Cjol^ (bourse Superintendents -dissociation OF President— JOSEPH BUTLER United Shoe Country Club 3 Ridgewood Terrace Beverly, Mass. Phone WA 2-1263 First Vice-President— LEON V. ST. PIERRE Longmeadow Country Club 5 1 Fenwood Road Longmeadow 6, Mass. Phone LO 7-5562 Second Vice-President— ANTHONY D. CARANCI, JR. Ledgemont Country Club 22 Hillview Drive North Providence 4, R.I. Phone PA 3-1688 Secretary— JOHN CALLAHAN Spring Valley Country Club 146 Edgehilt Road Sharon, Mass. Phone SU 4-6370 Treasurer— ARTHUR L. CODY Wollaston Golf Club Phone Supt. Office at club GRanite 2-3535 Home GRanite 2-7913 I S Ardell Street North Quincy, Mass. Trustee— ALBERT L. ALLEN Kernwood Country Club Phone Pi 4-7783 Kernwood Country Club Salem, Mass. Trustee— HOWARD FARRANT Pinebrook Country Club Phone OL 3-5296 Wheeler Lane Natick, Mass. Trustee— JOHN KEALTY The Country Club 209 W. Plain Street Cochituate, Mass. Phone OL 3-14Q8 Finance Committee Chairman— PHILIP I. CASSIDY Weston Golf Club Phone HI 4-4127 45 Grosvenor Road Needham 92, Mass. Educational Committee Chairman— ROBERT GRANT Supernault National Country Club Phone EM 5-5538 Deershorn Road Lancaster, Mass. Golf Committee Chairman— EDWARD J. MURPHY Lexington Country Club 194 Oxbow Road Wayland, Mass. Newsletter Committee Chairman— RICHARD C. BLAKE Mt. Pleasant Country Club Phone 869-2737 211 Sewall Street Boylston, Mass. Past President— N. J. SPERANDIO Concord Country Club Concord, Mass. Phone EM 9-4723 NEW ENGLAND NEWSLETTER Mav 19GB The May meeting was held May 6 at the Spring- Valley C. C., Sharon, Mass. This was the first outdoor meeting as well as the Supt. - Chairman meeting. Several equipment dealers had various types.of equipment on display and-demonstrations were available for the asking. John Callahan, host Supt., had the course in fine condition and the only complaint overheard was, "the tee markers weren't back far enough." Eighty-five lunches were served, 6 chairman were present and 60 golfers teed off. Results of the Tournament Chairman - Supt. Bob Mucciarone & Dr. Shedd Low net 74 Julie Acken & Owen Williams 75 Norm Mucciarone & Bob Slattery 75 Sam Mitchell, Jr. & Bob Goodrae 75 Supt. Tournament John Sperandio low gross Nary Sperandio 1 low net Dick Mansfield 2 Roger Hiner 3 U.S.G.A. member club Supts. and G.C.S.A. of A. members are admitted to all golf events. All members of the New England G.C.S.A. with 1963 dues cards and proper identification will be admitted to the Open Tournament at the Country Club, June 20 - 21 - 22. Next Meeting June 3, 1.963 at Country Club of New Bedford, Host Supt. Mike O'Grady. Business Meeting 11:00 A.M. - Ladies are invited for golf & dinner. Golf after lunch (make your plans for lunch), dinner to be served at 6 P.M. Please return card at your earliest convenience. Rte. 24 to Rte. 6 and look for signs best and quickest way from Boston to New Bedford. The July meeting will be held at Wannamoisett C. C. on Monday, July 15th, This will be a joint meeting with the Rhode Island Association. Malcolm Wendell, Host Supt. Application for Membership George J. Quintette, Assistant Supt at Hyannisport Golf Club. Hyannisport, Mass. the Editor Firoim the Golfer's Guide Volume 4 the year 1897 Published Annually at the Riverside Press Edinburgh Scotland; W. H. White & Co. "Care Of The Greens" A good groenkeeper is not easily to be had, and when a capable man is secured he ouigiht to be retained. It is only by careful sjtiudy and experience of any particular golf course that the best effects can be hiad. Sbdl varies, and the situiataons of golf greens differ, so that a mian has! to adapt himself to Mis position. No hiard-and-fast rules can be laid down, therefore, for tjhie guidance of greenkeepeirs, and each man must be able to judge for himself,, and to think out the course of treatment he intends to apply to the ground under his charge. It is a mistaken notion to imagine that because a man is a good gardner he must of necessity be ready for greenkeeping work. A golf links is not a tennis lawn, and an intimate knowledge of the requirements of Golf, together with as wide an acquaintance las possible wiith good classi Jinks, is a necessary outfit if a greenkeepar is to be of use and make his services appreciated. At the same time, clubs should Wot be hasty in deciding on the merits of a new employee. As has been said, there is nowadays a great diversity in the mature of the land brought under golf, and I have seen goilf courses which Would puzzle the genius of Tom Morris to devise methods to make them fit for the great Scottish game. If a man wihio has all his life been accustomed to the sandy soil and old turf of a seaside links is suddenly placed in control of a new inland green on heavy cliay sloil, with perhaps an additional field or two to sow in grass, he may be pardoned if he does not all at once create a second Westward Ho. 1 A wall-known expert in this particular siulbjecit says that greenkeepers, as a rule, have little ideia of ciaiuise and effect; and this, I should siay, is not to be wondered at, taking all the circumstances (into account. Club committees should not hesitate, therefore, iin affording their greenkeepeirs the opportunity of consultation with one or another of the men in charge of our Ibeislt known links, and who, through long experience and close attention, have acquired much valuable information. The expert I have already referred to lays down as an essential that greens should be made up either in the very early spring or late in autumn. Whenever the turf is re4aid a good coating of grass seeds (Blake's can be recommended) should be sown over it; this binds and improves the turf. Then from time to time a top dressing of some kind of manure (Boynter's of Dumfries is one of. the best for this purpose) should also be used. This' treatment of top dressing applies to both inland and seaside courses', and although the re-tiurfing of the inland greens woiuld give the best satisfaction if properly carried out, still proper seeds and manure should work wonders. If ciluib committees are in doubt as to the exact kind of seed to use, they should, place themselves in communication with some well known firm of seed merchants:, and they will receive useful advice on the subject. And in this connection I may quote from the report submitted by Mr. John Thorpe, Fellow of! the Royal Horticultural Society to the U. S. Golf Association, in which he says: "The grasses, of which, there are hundreds of species, are as varied in their natural habitat as are animals - slorne thrive and do well only in very low and damp grounds; others, again thrive only on high, dry and what seems poor soil, and moist goilf courses have low swampy grounds, as they also have elevated and seemingly poor spots. It is the latter which, seemingly, is .the greatest obstacle to overcome. 1 On inland putting greens tihe greatest trouble is worm casts. Many and various devices are suggested and the turf has been doised with mixtures calculated to bring about the desired end, but unfortunately no effectual potion has been discovered. From long experience, the conclusion has been arrived ait that the only actual remedy for this nuisance is to lift the turf 'and dig out soil to the depth of twenty inches then fill in with gais lime to a depth of eight inches, thereafter level down and add four niches of cinders on top of lime, over which again place two inches of soot. After this foundation has been covered with sloil, retiurf. to proper level. While this completely prevents the appearance of worm casts it also makes the turf more porous, so that waiter will not lie long, and it does not fog up. In re,turfing if the turf which has been lifted will not suit,, care should be exercised to get the right kind to replace it: what may suit one soil will not suit another., Certainly the re-laying of greens is both troublestome and expensive, but to the golfer nothing pleases better on a golf links than beautifully-returfed, gently-undulating putting greens. He may forgive defects and make allowances for drawbacks through the green, but, once within holing distance, he is implacable if the green is not equal to the best he has seen. New England Golf Ctabs as listed in the Guide for 1897 Excerpt from chapter "Golf In The United States." The initial expense of buying a property large enough for an 18 hole round at Lake Foireist, near Chicago, was 15,000 pounds sterling; after securing the land 1000 pounds sterling was immediately puit into the ground, and the running expense for the links alone lasit year were 100 pounds sterling a mionitlh. From Golfers Guide for 1897 (Maine Campobello Golf Cluib Caimpobelloe Island Portland Golf Club Portland Tarratine Golf Club Isleboro Massachusetts Allsiton Golf Club Allston Phillips Academy Golf Club Andover Country Club of Brookline Warren Farm Golf Club Brookline Cambridge Golf Club Harvard College Golf Club Cambridge North Shore Athletic Club Clifton Concord Golf Club Locusitwood Golf Club Great Barringtom Myopia Hunt Club Lenox Golf Club Lenox Lexington Golf Club Longmeadow Golf Club Lowell Vesper County Club Lynn Golf Club Essex County Club Manchester-by-the-Sea New Hampshire Hanover Country Club Navy Yard Golf Club Portsmouth Vermont Wtaodstock County Club ' Khode Island Bristol Golf Cluib Bristol Narragansetit Golf Cluib Narragansett Pier Newport Golf Club AgaWam Hunt Miisiquamicut Golf, Cluib Wickford Golf Club Connecticut Brooklawn Golf Club Bridgeport Hartford Golf Club Fairfield County Golf Cilub Greenwich Litchfield Golf Cluib Yale Cbllege Golf Club New Haven Golf Cluib New Haven Norwich Golf Club Norwich Oxford Golf Cilub South Manchester Listing the golf clubs where the location is obvious I omitted the city or town name. I never hear Vesper listed as Vesper County Club but that is the way it appears in the book. Essex County Cluib at Manchester has alwiays, been known that way. I should have stuck Club after Agawam Hunt but we have a running battle with all suppliers to omit the club for it is incorporated as Agawam Hunt . . . . . . Charles W. Parker Supt. Agawam Hunt