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Nelson recommended a I1fz-inchpipe tothe sod cup at the center of the green.If varying patterns, such as higher con-centration at the perimeter is desired, hesaid, these are made possible by simpleadjustments in spring tensions and noz-zle sizes.

Kenline Named AssistantP. R. M,an by Foundation

John Kenline has been named staff as-sistant in charge of public relations forthe National Golf Foundation. His ap-pointment was made in February; ac-cording to Rex McMorris, executive vpof the Foundation.

Kenline edits a monthly news letter,writes press releases, maintains a libraryof planning information and is revisingFoundation publications. He formerly wasan assistant editor and ad copywriterwith Abbott Laboratories, Chicago, wherehe wrote direct mail and advertising copyfor that firm's international ad department.Before this he was employed by a Chi-cago advertising firm.

Kenline is a graduate of OccidentalCollege in Los Angeles where he was afour-letter winner in golf. He is a fre-quent competitor in amateur tournamentsheld ir t he Chicago area.

Litter Bags on Bag Carts

Courses in smaller communities arelooking better in the past few years

. because of housekeeping campaigns. Asidelight on cleanup appeared recentlyin Emil Roewert's "From Tee to Green"column in the Shenandoah (la.) Sentinel:

"Cecil Carlson of Essex was the donorof those litter-bags which were distri-buted last Sunday. While playing inthe husband-wife tournament we ac-tually had to hunt paper to pick up.The preceding foursome had really donea job of making use of their litter-bags.Hook one on your cart and it won'ttake much effort to keep your golf courselooking much better.

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Here's a top quality vertical cutting machine -the Henderson Contour Thin-Cut Model 18T-priced so low that it's within the budget of everygolf club.

It's both amazingly low in cost and inexpensiveto operate. It has become widely used by greens-keepers all over the country because it saves time,money, and back-breaking labor while keepinggree-is and tees in tip-top shape. You can paymuch more but you can't buy better. For thecomplete story, write ...

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Swinging Around Golf(Continued from page 28)

MGA ... Chicago Pist. GA has desig-nated Friday, April 6 as CDCA Day atthe Masters ... This will be the fourthyear the association has sponsored theChicago to August flight . . . JohnnyLinden, the onetime Yankee pitcher-outfielder, recently won a tournamentat Antelope Valley CC, Palmdale, Calif.,with a 74.

Oregon State University held a turfconference Feb. 6-7 in Corvallis ...Norman Goetze of the University staffwas in charge of arrangements ... Contro-versy over the public links qualifyingsetup, that had raged in Hawaii in re-cent months, was settled late in Januarywhen factions representing the USGApublic links committee and HawaiianPLGA got together ... William P. Bell,Pasadena architect, is designing 18 holesfor group that is putting in a course atSaticoy, Calif., and is well along with thePacific Palisades course in Hawaii thathe designed ... Canyon CC, Palm Springs,Calif., another course blueprinted by Bellwas officially opened on Jan. 1 ... Jack

Koennecker is pro at Canyon and JackQuigley is the club mgr. ... Jack Blakes-lee, veteran Wisconsin pro who reachedhis peak as a player 35 years ago, diedin Jan. in Sheboygan of a head injurysuffered in a fall ... Pat J. Markovich,pro-owner of Richmond (Calif.) GC, re-cently started his 24th year at that club.

Rolling Hills CC, Wilton, Conn., hasmore than $300,000 pledged by memberstoward the building of a new clubhouse, .. It should be ready by July 4 ...Building I8-hole course at Lake ToxawayEstate, between Brevard and Cashiers,N. C.... Course is located in a largerecreation area ... The 151-acre Deer-crest CC in Greenwich, Conn., has beenpurchased by Mal Deitch and Dr. JosephGoldstein for about $2 million . . . Theyplan to renovate and keep it in operation. . . The new PGA tournament rule thatpenalizes a player two strokes if he fallsa hole behind the group in front wasroundly criticized by Jerry Barber, whosays it strikes at the older players . . .Frank H. Wilson, former supt. at theCharles River CC, Newton,Mass., and aonetime U. S. Air Force agronomist, diedin Feb. in Framingham, Mass., where he

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was living in retirement.Walla Walla (Wash.) CC to stage a

Senior tourney June 7-9 ... Buck Whet-sell has moved from Westbriar CC to thenew Tantalon CC, near Washington, D.C., as supt. . . . Needles (Calif.) hassigned a contract with William Masonto' have first 9 of its muny courses start-ed . . . Montour CC, near Coraopolis,Pa., to add second 9 this spring . . .Simi Hills CC, planned for Santa Susana,Calif., to cost about $1.5 million . . .Jim Brandt, supt. of the Danville CC, isthe new pres. of the Illinois Turfgrass Fdn.. . . Bert Rost is vp, Ben Warren, sec.and Oscar Borgmeier, treas.

Guests at the Roney Plaza Hotel inMiami can step out of a terrace diningroom onto the first tee of the Hotel's Par3 . . . The nine greens are copies of fa-mous putting surfaces at courses through-out the world . . . Charles E. Croley ofthe USGA green section has been trans-ferred from the Southwestern to the East-ern office . . . Jim Kollett, formerly ofthe Eastern region, has resigned to takea supt's job at a Rhode Island course ...Officials of the Masters (which will beplayed Apr. 5-8) have enlarged the inter-

ior press quarters and added a large porchto the press building ... Four new smalltowers have been added for photograph-ers and a large field scoreboard is beingerected near the 16th green.

Bob Baldock, Fresno, Calif., expects tocomplete five courses this spring, two ofthem Par 3s, in the Fresno area . . . Healso has drawn up plans and expectsto complete 18-hole courses at thesespots this year: Tustin, EI Segundo, Oak-land, Concord and Twenty Nine Palms,all in Calif., and Boise, Ida. . . . Bobalso will build or rebuild courses in Ha-waii and the Philippines . . . The average72-hole score for all players who haveparticipated in the Tournament of Cham-pions since it was started nine years agois 28725 ... There have been 57,449shots taken by the competitors in thetourney's 9-year history . . . WestwoodGC, near Woodbury, N. ]., to be com-pleted by July . . . It's an t8-hole layoutthat Horace W. Smith designed for Wil-liam Raynor . . . Smith also is supervisingits construction.

Joe Brown, who did so well in the PGASenior tourney in Feb., went to Dunedinwith a citation as "Iowa's pro of 1961" in

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his pocket ... It was awarded by theIowa GA . . . Superintendent of the year(1961) is Norm Westfall of Wakonda inDes Moines . . . Brown is at the DesMoines G & CC ... Westfall's son andtwo of his sons-in-law are supts. Women'sSouthern GA will hold its 47th amateurtourney at the CC of Richmond, Va., May21-26 ... We may be wrong but it's ourimpression that far more pros than supts.write articles for their club magazines. . . Charles Whitaker of Diablo CC ispres. of the Northern Calif. GCSA for1962 ... Other officers are Paul Paulsen,San Francisco GC, vp, and Cliff A. Wag-oner, Del Rio G & CC, Modesto, sec.-treas.

Chicago area unit of the UVS SwingClub held its annual meeting recently inthe Ambassador Hotel . . . The Chicagogroup has 5,000 members and doesmuch to promote rehabilitation at VAHospitals, partly through golf . . . 1962Western Junior will be played at the Uni-versity of Minnesota GC, Minneapolis,Aug. 7-11 ... Phil Marston, who won itin 1961, won't be eligible to defend histitle . . . Northern California PGA medalchampionship is to be played Apr. 9 and

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the Open Championship will be startedfour days later ... Berry Haug is the newclub mgr. at Blue Hills CC in KansasCity . . . This club, incidentally, recent-ly decided to trade its present location foranother in the K.C. area ... Tom Sams

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is the new pres. of the KentuckianaCCSA; Bob Hinkle is vp; and CharleyCunningham, sec.-treas.... MorganBoggs bowed out of the latter job afterholding it for nine years.

Mrs. Mary Cromb, 85, died Feb. 15at Monifieth, Scotland, after a long ill-ness . . . She is survived by her daughterStella Cromb of Monifieth, and sons,Marty and Jimmy ... Marty is pro atToledo (0.) CC and former pres., PCASeniors, and Jimmy is pro at TarponSprings (Fla.) CC . . . They were at thePCA Seniors when informed of theirmother's death ... Marty flew to Scot-land . . . Their father was on the staffof the Dundee Advertiser and wrote golfnews for the World of CoIf, a Scotchmagazine of some years ago.

PGA members who have been com-plaining about being kept in the darkabout the deal for the PCA course, club-house and office building at West PalmBeach, Fla., are promised official infor-mation soon . . . Negotiations and plan-ning hadn't been completed at the timeof the PCA Seniors championship atDunedin but construction at West Palm

Beach of the two l8s; to plans of DickWilson was well on its way ... Courseswill be playable in December.

Reliable sources estimate that the PGAdeal at West Palm Beach is, on paper,about a $2,000,000 enterprise ... ThePCA is being given 400 acres includingthe two IS-hole courses completed . . .Courses are to cost about $300,000 eachand the raw ground about $3,500 an acre... Clubhouse and office building is ex-pected to cost $750,000 . . . Financingmethods are yet to be determined . . .The $10 the PCA charges members an-nually for support of the PCA course andthe assessment the PCA has been addingto dues are sure to be continued . . .What PCA members would like to seeis a budget for the proposed operationat West Palm Beach on the order of thebudgets of expected income and proposedoperating expenses that are customary atwell managed private clubs.

PGA problem of informing membersis part of the organization's growing pains. . . USCA is far ahead of the PCA intelling its members what is going on . . .USCA annual executive committee re-

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