mrw An Ice Skating Golfer Loyalty Day — May 1 A golfer ice skated into the Olympic The Congress has designated and Presi­ Stadium at Squaw Valley, Calif., last dent Eisenhower has approved May 1 as February, carrying the Olympic torch to Loyalty Day. the Winter Games. The purpose of the Day is to rededicate The ice skating golfer was Ken Henry, who serves as a professional at the West and to reaffirm our loyalty to our Ameri­ Bend Country Club, Wisconsin. He is a can heritage. former Olympic speed skating champion. American organizations and associations are calling the attention of their member­ ship to Loyalty Day, and the USGA is Pravda on Golf pleased to take a part in this worthy ob­ The exact origin of golf always has servance. been confusing—who started it, where, when and how? Now the Soviet Union has further com­ American Ball in Britain plicated the picture. The Communist Party daily newspaper, A two in one experiment is planned in Pravda, has recently filed a claim that British golf this summer. golf was played "with enthusiasm almost August traditionally is "Holiday Month" 1,000 years ago" by Caucasian shepherds. when everyone who can do so takes as Until Pravda came out with the claim, long a trip as possible. Big golf tourna­ golf was not considered respectable by the ments rarely are scheduled in the London comrades. It has been called in the Mos­ area in August. cow press, in Soviet encyclopedia and other publications "A bourgeois waste of But this year a new professional tour­ time." nament will be played August 18-20 at Wentworth Club in the suburbs of Lon­ "Pravda" means "Truth" in the Rus­ don, and the American size ball will be sian language. used. The British size ball is 1.62 inches in minimum diameter and the American Golfers to Wed size is 1.68. Two of Britain's best known young Wentworth's West Course, called "The golfers have become engaged to be mar­ Burma Road," is a fine inland course— ried. They are Miss Veronica Anstey, a long and a thorough test. It was the site member of the 1956 Curtis Cup team, and of the 1953 Ryder Cup Match and the John Beharreli, the 1956 British Amateur 1956 Canada Cup event. The smaller Bri­ Champion. tish ball was used exclusively in each. USCA JOURNAL AND TURF MANAGEMENT: APRIL, I960 1 One of the first to have its own course USGA Officer Changes was Oneida, Ltd., of Oneida, N. Y., which Clarence W. Benedict, of White Plains, opened its original nine-hole course in N. Y., has been elected a Vice-President 1896. of the USGA to replace Emerson Carey, An excellent example of the growth Jr., of Denver, who resigned in February of golf facilities within an industry is due to personal business affairs. E. I. duPont de Nemours & Co., Inc. of Mr. Benedict's Wilmington, Del., which opened a nine- election to a Vice- hole, sand green facility in 1923 and now Presidency made va­ has 63 holes of industrial golf. cant the office of Secretary. Wm. Italia Ward Foshay, of The Italians have taken a page from New York, was ele­ the American book—they've built a first vated from Treasur­ class golf course just where you would er to Secretary to not expect to find one. fill that vacancy, The Italian course is on The Lido, a and Bernard H. Bid­ low lying, sandy island near Venice. The der, Jr., of St. Paul Italian Open Championship will be there Clarence W. Benedict Minn., Was Chosen this summer. Treasurer. The elections were made by Thousands upon thousands of tons of the Executive Committee. top soil were gathered on the mainland, Mr. Ridder is serving as an officer for shipped across Venice Harbor to The Lido the first time. and spread thickly about. Soon grass was John G. Clock of Long Beach, Calif., is growing and now the course is one of President and John M. Winters, Jr., of Europe's finest. Tulsa, Okla., is a Vice-President. Mr. Benedict is Chairman of the Imple­ ments and Ball and the Handicap Com­ 12-Year-Old Caddies mittees. He has been on the Executive The New York State Legislature has Committee since 1956. Mr. Foshay is passed a bill lowering the minimum age Chairman of the Bob Jones Award Com­ for caddies from 14 to 12 years. mittee. He joined the Executive Commit­ If the bill becomes law, all 12 and 13- tee in 1958. year old caddies would be restricted to Mr. Ridder is Chairman of the Cham­ carrying one bag of clubs and to 36 holes pionship Committee and has been on the each day. The bill also would require the Executive Committee since 1958. caddies to have written permission from their parents. Necrology It is with deep regret that we record the death of: Mrs. Temple Dobell, Wirral, England, who as Gladys Ravenscroft won the 1913 USGA Women's Amateur Championship and the 1912 British Championship. Ray O'Brien, Miami, Fla., former PGA Tournament Director and recently director and rules chairman for television's All- Bernard H. Ridder, Jr. Wm. Ward Foshay Star Golf matches. Udo Reinach, Scarsdale, N.Y., former Vice-President and Treasurer of the West­ Industrial Golf chester County (N.Y.) Golf Association About 100 industries now have their and co-founder with William P. Turnesa own golf facilities for the use of their of a fund for education of Westchester employees. caddies. 2 USGA JOURNAL AND TURF MANAGEMENT: APRIL, 19*0 was elected President of the Club Man­ Wanted Golfer agers. Officers to serve with Mr. Meisnest John William Meese, an avid golfer, is are John T. Brennan, manager of the being sought by the FBI on the basis of Birmingham Country Club, Birmingham, a Federal warrant issued at Albuquerque, Mich., Vice-President, and John W. Ben­ New Mexico, September 14, 1959, which nett, manager of the San Francisco Com­ charges that he violated conditions of his mercial Club, San Francisco, Calif., Secre­ probation. tary-Treasurer. If you receive any information con­ cerning the whereabouts of Meese, you are requested to immediately notify the Anniversary Year nearest office of the FBI. This summer brings anniversaries for Meese had been sentenced on June 6, two of the most notable amateur players 1957, at Albuquerque following his guilty in American golf—Bob Jones and Chick plea to passing in- Evans. terstate fraudulent Thirty years ago Bob Jones compiled checks. On March his Grand Slam. 25, 1958, he was re­ Chick Evans was born 70 years ago on leased on probation July 18th. from the Federal Mr. Jones's Slam was put together with Correctional Institu­ these victories in these places: tion, La Tuna, Texas British Amateur Championship, St. He was last known Andrews, Scotland, May 26-31. to be in Albuquer­ que in August, 1959. British Open Championship, Hoylake, Meese was born Cheshire, England, June 18-20. February 21, 1923, U. S. Open Championship, Interlachen in Covington, Ken- Country Club, Minneapolis, July 10-12. w -s_^w — tucky. He is white; U. S. Amateur Championship, Merion 6' 3" tall; 225-240 pounds; large and heavy Cricket Club, Ardmore, Pa., Sept. 22-27. build; brown eyes; graying-brown hair Mr. Jones was only 28 on Grand Slam fwhich is slightly wavy; ruddy complexion. year—30 years ago. He has a scar on his right wrist; an op­ eration scar on the right side of his neck; Mr. Evans won the U. S. Amatur Cham­ a burn scar on the back of his left thumb; pionships in 1916 and 1920 and the U. S. and a pitted scar on his right forearm. In Open Championship also in 1916. the past he has worked as a salesman, truck driver and golf caddie. Cherry Hills Painting The final hole at Cherry Hills, site of New Officers the 60th Open Championship, was the subject of the most recent oil painting New officers have been elected by the given to "Golf House." Golf Course Superintendents Association of America and the Club Managers As­ The donor was the MacGregor Co., of sociation of America. Cincinnati, Ohio, and the artist was Ralph James E. Thomas, course superin­ C. Reynolds. The painting was used by tendent at the Army-Navy Country Club, the MacGregor Company on its Christmas Arlington, Va., was elected President of Cards and, as tradition dictated, it was the Superintendents Association. Officers presented to the USGA to continue the to serve with Mr. Thomas are L. E. Lam­ series of oils of holes where Open Cham­ bert, of the Prairie Dunes Country Club, pionships were played. Hutchinson, Kansas, Vice-President, and Seven oils are in the series and each Sherwood A. Moore of the Winged Foot now hangs in "Golf House." Golf Club, Mamaroneck, N. Y., Secretary- Mr. Reynolds is a well known landscape Treasurer. artist. He is a native of Richmond, Ind., Kenneth Meisnest, manager of the and has studied and worked in Cincinnati, Washington Athletic Club, Seattle, Wash., Chicago, Detroit and Dayton. USGA JOURNAL AND TURF MANAGEMENT: APRIL. 1960 3 KEEPING BALL AND COURSE RELATED The new USGA ball testing machine measures "coefficient of Restitution"—a scien­ tific way of saying, Resilience. n a half century the length of champion­ Now the USGA has a new device for I ship golf courses in many cases has testing the resiliency of balls. It is the re­ increased by one-sixth—17 per cent. sult of several years of research by In 1910 the Philadelphia Cricket Club's Arthur D.