Plans omnnuaIG--

Plan for th 20th annual conference andequipment e hibition of the GreenkeepingSuperintendent ' SfI, hav e been, irtuall .completed b the program committee,h .adcd b Ra Gerber, GI n Oak , GlenEll -n, Ill., and theho\\ committee withFrank srrncr, 7506 Jame on road, Parma9, Ohio, as it chairman. I'he committee,appointed b Pre. Che ter Mendenhall,ha e been working losel with the outh-ern alifornia upt. organization in a-signinu topic to authoritie who'll addrethe four educational e sion and in ar-ranging the e hibit of equipment andsupp'lic to be presented at Memorial eli-scum, Lo ng .les, Feb. ,9, 10, II.

Ale andria Hotel, Lo ngele , will beofficial headquarter hotel. onventionvi itor are urged to mak re ervationearl.

it r the uual offi ialmali tie the educationalunder way \ ith a talk b Herb GraHi ,GOUDO'f editor, on "What' head forthe oli Busines ." Th greenkeeper ap-pear to b willing to take a hance with

raffis' Iorcca tina mu h a in March,] 948, in hi olumn in the hicago un-Tim' he fore a t the ele tion of HarrTruman. Joe ovak, pre. PG of merica and pro at Bel ir (L \ di t.) willpeak on "The Golf our e \Ve Like to

Play," pre enting the m mbers' and 'pro 'view.

\Vm. H. John on, supt. of Lo ngelepublic courses, and the h ad of th emplo c' rc reaiion program at on of thelarge Los \ngelc area airplane plantwi11 present practical information on handling "Coll in the Publi Rc rcation Pro-gram."

peaker are to b a igned to a m-posium on mailer course maintenance andto "Practical Psvc hology in Golf 'oureManagem nt."

Fred V. rau, dire tor,Section, will talk on "Thing to Com inTurf Management." Vern toutem y r of

CL \ will have as hi subj ct "Rc archand. :;'tension Turf Project on a RegionalBa ) .

olin . imp on, green chmn., Lo An-

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g le ,Ito peak on "Hov th Gre n-chairman and Creenkeeper Can be a Bet-t r Team." imp on ha worked \ r cIo ewith gre nkeeper in gettino the outhern

alifornia turf re earch program underwa and ha a good under tanding of thegreenke per' problem.

"Gro ming the our e for hampion-hip Pia" will be covered b reenkeep-

er at course where 194 national cham-pion hip were held a the final ubje ton the \Vedne da program.

Thur da morning e ion will openwith an addr on aline and alkali oilpropertie and management; a ubje t ofgreat imp rtan e in numerou we ternarea . ew development in in c ticideand new development in we d controlwill occup the re t of the Thur da ' morn-ing prouram.

William P. Bell will lead the Thur daafternoon pro(rram, talkinz on" he re n-k eper- rchite t Relation hip in our

r hitecture." H. .\. hoth i heduledto talk on varieties, train and methodin "ra eed Production on the \V tCoa t." Other authoritie will di cu otherpha e of \ et coa t gra e d.

There'll be a e ion on "R novation ofTurf" in whi h qualifi d m n will con-id r the reno" ating job with northern andouthern gra es.

G. . Mott of Purdu univ r ity willtalk on "The Probl m of oil ompa tion,

eration and Drainaze."

Gr nk eper to PIa 00

sorrauon com mitt •(Potlikker) im, MeadowlarkI, H 440, Huntington Bah, alif.

im a k that all grc nk eper intend-ing to play in the event advi e him a soon

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These great stars along with othermembers of the MacGregor Pro Advisory and

Technical Staff-Toney Penna, Craig Woocterman Barron, George Fazio, George Schoux - pia

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players using MacGregor clubs-proof that this great equipment exc Isin action I Year after year, more tournaments, both local and national,have been won by players using MacGregor golf equipment than by allother makes combined. Take a tip from the wi(1ners, buy MacGregor,

lay MacGregor and you"" .know why there is no greater name in

as possible and let him know their names,nicknames, clubs, addresses and handicapsand whether they'll bring club or willwant to borrow clubs.

Southern California Golf Course Supts.Assn., meeting at Bel-Air CC, Dec. 13, com-pleted their part of arrangments for t?enational conference. Conference tOpICSof special interest to Pacific Coast, south-western and other areas west of the Missis-Mississippi were inserted in a well-balancedprogram of national interest. .

Also added to the program was an 111-

spection of the recently established TurfExperiment station on the VCLA campusat Los Angeles. This tour will be con-ducted by Dr. V. T. Stouterneyer, head ofVCL Ornamental Horticulture dept. Aparticularly interesting feature of the plotsis that of simulating growing conditionsencountered in 24 different areas of theV. S.

Detroit Managers CompletePlans for CMAA Convention

The 21st annual convention of the ClubManagers Assn. of America will be heldat Hotel Statler, Detroit, Feb. 6 throughFeb, 9. The convention is expected toattract a record attendance of members,wives and guests. Sufficient rooms for allattending have been promised by the Stat-ler but all are urged to make hotel reserva-tions at once.

The convention will be officially openedat 10 a. m. in the ballroom of the HotelStatler for both men and women. A spe-cial feature has been promised for theopening ceremony. A cocktail party Satur-day evening has been arranged for thosewho arrive early and another Sunday eve-ning following registration.

Monday afternoon the members will as-semble for a special educational sessionfollowed in the evening by an informalparty, dinner and entertainment at theDetroit Yacht Club. Morning will be leftopen for committee meetings and informaldiscussions. Tue day afternoon roundtablediscu sion have been scheduled with sep-arate se ion for town club managers andcountry club manager.

The 10 ing convention session will startat 12:30 Wedne day with short educa-tional talk followed by convention busi-ne s and election of officer. The formalconvention banquet will be held in the

tatler ballroom Wedne day evening pre-ceded by a cocktail party and "pre ident'sreception."

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John J. Pomeroy, manager, Red RUll GCis president of the CMAA and workingwith him on the convention program andarrangement are Robert H. homp on,Detroit GC, convention chairman and Ed-ward M. Grenard, Vniver ity Club of De-troit, convention ecretary and trea urer.

Texas and Oklahoma to HoldJoint Turf Conference

More than 200 are expected to attendthe joint Oklahoma- exa Turf onfer-cnce to be held in Dallas, e..'a , ebruary2, 3. A full morning program i cheduledfor each day with field trip to golf cour -es, athletic field, and parks in the after-noon. Greenkeeper and profes ional atLakewood ,Dalla CC, and Brook Hol-low GC will lead on the pot di cu sion ofmaintenance practice carried on at theirrespective clubs.

Officer of the Texa G ha e joinedwith the Oklahoma and Texas group topresent an educational and entertainingtwo-day meeting. peaker and di u ionleaders and their ubjects for the generalmorning session at the Baker Hotel in-clude Dr. Thoma C. Longnecker, e. aResearch Foundation-Ba ic Prin iple ofBent Gra s Management; Robert C. Dun-ning, Tulsa, Okla.- pecial Problem ofMaintaining Bent Gra s Greens in HotHumid Weather; Dr. O. J. ocr, Milwau-kee, Wis.-Modern Equipment for TurfMaintenance; Alex Repin, Oklahoma-Fertilizing and Topdre ing Bent Green;Grccnkeeper and Profesional Relation-ship by Joe Dahlman, Okla. PG -\; andI;red V. Grau, Dir., U GA Green ection-What's ew In Turf.

Dr. Glen W. Burton, U. . Dept. ofAgri., Tifton, Ga., will di cus BreedingBermuda Grass and Other outhern Gra -es, on the Thur day morning program;Prof. H. F. 1\1urphy will report on theTurf Research work at the Okla. gri.Exp. tation and a pecial feature will bea roundtable dicu ion on soil terilizationand control of bermuda grass in which thefollowing will participate: Gordon Jone ,CAA, Bob Ervine, Oaks CC, Tulsa, Okla.,and John Price, outhern Hill C ,Tul a.

Architects To Meet

American ociety of Golf Course Archi-tects will hold it annual meeting at HotelBellevue, Bellaire, Fla., Jan. ]2-15. D tailof eligibility may be secured from the a 0-ciation's sec., Robert Trent Jone , 20 VeseySt., ew York.

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PGA Elects ovak Chiefat Annual Meeting

Joe [ovak, Bel-Air ee, Lo Angeles,became first Pacific Coa t profes ional tobecome pre., PG when he wa electedat the a ociatiori's annual meeting at Dun-edin (Fla.) PG Gc. [ovak defeated Hor-ton Smith who was presented a a candidateby the Michigan section. Marty Lyons ofPhiladelphia wa elected sec., and Wm.Wotherspoon, 'Tulsa, was re-elected treas.

Political tension was eased as the evenyear reign of Ed Dudley came to an end.Dudley was made captain of the 1949Ryder Cup team and joined Tom Walsh asan honorary president of the PGA. [ovak,formerly PG \ sec. and long active in dis-tric t and national PGA work, had beenboomed a successor to Dudley from almostthe time of Dudley's election in 1947.Smith was a late arrival, being proposedby \J ichigan and other sections late lastsummer. Contrary to his wishes Smithwas also presented as a candidate for thesecretary post.

~o action was taken on limiting pre i-dential term of office although the matterhas been discussed frequently in sections.Objections to the long term in the unpaidoffice is based on risk of officials becomingtoo much interested in political machineoperation and temptation for the boys tofall in love with how-boating as the pros'top man.

Resolution adopted at Dunedin in ludedadmitting to member hip, pros with 5 yearsexperieru > as pla ing pros in PG \ co-ponsorcd tournaments, and admission of

all PG \ member: and m mbers of theAdvisory committee to annual meetings.

'I he latter resolution raised the publicityIron Curtain whi h ha n't done the associa-tion any good in its press relations or acquainted all members sat.isf'actorily with organilation operations. pc.. \'s apable anddiscreet paid e xutivc secretar points outthat member critic ism of PC \ Iinan ialstatement being "top s .crct" data i un-founded ina mu h a delegate to the an-nual m 'cling are given opie of th annualI'inan ial tatem nt and an pass thi rna-tcrial along to memb r .

noth r r luti n op ned the way for

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pros in all [orth, entral and South mer-ican countrie to <ompetc in PG ofAmerican co-sponsored tournament a, "un-affiliated" member.

The IT G -\ a the rul -making bod) of\mcrican golf wa recogniiz d in a P

resolution which codified a tion takenafter the blow-up on rul infra tion la twinter.

George Schneiter, tournament chmn., re-ported the tournament committe' wa inthe black for th first time in it histoi .Minimum pur e for PG· -\ co-sponsoredtournaments was raised for 1949 fromS 10,000 to , 15,000.

I 'he session on pro bu inc s g 1\' thePC'-\. meeting audience their first look atthe ational Golf Foundation's new colorsound-slide film on golf instru tion forschools and college, and th movie' of the1918 Masters and Goodall tournaments. \couple of prints of the Master film arcavailable for showing by PG -\ pro.

t the clinic Fred V. Grau of th G \Green section spoke on th relationshipbetween golf turf and hot requirements.Stanley Clark, j IacGregor redit manager,spok on "Your Friend th Credit Man,"emphasizing th importanc of inventorycontrol, carefully studied bu ing and takingthe 2% cash discount.

L e Harrington of Wil on ga\e an e -ccllcnt talk on the pro's business responsi-bilities to his member. Harrington a-ccntcd giving the members a better breakthan they arc inclined to e. P t and notto think that many member don't talkabout it wh n they think the pro i a hittoo "hungry" for his own good.

.. C. (Chick) 11 n gav' an interesting.md informative tati ti al talk that gavthe pros an a urate broad vi w of theirbusiness. TIe advocated developm nt ofthe promotion-minded attitude of pro andparticularly urged dcvelopm nt of indu .trial golf.

Joe [ovak told of hi. onduct of golfclasses at U L . H told of gi ing thstud nts ba i in truction for cveral I .son b fore th y got lubs in th ir hand ..Hi, policy in thi detail onfirm th in.

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Hillsides, slopes, uneven ground - the Fairway mowerhandles them easily. This 7-gang unit is working with therugged, powerful Worthington Chief tractor, developedespecially for fast, efficient hauling of gang mower units.

H AI WWHEN IT'S WORTHINGTON-MOWED

Th Worthington Fairway gang mowercut fairway -and co t -in big wath-doe an out tanding job on both. AWorthington multi-gang unit hitched totruck or tractor cuts as much as 88 acresper day. uch high speed mowing meansbig labor-cost savings e pecially over aperiod of time.

Worthington Fairway mower are avail-able in 3 5 and 7-gang size . W orthing-ton convertible frame feature permitsquick, ea y changeover from a 7-gang toa 5-gang or 3-gang mower in a few min-ute without tools.

Cutting unit are 0 joined that each oneconform to urface irregularitie. Ofspecial importance i the orthingtonpatented pring. It holds the roller downto the ground - eliminate the bobbingor jumping that cau e une en cuttingduring fa t mowing. Thi mean amoother cut plus reduced wear a thepring give a yielding pres ur , not a

dead weight pre ure.

Your Worthington dealer will be gladto give you complete detail on the ap-plication of Worthington equipment tomowing problem on your cour e. eehim or write u direct.

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troductory section of the. N~tional GolfFoundation's school golf slidefilm.

Lloyd Mangrum demonstrated his techni-que and said he'd fitted the methods ofmasters in their various departments ofthe game. Mangrum and Toney Pennagave an outdoor demonstration of thetournament swing clinic routine, with Hor-ton Smith at the mike.

Ben Hogan was presented with the PGA"Golfer of the Year" plaque at the annualpresidents' dinner at which Scotty Fes-senden presided as toa~tmaster. Ben ~ave afine talk on his expenences as caddie andplaying pro.

The PGA con idered, but didn't act on,the Golf Writers' Association request thata Hagen trophy instead of the Vardonaward be made for the PGA of Americaplayer having the year's lowest tournamentscoring average.

Delegates enjoyed the PGA Nationalcourse and were impressed by the job AlexCunningham has done in bringing t~atplant into fine shape. Cost of h<;>ldmgthe meeting at Dunedin was approxrmate-ly 5,000 more than cost of holding theconclave as usual in central location. Inview of PGA financial problems, includin~that of the a ociation's course, canny bUSI-nessmen among the delegates doubted thatthe association again should pay ex-pen es of an annual meeting away froma central point.

Pro Was a Pal toThese Members

Jack Wilson, pro at Salina (~s.) ~Cfor 19 years died last fall after a lingeringillness in a Salina hospital. J a~k ~asdenied visitors while he was hospitalizedand his members hired radio time to tellhim how they were getting along at theclub, along with other unusually thought-ful performances to cheer him.

When it became known that Wilson'sillness might be of long duration the clubvoted him salary for life. Members alsoorganized a party at which 5000 wasraised to enable Jack to meet expenses ofhis illness. When Jack died, his wife Alma,who had handled his job while he was mthe army, was paid his salary unt.il )an. 1,1949 and given a life membership in theclub.

Jack was a grand, faithful and competentfellow of the sort that pros can be proudof as representative of their profession.lX

American Golf's HistoryWell Told in New Book

The Story of American Golf - ItsChampions and Championship, by Her-bert Warren Wind; 15; 490 pages; pub-lished by Farrar, traus & Co., 53 E. 54tht., New York.Wind's done an excellent job of research

in getting together the story of majorchampionships of American golf and cham-pionship play of American amateur andpro stars in Britain. In a few in tances hehas recorded entertaining old lies thateven those who know better now, believe,because they make such lively tale, andconsidering the poring over old new paperpieces and the interviewing that must havebeen done over bottles when fellows werein a relaxed reminiscing mood, Wind hasachieved as nearly an accurate, full hi toryof American golf championship highlightsas ever will be written.

It's a good job of sprightly writing andis bound to stir up among the elder ofthe congregation a lot of thrilling memo-ries.

Wind divides his book into five parts;the first mainly on the Apple Tree gangand other pioneers, especially the ruggedCharley MacDonald, then o? ~alterTravis, Jerry Travers and FranCISOuimet,The second part deals with Chick Evans,Hagen and their contemporaries and theJones break-through. The third part dealswith the men and women who accountedfor the headlines and development of thegame during the reign of The Emperor.The fourth part featured the arazen re-vival, the great performance of LawsonLittle, Harry Cooper's career as a ationalOpen bridesmaid without bec.oming abride, and the dawn of the big moneytournament era with Bob Harlow takingthe show on the road .

The fifth part handles the war andpost-war period and summarizes the Nelsonand Babe Zaharias conque ts.

The book is very good 15 worth of thestories of the backgrounds and competitiveactivities of the amateurs and pros whomade golf this nation's most popular paT-ticipants' outdoor game.

Rhode Island Agricultural ExperimentStation, Kingston, R. I. summarizes devel-opment of fungicides for turf diseases in1948 in recently released 9-page bulletinby John B. Rowell.

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•-c almall Town CoursBy JOHN P. MINCHEN

The ear 1948 saw Carroll (Ia.) CC cele-brate it 25th anniver ary at its fir t partof the year. here were about 200 pre entwith the entertainment and remini cingprogram you'd expect at uch an affair.The Carroll imes Herald wrote of thebirthday celebration in one of tho e friend-ly detailed torie that makes anybody who'sconnected with the club feel a sen e of per-onal gratification at the way the club ha

com along.I read my name in the tory and bowed

to my elf. Ray Moehn, one of the direc-tors, aid in hi speech, "We don't knowof anyone who ha done more for the clubthan John Minchen. John laid out thecourse on a map and saw that it was putin. He ha had a lot to do and is stilldoing a lot for the club." That i nothinglike the flower tossed in a political nom-inating speech but any fellow who has beena green chairman of a smaller town cluband nursed it up from cow-pasturehood tob come an as et in which the communitycan take pride and can enjoy, will under-stand why I bought e tra copie of thepaper to read and delight in the noveltyof a green chairman being given kindwords in public.

It could be that you are on a green com-

mittee of a lub in a nice little town filled\ ith plea ant p ople and that ou too havthe whimsical ambition to have om bodxa .omething nice about .ou and 'ou~

work at the club, after you've been around25 year working for nothing.

You have et a difficult goal for your-elf. Your friend, the member of the

club, onl want from you a cour e that ian archite tural gem like Oakmont or Cy-pre s Point with uch improvement in de-ign a will permit them to core well at

all time. The condition of the our e -green, fairwa and tee - mu t be agood or better than the be t maintainedcour es in Moine, Chicago, ew Yorkand Lo ngele. If you can figure out asub titute for money and can carry outthese improvements without objections bymember who want several of the featuresof the old cour e retained, you have atouch of geniu that I don't have.

ow to Keep Friends11I can tell you i how to get by, ha -

ing the cour e get a little better ear byyear, and keeping your friend.

Fir t you have to love golf. Then youhave to be lu ky in getting the right peopleto advi e you and work with you. Then,to really get action, and have an idea that

This view of the Carroll (Iowa) CC No. 1 tee shows arrangement of hedge Green chmn. Minchenhas used to add to the beauty of the landscape and at the same time prevent the loss of too many

balls that might otherwise land in the bQrderine roadway as a result of the well-known slice.

Expert advice coupled with enduring patience has helped Minchen bring to the Carroll course firstclass bent greens designed to fit into the natural contour of the land. This is No. 8 green showing

trees and shelter in the background that give individuality to an otherwise monotonout terrain.

you know mu t be put across, let some-body el .e, or numerous other, take thecredit. Being somewhat stubborn and cal-loused won't hurt you any if you aregoing to be on a green committee 25 years.

When golf was introduced to Carrollabout I 99, Hi Jeffrey of Hibbard, Spen-cer, Bartlett Co. and Preston Beale of theStandard Oil Co. brought the game outfrom Chicago. There were just two holeson the first cour e. Later Jack Hawkin ,our first pro and greenkeeper, laid out anine hole cour .e, and taught tanton her-man, son of the sponsor of our presentcour c, and some of the rest of us veteran .

Looking toward the clubhouse from No. 9fairway, open door at the entrance to the PineRoom on the ground level serves as standing

invitation for a pause between rounds.

Our fir .t club died after World War Iwhen the passing of George r. tanton,the driving force of the old Carroll GC,left the enterprise without a lead r withfervent enthusiasm. Unl ss the small townclub ha at lea t one fellow of that sortit'll never get anywhere.

When golf wa revived in1923 I was the fellow who wa up po cdto layout nine holes on a 40 a re quaretract. It an't be done. I have en cv-eral intere ling nine hole layout on 20s,end to end, but never on a square 40.

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One fault of our cour e a it wa original-ly laid-out wa that it ran counter- lock-wi e. With mo t golfer being addi ted toa slice the out-of-bounds on the right i,going to cau e a lot of complaint and di -couragement and lost ball. 'I hi mighthave been prevented if at the start th clubhad been willing to pay 50 to CharleJohnson, then the pro at the Omaha ,to give it a rough layout and orne go dba ic advice. But, a in 0 many oth rcases, the club allowed a well-meaning andincompetent fellow to give it for nothinga layout that had to be corrected mer yearwhenever w could argue out a 100 e dollar.

More Ground; B tter our

An important tep in the rc ision of ourcourse came when we finally u c ed d inprying a little pie e from Jim Wi landwhose farm adjoin. the course on the outh.I wa viiting with Jim at hi hous on ~day and pointed to a worn-out la hillabout a half mile away and alongsid ourcourse.

"Jim," I said, "theight of that knobof clay staring a buyer in the face utabout . 25 an acre from the alue of ourwhole farm. I think I can get the lubto pay you about '250 an acre for thatpiece, and that' 50 an acre mor thanyour farm is worth."

"Damn il I don't think you'r right,"Jim allowed and the up hot of that talk,followed by 'om se ion on the lub-house porch with Jim and me wahingthe dust out of our throats with a f wbeers, was that we added 21'2 acr . Thknob gave u pa e for two tee for our

o. 4 short hole which was taken ov rfrom the original 40 acres, a big doublegreen in the vall 'y and an area wher wecould get me good black loam for t P:dre ing. Furthermore, it allov ed u towitch our layout 0 play r weren't kno k-

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