THE GOLF NEWS in BRIEF for $85,000 and Spend $20,000 on Improve- Ments

Tom Talbot, pro, made golf manager (pro-gkpr.) at HiUerest CC (KC, Mo,). , . . Augie Nordone, LaFayette CC pro. Syracuse, N.Y., named "Athlete of (he Week" by Syracuse Herald-American . . . Augie got a new suit along with the honor , . . Itellevue GC, Melrose, Mass., now 50 years old , . . Eight, dates already set for women's major events in Florida early In 1950. John Arrowood, supt,. Hickory Hills CC, Springfield, Mo., says club boards would approve more 2, 4-D programs if they By realized weed elimination economy in less mowing and lower fertilizer cost as weeds HERB GRAFFIS take up a lot of plant food that should be available only for grass . . . Excelsior Springs, Mo,. to buy privately owned course THE GOLF NEWS IN BRIEF for $85,000 and spend $20,000 on improve- ments. Fall and winter bids for American pros Goodall tournament provided first net- to visit Venezuela, Mexico, Philippines, work television golf program . . . More Hawaii, South America, Canada, Australia, television instruction programs appearing and Cuba, together with absence of USA . . . Johnny Revolts and Jimmy I lines on Kyder Cup team, promise shortage of gal- 13 week, half-hour weekly, teaching pro- lery-attracting talent for some American gram for WON-TV, Chicago .,, Joe Novak tournaments , . . Warren Cantril now pro made an usual series of films for tele- at Cree Meadows CC, Ruidoso, N,M. vision program use last fall, prior to his election as 1'GA pres. , . , Johnny Farrell, Don't forget that entries for the second Harold Sargent and "Jug" McSpaden also annual USGA junior championship close on television programs. at USGA offices, 73 E. 57 St., NYC 22, July 5 . . . Entry fee, $3 . . . Championship Finger Lakes Greenkeepers' Assn. elect at Congressional CC, Washington, DC, as 1949 officers: Pres., Edward Smith, July 27-30 . . . George Schneiter, PGA tour- Hornell (NY) CC; VP. Delbert Dewey, nament bureau head, subject of Sports Canandaigua (NY) CC; Sec.-treats,, Wilbur Magazine July story, "Czar of the Links." H. Stone, Elmire (NY) CC . . . May 10 meeting at Ontario (NY) CC, included in- U.S. Junior Chamber of Commerce is spection of five new greens built by Gkpr. proving the same strong force in extending Isaac Bucyk . . . James Reid, Jack Ling golf course establishment that it long has and Wilbur Stone talked on what they'd been in promoting tournament golf . . , seen in course maintenance in the south Jaycees spark-plugged new muny course al last winter. Springfield, 111., designed by Robert Bruce Harris ... Jaycees with Great Falls, Mont., May practically finished biggest com- park board, building muny course, with petitive schedule US high school golf ever Jaycees raising good part of needed money has seen . . . There should be some way . . . Jenkins County American Legion post for district golf associations and PGA sec- opens 9-hole public course at Millen, Ga. tions continuing: competition of these high school teams during summer vacation . . . Dick Clarkson who's been in US pro golf New 9-lioIe course ai Lake Herman, Madi- 47 years, leaves Cherokee CC, Knoxville, son, S.D. . , . J. H. Lammers, pres. . , , 9- Tenn., to return to Carnoustie for the rest, hole course being built at Prinevillc, Ore. of the course . , . Dick was asst. to Alex , . . Wabash (Ind.) CC remodeling club- Smith, Willie Anderson and Laurie Auch- bouse and building pro shop . . . Consider- terlonie before he turned pro at Spring- able improvement in small town courses haven CC, Chester, Pa. . . . After that he this year as result of members' pitching served as pro at Rockfore}, 111. for four in and doing the work. years, then at Northland, Duluth, for 20 years, and at Cherokee for the past 15 Golf instruction books selling big . . . years ... He was one of the great artists Strong advertising campaigns in maga- in clubmaking, a fine teacher, and one of zines and newspapers are boosting the new the grandest guys any of us ever met . . . Mangrum and Revolta books . . . Hogan He's been responsible for development of and Nelson books continue to sell well . . . a lot of excellent pro talent . . . Among Sales also are good on "Golf Clinic," hook them is Garnett Neil who's been his asst. authored by Wilson's pro staff members at Cherokee and now takes over the pro and on Jim Ferrier's new opus. job . . . Mrs, Clarkson who came from Scotland in 1915 to marry Dick, returns to the old homestead with him.

Cariby (Minn.) GC renovates course , . . Elliott C. Stau Ifer shot 156 yd. 16th at Churchill Valley CC (Pittsburgh dist.) in aces morning and afternoon rounds, May 1 . . . He's a 10 handicap man . . . He used a 6 iron, swinging it per lesson he'd recently taken from Churchill pro, Wally Simpson , . . George Bolesta signed as asst. by Allen Wyman, pro, Danville (111.) CC . , . Myron (Bud) Hodapp and wife to operate Sunnyslde CC, Glasgow, Mont.

Max Mars ton, 56, died May 7 at Old Lyme, Conn, of a heart attack, after an illness of three weeks . . . He won the 1923 National Amateur at Flossmoor CC (Chicago dist.), was runner-up to George T, Dunlap, Jr. in the 1933 National Ama- teur at Kenwood CC (Cincinnati dist.) and played on four Walker Cup teams ... He won many major amateur events in the Philadelphia dist. . . . He is survived by his widow and his son, Max, Jr.

The most serious and biggest blind spot in golf development is revealed in the May NEW issue of Lowe & Campbell's maga/.ine "The Coach." ... In a list of 65 summer coach- FREE BOOK ing schools only one (the University of Iowa) lists golf as a subject . . , Yet high AND ^"ittin(j C^hart TELL HOW A Money Saver my woods and irons are accurately de- FOR CLUB MANAGERS signed for you to fit your natural swing. Thirty years of successful custom club making for over fifty thousand top ama- LEXOL teurs, Pros, Hollywood stars, and other particular golfers all over the world. LEATHER CONDITIONER

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CUSTOM CLUBMAKER FOR 30 YEARS Dept. J Newark N. J. school, college and university coaches who attend these 65, and other, summer coaching schools frequently are golf enthusiasts PHILLIPS and easily could be lined up as very valuable aids in the extension of golf , . . PGA sections and manufacturers' playing pro staffs should tie in with these summer GOLF (SPIKES coaching schools , , , The number of the summer coaching schools, the attendance and the character of programs indicate that the PGA teaching and educational FITS programs have a long way to go before SIZE they catch up with the university and high Regular school coaching programs in other sports 1" DlcmaUr Receptacle . . . The great response to the National Golf Foundation promotion work in high school golf, getting school officials, golf The Swing li fo the pros and clubs together plainly shows urgent need for PGA getting on the joh at lain; tit it a st these summer coaching schools.

• WILL NOT TILT or Break Through Sola. Al (Chappie) Chapman, signed as pro- • KEEPS THE SPIKE ERECT. mgr., Tomahawk Lake CC, Deadwood, S.D. • PREVENTS OUTER SOLE from Rolling. . . . Press-radio "Wide Open" championship on No. course at Medinah CC, con- • WEATHER TIGHT —RUST PROOF. ducted May 6 by Tom King and Mark Cox (White Plated or Black Finish) as pre-view for fellows who'll cover this WILL NOT TURN BY THE THREADS year's National Open . . . Charles Whit- combe, Arthur Havers, Alf Padgham and F. C. PHILLIPS, INC. Richard Burton to pick British Ryder Cup STOUGHTON, MASS. team . . . Gerald Dearie, formerly supt., named gen. mgr. Edge water GC, Chicago

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George "Shirt" May, promoter of (he Chicago Tam O'Shanter top prize money tournaments, successfully relieved of his appendix in an emergency operation . . . NV State Turf Assn., Al Sehardt, Box 42, Lakeview, N.Y., sec., in membership campaign , . . Dues are $5 a year , , . Western NY, Finger Lakes, NY-Conn., and North- eastern NY green keepers ass lis, which are associated with the NY State Turf Assn. all held May regional meetings that con- tributed more to good course maintenance than club members and officials realize.

Dick Wajpole, mgr., Oakland (Calif.I lEast Bay Regional Park Dist. and who operates the Tilden muny course says in 1933, the first year Tilden was played, it grossed $33,000 and the Regional Parks net was $10,000 . . . Last year Tilden

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lk-ations , . . Among other features pub- licized in Fairways are Birthday Greetings to members, club service of theater tickets, etc., and compact character sketches of TIRE MATS members ... Joe Matthews, 65, who started as caddy at Fairview CC, (NY Met. dist.) held several pro posts and had been with 1 — Driving Tees Mission Hills CC (KC dist.) for 28 years, Driving Range and Public Course Opera- died recently of a heart attack. tors . , . here we believe is the finest tee Industrial League which hopes to have made from tires. Designed to specifica- 20 teams now competing in San Francisco tions of well-known pros, these mats are East Bay area . . . Two sets of tees on par functionally ideal, reversible, and virtually 3 holes of Medinah CC No. 3 course going everlasting. Immediate delivery. Sizes to make 1949 National Open's last two 42"x60" and 48"x60". Also special sizes. rounds tough from the longer tees . . . All bushes and fir trees on Medinah No. 3 have been pruned one foot from the ground to 2—Floor Mats allow chance for a shot . . . Midwest Assn. GC Supts. members volunteer for super- Tire Floor - Mats in long runners and vision of greens during play of the Open special sizes for locker room, grills, at Medinah. entrances, and shower rooms. Pay for themselves by saving floors, spikes, and Beloit (Hs.) CC building clubhouse . . . preventing accidents. Low prices due to Panama Tourist commission working oil a $10,000 Open for 1950 . . , Jim Hickman, high production. publicity man for Brazos Brook (Canal Prices and information available upon re- Zone) CC getting good publicity for events quest. played this year in the Canal area . . . Elks lodge of Cristobal sponsors annual juniors' MERCHANTS TIRE COMPANY tournament for the Zone kids . . . Mid- 2710 "Wiuhiiigtori Bird. lothian CC (Chicago dist.) held Its 45th St. Lout! J, Mo. annual invitation "Derby" last month. llWTlTITlTrilTTlWMBfc. Pleasant idea at San Gabriel (Calif.) * • •• I • I • CC is 12 page "La Memoria" souvenir booklet illustrating holes of the course . . . It gives guests pictorial reminder of the 50-year-old club's interest and hospitality •TS . . Arthur Langton, son of San Gabriel's widely Known veteran greenkeeper, made SURFACING the photographs for the booklet. si Unusual theft al Warren Valley CC •v. MINIATURE (Detroit dist.) when sod was stolen from fifth green . . . Apparently experts did the job as the turf was neatly lifted . . . Pros GOLF hoping Ihey'll soon he able to get woikls Wide selection of permanent and irons for Juniors . . . Either for sale colors or rental . . . Lot of kids now starting in | m class lessons prior to teen age and it's 1 RESILIENT • FIRM difficult to get clubs for them . . . Some COLOR * CHARM pros are merely sawing off shafts of old E clubs, putting grips on them and at least Easy maintenance • Dus+less supplying the youngsters with clubs of right length ... Parents hesitating to spend • V, Quick draining • Uniform much money for even five or six-club sets Time tested * Proven results w for the rapidly growing kids. Write for details Scotty Chisholm fully recovered from operations for cataracts . . . That's great xe news . . . Many a cheerful evening many of i BAYPORT INDUSTRIES us have had with Scotty saying, "Here's 1357 Sedgwick. Chicago 10, III. lookin' at ye, laddie." . . , Chicago Women's District GA appropriates $500 for under- writing costs of textbooks for Western GA Evans Caddy scholars . . . MacGregor Golf,

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Got to hand it to district golf association officials for (heir work in compiling noit- confiicting tournament calendars this year ... A bit of complaint about the PGA championship dates covering the Memorial Day weekend when business at the club is best for many home eluh pros . , . Keally no need to worry, though, as most of them will be back home from Richmond before Sure Prof;t the weekend.

16-year-old Barbara Romack in win- ning Sacramento tournament from a boys' field won trophy which Byron Nelson gave for Junior competition two years ago . . . The Romack lass is a high school junior and intends to make pro golf her career . . . Argument in Australia about legality of clubs played in tournaments . . . One No. 5 head sent to R&A for ruling on legality . . . Check for equivalent of ¥5000 given to George Duncan by British admirers on GAUZTEX THE SELF-ADHERING GAUZE George's 50th year in golf . . . He's now 65.

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TRUCK MOUNTED OR POWER 81G OUTPUT RANGE, John Bean FIRE PROTECTION, For emergency TAKE-OFF. Your choice of ertflfne sprayers deliver from 4 to 60 gallons control of grass or building fires, powered or power take-off models to per minute ol 10 to 800 pounds pres- John Bean high pressure sproyers are suit your needs and nquipfnent. sure, depend-ng on the model selected. ideal stond-by units. This year again we say handsomest job of presenting a calendar of a cluh's events FINEST TURF is that of Minnehaha CC, Sioux Falls, S.D. .. . On heavy stock, with spiral binding and different colored pages indexed by lines at in Club's History.,, bottom of pages is the program of ladies days and golf events, men's stag days and golf events, dances, family nights, pool, THANKS TO AGRICO!" golf, swimming and dancing classes, bridge suppers and lunches, "dos and clon'ts" giv- ing clubhouse and pool regulations and hours, and a directory of members' tele- phone numbers.

National Greenkeeping Supts. Assn, to hold their national championship tournament at Firestone course, Akron, O., Oct. 3-4 . , . Bud and Jack Bailey signed as pros at The Balsams resort course, Dixville Notch, N.H. . , . Argument in Washington, D.C, about S. G. Leoffier public course lease from Dept. of Interior , . . Main complaint seems to be that Leoffier and associates made profit from substantially improving DC's public course operations . . . One congressman said present contract "more valuable than an interstate license to steal. ' ... A congressman should know about licenses to steal with the fine training he GR0VER HALL, Greenkeepet, gets as a pork barrel robber. Williamsport Country Club, Williamsport, Pa.

R Park County CC, grass greens, $50,000 " T"1lIE turf on our fairways was de- clubhouse, and over 200 members, opening X stroyed by Japanese beetles and we were faced with the problem of reseeding all 18 fairways," writes Grover Hall, greenkeeper at Williamsport Country Club, Williamsport, Pa. "We reseeded the entire course using 20 tons of AGRICO COUNTRY CLUB Fertilizer along with the grass seed. START Irrigation Results were very gratifying. Since that time we have used Agrico annually on the Plans HERE... greens and fairways. Our turf is now in the finest condition since the Country Club was established. Several golfers who have played all the eastern part of the country have stated we have the best course they have played." Choose your sprinkler heads first and save Order AGRICO now—it's America's premier their specifications direct- Golf Course Fertilizer. Ask your regular sup- ly affect pipe and plumb- plier, phone nearest A.A.C. Sales Office, or ing equipment needed. write to The AMERICAN AGRICULTURAL CHEM- ICAL Co., 50 Church • Courses all over the country have Street, New York 7, chosen RAIN BIRD Sprinkler Heads N. Y. —available in a wide range of models that: lets you choose exactly the irrigation needed. By choosing the right RAIN BIRD heads first, you may save a great deal of money on piping. Write for catalog. L. R. Nelson Mfg. Co., Inc. PEORIA. ILLINOIS Manufacturers of Lawn and Golf Course Sprinkling Equipment * Overhead Irrigation • Since 1911 at Cody, Wyo, . . , Winding Brook GC, Chatham, N.Y., opened ,.. Cheyenne, Wyo. Par on any golf to have new muny course near airport . . . Rockville Center (MY) CC in new $1(10,000 course! clubhouse , . . Mo re head City (N.C.) plan- ning new 18-hole course . . . Des Moines (la.) G&CC to start building $200,000 clubhouse in fall . . . Rutherford CC, Rutherford ton, N.C., incorporated . , . El- dorado (Ks.) to build grass greens. Lou (Shorty) Cornell begins first season as pro at Sidney G&CC, Bainbridge, N.Y. , . . Robert Dale new asst. pro at Lake Worth (Fla.) CC . . , "Tommy" Bissman MOWING EQUIPMENT fills managerial vacancy at Renova (Pa.) Quickly adaptable GANG FRAMES CC . , . New clubhouse for Beloit (Ks.) GC that handle from 3 to 11 cutters Hug. and West Plains (Mo.) CC to be completed gedly built CUTTING UNITS for roughs and (airways. Professionally this month. designed CREENSMOWER of highest gua llty. Dependable Mignsh, how long our gray whiskers are POWER LAWN MOW- getting , . , We remember sweet little girl ERS for general utility work. All with time star named Jeanne Cline when she was proven reputations for just starting in tournament golf . . . Now reliability, effici- comes a card announcing arrival of Cyn- ency and economy. Your IDEAL thia Anne Stilweil at Cleveland .,. Cynthia dealer can pro- Anne is (irst horn of Mr. and Mrs. Tom vide complete information — or Stilweil . . . Mama was Jeanne Cline. write for catalogs today Roy Topper, Chicago Her aid-American IDEAL Power Lawn Mower Co. gossip columnist lines up swell list of prizes for Chicago district Hole-in-Oners Dept. G-49, Springfield, Mas;. registered with him . . . Prizes include case of scotch. Zenith portable television set,

T! he heaviest play in the whole history of are obtainable from any other source. golf makes a sprayer the most necessary Hardie spray guns and booms for liquid equipment unit owned by any golf or fertilizer, weed control, and sprays of all country club today. kinds enable you to do every different job Hardie builds specialised golf course spray- with the same Hardie Sprayer, Write for ers in more different sizes and models than the Hardie catalog.

The Hardie Mfg. Co., Hudson, Mich. Los Angeles II, Calif., Portland 9, Oregon, Export Dept. Detroit 2b, Canadian Office ll •' 1 j. Clarence W. Lewis & Son, Ltd., Grimsby, Ont, , - .

i r m dozen golf balls, slacks and sport shirt, dinner for the acer and his girl chum and a trophy , . . Transit Valley CC (Buffalo dist.) 'AVE FENCE holding $2500 pro-amateur invitation June • AMERICA'S FIRST WIRE FENCE • 26 . . . Proceeds for American Cancer society. First annual national bowlers golf tournament to be played at Nippersink Lodge, Genoa City, Wis., June 25, 26 . . . Earte F. Currier recently made his sixth ace In six years on United Fruit Sugar Co. course at Banes Oriente, Cuba . . . Hole was 128 yd. third , . . He's making a habit of shooting his aces with US balls and collecting US Rubber ace trophies . .. Greenkeepers com- plaining of expensive mower repairs caused by metal tees . . . Some complaints of mower damage from spikes 1 hat have come loose from golf shoes , , , Greenkeepers wish players would have their spikes Thinking about a Fence? checked In the pro shops. George S. May and associates of the • You know that fence protection of per- business engineering company bearing his sons and property is good judgment. To name were hosts May 23-24 to several know what to do about it, write us for hundred clients and friends at an open illustrated facts. Note the several styles house in their ultra-modern new offices, of Page Chain Link Fence. Then talk with 205 W. Wacker Drive, Chicago. Our nearest member—an experienced, reliable local fence specialist who will help you pick the right fence and erect it expertly. We will eeud you his name. BUYERS' SERVICE —SEE PAGE 93 PACE FENCE ASSOCIATION • Mones sen. Pa.

^The COUNTRY CLUB of WATERBURY, CONN,

has used MILORGANITE TURF FERTILIZER

for a Quarter Century ^ jg

Charles Bask in has an enviable reputation throughout New England because of the excep- tional greens and good fairways at Waterbury. The greens arc always good—year aftej year— among the finest io the Hast. His fertilizer program is built around Milorganite. A carload a year for a quarter century.

it it-ill pay you lo ate Milory,rtru/er lrtt>, Our staff of experienced Agronomists will si ad to help you devise an effective feeding program.

MILWAUKEE SEWERAGE COMMISSION. Milwaukee, Wis.