NEWS OF THE GOIF WORLD IN BRIEF

Springfield (Mass.) News feature story says that a caddie in thut urea could make S8J

week hy carry ing double two rounds a day , , . Ole Clark, pro al Longmeadow CC, esti-mates thai $20 to $25 weekly is about what a good caddy in that district makes , . . Oth-ers estimated average at $40 a week • Albert Beauchesnc ol WilsonviBe, Conn., and Stuart Siegmund. Dudley. Mass.. building 9-hole course at Wfl-sonvilte, Mass., to open next June . • . Oak Hill CC, Goochland. Va., begins building 9-hole course . . . Sidney Banks, owner. Cavalier Yacht & CC, Virginia Beach, Ya,, offers to put up $ 15,000 for an Open and $5000 for a preliminary pro-am on the circuit after the Masters.

Decided sncccss of second National Seniors' Open al Esmera lda course, Spo-kane, Wash , , and entries for Senior Open t<> be played Oct . 21-23 ut At lant ic C i t y ( N. J . ) C C , indicate big boom current in senior gotf , . , L a u r e l Pines C C i Wash-ington D C d is t . ) opens first !) , . . F t , Dupont public course in Washington area opens 9 of its rebuilt holes.

Again proving that picking golf cham-pions is toughest sports forecasting job: Not one of the 74 prominent golf writers in Golfing magazine's third annual poll named Charley Coe as a possible winner of the National Amateur . . . None of the writers picked Tommy Bolt to win the Open . , . Twelve of (bent picked Finster-Wflld to win the PGA . . . Ford was picked

by 18 to win the PGA . . . Ven-turi was favorite to win Open and Ward, tbe Amateur, both being named by 32 writers.

Look for tbe All-Star golf television program sponsored hy Mi l l e r H igh L i f e to do some smart campaigning for faster golf play in f i lms of matches recently made . . . Had habit of tedious survey-ing of putts by several of tbe pictured pros has been a poor

example to set before golfers watching T V . . . O n T V cowboys and Indians ride 5 miles up and down tbc canyon, shoot and ki l l a couple of dozens humans and horses and save tbe beautiful maiden in less time than it takes some guy to fuss around with a putt, then miss it .

Westchester County, N. V., to build 18 on western part of Mohansic Park . . . lack Banner to build course at bis Banner Lodge resort in Moodus, Conn, . , , John Walter, Detroit News golf writer and pres., Golf Writers' Assn. of America, continued instruction series, "Tips from Our Pros," through most of summer giving local pros good publicity . . . Big year for syndicated golf instruction features with Tommy Ar-mour material, top-priced and top-rated of the teaching copy, having biggest year to date , . . Armour feature runs during fall and winter in leading papers in South and Southwest . . . Mac Divot, golf serial strip, has caught on in good shape . , , Chicago Tribune-N. Y. News syndicate distributes both golf features.

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With Ihe 20 per cent lax assessments for new building and improvement* repealed, and golf already riding a big building wave, the blueprint wilt become a patented overtime working tool in 1959. Some idea of what lies oheod may be gleoned from reading what manufacturer! say about next year {page 33), the architects' appraisal of what the tax repeal should mean (page 36), and the National Golf Foundation'! report an the gome's growth Ipage 87). It all oddi up to a very busy 12 months,

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honoring Eddie Williams retiring as club's pro , . . Eddie served Cleveland and Chi-cago district clubs prior to coming to Louisville CC 10 years ago and won PCA national Senior titles . . . He is succeeded at Louisville CC by his asst.. Tumm> Smith . . , Gene Roswell in New York Post article on the city's public courses ^ quotes Jim Oleska, retired detective and winner of numerous tournaments around New York City: "The public courses need a rest, the grass needs a rest. It takes 10 hours to play a round on weekends."

C. T. (Dick) Whitmore, 58, executive mgr., Ridgewood GC (Cleveland dist.), ior years sec., Cleveland District Goll Assn., antl operator of seven Cleveland district clubs during his 30 years in goll, died recently at the Ridgewood club of a coronary attack . . . He came into goll business via the real estate business and was an energetic and enthusiastic develop-er of the game . . , He is survived by his witlow and three sisters.

City of Waterbury, Conn., borrows $ til 10,00(1 for fi months at 1,23 per cent so work on course, designed by Bill and Dave Gordon, could be started , . . Loan to be repaid after city* sells $fi00,000 in

Ho want Faotiin, wen in this picture, is the capable superintendent ;tt I lie Mayfield Country Cluh, South Euclid, Ohio. John is in charge at Pepper Pike Country

'Cluli, while Robert holds for 111 at Ktrtland Country Club.

All Fan nine are noted for their grass growing ability. Howard has done an exceptional job at Mayfield, as have tile other* at their respective clubs.

Howard, Joint, and Robert arc consistent M11.ORG AN -I I I users a carload each year is used on each of iheir golf courses.

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20-year course construction bonds next year . , , Minds Junior College, Raymond. Miss., opens its 9-hole course . . . Sched-ule early beginning of construction of Banning, Calif., 9-holc public course ta plans of Wm. Johnson, Los Angeles archi-tect.

Work begun on Santa Ana (Calif.) Canyon GC 18-hole course to plans oi Lawrence Hughes . . . Cedarbrook CC (Philadelphia dist.) 150-aeres sold by its 107 proprietary members for $2,15(1,000 . . . Apartment buildings will be built on Cedarbrook property in a lew years after d u b can find new site, build new course and transfer operations . . . In 1939 Tem-ple university offered Cedarbrook $-150.-000 for its property.

Brook Hollow CC, WiUiamston, Mich., completed by Sky Cheney, owner . . . Arrowhead CC. Chillieothe, ill., to build 9-hole course, clubhouse, pool, etc Wm. James Spear, St. Charles, 111., is ar-chitect . . . Associated with Spear is Le-land Kew, asst. director of parks ol Peo-ria, III. . . . Complete 18-hole course and clubhouse of Northern-Atre CC, 1̂20 acre resort and residential development south of Flagstaff, Ariz, . , . Tuscon, Ariz., to get 18-hole muny coursc as result of ap-

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Open another 9 at Jt)hn Polaknvic's semi-private Midwest C C near Hinsdale in suburban Chicago . . . This gives Midwest 36 holes . , . Brownsville, Tex., muny course gett ing new clubhouse . . . Johnny | Bird's 20th year as pro at South Shore CC, Chicago, celebrated by a big party put on by members , , , Los Posas CC, near Ca-rnarillo, Calif., opens with Elmer Border as supt, , Bud Holscher as pro and Ceorge D e Backer as mgr. , , , Lawrence Hughes designed the course . . . Memberships of $1500 are payable S7.50 first year and $375 each of next 2 years.

II y o u a r e p l a n n i n g la r e p l a c e w o r n or d a m a g e d turl a r e a * , . . r e f a s h i o n a g r e e n . . re-bu i ld a tee . , . r e s h a p e a t r ap or b u n k e r , the Roseman TUlerTtake wil l he lp you get the Job d o n e f a s t e r , m o r e effici-ent ly, w i th p r a c t i c a l l y no la-bor a n d a t t a r l e s s cost. lobs can b e comple t ed prompt ly wi thou t w e a t h e r w o r r i e s .

Big party at Columbia CC, Washington, commemorat ing victory of Columbia 's pro, Freddie McLeod, in National Open at Myopia Hunt Club , Hamil ton, Mass., 50 years ago . . . As guests of Freddie and his c lub at the par ty were other distin-guished veterans including Jock Hutchi-son. winner of lf)21 British Open and 1920 PGA; Jim Barnes, winner of 1921 US Open , British Open of 1925, PCA in 1910 and 1919 and W i f f y Cos . Congres-sional pro and pioneer star of the tourna-ment circuit .

j P r e p a r e s a ( t i l l 7 foot s w a t h ol c o m p a c t e d , b a d l y rut ted g round into a n i m p r o v e d «eed bed a t s u b s t a n t i a l s a v i n g s in t ractor ope ra t ion , m a n hour* a n d m o n e y Inves ted in other im-plements* No n e e d to load or h a u l plow*. disc*, b l a d e s , d r a g s to a n d Irom jobs . O n e m a n d o e s it a l l qu ick ly , ef-f iciently a n d pe r fec t ly a t tre-m e n d o u s s a v i n g s .

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A f t e r viewing the outstandingly beautiful Lake Shore Golf Course, wc couldn' t re-sist asking Superintendent John Ling how he did it. Here 's what M r. Ling had to say: " In my 26 years of experience growing golf course turf , 1 have never found a bet ter fertilizer than Agrico. It has devel-oped deep roots and a good solid turf for me . This year I used AGRICO for TURI-10-6-4 with UREA-FORM because of its longer lasting qualities. I know it will produce for me as all the fine AGRICO products have in the pas t ."

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Speaking of Jock Hutchison: Delay in electing liim to PGA Hall of F a m e plainly showed that something was wrong in method of naming the pros for this honor . , . Hence the former method of having ballots cast by sports writers, many of whom are not competent authorities on golf history, the voting is to be done by PCA members . . . Jock lost. 1 down, to Jim Barnes in the first PGA championship ( 1 9 1 6 ) , was second to Chick Evans in 1910 National Open and was in a tie with Vardon, Jack Burke and Diegel. a stroke back of the winner, Ted Ray, in the 1920 US Open .

Comple te construction til Siler City (N. C . ) C C 9-hole course , , . Baywood G&CC, Eureka, Calif., opens . . . Los An-geles City Recreation and Park Commis-sion acquires land for construction of 9-hole Penmar course . . . Will have first 9 of Ellington Ridge C C , Ell ington, Conn, in play next spring . . . Geof f rey S, Cor-nish is architect . . . \ l i k c Ovian is supt. . , . Jay McClure, who succeeded Warren Cantrell as pro at Meadowbrook CC when Cantrell resigned, hires Cal Garre t t . 195S Texas Tech grad, as asst.

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fashion shows, fiestas and a formal recep-tion of lhe queens of the golf d u b s of Mexico will be entertainment features of the 23d National Amateur championship of Mexico which will be plaved at the Guadalajara CC, Oct. 6-12.

Shortly before Elmer Border left Olym-pic Club, San Francisco to go to the new Los Fosas CC as supt. be had 3 limbs sawed off a cypress to the left of the 8th green on Olympic's Lakeside course . , , out of these branches came 105 golf balls . . . I'ark Brook motel, Cleveland, O.. to butld 18-hole par 2 course on 28 acres.

George Rolfs in New Orleans Item sug-gested that next New Orleans Open be started on Sunday and finished with 3fi holes on Monday . . , Suggests keeping Tuesday and Wednesday open in case of p o s t p o n e m e n t . . , Rolfe says such a sched-ule would be more popular with spectators than a Thursday-Friday start . . . Two rounds on Monday would make contest-ants moan , . . Robert Trent Jones in New Orleans getting construction started on Timberlane CC IS . . . Expects it lo be iu play next summer.

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ord August of 3,24$ players . . . Laurel , Inc., soon to start bui ld ing first 9 of its eventual 18 . . , Deercrest CC 9-holc of-fered to Greenwich, Conn., for •1 ,250,000 as municipal course . , . Deercrest is on 160 acre tract , large part of which is in Stamford, Conn. . • , Club lost its liquor license because Conn. State Liquor Con-trol Commission found Deercrest CC, Inc. "unsuitable." . . , Club is owned hy per-sons who were publicized in Senate com-mission investigation of tabor rackcts.

Stanley Zontek from pro-supt. job at W h i t e Oak CC, Oak Hill. W\ Va., to Manor C C (Washington D C ) dist .) as supt. , succeeding Ernest Parsley, Manor supt. for 27 years, who retired Oct. 1 on pension from the club . . . Albuquerque, N. M., city commission approves $400,000 for city's first muny course . . . Bob Bal-dock is architect . . . course is 18 holes and also has 9-hole, par 3 course.

Course to be built at Mar I ton, X. J., as feature of new communi ty development . , , Beed City, Mich., C h a m b e r of Com-merce considering bui lding course , . , F r o n t 9 of Cheyenne ( W y o . ) muny course now has grass greens . . , Svcond 9's grass greens put in play Sept., 1957.

A major reason for poor tees, fairways and greens lies in the propert ies of the seedbed soil. Proper a t tent ion to the seedbed in new construction will dras-tically reduce fu tu re turf maintenance headaches. Rebuilding the seedbed in renovation operat ions frequent ly goes s t ra ight to the hear t of the problem.

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R. Albert Anderson, architect-builder, started construction of Lehigh Acres (F la . ) C C Estates . . . T h e 7 ,000 yd. course is about 20 miles east of F t Myers . . . Fif th annual Gardena Valley-Western Avenue $5,000 Open to he p layed in L.A., Nov. 12-16 . , , N e w England pro-stipt. tourna-ment to b e played at Rrae Burn CC, West Newton, Oct. 27 . . . At a recent New England GCSA meeting, M. Brown and L. Brown shot 77s, proving that supts. are capable of more than just greenkeeping.

James E. Shields has been elected exec-utive secy, of Metropolitan Golf Assoc. to succeed Edward S. Knapp, who retired about a year ago to move to Arizona . . . Shields, former pres. of Winged Foot, heads the Westchester Seniors Golf Assoc. and is on the USCA Seniors Committee , . . Decatur (Ala.) CC completing new 18 to replace present 9 . , . Members do-nated time and equipment, enabling club to handle the project for ahout $25,000 . . . Bill Curtis, pro-supt., supervised the job.

Montgomery County (Silver Spring) Md. council, which voted last spring to buy 500 acres in the Wheaton area, hopes tt> get rest-dents' hacking in building twr> ! ft-hnlr courses , . . More than 210,000 rounds were played on

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-13 municipal holm in Hart (or J , Cttnn., in 1957 and recreation officials feel that tliii year's play will equal that nf last year . . . Ijiurel Pints (X , Laurel, Md., opens first 9 of its 18 . . . $400,000 going into cour.se and into clubhouse.

All tit part of six courses designed by Geof-frey S. Comish were opened in the Northeast (hit luirantr , , . They include: Creitvicw CC. A ([warn, Mass.; Clinton |M>u. l CC; Vestal , Hills, Hinghamptou, N. Y.; Slow (Matt) CC; Pine Grove CC, Northampton, Mass., and Shak-er Farms CC, Westficld, Mass, , . , Prestjue Isle. (Me.) CC recently opened ft* 9-hole course with construction uf clubhouse planned for next spring , . . Brunswick (Me.) Naval Air Base lo open 9-hole layout nest May while new courses are in planning stage in Augusta and al Colby College in Wsterville.

Nine greens already completed at Wliip-Poor-Will CC, near Nashua. N. H. with full 18 holes to be ready next April . . . Other 1959 spring openings arc planned for CC ot tthaca. N. V.. ( 18 holes in May) . . . Higby Hills, Utfca (9 In May I . . . second 9 of Orange Hills (Conn.) GC, a muny layout . . . 9 holes at Wampntuck CC, Canton, Mass., in May . . . Coventry Center, R, J., 9-hole* of semi-private course in June . . , Silvemunc GC. a short, scmi-priviile 18 in NorwmQc, Conn,, late spring.

William F. MitchclJ, course architect of North Sutton, N, H„ has just completed design trig and building the Ft. Preval GC. Gaspe, Can., tor the province of Quebec . . . He also has design-ed att 18-hole course for the Air Force at lime-stone, Me. . . . Mitchell also is re-designing the Crossiogtr resort course, and is designing 18 for George Page in Greenwich, R. I, . . . Mitchell Bros.. of which Sain Mitchell is mgr., is now building n new 9 for Crown Point CC, Spring-field, Vt, and supplying velvet bent turf from its farms lor the greens at the Glastonbury (Conn.) CC which will open in 1959 . . , Turf for the greens at Ft. Preval project, incidentally, was shipped 825 miles from the Mitchell farms.

Robert M. Shultz, recreation supt. of Bridge-port, Conn., has compiled directory of muny courses in New Fngland and N. V , Metropoli-tan area as of Jan., 1958 . , . It's a very thor-ough compilation showing season attendance, costs of operating, receipts and fees , , , Jaycee, of Milfoil). Dela. pushing for 9-hole community course . . . New lighted Par 3, range and minia-ture going into acreage remaining from Wash-ington's Anncostia GC which bowed to the high-way builders , . . S. C, Leoffler Co. is behind the $150,000 project.

Army-Navy CC, Arlington, Va., recently pur-chased 18-hole Fairfax (Va.) CC for reported SI milllion , . , Deal involves 235 acres and gives Army-Navy total of 45 holes . . . Lebanon, Pa. VA Hospital all set to start building 18-hole course for patients and employees . . . . Muni- ' cipal courses in Waterbary, Hartford and Meri-den. Conn, very aggressively pushed Junior play this summer , . , Special fees and a lot of free lesson time brought kid) out to the courses.

Stanley Park GC, New Britain, Conn, muny coarse lo add 9 in '59 and bring total to 27

h u l l s . . . W a t e r b u r y , C o n n . , t o s ta r t c o n s t r u c -t i o n o n n e w 1 8 M f m u n i c i p a l t h i s f a l l , . . P r o j e c t , l i n e n r e d b y c i t y b o n d s , l o cost $ 4 0 0 , 0 0 0 . . . W i l l i a m F . n n d D a v i d W . C o r d o n , D o y l e s t o w n , P a . a r c h i t e c t s , d e s i g n e d t h r c o u r s e . . , N e w $ 2 0 0 , 0 0 0 c l u b h o u s e o p e n e d a t N e w H a v e n ( C o n n . ) m u n i c i p a l i n m i d - S e p t e m b e r . , , G r e e n w i c h , C o n n , i s p l a n n i n g 1 8 - h o l e m u n v cou rse u p o n r e c o m m e n d a t i o n o t c i t i z e n s ' g r o u p .

At end of August, regulars oil LPGA circuit were about us closely hunched in money column as you cuitld get them . . . Fay Crocker, Louise Suggs. Bev Hands!!!! nnd Marlene H. IlaggO nil bad won between Si0 ,375 and $10,050 . . . Ten gals tiad won over $(>.000 , , . H. T. White, who if known as "the squire of Ashcville (N.C.I CC," was recently added to the list of llinw who bave slml their age . . . He had a 38-37-75, ac-cording to Art Clark, pro.

W a s h i n g t o n , D C . ' s J u n i o r go l f l e a g u e , w h i c h t w o years ago w a s c o m p r i s e d of t o u r t e a m s , b a d t w e l v e c o m p e t i n g l a i n s u m m e r . . . R e t h e s d a w o n 195K c h a m p i o n s h i p , d e f e a t i n g K e n w o o d C C i n f i n a l s . . . K i d s ' scores w e r e e x c e p t i o n -a l l y g o o d w i l h some s h o o t i n g i n m i d 7 0 s , , . O n e of t h e f e a t u r e s o f M i d A t l a n t i c G C S A m e e t -i n g f is I h e " C o n s t r u c t i v e S u g g e s t i o n l i e p o r t " t h a i o c c u p i e s l i m e o n e a c h p r o g r a m .

Keiiluckiaua CGSA conducting "Name tbe Bulletin" contest among members for its new publication. Vol. I, No. 1 of which was recently mailed to supts . . . According to the Bull Sheet, Midwest GCSA monthly, ice was found on a water hose ctt Chicago's Exmoor CC early in tbe rooming ol Aug. 25th . , . And that's no bull . . . Atlantic City CC, Northflcld. N. J.. names Its new lounge iu honor of John J. McDermott, first native born pro to win the USGA Open . . . John's portrait hangs in the lounge and tbe goll mrdal lie was awarded for winning the 1911 Open also is on display . . . MeDcmiott was pro at Atlantic City at that time.

A c c o r d i n g to N e w E n g l a n d C C S V N e w s l e t t e r t h i s y e a r w i l l be r e m e m b e r e d At t h e w o r s t Tor d isease . , . S a l e s m e n say m o r e Fung ic ides a n d c h e m i c a l * w e r e so ld i n J u l y o f l ! ) 5 N t h a n i n a . iy n t n n l h n l a n y y e a r t h e y c a n r e m e m h e r . . . 15-1 ear o l d Hen W o o l l e n , w h o |>1ays ut B l u e M i l I M e , 1 C C sco red I w o aces w i t h i n t h r e e d a y s t h i s s u m m e r . , . O n A u g . 1 9 he go t a I B 0 y d . h o l c - i n - o n e a n d r e p e a t e d o n t h e i i n d o n a 1 0 0 y d , b o l e .

I.c-onart! Gross, it) amusing article in New York Tim Magazine in August, pointed out lhat pride keeps most golfers honest in report-ing their scores to club handicap committees . , . At least 95 per ccnt of golfers work for lower handicaps, lie said . . . Gross also stated that handicaps are a matter of class distinction , . , The low handicap player has a Cadillac complex while the poor hacker bas that feeling that supposedly comes from driving a Ford , . . William C. Stickman, retired colonel, has aced all four of the Par 3 hol-s at Ft. Srtm Houston. Tc*. . . • Bob Moss, a school (earlier conned '(I with tbe Army in Japan, recently shot n record 62 foi the 6,40(1-yd. Cnmp Tama course, neat Tokyo.

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Carl Brown former teaching pro at Willowick CC, Santa Ana, Calif,, died in August.after be-ing ill For three months . . , Harry Pcuullo, Mission Hills CC. Northbrooit, 111., renominated "pro of the year" by Illinois section of the PGA . . , He's pres. of the organization . . . 350 Evans scholars, alumni and Western Coif Assn. officials attended 7th outing, s[>onsored by WGA, in Sept. at Medinab CC, near Chicago.

Second SI of Crystal a ire CC, Pearhlossom, Calif., one of new desert courses, opened re-ccntls . , . Third 9 at hot Coyotes CC, Buena Park. Calif., completes 27-hole championship course which cost total of $40(1,000 , , . Wil-liam F. Belt designed both projects . , . Ellinor Village. 650 unit resort motel, scores what it says is a "Florida First" hy offering free golf prisileges lo guests ut Ellinor Village CC.

Westwood CC, Houston, has added second 9 to design of Ralph Plummer , , , Construe-tion of $800,000 clubhouse and pro shop at West-wood to liegin this fall . , . Rut Coffey leaving Muundsvillc (W. Va.) CC to take pro job ut new Ocean Cit> (Md.) Yacht 4 CC , . . Ocean City is 6,700 yds. and built to plans of Hill antl Dave Gordon . . . A new set of tee markers was recently donated to Richmond (Calif.> CC by a IJerson who left the markers alongside the pro shop but didn't give his name.

Par 3 operators in eight Southern Calif, cities organize S.C. Short Course Golf Assn. to stimu-late interest and play on their laynuls . , . George McAllister, Studio City is pres. . , . Oth-er officers: Hemic Ma none, vp; Lewis Jano,

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University of Maryland's 18 -hole course de-signed by George Cobb, Chapel Hills, N, C., get-ting big plav . . . Maryland's golf director, Frank Cronin, it conducting a one semester course. 3 hours a week, for beginners and plans ad-vanced course . . . Duke and XI of N. C. are other schools in Atlantic Coast conference with their own courses . . , Bob Hamrich will be Champaign till.) CC pro succeeding Charles Jones who is retiring after many years at thr club.

Frank Clark now pro at Woodcrest CC, Had-donfield, N.J . . . . Ken Venturi and Jackie Burke to Japan for exhibitions . . . International pro matches at Tokyo last year and victory of Japanese team made Nippon hot for golf . . . During week of Sept, 20-28, British pros ran an event at their elubs to raise money for British Golf Foundation's program of golf in-struction in schools.

A man and wife al Waynesboro, Pa., have offered the city $15,000 for getting course built on borough property, the loan lo be a I fi l/i per cent interest and to be written off on death of the couple . . . Atlanta, Ca., transfers $125,000 intended for course and park for Negroes to /oo improvements , , . Jimmy Thomp-son succeeds the late John Randal] as pro at Columbia Hills CC, Cleveland, O. . . , Thomp-son was Randall's asst.

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Hi vert on (N. J.) CC building $300,000 club-house ami pool , . . Philadelphia CCSA and Men's Golf Assn. of Philadelphia, at their an-ntial joint dinner, awarded a university scholar-ship to a caddie.

O. L. (Dick) Jacks, owner of Edwood Glen course, Lafayette, Ind., remodeled holes on hi* first II and add-, second 9 to he in play next spring . . . That gives Lafayette four 1N-hole (2 at Purdue U) and one 9-hole course in a city of 40,(100 . . . Davenport, la., figur-ing on Ifi-hole course at Emeis Park to plans of C. D. Wagstaff . , . Cedar Hapids. la., to have new muny eourse . • . Chapel Hill CC-MeHenry, III., incorporated.

Palo Alto Hills CMX!, plans course and residential development near Palo Alto, Calif. . . . Lemooret (Calif. I City Clerk George Rob-ertson looking for someone who will ptit course into good condition and operate it for the eitv,

llegin construction of tfi-hole eourse seven miles west of Corona, Calif,, tentatively known as Green River eourse . . , It's world's only eourse tn three counties . , - Mi If ord, T>cl,, group organized to build 9-hole course lo plans of Eddie Ault . . , The Camargo Club, Cin-cinnati, O., reduces operating costs for second consecutive year through operating efficiencies in maintaining members' estate adiaeent to course . . , This program, described by Cam at go supt., Taylor Boyd ut USGA Green Section meeting in Chicago last January, is hound to continue growing and become big factor in

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Harold Glissmann, veteran operator of Omaha semi-private courses, building 18-hole scmi-private to be opened in May, 1960 . . , John Graves, formerly in charge of landscape main-tenance at Augusta (Ga.) Notional GC, now is the club's golf course supt. . . . Paul Farrington, for eight years pro at Blytheville < Ark. I CC, completely remodeling club's greens and plant-ing 328 . , . Farrington also replaced the 9 sand greens of K<*tinert (Mo.) CC with greens of 328 and is doing similar job for Maiden (Mo.) CC . . . Eugene Still, Blytheville pres., and Virgil Powell, Maiden pres, share Farrtng. too's conviction that 328 has proved itself to be the right answer in giving smaller t'luhs in the area first class grass greens.

Rueben I lines and Rueben, jr., golf turf nurserymen antl coursc builders. Brook svi lie. Md., building 9-hole course for Oak Hill CC. Richmond, Va. . , . Cluh expects to add an-other S) laler , , . Robert Bruce Harris, golf architect, thinks it won't be long before there are women on Green committees , , . We don't know of any women now on these committees, do you? . , . There were many women country club officials antl directors in the 'IIOs and in the first If) years of this century, but very few now,

Most publicity a caddie day al a club gets is that given by Fall River (Mass.) Herald Ness's to the Fall River CC , . . Sports Editor Frank McCrath, gives great cooperation to the

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WISCONSIN WINDFALL . . . To help defray the expense of the 1939 GCSA notional convention, which will he held io Chicao in January, the Wis-consin GCSA recently gave the hail group, the Midwest Association, a check for 5250. Ed Stewart, (center). Midwest pros, and ivpt. ol River Forest CC, Elmhurst, 111., accepts the money from Fronk Musbach (r), supt. at Blue Mound G & CC, Mil-waukee, while Bob Williams, national GCSA pres., smilingly calculates what that $250 will supply.

kids and club pres., Jim Waldron, pro-supt. Marty Higgins, Asst. pro Manny Souza. Mgr. Monty Guar in o and lockcrrnom supt., Arthur Valley . . . In Lorain, O., 30(H) recently signed n petition for a public course.

Yoit can, and should, credit Dick Daley mgr. of Army-Navy CC. Arlington, Va„ for his lead-ing role in getting relief for country clubs in recently enacted tax legislation . . . Dick knew the clubs' case, where X was in Washington, and kept on the ball,

John Wbitaker, Hnmmotnl ( Ind.) Times sports editor and a 7-hrmdicap golfer, put on 2 2nd Hammond Times-Calumet amateur golf cham-pionship as tbc most successful of these affairs which the paper has established as the sectional championship of southern suburban Chicago and northern Indiana , . . There were 316 entries and 47 qualified at tho five qualifying courses.

National Golf Foundation had its field staff at Chicago, Sept. 5-0, for consultations and dis-cussions with developers of country clubs, ta» experts, golf architects, marketing and physical education experts . • . Rex McMorris. Founda-tion executive vp, headlined public golf session of 40th National Recreation Congress at At-lantic City. Sept. 23 . . . Foundation is Co-sponsoring with Southwestern Krcreation Assn. eourse planning and operating workshop at San Carlos Hotel. Pensaeola, Fla., Oct. 30 and 31.

Billy Sixty, veteran golf and bowling writer of Mil wanker Journal, did an entertaining and exciting piece on Joo Palctti. Ozaukee CC pro's winning of Wisconsin PGA Seniors' title and a trip to Duncdin . . . Joe makes ihe fifth state champion at Ozaukee this year . , , The club had the Wisconsin women's, men's senior ama-teur, state amateur and American Legion cham-pions.

Philip II. Goldsmith, 61, clim. of the board. MacGregor Sports Products, Inc., died Sept. 18 in Munich. Germany, of a heart attack . . . He

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and his wife were on a vacation trip . . . He started in sports goods business more than 40 years ago wilh F. Goldsmith A Sons, founded by his grandfather . . , l ie was pres. of Mar-Cregor before moving In the chairmanship in 194ft * , . He was pres., National Sporting Goods Assn. for five years and was elected lo the Sporting goods Hall of Fame in Feb. . . . Phil served on sports goods industry Iioards dur-ing NBA days and in World War II , , . He is survived by his widosv and a daughter, Mrs. Arthur Hoffheimer. jr. . , . Phil's good lodg-ment. integrity and friendliness made him a warmly admired and soluahle man whose pass-ing is a deep personal loss to many in sports.

Fines totaling $33,200 were assessed by Fed-eral Judge Michael J, Igoe in Chicago aga'nsl True Temper, Wilson, Spalding, MacGregor a id Hillerich tc Bradsby and officers of those com-panies when the companies antl officers entered plea of nolo contendere to government charge of violation of anti-trust laws.

Babe Orff, Stillwater I Minn J pro aod pres., Minnesota PCA instructs golf classcs at -Still-water high .school whose golf team, coached by Stan Demoski, has won 58 consccutivc matches , . . Peter Dr Hu.scin building 18-hole course and clubhouse at Schenectady, N. Y. , , . Club to be called Pincheaven,

Rocky Mountain Golf Course Supt. Assn. fin-ished summer program with meeting at Fort Morgan (Colo.) CC Sept. 18 and winds Up 1958 schedule with Turfgrass Conference at Colorado State university, Ft. Collins, Oct. 9 and 10 . . ,

LOADED DOWN , . , with trophies is Jerry Green-bourn who won this year's Jaycee tnternotion il Junior golf tournament with o 281, On left is perma-nent trophy and on right h Terry Boykin Memorial

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Dow Finsterwald got 427 of 755 votes cast by P C A mem hers, press, radio and T V reps to win the l l t l i annual PGA Pro-of-1 he-Year award. The 29-)'e»r old Ohio University grad is the youngest player ever to wirt the award. l i e had a nearly 30(1 vote margin over Arnold Palmer, the ruti-ne r-u p. Tommy Bolt won third place. Bill Casper, fourth and Ken Venttlri, fifth. Dow will officially receive the award at the P C A President's dinner, Nov, I I in Clearwater, Fla. , during the annual as-sociation meeting.

Art Brims, succeeds Dan Vororhis as Rocky Mountain GCSA publicity ehmn. , , . Dan left Wilshire CC, Denver, to become public rela-tions director of Paradise Valley CC, Casper, Wyo., where bis son, Kenneth, is supt.

George A, (Pal.) Pattison. jr.. Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., golf architect, has had construction slu-t on his new Cooper Colony GC, Davie. Fla., south-west of Ft. Lauderdale . . , Course is in center of 1,000 acre real estate developmenl , . , Will have par of fi-( with 6 par 3s and 3 par 4s on each nine , , . Pat believes this is only course of its type in the svorld . . . Joe Ryan, pro at Hid-den Valley course in Delray Beach, Fla., Is tak-ing over clubhouse operation.

American team representing National Amputee Coif Assn. defeated Canadian 4-inan team of War Amputations of Canada Assn. in match play-ed nl Roselantl GC. Windsor. Out., Sept. 27 , . . Board of governor) of Baltusrol where this year's Amputee tournament was plnvcd have presented the Amputee organization with a Baltusrol gov-ernors* trophy which will be placed in comiwti-tion at tile A mini tees* tourn anient at Savannah, Ga., in 1959 . , . Amputees' I960 championship will go lo Detroit or Chicago , , . Spokane bas bid for the 1961 championship.

Malt Jans, fur 15 years pro at Rolling Green CC (Chicago dist.) and for 25 years prior a pro iu the Chicago area, retires this year and will he Mice reded by hi* asst. Chuck I'edersen , . , Roll-ing Green giving Malt big farewell parly . , . Harry Per.zulk), Mission Hills pro, re-elected Illi-nois PCA pres.. and Guy Paulson of Medinah, its sec.-treas. , . . Carol McCue, executive sec. Chicago District GA and the helping sister ot the Illinois PGA to Europe on three weeks trip.

Fred Corcoran's idea of gelt ion Ben Hogan aod Sam Snead as a team for second time in their golf careers to play in International Golf Assn, matches at Mexico City, Nov. 20-23 got big lines in sports pages in all countries where golf is played . . . Frank Pace, IGA pres. and "head of General Dynamics, especially eager to have IGA pro team and individual competitions at Club de Golf best of these exciting sjiorts shows because of Mexican businessmen's keen and growing interest in golf.

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Mundy DeSimone, (right) on* of five brother! who cnnuol ly sponsor pro-omateur tournament ot Lion-erth C C for benefit ef Phi ladelphia PGA's coddie scholarship fund, gets Award of Merit far iob well done from Marty Lyons, l lanerch pro (left) and

Angeto Paul, Phi ladelphia PGA secy.

Johnny Gibson, pro at Westcrmoreland CC (Chicago dilt.), has been named winter pro for new Oro CC. which is nucleus of big new Ari/.ona real estate development . . . liyron Nelson hack at his Rnanoke, Ten,, ranch after hospital treatment of sciatic nerve.

Very amusing essay written on subject of old pros fey smart and pretty little Susie Adams, daughter of flurry, ex-pro who for years has been MacGregor Golf district sales mgr. for Chicago area , . , She ground out her opus for tbc enlightmerit and uplift of her high school class . . . It made great pro propaganda . . . Harold ' Spud) Osverr. gotf and lonthall coach at Elmhurst (lit.) college, named chmn., Na-tional Assn. Intercollegiate Athletics golf com-mittee ,

Jack Krost, 2ft years with Wilson Sport inp flood* Co. Chicago pro dept. given an auf Wicdersehcn lunch by some of his hundreds of friends in the company, pro golf, golf of. fictal circles and among writers and sports-casters at Como Inn. Chicago, Sept. 1H . . . Veterans say Jack's retirement affair was the merriest, most informal social and oratorical event of its sort . . . Milt Woodard, Western Golf Assn. sec., pre*enter! a tape recording of selections from Jack's public addresses , , . Jack, in leaving Wilson before usual retire-ment age, to go to his farm ut Conneautsville. Pa., delivered an oration somewhat similar lo Washington's farewell Address.

Montrose, Colo., to build eourse to plans of Henry Hughes . . , Open ranch-style clubhouse at Ahsal GC, Solvnng, Calif . , . Among fea-tures is lowered bar in cocktail lounge which enables rclaxers to look over heads of bar-tenders thru large picture window ovor course and at Santa Ynez mountains.

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Forming Green llills CC to hoild IX-holc course at Athens, Ga, . . . Yandalia, Mo., plan-ning to build 9-holc course . . . Chatam, N.J . residents headed by Stanley It. Smolens. plan-ning new private golf club . . , San Jose, Calif., to have IH-holc public course on East side . . . Merced (Calif.) G4CC building $150,000 club-house.

Carolinas golf salesmen tn put on big goll day and party at Lexington (N.C.) CC Oct. S honoring Dugjn Aycock, pro at Lexington (X; and Purvis Ferree, pro at Old Town CC. Win-ston-Salem, N. C., who are retiring as pros, and sec.-trtas., respectively, of Carolinas section PGA after many years of service.

Promoters of Asbury Park, N. J., First Inter, national Miniature Coif Tournament, got tem-porary injunction restraining USGA from inter-fering with tournament , , . Promoters claimed prospective contestants dropped out saying they were concerned about their amateur status since CSC A claimed jurisdiction over miniature golf . . , Traveling expenses and cash prizes were offered by miniature promoters . . . This thing snilfs like .1 press agent's stunt to gel atten-tion . . . Way we see it the USGA would base about as much jurisdiction over miniature golf as it would have over pin ball, dice aod card games with Ihe golf theme.

Don Tait, 53. mgr. of Spalding's golf club s[>eciat orders and repair dept., died Sept. 13 in Springfield, Mass., following an operation

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After Harry Itadis had introduced Mrs. Owen West, then Women's Western Ci A pres., In Victor East, veteran club designer. East com-mented that when he'd lived in Killara, New Sooih Wales, families named East, West, .North and South had liscd within a mile of cach other.

Mason City, la., 9-hole Highland Park muny course 1 icing reconstructed with grass greens . . . City bought course from tile American Le-gion last year , , , Lawrence Hildmau will be supt. , . . Salem, Ind., expects to have 9-hole course in play by late Spring, 1959,

Ken Putnam, Seattle (Wash.) CC supt., elect-ed pres.. Northwest GCSA . , . New tax law abolishing 20 per cent club dues lax on as less-men Is paid for "construction or reconstruction" culls for more exact bookkeeping by clubs that have charged a lot of construction and recon-struction work to maintenance.

Latest of lite pros' sons and daughters to (to very well in loom anient golf is James Purvis Ferree, son of pro at Old Town CC, Winston-Salem. N.C. , . . Tile 27-year-old won the British Columbia Centennial : . , First moriev, SCi-100 , . . lie got CI in second round at Van-couver's par 72 Point Grey course , . . George Vltense honored hy members of Nakoma CC, Madison, Wit., at big dinner . . . George is re-tiring after long service in Wisconsin pro golf.

Lowell D. (Larry > Rutherford. who died

recently at his home in suburban Chicago, fig. urcd prominently in Chicago district golf de-velopment as a pioneer member ol the Medinah CC, a promoter of the $10,000 Chicago Open in 1937. CDGA pres. in 11)44 and 1955 arid a founder of Lhe Chicago District Golf Charities, golf's biggest fund for hospitalized veterans.

Fred Corcoran, International Golf Assn. tour-nament director to go to Australia iu March to arrange svith W. C. Walkiey, Australian IGA director, for 1959 IGA International pro matches , , • Ricki Harick, former pro wbo is pres., Tus-con Golf Assn. and an official in 14 Tuscou Opens, is quoted hy Arizona Daily Star sports columnist Tom Roust as saying, "Touring pros could learn a thing or two from tbe young ama-teurs who competed in the International Jaycee junior tournament. ". . . Conduct of the kids and absence or complaints about course, rulings, accommodations, etc. were highly praised hy all,

Sioux Falls (S. D.) Argus-Leader recently carried feature story on Ed Livingston, Minne-haha CC pro for 14 years, as "Citizen of the Week." . , . Livingston bas been a pro 30 years and as a collegian starred in football, basketball and golt . . . Until last year he was busy in the winter as a football and basketball official , . . Michigan Manufacturer and Financial Record carries cover picture and feature story on Fred L. Riggin as one of state's foremost industrialists . . . lie is pres. of the National Coif Fund.

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111. l o r l i n t ' c o n d i t i o n o l eourse d u m g t ' S C A P u h t i c L i n t s c h a m p i o n s h i p . . , P G A g ives Boh Po l lock a n d his son H u g h p l a t j u r i n r e c o g n i t i o n ot exce l len t c o o d i t i o n of L l a n e r c h f o r P C A cham-p ioos f t i p . . - H u g h succeeded his f a t h e r as supt . • . . Boh n o w is course consu l tan t . . . ' f 'hese recogn i t i ons of s u p e r i n t e n d e n t s fo r (heir w o r k i n g e t t i n g courses i n t o c h a m p i o n s h i p con-d i t i o n was u r g e d hy G O L F D O M some years ago and took a l i t t l e t i m e to get across . . , T h e U S C A w a , the p ioneer i n th is r e c o g n i t i o n a n d tn t a k i n g c o g n i z a n c e of the p ro ' s f i n a n c i a l toss at a course w h e r e it c h a m p i o n s h i p was p layed .

P G A ' s E d u c a t i o n - T e a c h i n g c o m m i t t e e deserves thanks o f pros a n d ama teu rs f o r 1958 Fduca -[ l o n - T c a c h i n g seminars a n d c l i n i c s repo r t , . . I f v Schloss headed the c o m m i t t e e and John M a h o n c y was v i ce c h m n , , . , T h e r o u n d - u p o l the m a i n po in ts o l the s w i n g . G u y Paulson 's t» lk on " t r i a n g u l a l i n n i n t h e s w i n g " a n d the demon-st rat ions w e r e good hasic t r a i n i n g o n i ns t ruc t i on .

Dill Lyons, Firestone Rubber company course and grounds supt. at Akron, (>., putting in a short course with hoh-s from 110 yds. to 350 yds. on his family's farm that's located between Akron, Massitlon, Barberton and Cleveland . , , Frank Clark, formerly asst. to Al Brosch al Woodmere CC (NY Met dist.) now is pro at Woodcrest CC. Ashland. N. J., succeeding Sam Davfi, resigned , . . Mrs. Loma F'takes, wife of Philadelphia CC jiri), recovering after being hos-pitalized hy bad burns in kitchen accident . , , Andy Studwcll, Spalding pro salesman in Phila-di 11ihia dist., says pros have been working harder and more successfully to promote golf play this year than any other year he's been on the best.

K e n f l u h h f c , sup t . , M i l l w o o d C C , N a s h v i l l e , T e n n . . asys C - l a n d C - 1 9 h e n t m a k i n g as good g ieens i n that p a r t of the c o u n t r y as he ever saw a n y w h e r e . . . George W a l l a c e I r o m H i v e r t o n , N . J. succeeds T o m H e l m as supt . O r a n g e Brook C C C . H o l l y w o o d , F la . . . . H e l m res igned be-cause o l i l l h e a l t h . . . l i e b r o u g h t T o m in as his assistant t o l ea rn the O r a n g e B r o o k dea l . , . Sam Frost is p ro -mg r . . , . G e o r g e ( R e d ) S m i t h , f o r m e r l y sup t . , M i a m i Spr ings ( F l a . ) C G now supt . at W c t t v l e w C C , M i a m i , succeed ing C h a r l e s Ke l l y w h o r e t i r e d . . . Pete H a r r i i o i M i a m i Parks d e p t . succeeds S m i t h at M i a m i Sp r ings ,

Speaking of women, Bill Whitecumbc, pro at the Ladies GC of Thornhill. Out., brings us up to date on his membership . , . Bill has 'MM) women players and al least 150 of them are out every day , . . 'The Cap-It-All" weekly publication of Veterans Administration Hospital, Albany, N. Y„ usually is filled with golf news . . . Very active program here sponsored by 1 -cal United Voluntary Services which gets plenty of help from Northeastern N.Y, Section of the PGA.

J. A . B u c h a n a n , p r o a t G e n e r a l D e p o t C C , C o l u m b u s . ( ) , . repor ts that g reens at h is c l u b w e r e n ' t w a t e r e d f o r a s o l i d m o n t h d u r i n g J u n e a n d J u l y . . . T o t a l r a i n f a l l fo r i h e t w o mon ths was 1 0 . 5 2 ins. . . . Cou rse a lso has w a t e r e d f a i r w a y sys tem w h i c h wasn ' t t u r n e d o n e v e n

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once b e t w e e n M a y a o d Aug . I . . . O n the o the r h a n d , R i c h m o n d ( C a l i f . I C C has spent S T , 5 0 0 i n recen t mon ths t r y i n g l o i m p r o v e i ts we l l s a n d s p r i n k l i n g e q u i p m e n t .

John C o g h i l l , o w n e r of the 3 f i - ho l c S i l ve r L a k e course , on w h i c h th is year 's U S G A p u b l i c l i n k s c h a m p i o n s h i p was c o n l c s t r d , e s t i m a t e d t ha t t h e c h a m p i o n s h i p week cost h i m $ 2 5 , 0 0 0 , . , T h e r e was no p a i d p lay on t h e N o r t h course used f o r the c h a m p i o n s h i p a n d those w h o m i g h t h a v e p l a y e d S i l ve r L a k e ' s Sou th cou rse c a m e over a n d w a t c h e d the P u h l i n * c h a m p i o n s h i p at w h i c h t he re was n o ga l l e r y fee , , . C o g h i l l a n d tbe M c N u l t y s one o f w h o s e I w o G l cneug les 18s w e r e used fo r t h e C h i c a g o O p e n h a d a l o t a l t o u r n a m e n t cost of i n excess o f $ 4 0 , 0 0 0 ,

Bill and Dave Cordon design IS holes, fea-ture of real estate development at Wii.iatnslnirg Va, , . . Gordnnr also designed the new 18 Hermitage CC is building at Richmond, Va. . . . Atlantic City (N. J.) CC putting on second an-nual Seniors' invitation 54-hole open, Oct. 21, 22. 23.

Joe Whitehead says south Florida supts. are talking about great job flans Schmeisser bas done a? sup t . Ft. Lauderdale CC . . . Hans also supervising construction of par 3 course at Vinoy Park Hotel, St. Petersburg, Fla., to design of David Gill, St. Charles, III. . , , Schmeisser re-cently elected pres., Florida Assn. of Golf Course Supts., succeeding Norman Johnson of CC of Florida

Vol. 32—Number 10 • October, 1958

CONTENTS

James R. I r e l a n d , f o r t w o y e a n i n t h r N e w . Y o r k o f f i c e of l he M a c G r e g o r Co . , n o w M a c -G r e g o r p r o sa lesman tn N e w Yo rk . . . l i e w i ' l , do O K . i he is a p ro tege o f T o m " M M t a i t t e ' l j Dobb ins . , . Roy E . C a n c d y , o w n e r o f t h * B r o o k d a l e a n d M e a d o w Pa rk courses at T a e o m a , W a s h , go t a surpr ise ou t o f the l a r g e r cups he used j r h is a n n u a l B r o o k d a l e t o u r n a m e n t . • . P l a v i u g c o n d i t i o n s w e r e p e r f e c t yet w i n n e r was 5 strokes h i y h e r t h a n last year . . . Out C a n e d y , is k e e p i n g Ihe l a r g e r cups f o r B rookda le a n d fo r h is pa r 3 1 9 - h o l r course at M e a d o w Pa rk . , ,

PGA and potential sponsors working on deal lo establish PGA match championship for $30 35,000 purse , . . Some hope of getting event underway at Duncdii, this winter and making it i annual affair . . . Hillcrest of L.A. said to be interested in tournament of this kind for 1930 . . . Hie match play championship wrould fill in 1

for PGA ('hampionship, abandoned this year in favor of 72-holc medal play competition . . . • 1958 stroke play event was artistic success and did large gross at Philadelphia's Llanereh CC . , , . But net profit to PCA wax less than $100 . . , PGA will retain tbe 72-hole medal play com- i petition on summer circuit schedule , , . It's scheduled (or Minncapnlis in '59 and Akron, O in 1960. •<

D u n c a n M . Ba r r . p r o at Eas t O r a n g e ( N . J . ) G C , d i e d recen t l y o f cancer . . . H e was 8 2 . .• ' M r . Ba r r came to U . S . f r o m S c o t l a n d i n 1 9 2 * . , . B e served at Esses C C , W e s t O r a n g e , N , J . , \ R y e ( N . Y . ) C C , C o l o n i a l i n F t . W o r t h i n add i -t i o n to East O r a n g e . . . H e is s u r v i v e d b y t h e ' w i d o w , Joan, a n d t w o d a u g h t e r s , one o f w h o m , M r s . W i l l i a m E . T r a c y was N . J . w o m e n ' s ama-teur c h a m p i o n i n 1 9 5 0 a n d 1 9 3 7 .

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Tax Repeal Witt Ifoom Course Building Push 1 el to Come in Stile* to Women Unlimited Budget; Superintendent'* Dream Turf Conference* * 14, 5(1 Turf Roundup for 1958 O . J . \ w r A Fred V. Grau Hunter X Hunter Hare Merchandising knack . . . . . . . Hill S h e r m a n fi2 Pro Merchandising — III end of Sound Judgment, Ingenuity

f l i c k l a r l o w b i t Golf Course Irrigation (Part III) C . E . ( S r n t l y ) S t e w a r t 7 1 Golf t.ar* Go Under Comer B0 foundation Report on Golfs Growth 87 1958 Golfdom Editorial Index 1)1 Manufacturing ISeict 114

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