert W. CONSTRUCTION cie, Ind., to be pro at Oaklandon Duncan." Also rebuild, move tees and greens, install (Ind.) CC where he is part owner Looks as though the management watering systems. Standard & Miniature. . . . Ellis Brown resigns as pro at element of the house manager, pro Westbrook CC, Muncie, Ind. . . . and grounds superintendents jobs is Joe Mihelich, pro-mgr. at Enumclaw being accented by hiring this year (Wash.) CC for 12 years has bought . . . There is a definite up-swing in (with Carl DeGross) nine-hole River- pro-manager-superintendent jobs at side GC, Chehalis, Wash. smaller clubs with well qualified Tom Talbot, for 16 years pro at combination men being selected and IBERIA Grandview muny course, Spring- being paid enough to make the job EARTHMOVING SERVICE, INC. field, Mo., goes to pro job at Junc- worthwhile at places where three IBERIA, OHIO • Ph. Galion, 0. 419 468-5454 tion City (Ks.) CC, succeeding Ron separate jobs wouldn't pay enough Folgerwho switched to the pro post to attract needed men ... In a few at Manhattan (Ks.) CC . . . Talbot, cases, club officials have the hunch in Springfield, Mo., pro work since the club may have jumped in too 1931, was credited by the late Hor- strong for loans on the FHA deals ton Smith as being the man who and better get efficient management taught Horton "how to learn golf." in.charge of operating and develop- . . . Lin Storti, pro-mgr., Poison ing the property . . . Obviously the (Mont.) GC for 10 years, resigns to successful man in charge of a major go to Whispering Lakes GC, Ontario, department at a golf club has to securely to the golf cart handle and serves up 3 balls, know enough about his associates' 5 tees, score card, pencil, cigarette pack, matches, Calif., on a course renovation proj- even a lighted cigarette! Built-in score counter, per ect .. . Storti, a former major jobs to cooperate for the general hole and running total. Deluxe Valet (shown), only $4.95 ppd. Caddy model, without counter, only $2.95 league baseball player, hasbeenpro good and profit. ppd. Both models constructed of lustrous anodized aluminum and stainless steel, beautifully designed, at Montana clubs since 1946 . . . Livonia, Mich., in Detroit metro- and boxed. What better golfing gift? Order today: John Pap pas now general manager politan area, recently completed GOLF PRODUCTS, INC. sale of $4.4 million bonds for buying Dealer Inquiries Sunol Valley Golf and Recreation South Laguna, California Co., is building 36 on 650 acres near park land and for recreation devel- In California add 5% For more information circle number 163 on card 90 opment . . . Thus far $895,285 has . . . He was pro at Century CC, Bobby Nichols gets seven-year been spent in building Livonia's Scottsdale, Ariz. . . . Rock Island, contract from Shangri-Isle, $6 mil- Whispering Willows course . . . 111., new Highland Springs muny lion club being built on Sister Key Village of Orono, Minn., took op- course hired Wendell Boken as su- in Sarasota Bay, Fla. . . . Construc- tion to buy the nine hole Orono perintendent . . . Boken expects to tion hasn't started on the course course for $150,000 . . . Leo J. have the course open in good con- . . . James Froehlich, president of Feser, long prominent in GCSA ac- dition this spring. the development says Nichols "will tivities, owns Orono GC. Fieldstone G&CC, Conyers, Ga., receive only a token payment for New Mexico State Park and Rec- opened late last fall, has HaroJdZink the first two years of the contract reation Commission makes five-year as pro . . . Ken Slough is pro at while the course is being built, and contract with Richard Blackburn of new Colonial Greens par-3 18 re- then $50,000 a year for the remain- Conchas to operate new Conchas cently opened at Salinas, Calif . . . ing five years of the seven year Lake course . . . Wilkes-Barre (Pa.) Joe Fleming, new owner of Willow- contract." . . . Honest? You ain't engages Frank J. Davitt, Bridgeton, brook CC, Huntsville, Ala., is spend- kidding, mister? ... It couldn't N.J., as supt. of Wilkes-Barre course ing $150,000 on improvement pro- go to a finer young man. under construction . .. Swartz Creek gram on 27-holes course and club- 27-holes course toget $556,000from house . . . Marty Cromb at the big Dick Watson of Miami, Fla., in State of Michigan for renovation party they gave him at Toledo (O.) three and a half years has built an job . . . James"" A. Bruce, Flint CC when he retired after 40 years annual business of more than 25 (Mich.) superintendent of Recrea- as pro, said he and his wife next million printed tees; about a third tion and Parks, is in charge. year are going back to Monifieth, of all the printed advertising novelty James Wallace, former U. of Mon- Scotland, whence he came to the tee business in the country . . . tana golf star, now is pro at Ham- U.S. in 1923, and he is going to There are about 100 million addition- ilton (Mont.) GC . . . Dennis Col- take a shot at the British Open on al plain tees used a year . . . Most lins, switched to Pautipaug CC, his return trip ... Bill Wotherspoon, of Watson's advertising tee business Baltic, Conn., pro job from Norwich for years pro at Southern Hills CC, is done through pros . . . One pro (Conn.) GC where he's been pro for Tulsa, Okla., and several other lads last year sold more than $4,000 three years . . . Bill Blanton now who've done a great deal for Amer- worth of the advertising tees to pro and golf director at Forest ican golf and golfers, came from that members for their company adver- Cove CC, in Houston, Texas area wee village, Monifieth. tising and promotion. •

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