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Greenkeepers Club of New
NEWSLETTER
DECEMBER 1949

I am a little rushed on time in getting this
out as my appendix finally caught up with me.
The November meeting of the Greenkeepers
Club of New England was held Monday, October
31st at the Winthrop Golf Club. Steve Hannon
was our host and for those who attended the
weather cleared off beautifully enabling those
rabid golfers present to play 18 holes.
At about 1:30 p.m., 12 golfers teed off for an
18 hole medal play tournament. If you haven't
heard who won, you could never guess! It was
none other than our hard working Golf Committee
Chairman, Mike O'Grady. Congratulations, Mike!
The scores were:
85-16-69 1st net
Micheal 0' Grady
77- 6-71 2nd net
Arthur Cody
tie
82-11-71
Phil Cassidy
74- 2-72
John Dombeck
89-17-72
Homer Darling
83-10-73
Narry Sperandio
85-11-74
Tony Sperandio
94-18-76
Arthur Anderson
Stephen Hannon
92-15-77
Sime Braio
109-22-87
After a fine catered dinner, we were privileged to hear Tony Mascaro of the West Point
Aerifier Co. Tony did not commercialize his talk
but with colored slides showed aeration of existing turf areas by different methods and at different spots around the country. His personal observations of methods and results was of extreme
interest and we felt sorry that there were only
25 present to hear this talk.

The informal discussion period that followed
the talk was, as usual of great interest.
At the business meeting which followed, a
special committee of Pres. Philip Cassidy, Treasurer John L. Counsell and Secretary, Narry Sperrandio was unanimously appointed to approve and
control ail expenditures of the Special Turf Conference Fund.
Lucien E. Duval assistant at the Manchester
C. C. was voted an associate member.
A nominating committee was appointed and
will report at the December meeting.
The next regular meeting of the Greenkeepers
Club of New England will be held on Monday,
December 5 at 1 :QG p.m. at the Hotel Bradford in
Boston.
Carl Bretzlaff, President of the National
Greenkeepers Supts. Asso. and Agar M. Brown,
National Secretary are expected to be in attendance at this meeting. Let's show them a real
turnout.
As in the past all dealers are invited to attend all Winter indoor meetings.
In the November issue of the Newsletter,
we mentioned that Arthur Anderson had done a
swell job on installing his fairway watering system. His members at Brea Burn were appreciative of his efforts and presented Arthur with a
substantial purse for his hard work.
PHILIP CASSIDY