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Write for catalog of complete TORO Line TorO Manufacturing CO., 3042-3160 Snelling Avenue, Minneapolis, Minn. Service Stations in all the larger distribution centers AUGUST, 1928 Single Copies Twenty-Five Cents. Yearly Subscription to Members Two Dollars. Yearly Subscription to Non-Members Three Dollars. The NATIONAL GREEN KEEPER Official Organ of The National Association of Greenkcepers of America Published monthly at 405 Caxton Building, Cleveland, Ohio. Contents copyright, 1928, by The National Greenkeeper, Inc., Publishers. Robert E. Power, President and Editor; Frank H. Pelton, Sec'y.; C. F. Lowe, Treas.; M. J. Fox, Asst.-Sec'y. All Rights Reserved—None of the contents of this Magazine, either wholly or in part, may be reprinted without permission. VOLUME II. No. 8 Contents OLYMPIA FIELDS HOW I CONTROL BROWN PATCH - 24 By Robert E. Power, Editor 5 PRIZE CONTEST—John Pressler. E. A. Swanlund. Chas. Kesselring. Lawrence Huber, Wm. McMillan. James A. Smith AMONG METROPOLITAN CLUBS 10 SEED FOR GOLF COURSES JOHN QUAILL SAYS 27 By E. E. Pattison '_ 13 GREENKEEPER'S ALMANAC BEAUTIFUL SHAWNEE By John MacGregor -28 By Robert E. Power, Editor 17 THE SOIL PROFILE HOW CANADA FIGHTS WEEDS By George M. McClure 29 By C. A. Tregillus .. 18 TOURNAMENT SCHEDULE 30 THE GREENKEEPER AND THE BOOKKEEPER OFFICE DESK - 31 By E. W. Doty 19 MID-WEST GREENKEEPERS MEETING 32 BRAE BURN—Hole by Hole By Carl B. Clancy 21 MARKET PLACE AND BUYERS' GUIDE 33 Officers—National Ass'n of Greenkeepers of America JOHN MORLEY, President CHESTER MENDENHALL, Seventh Vice Pres. YOUNGSTOWX COUNTRY CLUB SIM PARK GOLF CLUB 2248 SELMA AVENUE WICHITA, KANSAS YOUNGSTOWX, OHIO JAMES MUIRDEN, Eighth Vice Pres. JOHN MCNAMARA, First Vice Pres. RIDGEWOOD GOLF CLUB PITTSBURGH FIELD CLUB CINCINNATI, OHIO PITTSBURGH, PA. CAPT. DAVID L. REES. Ninth Vice Pres. JOHN MACGREGOR, Second Vice Pres. PROGRESS COUNTRY CLUB CHICAGO GOLF CLUB I PURCHASE, NEW YORK Box 717, WHEATON, III. J. O. CAMPBELL. Tenth Vice Pres. LEWIS M. EVANS, Treasurer WETHERSFIELD COUNTRY CLUB CEDARBROOK COUNTRY CLUB WETHERSFIELD, CONN. MT. AIRY, PHILADELPHIA. PENN. JOE P. MAYO. Eleventh Vice Pres. JOHN QUAILL, Secretary PEBBLE BEACH COUNTRY CLUB HIGHLAND COUNTRY CLUB PEBBLE BEACH, CALIF. 426 HIGHLAND AVENUE ROBERT HENDERSON, Twelfth Vice Pres. WEST VIEW, PITTSBURGH, PENN. COUNTRY CLUB OF BUFFALO FRED BURKHARDT, Third Vice Pres. WlLLIAMSVILLE, N. Y. WESTWOOD COUNTRY CLUB HUGH C. MOORE, Thirteenth Vice Pres. Box "A"—ROCKY RIVER STA. ST. SIMON'S ISLAND GOLF CLUB CLEVELAND. OHIO ST. SIMON'S ISLAND, GEORGIA FORD GOODRICH, Fourteenth Vice Pres. H. HAWKINS, Fourth Vice Pres. LAKEVIEW GOLF CLUB FLINT COUNTRY CLUB PORT CREDIT, ONTARIO FLINT, MICHIGAN JOSEPH VALENTINE, Fifth rice Pres. R. S. BELL, Fifteenth Vice Pres. MERION CRICKET CLUB MOUNT BRUNO COUNTRY CLUB PHILADELPHIA, PENN. MONTREAL, CANADA CHARLES ERICKSON. Sixth Vice Pres. GEORCE WELLIN. Sixteenth Vice Pres. MINEKAHDA CLUB TUMBLEBROOK COUNTRY CLUB MINNEAPOLIS, MINN. NEW BRITAIN, CONN. Official communication, membership dues, etc., should be mailed direct to the Secretarv. Editorial articles, photos, subscriptions, employment and golf show requests mail to 405 Caxton Bldg., Cleveland, O. imimtiiiiiiimmiiii|imin>iiirn BRAE BURN ready for 1928 National Brown Patch kept off course by regular application JOHN SHANAHAN Superin tenden t of course at Brae Bum Country Club, deano/New England golf course of SEMESAN superintendents The picturesque sixth green at Brae Burn Country Club, West Newton, Massachusetts 'TTVERYTHING possible will be done to have the ing golf club. It has a membership of 751 with a three- •"> course in perfect condition," says Golf Illustrated year waiting list. Numerous state and national cham­ in discussing the preparation of Brae Burn for the 1928 pionships have been held at this historic golf club, the National, "and if perfection is humanly possible, it will most famous, perhaps, being the National Open Cham­ be brought about by John Shanahan, who is one of the pionship in 1919. And next month Brae Burn is to be real veteran greenkeepers not only of America but of the scene of the 1928 National Amateur. the world." Greenkeepers who realize the true importance of their And one of the standard practices of John Shanahan in responsibility are using Semesan to prevent and control keeping Brae Burn's putting surfaces in the condition brown patch. They know it cannot harm the greens and for which they are famous is the application of du Pont never fails to control both the small and large brown Semesan. He says: "I have used Semesan with great patch. success in controlling brown patch on the greens of the If you're not already using Semesan, write for a copy of Brae Burn Golf Club." the Semesan Brown Patch Booklet. Information here Brae Burn, founded in 1897, is New England's outstand­ that you ought to have. Write NOW! E. I. DU PONT DE NEMOURS & CO., Inc. t Dyestujfs Department, Wilmington, Delaware o• IS U.S. PAT Of SEMESAN MAKES SEEDS HEALTHY Used Wherever Championships Are Played Say you saw the ad in The National Greeokeeper Ohe NATIONAL AUGUST VOL. II 1928 GREENKEEPER No. 8 The Leading Journal of the World on Turf Culture and Golf Course Maintenance Official Organ of The National Association of Greenkeepcrs of America Olympia Fields Its reaction to the play of the champions By Robert E. Power Editor, The National Greenkeeper LYMPIA FIELDS—a flat prairie-like you enter the forest and golf course, thirty-five miles southwest you do not emerge until O of Chicago! That's how I pictured it in you play your second my mind. The only thing in the picture that shot on Number 7. was right was the distance—everything else Again you enter the was wrong. woods at Number 11 FRED KRUGER Olympia's efficient green- When John C. Dee of the Worthington ^reen and you come out keeper Mower Company kindly picked at Number 18 tee. me up and drove me out Thurs­ I did not go to Chicago to see day morning, June 21, I was who was the best golfer in the ready to see a big place but not world. Of course I saw him a picturesque one. Imagine my and all the other also rans. But feelings when we turned off the I wanted to see and tell my main highway into a graveled greenkeeper readers to what ex­ private road that wound tent the physical condition of through groves of magnificent the course and its care and oaks, across little wooded val­ preparation affected the play of leys with gurgling brooks and the champions. Because after finally out upon a gorgeous all the acid test of the green eminence, landscaped with trees keeper's work is the play of and shrubs with the great stone such experts as Parrel 1, Jones, clubhouse dominating the pic­ II a g e n, I )eigel, MacDonald ture. Close by was the 18th Smith, Armour and a host of green flanked in the back with others. They play the ball as a beautiful grove of old trees, they find it. Every lie in the while far to the north stretched fairway, the rough, and in the the paralleling fairways of the bunkers is studied carefully. 1st, 9th, 10th and 18th holes. When they hit a shot to the (her to the west was the green it stays where it is hit, Illinois Central electric rapid providing the green is right. transit rightaway so I knew And they certainly stayed on that most of the golf course those vegetative bent greens at must be back in the woods and Olympia Fields. valleys we had just driven through. THE 17th HOLE WHERE ROL­ Pitch Shots Hold Greens AND HANCOCK LOST THE CHAMPIONSHIP. He took five TI/'E HAVE all seen vegeta- And it was. After playing shots to hole out from the right * * tive bent greens in the past the second shot on Number 3 hand rough about opposite the word creek four years that had so much .•) 6 THE NATIONAL GREENKEEPER August, 1928 turf that the ball would not bite. Instead it National Open Golf Championship of the would bounce and roll, sometimes into trouble. United States at Olympia Fields. I wish also But Fred Kruger's greens at Olympia Fields that antagonists of creeping bent greens who held every shot even to the longest iron and say they won't hold a pitch shot could have sat brassies. For instance I saw Bobby Jones, at 6 or 13 or 16 and witnessed the way the after an ordinary drive on the tour hundred boys who know how. banged their spades and and thirty-three yards. Number 14-hole hit a mashie niblicks smack up to the pin.