8 USGA JOURNAL AND TURF MANAGEMENT: FEBRUARY, 195' Bob Jones in "Golf House" The library of "Golf House" is now helped to organize the Club and is its graced, and no word could be more President. appropriate, by an oil painting of Robert The presentation of the portrait coin- T. Jones, Jr., whose achievements as an cided with the opening of the photograph amateur golfer remain matchless. gallery and the museum on the third This painting is the work of Thomas floor of "Golf House." The rear room E. Stephens and was undertaken more contains sepia photographs of all USGA than a year ago as a gift by a group of Champions, highlighted by an enlarged ninety-nine members of the Augusta Na- montage documenting Jones' "Grand tional Golf Club. Slam." The front room contains, among It depicts the winner of thirteen USGA displays of clubs, balls, medals and and British Championships as he ap- blazers, a completely equipped club- peared at about the time of his "Grand maker's bench of the early Nineteenth Slam" in 1930. The face is Bob Jones, century, authentic from saws to tea chest, exactly, peering down a fairway with a which was donated and arranged by pucker of intensity on his forehead. The James Gallagher, of Arlington, N. J., a golf club has completed its swing and prominent club-maker of that period. the hands are high but relaxed. Also, three displays have been recently The presentation was made by Clifford arranged on the second floor to trace Roberts, representing the ninety-nine and document the development of clubs donors, and took place in a jam-packed and balls from the earliest days of the "Golf House" immediately after the An- feather-ball period through the gutta nual Meeting of the USGA and in the percha-ball period and into the present presence not only of most of the dele- rubber-ball period. gates but also of Jones himself. During the last year, "Golf House" It was accepted by Totton P. Heffel- Fund was increased by approximately finger, President, for the USGA, and he $10,500. One hundred thirty-seven clubs, said he could best express the sentiments associations and individuals had con- of the Association by reading the follow- tributed $3,139 of this amount since the ing letter: last issue of the USGA JOURNALat the DEAR MR. HEFFELFINGER: time this issue went to press, raising the It is indeed a privilege to be invited to send a total to $95,414.99. The goal remains message to the United States Golf Association when the message is associated with the un- $110,000. veiling of a portrait of our mutual friend, Bob In reporting at the Annual Meeting, Jones. Daniel A. Freeman, Jr., of New York, You all must be as proud as I am to hav~ Bob's portrait hanging in "Golf House." Those Chairman of the "Golf House" Fund who have been fortunate enough to know him Committee, expressed the hope that the realize that his fame as a golfer is transcended remaining $14,586 would be forthcoming, by his inestimable qualities as a human being. largely from Member Clubs, this year. Bob's contribution to our great game is reflected by its deserved prominence in the field of sports. As a case in point, he read a telegram But his gift to his friends is the warmth that which he received just before speaking: comes from unselfishness, superb judgment, no- "THE ATLANTA ATHLETIC CLUB bility of character, unwavering loyalty to principle. WOULD LIKE TO CONTRIBUTE ONE Thank you for giving me this opportunity to pay THOUSAND TO GOLF HOUSE." a small tribute to such a fine American. Sincerely, We record our gratitude, also, to the DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER following contributors, not previously President Eisenhower is a member of listed in the USGA JOURNAL,whose con- the Augusta National Golf Club and is tributions had been received at pre~e one of the ninety-nine donors. Jones time: USGA JOURNAL AND TURF MANAGEMENT: FEBRUARY, 1953 9 INDIVIDUALS Robert J. Abrahams In Memory of Albert Goodhue John Evan Munro Don Addington by Mrs. Albert Goodhue Dr. C. J. Murphy Floyd Addington K. Grant A. O. Nicholson George W. Anderson In Memory of Virginia Hayes O. J. Noer Charles F. Bailey by Upjohn Golf Leagues, Komyo Ohtani Albert S. Bailie Kalamazoo, Michigan Gordon Olson Warner J. Banes Gus Headbloom Mountford S. Orth Erwin S. Barrie John B. Hichborn Dan Prosch J. C. Benson R. S. Hoak Henry Y. Reeves Thomas W. Blake, Jr. Sewell W. Hodge Henry G. Reifsnyder Herbert J. Bluechel William Wickham Hoffman Mrs. Charles Renninger Richard W. Braun John P. IIIges, Jr. B. J. Ridder lew Bridge Mrs. Katherine Harley Jackson Maurice D. Rothschild John Byrwa Miss Catherine Jessup Hugh Royer, Sr. Alfred T. Campanelli Harold Kelly Adolph D. Schmidt, Jr. George Cape Charles Kocsis Michael Sheehan Howard J. Carey, Jr. Karl Koepplinger George M. Silverthorne Robert H. Chapman, Jr. William B. Kuntz C. D. Smith Cyrus Clark George R. Lawson John Morton Smith Dr. Arthur J. Cloran George Linklater David P. Stephenson Ernest Collingham W. I. Macdonald Dr. M. A. Vickers Arthur R. Corwin Frank C. Martin Ben Vollmer Ray Doyel S. Reynolds May Arthur G. Wakeman Sidney A. Eisemann R. A. McGuire Huel A. White Herbert L. Emanuelson, Jr. N. B. McKinnon Fred Wirth Frank B. Essex, Jr. P. Miller Edward F. R. Wood B. M. Fellows Victor Mitchell (The name Thomas Boardman P. W. Furlong A. P. Mosser Smith in the last issue should Robert H. Gillies H. Mouw have read Thomas Boarman Smith.) CLUBS Annandale Golf Club, Cal. Women's Golf Association of Arizona Country Club, Ariz. Norwood Hills Country Club, Mo. Biltmore Forest Country Club, N. C. Oakland Hills Country Club, Mich. Brook Hollow Golf Club, Tex. Olympic Club-at-Lakeside, Col. Champaign Country Club, III. Otsego Golf Club, N. Y. Colonial Country Club, Tex. Overbrook Golf Club, Pa. Chartiers Country Club, Po. Palos Verdes Golf Club, Col. Country Club of Decatur, III. Port Huron Golf Club, Mich. Country Club of York, Po. Ranch Golf Course Men's Club, Cal. Denver Country Club, Col. River Crest Country Club, Tex. Elkdale Country Club, N. Y. Rolling Rock Club, Pa. Everett G~lf and Country Club, Wash. St. Davids Golf Club, Po. Greenbrie~ Golf and Tennis Club, West Va. Sand Point Country Club, Wash. Hillendale Country Club, Md. San Fernando Valley Country Club, Cal. Interlachen Country Club, Minn. Shreveport Country Club, La. lake Merced Golf and Country Club, Cal. Skagit Golf Club, Wash. Lakewood Country Club, Col. Sterling Country Club, Col. Latrobe Country Club, Po. Suburban Golf Club, N. J. Los Angeles Country Club, Cal. Texaco Country Club, Tex. Martinsville Country Club, Ind. University of North Carolina Finley Golf Course Mary Calder Golf Club, Ga. University-Sequoia-Sunnyside Club, Cal. Metairie Country Club, La. Whippoorwill Club, N. Y. Moanalua Golf Club, Hawaii Woodholme Country Club, Md. Norwood Hills Country Club, Mo. ASSOCIATIONS Carolina Golf Association, N. C. Junior Golfers of Washington, D. C. Chicago District Golf Association, III. Milwaukee County Public Links Association, Wis. Golf Course Superintendents Association of America, III. Southern California Golf Association, Cal. Hudson River Golf Association, N. Y. Women's Golf Association of Baltimore, Md. 'ndiana Golf Course Superintendents Association, Ind. Women's Metropolitan Golf Association, N. Y..