fortune out of them after taking alicking in th war years. . . Moneycouldn't happ n to a b tter guy.

Lewis Weiland, gkpr. at Springdale (NJ)CC for 27 years, now is gkpr., HopewellValley GC, Hopewell, N.J .... North Jer-sey CC, Paterson, N.J., votes to buy clubfrom lessor, Wayne Holding Co.... Car-roll Boggs, winter pro at St. Augustine(Fla.) CC, says club this winter will haverevived most of its pre-war events includ-ing the National Pro-Amateur champion-ship ... Spalding featured in ConnecticutValley Historical society radio program forits prominence in the district's manufac-turing since it located in Chicopee Fallin 1895.

il McHugh has been igned a.pro-gkpr, at Grove ity (Pa.)

eil worked for the ignal Corp atBelle Meadt .J. for 4 Yz war years,con tructing a 9-hole cour in addi-tion to his work as warehou upt ....H put in a bu y year last year byteaching at a Vau Hall, .J. range.. • . B tter not delay ord ring fertil-izer ... Wetll be nding a lot to Europthis year and .. food crops will havefirst call on what's left.

Midwest Greenkeepers' Assn. has begunpublication of a bulletin for its members.

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... The Midwest bulletin bears the interest-ing name of The Bull Sheet. . . WesternGolf Assn. headquarters now are at 8 S.Dearborn, Chicago, Ill. . . . Telephone isANDover 6950. . . Art Alves, son of theveteran pro Grange, now is pro salesmanfor Wilsons in Cleveland dist.

Not getting any national publicitywa the tie b twe n th .. andBritish Ryder Cup team -of caddie .. . . Caddie of the international playersplayed again t each other in the arneline-up a their players in theBritish competition ... l\-Iatchwas puton by Joe Mozel at Lloyd GC,Portland,Ore.•.• Caddie of the American play-ers won one double match and halvedtwo. . • Caddie of the Briti h playersmade a like showing ... Each team ofcaddies won 4 single matches.

Harry Todd named pro at new North-wood CC, Dallas ... Women's Western Opendate probably will be changed because ofconflict with Curtis Cup date in England ...Des Moines (la.) G&CC team won Women'sWestern GA 1947 par trophy event, 1 downto par ... Curling fans of Chicago districtgolf clubs met and decided to form a league.

Frank Kerwin, 59 years old, knockedin a 70 on par 71 Ma welton Braecourse at Baileys Harbor, Wis., a' a

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('10 'ing round last year and had thseventh ace of hi golfing career on the130 yd. 17th of that round ... Of the200 ont stant in the 1947 ationalAmateur palding say 136 u d theirDot ball. .. harley Carr new pro-gkpr. at Ki hwaukee GC, DeKalb, Ill.

Illinois greenkeepers and pros to have alittle tournament of their own at Tam 0'Shanter May 12... Dunes Golf and Beachclub being organized at Myrtle Beach, S.C.... Max Schlaepfer of Switzerland hasjoined Wilson's export dept. as asst. to Vic-tor East. . . Jimmy D'Angelo believes hega ve first television golf lesson ... It was in1942 over Phil co station in Philadelphia.

ell McGeehan, York, Pa., will bepro aboard Holland-America linermaking 13 day We t Indie cruise ..•Balls are driven off deck and distancemeasured by colored marker on a linca t into the oc an..• Kernwood bentplanted on outhern Pines ( .C.)greens ... Country Club of ew Jer ey27 holes at Riverdale, .J. being con-structed by mith and Mitchell, golfarchitects and builder .

Joe Swan returns as pro to Orchard ParkCC (Buffalo dist.) after his successful firstyear there ... Orchard Park membershipdoubled last year ... Sam Pickett, 25 yearsmgr .. Sadaquada GC, Utica, N.Y. and one

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of the finest gentlemen in golf, died inFlorida last fall after GOLFDOM's last is-sue of 1947 had gone to press.

Donald Ro , who' built about 600courses in the U. ., I having on of hibusle t time .•. Ro and J. B. Ic-Govern are building 27 hole for Hart-ford (Conn.) GC. • • Oth r Ro - Ic-Govern course are being built in ewYork, Pennsylvania and Florida. . .Managers of North and outh Carolinaand Virginia club have formed Pied-mont chapter of Club Managers' n.of America. . . C. W. Gelwick, l\-IyersPark club, Charlotte, .C.,wa elect dpre . • . . Frank E. Mitchell ha beenmade Field Sale mgr. for Kroydon...Mitchell i a veteran in golf club ell-ing, having been with Wanamaker andWilson prior to joining Kroydon 12years ago••• He formerly was . ('('.-tress. of the Central • . PG •Betsy Lawson, daughter of veteran

Carnoustian now pro at Long Beach(Calif.) Naval hospital, was married atIndianapolis, Ind., in Dec. to Peter Keelerof Indianapolis ... Jim and his Mrs. cameback from California for the affair ... Jim'sdoing a great job with sailors at the hos-pital. .. Part of his tuition is on etiquetteof golf so when his pupils go out to playthey're all officers and gentlemen regard-less of the braid they mayor may not havein the navy.

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Dickinson began stressing the wordagostrology some years ago for work onfine turf as distinguished from agronomywhich popularly i r garded as concerningfood crop.

The Massachusetts short course thisyear will culminate with a turf conferenceMarch 11-13. Dickin on cont mplatessom very interesting work on fin turfresearch and cours maintenanc coststhrough establishment of fellowships en-abling ext nsion of th school's valuablejob for golf.

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1948 WI TER TURFCO FERE CE

Jan. 6-7~Univ. of Tenn. and SouthernTurf Assn., Knoxville, Tenn.

Jan. 10-- USGA annual meeting andGreen Section Committee, Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, New York.

Jan. 12-13-1 Texas A & M and TexasTurf Assn., College Station

Jan. 15-1 Middle Atlantic Greenkeep-ers, Baltimore, Md.

Jan. 26-27-28-0klahoma A & M andOkla. Turf Assn., Okmulgee, Okla.

Feb. 9-13-GSA annual Turf Confer-ence, Detroit, Mich.

Feb. 28-2 Penn State College meet-ing, State College, Penna.

Feb. 28-27-New Jersey meeting, Rut-ger's Univ., New Brunswick, N. J.

Feb. 27--Beltsville Turf Gardens, 8thPost Engineer School, Fort Belvoir.

Mar. 1-2- Purdue Univ. and MRTF,Lafayette, Ind.

Mar. 8-9-Iowa State College and IowaGreenkeepers, Ames, Iowa.

Mar. 10-11-12--Minnesota Greenkeep-ers, Minneapolis, Minn.

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The reenkeeping uperintendent A ociation together v ith the Ho tA ciation, Michigan and Border Citie A ociation, extend a mo t cordialinvitation to you to attend our 19th ational Turf Conference and how inDetroit February 9, 10 11, 12 and 13 194 .

Thi is the nly national meeting concerned e clu ively with ba ic andspecific problem encountered in the production of turf. The program willbe of intere t and alue to all who are in any way intere ted in the productionof turf.

An exten ive and comprehen ive educational program has been de eloped.It eem evident that the extent of the exhibit will only be limited by a ailablespace. The educational value of the lecture and exhibit will amply repay anyorganization for the expen e incurred by their repre entative in attendin themeeting.

While rea onable guarantee of h tel pace have been obtained you areurged to make re ervation early, u ing the offi ial card. Official re er ationcard can be obtained by writing the ecretary' office Box 106, t. CharleIllinoi . Request COilfirmaiion and have COilfirmatioll with you at time of roomregistration. Attention i called to the de irability of u ing double or twin-bedrooms to take the fulle t advantage of hotel facilitie. Try to plan your tripto Detroit with a fellow roommate.

The educational program, the how of equipment and upplie, and theopportunity to meet and di cu problem and accompli hment with the lead-ing turf production men of the country all offer con tructi e educational valuewhich I trust you ~ ill not overlook.

I hope that I may have the pleasure of eeing you at Detroit.

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Old Oakland Revitalizedby Genera a e

Like so many golfing organizationsfounded before the turn of the centurystaid Oakland Ge, located a brassie shotfrom Long Island Sound and 10 miles eastof the majestic Empire State Building, dis-covered that pursuing traditional and con-v ntional ideas was a sad mistak .

It was back in 1942 when Oakland madethe discovery and as a result the club to-day is probably unique in Americanbunkerland. Getting back to early 1942,when the club was approaching its GoldenAnniversary the members elect d one ofNew York's business I aders, Thomas W.MacLeod, VP of St rn's, as president withthe und rstanding that the antiquatedmethod of doing things around the clubwould give way to more modern procedure.

Given complet authority, th progres-sive MacLeod immediately decided thatOakland, in order to be streamlined andtransform d into a magnificent golf club,would have to have a general manager.The man best qualifi d for the post, in the

By John M. Brennanopinion of the department store executive,was Martin Lyons, a man with an extensiveand excellent background in the business,having served at a number of top-flightclubs in the Metropolitan area.

When Lyons moved in at Oakland in Mayof 1942 the club was in sound financial con-dition (the club has nev r had a mortgageand had at that time a sinking fund of$100,000) but almost every other factorwas in urgent need of rehabilitation to pro-vide the facilities members had a right toexpect.

The course was in only fair shape. Theclub had had a half dozen managers withina few years. The bookke ping was done atthe treasurer's office in Pine street, Man-hattan, and most of the orders were givenby remot control from Wall street. Theclubhouse was in mediocre condition, es-pecially the kitchen which was operatingwith obsolet equipment.

.January, 191

Oakland GC clubhouse, showinq extensive puf+inq qreen, one of the largest in the east. Near menis bronze statue of Walter J. Travis on pedestal.

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Oakland's development depicted in photos onlounge wall. Original contract to build clubhousein 1896 and photo of first clubhouse and originalstock certificate are in middle group. At lowerleft are photos reminding members of war dayswhen horse-drawn wagons were used to conveymembers. Other shots are clubhouse destroyed byfire and interior shots.

When Lyons took over with instructionsto refurbish and revamp "everything" hedid not make the mistake of trying to rushthings. Marty, when he assumed the job atOakland felt that he would have things inship shape by the time the Golden Anniver-sary was reached in 1946, but, of course,the war necessarily changed his plans.

Modernizes the PlantHowever, a miracle has been performed

at Oakland by the dynamic Lyons, who, inhis capacity as general manager, has notonly modernized the old clubhouse andcourse for operating efficiency but hasgiven them a facelifting as well.

An inspection of the course, now one ofthe finest in the east, shows Oakland's com-plete new watering system. In giving hisattention to the course, Lyons institutedmany improvements including double tees,planting more trees and shrubs around the130-acre tract, improving and enlargingthe greens and developing splendid fair-ways. •

For years, until Lyons came to Oakland,the pro shop was located near the 10th tee.but Marty shifted the pro shop, presidedover by Elec Ednie, to new quarters con-structed in the west section of the club-house, near the first tee.

The old pro shop was streamlined andtransformed into a combination refresh-ment stand for the players reaching theback nine and as a caddie shelter.

The quaint lounge room, exquisitelydecorated and furnished, was given greaterusefulness when Marty removed a smalldoor and gave the room more sweep withan attractive archway. New iron stairwayswere built up to the ladies' quarters. Allthese improvements were in keeping withthe English motif.

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When Lyons took over Oakland had nobar. He has constructed a solid mahoganybar and built a cocktail lounge in part ofthe lockerroom, one of the best equippedin the east.

The office, which used to be a cubbyhole with room for a couple of employeesand a telephone, is now modernized withprivate quarters for Marty and his ableassistant, Joe Burke, a war hero. In orderto build the manager's office it was neces-sary to break through a 36-inch wall.

Lyons figuratively tossed a bomb into thekitchen. It is now completely done overwith the latest in refrigeration, ranges andother equipment. In addition, the clubhousehas been completely redecorated, with theinside in brighter pastels.

Oakland, which always had a roster thatlooks like a section from Who's Who ofAmerica, currently has no mortgage, con-tinues to have a sinking fund of more than$100,000 and has an imposing waiting list.The limit on members is 275 and with 50women players.

Oakland has never operated in red inkdespite the fact that the place was allowedto run down during the depression years forlack of constructive and aggressive man-agement.

Oakland used to bar women, both fromits clubhouse and course, but when someof the old members passed on to greenerfairways and a modern crop of membersassumed control the distaff side began dig-ging divots on the hallowed soil on whichWalter J. Travis, immortal of the earlyyears of golf, learned to play the gamewhile living at the old Niantic club in near-by Flushing. The women have more thana toehold on things at Oakland during thesedays thanks to some encouragement fromLyons and others at the helm. A dozensocial parties a season are held at the club-house where such events used to be banned.

ay General Managem nt letWe met MacLeod the other day at Oak-

land and he was loud in his praise ofLyons' accomplishments. "This generalmanager idea is the salvation for manygolf clubs," MacLeod said. "The setup ofhaving manager, course superintendentand professional each conducting and re-porting uncoordinated activities to com-mittee heads, then to club directors is awaste of effort, a cause of unnecessary mis-understanding and the cause of a time lagthat is extravagant and serious in opera-tion of a short-season business. Golf clubsshould be operated along the lines of a bigdepartment store, or any other big busi-ness, with one man directing and respon-sible for the whole operation. We, at Oak-land, have found the general management

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