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Most Gl's would trade places with Paul Hahn,control shot wizard, who gets Lt. Jay Clayman,special services officer for the 5th Air Force, linedup for Hahn's celebrated "William Tell" swing.Photo was taken during Paul's December tour ofFar East in which he put on exhibitions at militarybases in Japan, Okinawa, Wake Island, the Phil-ippines, Taiwan and Hawaii.

lie course to be built near Hauppauge, N. Y.. . . Jouett Brown, for the past two years assis-tant at Cincinnati CC, will be pro at ColdstreamCC, Forestville, 0., which is scheduled to openMay 30 ... course measures 7,400 yds .... Prosupt. Rocky Schorr has been busy most of thewinter directing renovation of Bluefield (W.Va.) CC ... He has put in new t~es, added 12traps and planted trees to separate the fairways.

Ed Mattson, pro-supt., Fernandina Beach(Fla.) GC, has supervised completion of 9-holeaddition to the course . . . Two large tractorswith 100-ft. long battleship anchor chainstretched between them were used on the pro-ject to clear underbrush and trees . . . It wasthe 33rd course that Mattson has built . . .George Conley and Lex Lucas to build 18-holecourse in Holmdel twp., near Asbury Park, N. J.. . . Lucas, a nurseryman, already has 280,000sq. ft. of bent and 90,000 sq. ft. of grass 'fortees under cultivation.

Jimmy Johnson has been named pro at St.David GC, Philadelphia dist . . . He suc-ceeds the late Tommy Robinson ... N. J. GolfAssn. tournament committee seriously thinkingof using marshalls to speed up tournament play-

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ers ... Shackamaxon cc, Scotch Plains, N. J.,now being operated on semi-private basis . . .It had been operated as a private club since1953 but members declined to buy the club fromJohn Handwerg, the owner ... Steve Doctorwill continue as pro. '

Jumping Brook G & CC, Neptune, N. J., soldto Herman Perl who will operate it as a semi-private . . . Portrait of Gene Sarazen unveiled atGolf House of USGA in January ... It was paint-ed by Frank G. Bensing and was presented tothe association by Wilson Sporting Goods Co.· . . Painting shows Gene in early years of hiscareer and hangs alongside portraits of Jones,Hagen, Ouimet, John Reid and Mrs. Glenna Col-lett Vare . . . Ladies PGA delegation played formore than $200,000 in 1959 and expects to topthat figure in 1960.

A total of 22 men are exempt from local andsectional qualifying for this year's Open . . .That will leave 128 spots for the scramblers· . . Richmond (Calif.) GC replacing many ofits Eucalyptus trees with pines because of prob-lem of getting turf to grow under the former· .. Scottish Tourist Board, 2 Rutland PI., WestEnd, Edinburgh 1, publishes booklet describing18 of the country's leading courses ... Fire,touched off by a Christmas tree that was beingremoved, caused $125,000 damage to $300,000Coosa ce, Rome, Ga., in January.

Par 3 addition planned for Hagerstown, Md.City course . . . Play was up 26 per cent atCity course in 1959 .•. July 4 set as openingdate for Somerset County (N. J.) 18-holecourse . . . It was designed by Bill Gordon andwill cost nearly $300,000 . . . It is completelywatered ... Essex, a N. J. county course had87,000 18-hole rounds last year ... Passaic, with36 holes, had slightly more than this and UnionCounty, with 45 holes, had 118,000 rounds· .. 14 courses in Washington, D. C. area arefacing assessment increases of 50 per cent . . .Assessments of all courses would jump fromabout 6 to nearly 10 millions . . . Idea is to pre-serve the "open spaces" in suburban areas.

Eighteen additional holes planned for Day-tona Beach (Fla.) muny course, 9 of which arenow being built • • . Chic Adams designer ofPar 3 being built near Dobbins (Ga.) AFB ...Tara Golf Greens, 9-hole lighted Par 3 in NewBrunswick, N. J., being expanded to 18 and willbe ready in April, according to W. A. Cleary· . . Phil Friel, Nashua (N. H.) CC pro has 9of 36-hole course under construction in Hud-son . . • Also being built is Rockingham ee,near Plaistow, N. H .... Nine-hole addition atWinnesuket ce, South Bellingham, Mass., iscoming about 50 years after first 9 was opened· . . Work started on Kings Wood Y & CC, An-napolis, Md., in January •.. It was designed byRobert Trent Jones.

Livingston, N. J. planning 9-hole communitylayout . . . Kiwanis Club there has built puttinggreen for the kids ... Hanscomb AFB, Bedford,Mass., has plans for 9 to supplement its drivingrange .•. National Baseball Players' Golf Cham-pionship to be played in Miami, Feb. 11-14, ac-

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Nothing Like the Clambake(Continued from page 28)

jects including the establishment of fouryouth centers.

The tournament dir. is a whimsical,wispy ex-newspaperman, Larry Crosby,who is quick to point out that the successof the pro-am must be attributed to thehuge numbers of volunteer workers whoprovide free the many services that makethe Crosby a standout event.

The two chief committees are ticketsales and marshalls. A Pacific Grove haber-dasher named Bud Giles has been incharge of the 60 man ticket committee for13 years. A Monterey contractor, Joe Fran-tessa, heads the 90 man group of marshallswho control the roaming galleries.

Most of the volunteers are members ofCypress Point and Monterey PeninsulaCCs. These people not only perform theimportant and the menial tasks, but mostbuy tickets. Few of them get the oppor-tunity to see any tournament play.

Mrs. Gwen Graham, dir. of public re-lations for Del Monte Properties is' in.charge of press accommodations. To serv-ice this large contingent, seven specialworkers are recruited, most of whom keepfigures on the overhead scoreboard in thesun-filled press room which ordinarilyis used as a banquet hall for the lodge.

Matching FundsWith these many contributions of time,

labor and brains, it is in character of theCrosby family to furnish even more thantime. Bing picks up part of the adminis-trative cost, the entire tab of the post-tournament Victory Dinner and providesthe $2,000.00 cash for the professionaltour's TTT plan.

Good as the Crosby is, it has problems,too. Chief of these is the selection of ama-teur contestants. Many call in but feware chosen; feelings get hurt and feathersruffled.

The 1959 applicant list totaled 6,000.So it is easy to understand why final en-tries are selected by an anonymous com-mittee. Amateurs are qualified on 'some'golfing ability, outstanding character andgood sportsmanship.

Another problem is the weather. Manya moisture ladened sky has filled the hor-izon on tournament dates.

In 1959, when wonderful weather pre-vailed, a problem in the form of un-controlled traffic resulted. The Forestdoesn't have any large centralized parkinglot nor does it have a system of throughstreets and highways. The tall timbers

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But in spite of a few faults, the occasion-al complaints and some hurt feelings thereis nothing, Californians will tell you, quitelike the Crosby. And they'll say this withinearshot of the people who run the Open,the Masters, the PCA Championship orany tournament you can mention.

1959: That Trying Year(Continued from page 24)

hold up best when play is heaviest andthe bottomland weather toughest to copewith.

Now it is hoped that Baltimore weatherfor the next three years will be favorableso that both the Penncross and Bermuda

, can become well established. Dunlop,however, had one thing working in hisfavor in 1959. His green committee hadcomplete understanding of the harmfuleffects of the weather and did everythingpossible to get the membership to cooper-ate in preserving what was left of thecourse.

The West Coast didn't escape the 1959blight, according to Elmer Border, supt.of the Los Posas CC in Camarillo, Callf.,although damage to turf probably wasn'tas widespread as in the east and centralsections of the country.

Poor Course StructureWhere greens and fairways suffered,

Border says, it wasn't so much the faultof the supt., or for that matter the weather,as it was the structure of the course. "Ifdrainage, airflow, contouring, etc., wereright," Border declares, "the supt. didn'tencounter a great deal of difficulty exceptfor occasional and temporary loss of grass.But where the architecture was faulty, thegreenkeeping dept. had more than its shareof headaches."

The Los Pasos supt. feels that everyonein golf has much to learn from the lessonsof 1959. If more attention is given to build-ing for easy maintenance of turf and thecourse in general, the difficult years willbe taken in stride. As for the supt., Borderthinks that he is being exposed to a greatdeal of good research findings and reportson the causes and cures for a season likethe last. If he gives them proper atten-

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Rain Bothered SouthOutside of a cool, wet spring the South

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contend with. He thinks that close mowingfrom May through July left the turf inrather poor condition to withstand theAugust heat, humidity and rain. But atFirestone there was enough poa annuamixed with Bermuda, which had beenplanted for each of the five precedingyears, to pull the fairways through in rea-sonably good shape.

It was Lyons' observation that courseswith watering systems fared worse in someinstances than those that didn't have them.Soil tests at a few of these irrigated loca-tions showed pH as low as 4.5, low potashcontent and phosphorous med. too high.Mowing at these courses in all cases wasbelow 1 in. Lyons came to the conclusionthat the more water that is applied themore lime and balanced fertilizer that areneeded to offset possible leaching.

Cassier is Midwest PresidentEmil Cassier of Sycamore (Ill.) GC has

been elected pres. of the Midwest GCSAfor 1960. Vps are Ted Woehrle, BeverlyCC, Chicago and Marvin Gruening, Mid-west CC, Hinsdale. Don Gerber of Wheat-on CC is secy-treas. Directors are JohnEbel, Joe Canale, Ed Burke, Bert Rost,Herman Woehrle and Ray Gerber.

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