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1 PGA championship at Miami Valley GC, Dayton, O., was

<t great improvement over pre-vious year's event anti has re-vived interest in the tourna-ment as a major competition

. . , , PGA learned the value ol constructive criticism . . . Hot, ,ltuinid spcil undoubtedly tut down gallery Inn the gate

.seemed adequate to cover PGA guarantee and leave some pro-fit,

PGA championship coining each year iu July is at a lime tha t may be tough on courses but S u p t A. J . Reynolds had

4 1 iami Valley iu line condition . . , Greens were cut under orders to make them

- l ightning fast but these instructions were issued a bit too close to time of the tour-nament , . , However, a little dye touched u p the color and there were no complaints

[-about uniformity and trueness of the greens,

Miami Valley Pres. B. E. Zehner. pro Gene Marcbi. Mgr. Wendell Glawson and

General Chmn. Lester T , Miller of the tournament committee and the (luh mem-

""hers can be proud that (here hasn't been a PGA tournament in years handled any

' belter than the 1 9r>7 event. , Dow Finsterwald, f rom nearby Athens,

practically a neighborhood boy, being ^unncr -up to Lionel I Ichert, helped the gate plenty . . . Snead is still tltc No. I gallery favorite but the junior leaguers are beginning to move up fast . . . A fine looking bunch ol young men with char-acters and personalities to match.

PGA has several tentative bids for the

I95H championship . . . Oilier things being equal it should place ihe championship with the club having the best play-ground facilities for young-sters and the most and best l>a by-sit ters . . . There was an army of pros' youngsters at Miami Vallev and a perfectly behaved bunch of kids they were . . . The young pros' wives are stars in handling children 011 road trips . . . Mrs.

Bill Nary has gone to her parents' home in L'tah lo greet the stork while Bill stays on the tour.

Ryder C u p matches in I959 will be at Atlantic City (N.J.) CC where Leo Fraser, one of the most successful jiro business-men, is pres. . . . Harry Schwab, pro at Dayton's Community course, and bis son Pat, lortncr eollcgiaic golf star who now is on the p ro circuit, differed iu their picks to win the PGA . . . Harry favored T e d Kroll and Pat thought the best bets were Chick Harber t or Jay Heljcr t . , . Lionel and j ay Hebcrt and Ben and Bob Toski were the tournament 's brother acts . . . Eight of the t>4 who were in match play in the 1945 PGA at Moraine, Dayton, were in the 128-man field at Miami Val-ley: Clarcnce Doscr, Claude Harmon . Augi Nordone, Vi< G h e n t , Denny Shtite, T e r l Johnson. Jim Tu n ie sa and Verl Stinch-comb.

The third at Miami Valley is 598 yds; a par 5 that made the boys grunt , . . .Miami Valley for ihe PGA was S!iOO yds. par 3ti nut and 3273 yds. par 35 in. . , . Bill Parker of Dayton News compiled a

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best and worst hall rard for the first day of 1'GA play . . . Against the 71 par, best hall was 55 arid thr worst was !t7.

National [unior Chamber of Commerce magazine, Future, lor July had story on muny course laycees arc building at Chilli-tot lie, O., where city sold former muny course property for factory site about 20 years ago . . , Property for the new course was donated by Miss Mary Town-send who has, been helping the Jaycees with their office work fur 21 yean.

Guido Clerico, prominent in club management as mgr. ol Cherry Hills in Denver and Sequoyah and (lastlrwood dubs in California, has come hack into the field to manage the Glendale CC, Seattle, Wash. . , . He "retired" about 4 years ago but couldn't stand taking it easy. . . Maj. Nevln H, Gibson (USAF Ret.) is writing an Encyclopcdia of Golf to be published by A. S. Harnes 8c Go. . . . He would ap-preciate historical material from veteran pros and amateurs . , . His address is 201 Miles Drive, Forest Heights, Washington 21, D. C.

Alameda (Calif.) second 18 public course opened to public July 1 . . . Decatur, III., park board figuring on city's third munic-ipal course . . . Roy B. Guilder son, county ,

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park supt. expects to have Seattle's Liberty Lake course in play by July, 1958 , , , Adm. J. E. Arnold, pres., Indian Lake (Fla.) Club expects to have Indian Lake 18 bole course and 9-hole par 3 course in play this winter . . . Bill Campbell is Indian Lake pro.

Twilight leagues ol industrial golfers having biggest year . . . Cedar Lake (Ind.) CC, owned by Phil Wince, opens it* 9-hole course . . , Nevele CC. EMenville, N. Y„ building course on what was a runt moun-tain before grading.

Course of Santiam GC, Slay ton, Ore., built chiefly by members' lalror antl loaned equipment, to be seeded in Sept. . . . Bill Tinder from Miami Springs (Fla.) CC to be pro-mgr,, Biltmore CC which city of Coral Gables, Fla., has leased from Vet-erans' Administration . , . Mark Mah&nnah, supt, of Riviera GC and construction and maintenance supt. of several other Florida courses, has planned remodeling of Bilt-more which will be done with John O'-Rourke, Biltmore supt., in charge , . , Vinee Allen returns to Miami Springs (Fla.) CC as pro.

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club will have it* 18 in play this tall . . . Club e&]>ects to have young circuit pro on MacDowcll's staff about 5 months ol year . . . Cal ling Open will Ire played at Chero-kee in Oct., 1958 . . . Corwin W. Gel wick now mgr., CC of Ashcville, N. C.

Hob Cambell heads g roup planning course for M u h a n e . ks. . . . John Cher-nega opens his new semi-private coursc, Rolling Fields, in Pittsburgh. Pa., dist. . . . Ilarker 's Hollow GC. Harmony, Pa., opens new pool . , , Rill Wallace, ,Miami News golf writer, who savs he has been covering golf fiO years, 30 of them in Miami, wrote recently that lie's never before listened to as much praise of golf coursc condition as Southern Amateur championship con-testants voiced about LaGorce CC, Miami Beach, where Earnest Felton is supt.

Ed Ready, New York Cily I'ark Dept. director nf golf and special projci I* expect* In have lirsi 9 of .Marine Park eventual 27-hole course ready in I9G2 . . . Marine I'ark is gigantic reclamation job on what once was tidal marshland . . . Garbage, refuse, sand are making the ground,

New 18 at T u x e d o I'ark, N. V. opened . . . Course to plan of Robert T r e n t Jones replaces one of the earliest of If. S. courses

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, . . Harbor Hills CC, 18-hole course of Housing Associates at Port Jefferson, L, I,, N. Y„ opened . , . Whitford CC. near Dowingiown, (Philadelphia suburb) opens . . . Al Nelson is pro.

Marty Lyons, pro at Llanerch CC (Philadelphia (list.) where IW>K PGA cham-pionship will be held, was at Miami Valley CC with officials of his club getiing ideas tin how to present the best championship the PGA has had when the event goes lo the Philadelphia district for the first time.

New York State Turf Assn. devotes en-tire four-page summer bulletin to compre-hensive roundup of information on insect control . , . Start work on filth public links to be operated hy Los Angeles County Park & Recreation dept. at Whittier Nar-rows . , , Will be completed by July 1, 1938 . . . Bill Bell is the architect . . . Digest of Convention Locations, published by Robert F. Warner, Inc., 17 E. 45th st.. New York 17. gives thorough description of manv fine meeting spots between Connecticut and California . . . In its recent bulletin, West-ern Golf Assn. saluted Aud Whitmore, supt. at Plum Hollow GC, Detroit, for the wonderful condition of his course for re-cent Western Open.

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Proceeding with construction of new course at Flagstaff, Ariz. . . Building some new greens and lees and enlarging club-bouse ol Sundown CC, Phoenix . . , Con-struction of new Century CC 18 at Phoenix going along well wiih pipe already in and seeding scheduled soon . . . Al May Is supt. , , , Century will stall on clubhouse iu lale summer . . . Clubhouse, pro shop, pool, guest cabins, will cover -tt acres . . . May says course and ilubboiise will make the plant the finesi in the southwest.

Warren Orlick, pro at Tam o' Shantcr Ct^. Orchard Lake, Midi. , who is the rules ol golf guy on the PGA Tournament com-mittee, can be given top credit for the great Improvement in knowledge and ob-servance of rules of golf at the PGA ihampionship . . . Orlick works very closely wiih USGA Rules of Golf committee , . . in (dentally a decision by the l ' S G \ com

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[antes G. Harrison, architect of Elidden Valley C C 18 at Pottsville, Pa., greatly pleased by authorities saying this course already looks like it wuld be one of the very best in the state - . , Harrison also recently designed Tannehau f GC, Alliance. O,, Kenneth Snode, pres.; second 9 Tor Beaver Valley CC, Reaver, Pa.; Cedar knol l GC. Ashland, Ky., it-hole course and is re-modell ing St. Clair CC 18 at Pittsburgh, Pa,

Sparta, Wis., muny course to have new clubhouse . . . Oldest major junior tourna-ment is the ,31st annua l junior of the Wom-en's Western Golf Assn. which was played at Harrington Hills CC, Barrington, III., July 29-Aug. 2 . . . T h e WWGA Junior was discontinued iti Kill because of World War II and renewed in 1919 by work ol Patty Berg.

In beating John Burton of Hillside CC, F.uglaud. al Pollak GC. Glasgow, H and (> lor lhe world senior PGA title, 58-year-old Al Watrous played 311 holes in .3 under -Is . . . In the second round of the PC A cham-pionship at Miami Valley. Al met young Sam Snead who is 43 . . . Al said he was playing "to get exjrerience." . . . H e got

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Earl North lo operate Columbus {Ks.) CC , . . More pros at clubs and driving ranges are building golf with free class lessons (his year than ever before . . • Bmk White to lie asst. to Gary Midi I lei oil at ihe new Diplomat hotel course al Ft. Lauderdale, Fla. , , . Hex: got a good man in Buck who has a lot of club pro teaching anil shop opei.iling experience . . . Downs, ks„ has new 9-hole sand green course.

Win a mac, Ind., golfers talking about bui lding course . . . Split in Olympic Club, San Francisco country d u b membership about replacing Johnny Bait in i. 15 years the club's pro. with "name" pro hits the newspapers . . . Gaston CC, Gastonia, N, C.. sells 9-hole course for 5220.(1(10 and starts bui lding of 18-hole course and new dub-house on new- site. . , . I'orkv Oliver re-signs as pro at Blue Mill CC. Canton, Mass., where I 956 PGA championship was played.

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July meeting of .Northeastern GC-SA al K mad meadows Farm where Kottert U. Allen is only grower of registered or certified grass seed in that section of the touiitry . . , l)r. fieri Musser who deicloped at Penn Stale strains grown al llrnadniraclnws was fralure speaker , . . New England GCSA hj( l re pre sen ta tires a t tending . . . Ro^al Canadian l .nll Assn. publishes ils annual review of golf in Canada with C. E. (Robbie) Robinson, sec. of the RCCA getting not an annual that's even better than lhe usual high standard.

Women's Western Golf Assn 1958 Ojten will he played at Kahkwa Club. Erie, Pa.. June 19-22 . , . WWCA 1938 Amateur will be at Oak Park (III.) CC, July 14-19 . . WWCA 1959 Open to be al Rainier G8cCC. Seattle. Wash., in September ami WWCA Amateur ar Fsmoor CC, Highland Park, III., in July.

Maiional t»|iru entries this year yere 1/JI0 , . , 19 were exempt from sectional qualifying , . . Biggest year was HIM with 1 e n t r i e s . . . lliMTih.it, est el lent bouse organ for em-ployees of T h e (.reenhrier, While Sulphur Springs, W. Vs., devnlcd most of June issue tu Sam Snead l est is al . . . One feature was picture of course maintenance slaff undei Supt. Walter Cosby ami mil line nl condition-ing program lhe 22-matt team began two weeks prior tn thr Snead tournament .

Gary Mitldlecolf stands ace high with a lot of Scots, says lhe expert and informed Percy Huegins, Glasgow Evening Times golf writer and editor of Coif Monthly , , Doe didn't give himself enough t ime to study Si.

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Andrews before tlie British Open and it Fooled hint just as it did Hagen and Jones until they'd taken their degrees . . . Despite being several months out of play when the Old (bourse was rested before the British Open, and watering by the total fire depart-ment. the course wasn't iu good couth lion , , , Doc didn't Ix-llyathe about that as did some British pros . . . He'd prohahly seen American winter circuit courses io worse shape . . Muggins comments I hat Mlddlecoff, although possibly more baffled and discon-certed bv ihe Old Course than oilier promi-nent and experienced contestants, didn't say a word criticizing the classic layout.

Muggins, who has seen American pro and amateur stars playing here and overseas, says Dor played at ahout American average '.peed . . . Middlccoff played one round in S hours and 25 minutes and finished til minutes hehind the couple ahead but that was tie-cause lhe preceding two were galloping around, remarks tbe Scotsman,

Middlccoff has been highly praised for an action thai Doc wanted to be kept quiet . . . He contracted lo write daily comment on the Open for the Bulletin, a Scottish newspaper whirl) used the Mlddlecoff syndicated golf lessons , . . After the Open Mlddlecoff told

the paper he had been so pleased by being allowed to express his views he didn't want to be paid for ihe feature . , . The Bulletin insisted so Doc instructed the paper to give the fee to a charity, preferably one for child-ren.

The pro whir warns to do something tor the members o( his women's golf cmmtiittee might present each of the giiK with a ropy of the new edition o( "The Conduct of Wom-en's Golf," piled by the USGA Women's Committee . . . Prite is 25 cent* a copy . , , Write the USGA, 40 F:. 18th st.. New York 16 . , . The book is "must" reading Inr everv professional.

Golf Illustrated oE 1/indon gives a page to a controversy about British assistant pros. . , . Quotes Geoffrey Cousins, London Star golf writer: "Some of the swings at Harlsbonrne (PGA Assistants' championship) disgraced the senior professional* who allow such styles 10 be developed by the youngsters ihev enrptov . . . Unless you (the British PGA) lake notice of ihe sad state of assistants' golf, the standard of professional golf in this country will go down and down." , . . Com men 1 by an anonymous assistant and George l.ow, asst. to Fred Allott, pro at K11 field club followed » , .

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Anonymous assistant said be bad to work II hours a day. half hour for lunch, six days a week . , , llis salary is about $12 a week and he get* .V) per cent of his charges for lessons.

Howard L, Hall, jr. named mgr., I'.kona CC.'. Elkhart, Ind., construction or which is expected to he Completed this fall , . . James Wolfe now mgr., Fori Dodge Ila.) CC . . . Lester I.yuk now managing Fail held (la.) CC.

I. Fred Smith, veteran of club management who recently resigned as mgr., Hartford (Conn.) GC, has ltccii succeeded at the Hart ford club by Theodore J. V'ignaux . . . Jack Smith to be pro at now River bend CC, Hons-ton, Tex. . . , More than l*>0 events ale plan lied and condoned each ve.ir by Texas section-al golf organizations . . . Fed Huffman now pn> ai Sunningrlale CC. Toledo dist.

Francis Gallett, Blue Mound CC pro. in IS minute weekly program over Milwaukee tele-vision Station and is doing sparkling joh of instruction and showmanship . . , Mike Pavel-la moves from Washington County CC, Wash-ington, Pa., to Nemacolln CC, Beallsville. Pa., as pro and was succeeded al Washington Coun-ty by his brother, John, who had been his asst. W'illard (Find) Cask ill left Nernacolm to gn as pru at University of Pittsburgh coursc.

Congratulations to Midwest Golf Omt.se Supts, Assn. on 10th anniversary of its monthly bulletin. The Bull Sheet . . . Norman Johnson, now supt. at CC of Florida, was its first editor, then Don Strand, West morel and supt. took over, ant! now Bill Stupple, Exinoor supt,, maintains Ihe lively, useful tone of the pub. lication.

Claude A. Hastings retiring from Wilson Sporting Goods Co. . . . Migosh, and we've been thinking that Walking Stick was about 25 or maybe 2li: . . . He certainly has been a hov to sell goll halls and apparel through

|>ru shop distribution , , . H r will make head-tiuailers at his home, Ipswich Rd., K i l l 1, Eopsf ield, Maw.

Roger Ruhendal l and Dave Forbes, Seta Thcta I'i fraternity roommates (or three years and senior coeaplains of 1'Diversity of Wis-consin golf team, ate sons of pros . . Dad Ritbcmlall is in liis 27th year as pro at Free-wil l (111.) CC: and Dad James Forbes has been al Moiuoe (Wis.) CC as pro for the 28 years since he arrived (torn Scoiiand . . , T h e two sons led Wisconsin lo its first Wisconsin con ference championship in the 57 yen's of the e ien t , , , Championship was plaved on great course of Cniversity of Iowa . , , Robert Bruce Harris designed course of the $-150,000 golf plain at Iowa City . . . Greens are of Ra lph Bond's Old Orchard c-52 stolons.

First class job lhe Club Managers Assn. of \nicvira is doing with its monthly Newsletter which tells what's gning on in the organlia-lion . . . CM MA Pres. Richard E. Dales of Army and Navv Club, Washington and CMAA counsel Waller Slowimiki have been muring, rsplai i i ing cluh tax technicalities In associa-tion chapters . . . The* were at Cincinnati at (jiiifereiicc of Ohio Valley g roup and at Evans-tnn (III.) CC with Chicago district managers and ( Inb presidents.

T h o m a s Mi Quire, pres.. Brook wood CC. (Chicago dist.), at press lunch in Chicago's Illinois Athletic Club, presents plans of $500,. 000 clubhouse now under construction to re place clubhouse burned last year . . , Frank Eck, Associated Press News features spoils editor, does widely used piece on Harry O b i u , Shawnee (Pa.) CC pro , developing <lub p ro stars . . . Compares Ohliz training with Claude Harmon's schooling of loiirnatuc-nl stars . . , Al present 10 of Harry's former assistants aie in master pro jobs: jack Ryan at Si. Augus line. Fla.. iti winter and Buffalo CC in sum-mer; Howard Capps at Desert Inn , I.ai Vegas: |olin Hove at Ponkapoag CC, Milton, Mass.; Carl Watkins at W'liitefaee, Lake Placid, N. Y.: Fiank Minch. jr.. at Del Paso CC, Sacramento: E(j Nowak al liakersfield. Calif,; Jarry Heller at ramiment CC, Bushkill, N. V.; Stan Dudas al North Hills, Phi ladelphia; Al Nelson at Whi t mere, Philadelphia and Milt Ross at Denver, john Orlick. another O b i u protege runs golf ranges at Detroit and Miami.

R a m h o l.os Covolrs CC, with 27 holes de-signed by Hill Bell on >40,000,000 development al Itoena Park, Calif., has 200 homes undei construction adjoining course . . . T h e Mac-Gregor Co. Tourney Club party |u)y 16 at Van Cleve Hotel, Dayton, O., the evening he-fore PC.A championship started brnught the uttkjiic annual party back In ihe place where it tw*pail in 1945 as a feature of PGA cham-pionships.

James Gihnorc Harrison, T u t i l e Creek, Pa., has designed IS.hole course for Hidden Valley CC, Pottsville, Pa., aiul IH for Tannenhauf GC. Alliance. O. , . , Jim is prepar ing plans for 3 more new courses soon to be announced , , , Ed Malison, for 10 years pro at Hopkinv ville (Kv.) GliGC now is pro-supt. at Fenian-

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diua Beach (Fla.) GC . . , New course was opened May I.".' on beaut i fu l siie near shore . . . Ed started at Highland I'ark (Mich.) GC where he was for II years, then was at Bob O'l.inV. Detroit for -I years, Lenawee al Adrian. Mirh., lor 2 years arid alter army service was at KoshkononE Mounds GC, Fl. Atkinson. Wis., Ilopkinsvilie, Ky., and i-uit Campbell (Kv.) Officers' CC.

Robert S. Tosh, a,wt. supt . . Wall in gf ord (Conn.) CC and son ol Have Tosh, veteran pro-supt., married to Miss Helen Christopher in Brooklyn, June 15 . . . Victor II. lleBaefce, owner of lieverly Hills GC, Warren, Mich., has l>ought I.IS acre site near Komeo, Mich., and will build new IS-hole course . . . Hiram C. Brown is supt . in charge of construction . . . T h e job that Billy Sixty did in put t ing to-gether golf material for Milwaukee Journal den ' s and Recreation Section, recently was

one that delighted readers, circulation dept . and Ihe newspaper advertising dept .

New- y al Sea View CC. Atlantic City, N. J. opened . . . Supt. W a r r e n Bid well seeded fairways with Mk">0 mix tu ie of Kentucky 31 and Merion Itlue . . . Greens are C-T Co-hansey and tees are straight Meiion . . . kit! cuts clean when used as Hidwell uses it but doesn' t d o tha t in oiher combinations says the eminen t globe-trotting author i ty , O. [, Noer.

Frank Rodia is pro, Don Rod volt is supt. and Fred Mahue is mgr. at new suulh course al Torrey Pines opened with exhibi t ion by Olio Dut ra , Paul Kunyon, Katph Culdah l and l>on Collctt of Ihe Navy . . . George A. Paitison, jr., has designed and is bui lding an IS-hole Par S course at Hidden Valley, be-tween Boca Karon and Detray, Fla,, tor Cave Realty Co.

Eldorado (Ki.) CC (cam of pres., supt. , green chmn. and pro, won from 21 other I men teams in the 9th annual Heart of

America GCSA 4-Mcn tournament , , . El Dorado score al Hillcresl CC, kC. Mu„ was 289 , , , Ray Goodetl was low p in with 97 and J o h n Link with 77 led supts. . H . J , (Bud) Elmer, supt., Indian Hills CC, EC, Mo., in Heart of America T u i f Bulletin tells thri l l ing story of being iu tornado thai took 38 lives. . . Home of Elmer's asst., Paul Beer, was dam-aged . . . Max Beer. supt , , Oak wood CC. was on edge of (he tornado.

I'inccrest CC, Annandale, Va.. IS-hole, Par 3 course opened in May . . , Fairways and tecs planted in summer of Id/Hi to W&C Cgandagrass . . . Greens seeded to Colonial bent to get into play quicker . , . lots of sand and sawdust used in greens . . , Fertilizing with N'itro-Fomt, 111-6-4 and ammonium sulphate . . . Kit hard Med man is pro-supr. and gen.-mgr.

Carl Anderson, golf architect of Miami, sure is high on Aruha, an island in Caribbean . , . It has two 9-hole courses, mainly for oil com pany employees ill this West Indies possession of the Nether lands . . . Courses beginning to get play f rom tourists . , . Anderson is re modell ing Aruha GC course . . . He also is pu t t ing in It) for Venezuelan government at

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The Bus iness Journal o l Golf

Vol . 31—Number f f • August , 1957

CONTENTS

.S t r inging Around Golf . . . H e r b G r a f f i t i 3

If nutd Shon Statement* to Pro. Supt W a l l y M o o d 2 5

Useful Fertility H e n r y C . Mi lehe l l 2 7

Build* Short 9 in Gravel Pit 3 2

Over the Pro Shop C.ounter 3 6

Hin t ' s Simp at K n o H i e o o d 3 8

McKay Brings Bent Green* to Tennessee T o m Si le r k i

Grau'* Answer* to Turfgrass Questions 5 6

lloic to Minimise Ui tiler kill Jn ino* R . W a t s o n 6 6

Manufacturing Mens 69

Swinging Around Gol f

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Maracay , . . Harry Flora again back to ilia lie) Pa rk (Mich.) as p ro at tbe s t a l e park course . . . Ha r ry has been the te summers For years and is a genu ine asset to ihe layout .

itiII ( . corse , mgr . , Valley View GC, Lan-caster, O., a n d Her Highness, Mrs, George, b a s e first arr ival in family, a tlUiky young man named Cory Ky George . . . Jack Fu te re r now is a t Valley View as pro . . , ( . f o rge says a 14-year-old kid, named [iff Harr i son , recently aced their tilt) hole, which is m o r e t h a n any o lder player has l>eeri alile to do.

Nat ional A m p u t e e Golf Asm. a n n u a l cham-p ionsh ip will he held Aug. 16 ami 17 at Hea the r Downs CC, T o l e d o , O,. where Harry Moff i i t i , PGA pres. is p ro , . , A m p u t e e s ex-pect their largest t o u r n a m e n t . . . T h e y play some as ton i sh ing golf . . . Louis Bastanchhurv f rom Kern Coun ty G C to Moniebel lo (Calif.) CC as mgr . succeeding Keiih Jacobs who has gone to Candlewood CC in Los Angeles area , . . Clarence M, Stofer f rom Oja i (Calif.) Valley CC to he supt . al new Yorba L inda (Calif.1) R a n c h fc CC . , . Ha r ry Rafnv i l l e architect of Yorba L inda course is act ing mgr. of the c lub.

T o m l .cgrand f r o m Holyoke (Mass.) C C to supt , posit ion at H a m m o n d Acres Club, Inc., K I D , Wil l i .unImrg. Mass. , . . AJ May f rom Prescott , Arii , to be supt . of new Cen tu ry CC 18-hole course now bu i ld ing at Paradise Valley, Phoen ix , Art?., to design of l - i r rv Hughes . . , G o o d soil a n d p lenty of water <5 lagoons) o n the spol . . , Subdivision a r o u n d lhe course , , . John l lai i ley, former ly

sup t . al Sundown CC, Phoen ix , Aril., rebuild-ing Hassavampa CC. Prescott , Ariz., pu t t i ng ill water system, changing greens Onm cotton-seed hul ls lo bent and grassing fairways . . . P rogram calls for $W,tKW expendi tu re .

| im McGregor, in his 40th year in p ro golf, mm' at W a u m b e k Hotel C C , [efferscm, N. 11, as p ro . . . f im's son, Bob, is d i s t r ibu tor fur K. L. Rurgctt gloves and head covers in New England slates. N . Y. and western Pa .

Mrs. Warren 1-afkm, "18. wife of War ren E. I .afkin, pres., Golf & l.awn s u p p l j Corp. , W h i t e Plains, N V.. d ied suddenly July 20 of a hear t attack at the I .afkin h o m e at Scarsdale, N. Y. , . . Peggy and W a r r e n met as high school s tudents in her h o m e town of Seymour, Ind, T h e y were marr ied in 1921 . . . In 1926 they started a golf course supply business al Ind ianapo l i s and in 1927 moved lo New York where they established a business thai they developed into one of the ma jo r regional course e q u i p m e n t ami supply companies ol the count ry . . . Ma in supts. a n d their wive* con-sidered Peggy I.afkin one of t h e i r family , . . She always was engaged in some project to ( o n t r i b u t e lo the happiness of her f r i ends . . . Jus t p r io r t o Iter death she was working on a scrapbook abotll the career of (). | . Noer, the Lafk ins ' f r iend of many years.

Matu ic r Whi te , 60. since 1945 pro at the Count ry Cluh of Peoria, III., d ied al his h o m e at Peoria , July 15, of cancer . . . H e was b o m iu Ph i l ade lph ia a n d was p r o a t Columbus , (>., H a m m o n d , Intl. and LaG range , 111., p r io r to his Peor ia association . , . None of them ever were f iner t han Maur ie as a gen t l eman and a pro golfer who knew his job and handled il well . . , H e is survived by a son, Maurice J.; and two daughters , Sister M, Maurice, OSF and Mrs. Ceorge Smerk, all of Chicago,