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Exclusive roll back feature can be set to returnball to player, greatly increasing practice value.Porous canvas-when laid over rug-has feel ofreal green. Nine-hole game makes fun for acrowd.

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fied. _ . Hagen used to do it better.He'd lie like a gentleman about a cowpasture saying it was "a sporty littlecourse."

Atlanta, Ga., now has 8 muny and 3privately-owned fee courses. . • It prob-ably will lose a 9-hole James K. Keycourse due to a new highway construc-tion. • • Atlanta now has Lincoln Park,a 9-hole privately owned course as itsonly course for Negroes but is planningan 18-hole muny course' for Negroes. . .Talk in several cities about Negro privateclubs being built. • . Newest privatecourse with Negro membership we thinkof is Apex CC, Pomona, N.J. near At-lantic City. . . William Spence is pro.

Al Mengert, runner-up to Jack West-land for 1952 National Amateur title,signed by Claude Harmon as asst. atWinged Foot CC (NY Met dist.) .. :Mengert will make next winter's tour ...Fred Waring's Shawnee Inn & CC,Shawnee-on-Delaware, Pa., to have 30thannual Shawnee Invitation May 7-10...Bill Waite Memorial Invitation and Na-tional Old Masters' to be played atShawnee Sept. 8-13.

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Maintenance eliminated. Since this shower head is alwaysfree from clogging and other faults it requires no servicing.Easily, quickly installed. Equipped with connector that fitsall standard shower arms on old or new installations.

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on their women's entertainment pro-grams .•• Women's dress on courses isgetting better looking.•• Strange thinghow so many usually well-groomedwomen are so carelessly attired on golfcourse that the men (the old hens) com-ment. • • Men can't understand why somany women play in worn-out, sloppygolf shoes. . . Pro shop merchandising ofwomen's golf wear and shoes already isbeginning to improve women's appear-ance on courses.

Sympathy of the many in golf businesswho know him is extended to ClayborneWatson, supt., Seminole CC (Palm Beach,Fla.) and to Mrs. Watson on loss oftheir daughter, who was fatally injuredin an automobile accident. . . The Wat-son's son-in-law was en route to Koreaat the time of the accident.

PGA attorneys file petition opposingapplication of Perfumers' Guild ofAmerica for trademark covering initials"PGA." • . . Good story on Mildred Did-rikson Zaharias in Feb. 2 Time magazineand most of it facts ... Babe's recoveringslowly from her serious operation lastsummer but now that she knows she has

Its an tlm6rella/MAX FAULKN£R(British Open GolfChampion) says:••••• undoubtedly oneof the most sensibleItems of golfing equip-ment I have ever seen"

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At last, a walking stick, a comfortable transportableseat, and a full-sized umbrella all in one. Many stylesavailable with gay colored panels; plain green,maroon or black, or Tartan covering. Luxury modelswith leather sling seat.

"FEATHERWATE" SEAT-STICKSSeveral styles with all-metal or leatherseats in various colors or Tartandesign. Made in rustless lightweightalloys. There is a "Featherwate" forevery member of the family-includ-ing junior!

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to take her convalescence in easy stagesgetting back on her game.

Cornell Turf Conference, Feb. 24-26,on Cornell campus at Ithaca, N.Y., withJohn Cornman having valuable programthat can be applied on the jobs at golfcourses. . . Metropolitan Golf Assn. 38thMet Open Sept. 22-24, Rockville CC,.Rockville Center, L.I., N.Y.... WesternGolf Assn. "Caddie Shots" bulletin saysmany clubs improved caddie recreational,housing and working facilities in 1952...Among new caddie houses were those atSpokane (Wash.) CC, Exmoor CC, High-land Park, Ill., Mt. Lebanon CC, Conons-burg, Pa., and Mission Hills CC, KansasCity, Mo.

Greenkeeper Club of New England inits Newsletter thanks Joe Looney, Bos-ton Globe golf writer, for his glowingrecognition of the superintendents' per-formances on New England Courses . • •New England supts. are up against prob-lem of many different strains in their oldgreens .•. Greens at Brae Burn CC whereArthur Anderson is supt., are 50 yearsold. • • With many varieties of grass,"greens maintenance," says Anderson, "isabout like running a hotel with 1000

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Golfers everywhere are expressing much in-terest in these new clubs that are perfectfor bad lies. Carefully made to give plentyof distance, extra loft, and pin-point ac-curacy. Available immediately for only$15.00 retail.

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guests and everyone of them must bekept happy." .

Several Chicago district semi-privatecourse owners met recently at Sarasota,Fla., to discuss plans for this year'soperations ... Wall Street Journal quotesgolf goods makers at N.Y. Sports GoodsShow as saying golf is still going strongbut is being slowed by lack of courses. . .Phil Young, Acushnet ball pres., winter-ing at Coral Gables, Fla., and fully re-covered from illness. . . Phil's playing alot of golf, has changed from sailing topower-boating in his Sparrow and hasadded croquet as another sideline to hisgolf ga~e.

A. B. (MOnk) Keith, pro-mgr., HughesClub GC, 5334 Leeland ave., Houston 28,Tex., opening second 9 this month. • •Keith and few other members - all em-ployees of Hughes Industries, laid outcourse, supervised construction. • • Club-house and course 17 miles from Houston.• • Has 160 active on golf teams playingintra-company and other matches againstHouston area industrial teams. • • Keithwould be glad to compare notes withthose operating or planning golf facilitiesand programs for other companies. . •

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The Hughes club includes recreation fa-cilities for all members of employees'families. . • Hughes colored employeesalso- have fine club of which they're veryproud. • • No golf course yet at this club.

Nothing like a good healthy, innocenterror to prove that GOLFDOM is read byexperts ... A Milorganite ad in GOLF-DOM referred to Franklin Hills CC (De-troit dist.) in the copy and had, by mis-take, an illustration of the Los AngelesCC north course ... We heard about thatplenty, but pleasantly, for which we'rethankful.

Albert Allen, supt., Kernwood CC (Bos-ton dist.) on faculty at University ofMassachusetts Winter School of Green-keeping at Amherst. . . This pioneerschool started by ·Prof. Lawrence S.Dickinson has done more for golf coursemaintenance and supts. all over the nationthan ever has been generally recognized.• • Dick showed his fellow-workers howto make use of research and with a bunchof veterans in course maintenance madea tremendously valuable tie-up of class-room and field work on courses. . • Thein1luence of the Dickinson work hasreached far and continues to be one of

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GOLFO OMG 0 L FJOURNAL o F

MARCH • 1953

Greatest Educational ProgramPresented at 1953 GCSA Meet

By HERB GRAFFIS

The 24th turf conference and equipmentand supply exhibition presented by theGolf Course Superintendents' Assn. at At-lantic City, N.J., Feb. 8-13 was the mostvaluable gathering the association, re-search men and manufacturers have con-tributed to golf course operation. Morethan 850 were registered. Included werea number of green chairmen and otherclub officials, park officials and superin-tendents' wives.

The Golf Course Supts. Assn. of N.J.and the Philadelphia Assn. of Golf CourseSupts., did a perfect job as hosts to thenational meeting. A trip to the famed,unique Pine Valley course was a featureprior to opening of the formal sessions.Keynote of the conference was "Research-Development-Application," with a closetie-up presented in all addresses. Many ofthe addresses were given with coloredslides and such an excellent job was donein this respect the conference sessionswere virtually inspection and study visits :to dozens of courses in various parts ofthe U.S.

More than ever before the trend ofGCSA conventions toward making eachsuperintendent's attendance payoff at hishome course was in evidence. In theformal and informal discussions manythousands of dollars of savings and im-proved results of operations originated.It's now estimated that their clubs pay, asa logical item of the maintenance budget,the convention expenses of more than %,of the superintendents at these GCSAaffairs.

Leonard Strong, supt., Saucon ValleyCC, Bethlehem, Pa., was elected pres. to

March, 1953

succeed Malcolm E. McLaren, supt., Oak-wood Club, Cleveland, O. The 1954 GCSAconvention was set for the first week inJanuary at Miami, Fla.

Set Publicity PolicyThis year's GCSA convention addresses

will appear in this and following issuesof GOLFDOM. The association set apublicity policy to encourage all possiblehelpful understanding of the superinten-dents' work, application of research andits general rating high among profes-sional, technical and scientific groups.

Public relations of those in the businessphases of golf was the subject of livelyinformal discussion among superinten-dents and officials at the GCSA as aresult of the withdrawal of pros from theEI Paso (Tex.) Open. The withdrawingpros blamed conditions of the course andweather conditions. Par was broken bymany who stayed in the competition.Superintendents remarked that whenthings got tough they weren't able toquit work and pass the buck but had towork harder against odds and for a lotless money than there is in tournamentgolf. Club officials expressed the opinionthat it's becoming more difficult to getfirst class clubs to accept open tourna-ments or have star exhibition matches,due to criticism of players who don'thappen to score well.

Heavily outweighing tournament play-ers' unhappy comment on course condi-tion as a factor in the superintendents'progress is the public relations angle ofsuperintendents' talks before garden clubs,their authoritative and helpful articles onthe garden ana lawn sections of news-

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- Phofo by Fred Hess & Son

NEW OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS FOR GCSA FOR 1953Officers and Direct~rs of the Golf Course Superintendents Association for 1953 elected at AtlanticCity meeting, February 12, 1953 are: Front row (L to R): Dir. Willis H. Glover, Fairfax (Va.) CC;Pres. Leonard J. Strong, Saucon Valley CC, Bethlehem, Pa.; Vice-Pres. Norman C. Johnson, SanJose CC, Jacksonville, Fla.; Dir. William Beresford, Los Angeles (Calif.) CC. Back row, (L to R):Dir. Earl S. Bell, Armour Fields GC, Kansas City, Mo.; Dir. Colin Smith, Shaker Heights CC, Cleve-land, Ohio; Sec.-Treas. Agar M. Brown, St. Charles, III.; Dir. Andrew Bertoni, Meadowbrook CC,Northville, Mich. Dir. Robert Williams of Beverly CC, Chicago, III. was not present. Beresford andGlover are serving second year of their terms as directors; Brown continues in the appointive office.Past-Pres. Malcolm E. McLaren of the Oakwood Club, Cleveland, Ohio, was appointed to be an

ex-officio member of the Executive Committee.

papers and magazines and other assist-ance to the public in growing and main-taining grass approaching the golf coursestandard. This activity in public rela-tions is beginning to bring superinten-dents out of anonymity into local promi-nence as experts. The opening session ofthe conference was started by two supts.who have done excellent jobs in thisphase of the supts.' public relations..Frank Dinelli, supt., Northmoor CC (Chi--cago dist.) was chairman of the Wednes-day morning program and Pres. Mal Mc-Laren threw the educational sessions intogear with a brief address expressing con-fidence that the conference would pay togolfers and course operations vast divi-dends on the time and money devoted tothe convention.

New Jersey State senator Frank S.Farley welcomed the supts. as men whosecontrtbutions to the pleasure, material andesthetic values of the country extendedfar beyond their courses and the workfor which they were paid.

Applications of ResearchGilbert H. Ahlgren of Rutgers univer-

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research means to the superintendents,outlining research work of far reachingvalue in golf turf work and advising howto most effectively tie-in with this workfor specific and general value to thecourse and the superintendent.

Warm season grasses and the cool sea-son grasses were subjects of, respectively,Dr. Fred V. Grau who recently resignedas USGA Green Section director and H. B.Musser, Penn State College grass au-thority. Grau remarked that golf is awarm weather game mainly and urgedagainst making a fetish of color as a pri-mary specification of golf turf. He andMusser both referred frequently to theborder climes where a combination ofwarm and cool-weather grasses could bethe right answer. Musser mentioned thatdifferences in soils and management prac-tices might often be factors that ac-counted more than differences in grassesin determining playing qualities of turf,although the characteristics of the vari-ous grasses were fundamental in estab-lishing a sound turf program.

Slides of strong, practical educationalvalue illustrated the talks of both experts

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