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This NEWSLETTER is published
monthly by the Greenkeepers Club of
New England, and sent free to its mem­
bers and their Green’s Chairmen. Sub­
scription price ten cents a copy, or a
dollar a year.
GUY C. WEST .........................

Editor

312 Mt. P lea sa n t St., P all R iver, M ass,!

JAMES McCORMACK . . Business Mgr.
450 W illia m St., S ton eham , M ass.

February, 1936

Voi. 8, No. 2

W A S H IN G T O N A S A G R E E N K E E P E R

W h ile w e h ave no ev id en ce
th at
W ashing-ton p lay ed g o lf or had a n y ­
th in g to do w ith the ca re o f g o lf
cou rses, it is a fa c t th at green s o f a
sort w ere one o f the h ob bies o f the
F irs t P re sid e n t o f the U n ited States.

Mount Vernon was the home of
George Washington from early child­
hood. Later it came to him by inheri­
tance, then a plantation of 2700 acres.
Like many Virginia gentlemen, he
loved the soil.
It is not generally known that Wash­
ington devoted considerable attention to
transactions in real estate. In this way
he added to the original homestead un­
til it became 8000 acres. Real estate
dealers in subdivision property may
point with pride to the fact that The
Father of His Country was one of the
first to purchase tracts of ground and
subdivide them for sale. A plot of a
survey made by Washington himself,
drawn by his own hands, is still said to
be in existence, and is a model of care­
ful draftsmanship.
In addition to operating his vast
plantation, which became one of the
first demonstration farms where diversi­
fied farming and mule raising were put
on a profitable basis, Washington found
time to gratify his love for the beauti­
ful in landscape gardening.
An elaborate boxwood hedge twined
into the form of a serpentlike design
was laid out at his direction. This was
partially
destroyed by fire many
years ago, but was reset from the origi­
nal plants, and now stands about as laid
out. In the lawn there stand today two
lofty pecan trees which were given to
Washington as seedlings by Thomas
Jefferson and which the President set
out with his own hands.

The liberal acreage of Mount Vernon
provided for many fine grassy slopes or
“ fairways” and choice “ greens” that
would warm the heart of the most ambi­
tious greenkeeper.
Washington had the spirit of the in­
vestigator, always searching for prac­
tical, profitable results in the operation
of his plantation. This was in striking
contrast to the usual country gentleman
of his day. In a letter to a friend in
England he wrote: “ Our course of
husbandry in this country, and more
especially in this state, is not only ex­
ceedingly unprofitable, but is so de­
structive to our lands, that it is my
earnest wish to adopt a better.”
This thirst for profitable methods
enabled George Washington to multiply
several fold his original inheritance,
until at his death, his wealth was esti­
mated at something like a half million
dollars, as measured even at that time.
— from

FEBRUARY

“ B row n P a t c h “ .

M E E T IN G

The February meeting was held at
the Hotel Statler, Boston, on Feb. 3rd.
At the business meeting, Ralph Thomas
of the Paul Revere Golf Club, Lexing­
ton, Mass, and Edward Buecher of the
Manchester (N. H.) C. C. were elected
to membership. A Library Committee
of Robert Mitchell, Chairman, Franklin
Hammond, and Philip Cassidy was ap­
pointed to initiate and supervise the
newly voted club library. Pres. Farrant announced the following commit­
tees for 1936:
W e l f a r e — John Counsell, Sam Mitch­
ell, Thomas Galvin.
E m p lo y m e n t — Guy West,
Martin
Greene, Wm. McBride.
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George Rommell, John Latvis, John
Clinton.
R . I. S e c t i o n — Oscar Chapman, James
Lawson, Wallace Peckharii.
The Entertainment Committee spon­
sored a series of talks by various mem­
bers. Robert Mitchell spoke on “ Velvet
Bent,” Philip Cassidy on “ Why a Turf
Nursery?’” Carl Treat on “ The Advisa­
bility of Course Changes” , Lloyd Stott
on “ Should the Greenkeeper Play Golf?”
and Leslie Wildgust on “ Height of Cut.”

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W IN T E R

SCH OOL

FOR

GREENKEEPERS

With an enrollment of twenty-three
students from ten states, Canada and
Bermuda, the 1936 Winter School for
Greenkeepers opened at the Massachu­
setts State College Monday. January 6.
The course will be brought to a climatic
close on the week-end of March 13, 14,
15 with the annual Golf show held in
conjunction with the Outdoor Recreation
Conference.
The course of study offered duringthis course includes a study of landscape
appreciation, botany, water systems,
drainage, equipment, managerial prob­
lems. grasses and turf culture, cost
keeping and analysis, soils and fertil­
izers. In addition a forum and a special
lecture hour are scheduled for each day
during the term.
This school for Greenkeepers and the
Growers of fine turf is the oldest of its
kind in the country. It was founded in
1927 by Lawrence S. Dickinson, turf
specialist at the college, and since that
time other colleges have presented simi­
lar courses, but all are of much shorter
length. Graduates of this school are to
be found in responsible positions on
Golf Courses throughout the country
and in Canada.
Registered in this year’s school are
George W. West, Construction superin­
tendent for the Thompson and Jones
Co., Golf Course Architects, London,
Ontario, whose home is in Bermuda;
Clinton Robinson, Manager of the Sunnydale Golf Club, London, Ontario;
Ed Newkirk, Professional Greenkeeper,
Lincoln, Nebraska; Elmer Schacht, Pro­
fessional and Greenkeeper of the Des
Moines Golf and Country Club, Des
Moines, Iowa; Jack Welsh, Golf Course
employee at the Wakanda Country Club,
Des Moines, Iowa; Hector Clark, As­
sistant Greenkeeper, Woodhill Country
Club, St. Louis Park, Minnesota; Byron
Chamberlain, Pro-Greenkeeper, Somer­
set Club, St. Paul, Minnesota; Robert
Williams, Greenkeeper, Bellaire Country
Club, Wauconda, Illinois; John Sadlon,
a member of the Greens Committee,
Mohawk Valley Country Club, Little
Falls, N. Y .; Andrew Goodoof, Assistant
Greenkeeper, Oakdale Country Club,
Rumford, Maine; Griffith O’Keefe, ProGreenkeeper, Schroon Lake Golf Club,
Glen Falls, N. Y .; Floyd Nelson, Pro­

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fessional and Greenkeeper, Cobleskill
Country Club, Cobleskill, N. Y .; Felix
Thompson,
Greenkeeper,
Greenfield
Country Club, Greenfield, Mass.; Alex.
McIntyre, Professional, Edison Club,
Rexford, N. Y .; Thomas Danaher, ProGreenkeeper, Twaalfskill Golf Club,
Kingston, N. Y .; Robert Shepardson,
Golf Course foreman, Berkshire Hunt
and Country Club, Lenox, Mass.; Lewis
Payson, Assistant, Colonial Golf Course,
Wakefield,
Mass.;
Joseph
Dinardi,
Greenkeeper, Bellevue Golf Club, Mel­
rose, Mass.; Melvin Lucas, Assistant,
Colonial Golf Course, Wakefield, Mass.;
Sherwood Moore, Barrington School
Golf Course, Great Barrington, Mass.;
and Charles Parker, Superintendent of
Grounds, Wiano Club, Osterviile, Mass.

As the time draws near when we all
shall be purchasing supplies and equip­
ment for this season, it will be in order
to remember that the advertisers in the
NEWSLETTER make your paper pos­
sible. Outside of the fact that advertis­
ing in the NEWSLETTER is real ad­
vertising, in that it contacts many po­
tential buyers, we should appreciate the
aid that those advertising- give us. Read
the advertising matter as carefully as
the rest of your paper, show those who
advertise that you do read it, by men­
tioning some part of it, or writing for
folders or prices. Mention that you saw
it in the NEWSLETTER, and when or­
dering, show your appreciation of co­
operation which has been given. Our
advertisers are the cream of the dealers,
and, all other things being equal, we be­
lieve that they deserve your business.

The time— March 12, 13, 14— the
place— Mass. State College— what?—
Third Annual Outdoor Recreation Con­
ference with Tenth Annual Golf Show
and Conference. Your club will sponsor
the Saturday afternoon program at this
Conference. You. should be there.
A new bulletin of interest is Bulletin
636 from Cornell Univ. Agri. Exp. Sta­
tion, “ Disinfecting Soils by Electric
Pasteurization.” Another is Bulletin 635
from the same station, “ Weeds of New
York.”

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GOLF
By

COURSE
E rn est

PESTS
Law

(Reprinted from Pacific Greenkeeper.)
T h is a r t i c l e is lovingly dedicated to
those players on a golf course who by
their carelessness, loss of temper, or
wanton disregard of the rights of their
fellows make the greenkeepers’ life a
burdensome one. Particularly referred
to are the chaps who obey the dictates of
their feelings and let the ruins fall
where they may. You know the kind:
they are seen mostly in the role of golf­
ers disgusted with their game, tearing
up and throwing away their score cards.
Mildly disgusted players are not too
bad; they discard their score cards in­
tact which requires that a man shall
bend down only once to pick up each one.
Then there is the completely disgusted
individual who rips his card across be­
fore he lets it fly, thus entailing twice
as much work to pick up the pieces.
Finally there is the lovely fellow who
misses his eighth putt, gets purple in
the face, and vents his spite on the in­
offensive score card which he rends with
great gusto into countless fractions.
But score cards are not so bad in
themselves, neither are other bits of
paper and cardboard which prefer a golf
course as their final resting place.
Tickets, programs, pasteboard contain­
ers, bills, receipts, and envelopes can be
found breaking the monotony of the
eternal green on any golf course. But
taken as a whole they cause plenty of
grief, particularly in these days when
labor cannot be spared from the main­
tenance crew for the job of picking up.
T h e s m o k e r ’ s paraphernalia is en­
titled to a whole volume in itself, and
comes under the head of those things
which do actual damage to the course.
Matches, match boxes, match containers,
tobacco, tobacco boxes, tobacco contain­
ers, cigarette stubs, and cigar butts con­
stitute an unsightly veneer in every
nook and cranny. But the worst of all
as far as the g’reensman is concerned
are the still burning smokes which num­
erous players throw on the green or tee
before making a shot. Frequently the
players intend to pick up these partly
consumed smokes but they forget and
the stubs burn for a long time, leaving
a long scar in the turf. Perhaps if the
players were told the kind of fertilizers
that are used on turf they would be

more careful where they placed their
cigars or cigarettes. They might also be
reminded that corrosive sublimate, one
of the deadliest of poisons is frequently
used on greens as a fungicide. Almost
as bad as the wastrel who discards the
burning smokes in his wake, is his bro­
ther who distributes tobacco cans all
over the fairways to get tangled in the
mower blades. Small wonder it is that
the man who has to straighten out the
cutting blades invariably buys his smok­
ing fuel in paper packages.
One of the nastiest sort of persons
is the Spartan who tears off yards of ad­
hesive tape and continues his game
without its protection, but leaving the
ghastly remains for all to view. This
surgical dressing is a wonderful thing
to protect cuts, sores, blisters, and what
not, but it does not do any good as a
fairway decoration. Manufacturers of
the stuff should be made to print the
warning that it is liable to interfere
with a golfer’s game just as much as the
wound it is supposed to protect, thus
it should be applied after the game in­
stead of before.
A n y c o u r s e superintendent will tell
you that there is a special place in hell
being reserved for the demon who gets
worked up to such an extent over his
so-called game that he must break some­
thing, usually a flagpole, tee box, or the
surface of the green. This is the parti­
cular bane of the public golf course.
Golf is a provoking game and there are
times when a man may feel justified in
tearing to pieces the first thing that
comes handy. This would be less annoy­
ing if the damage was paid for but the
offenders usually sneak away without a
word, indicating that they are ashamed
of themselves.
Then there is the sour-visaged speci­
men, the self-appointed chairman of the
greens committee, who takes one look at
the tee and decides that the markers are
not in their most advantageous position.
With an air of performing a great
though painful benevolence he moves
them around to suit himself. It is use­
less to explain to him that the markers
in their original position are as fair to
one as they are to another and that by
changing them he is interfering with the
system of tee maintenance. In spite of
all entreaties there are always one or
two people on nearly every course who
persist in this pestiferious custom. Wo­
men are not infrequent offenders in this
regard.

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A n o t h e r l o w form of life is repre­
sented by those pseudo golfers who
play their balls way off line into a pile
of hose, tools, or debris and proceed to
scatter everything to the four winds
without a thought of replacement. They
are almost as bad as the sneaky chap
who steals off to a quiet portion of the
course, drops several dozen balls, and
proceeds to pound away at them in
practice, pitting greens, and trampling
through carefully swept traps.
But the most obnoxious pest of the
lot is the club member who feels justi­
fied in giving orders to members of the
course maintenance crew. This is usu­
ally a weak individual who is afraid to
go before the board of directors and
speak his mind, so he takes a more
direct method of gaining his ends. For­
tunately he is usually frustrated because
course workers are instructed to take
orders from no one except their foreman
or superintendent.

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As newly appointed Chairman of the
Employment Committee, it is perhaps
in order that we issue a statement as
to the methods which we will hope to
use to help our members get positions.
The first step is to get a list of mem­
bers who either are out of work or who
desire to better themselves, with quali­
fications. If all of our members who
come in this classification will write me,
I shall have the first step on hand, and
all letters will be kept confidential.
The next step is to get available posi­
tions, and we will depend upon several
sources for this information. Any of
our members who know where there are
available positions should notify me at
once. I believe that the Mass. Golf As­
sociation will work with us along this
line.
It should be remembered that one big
reason why our club has prospered and
why it enjoys the confidence of green
chairmen and club officials is that we
have never had the slightest sign of the
labor union idea connected with our
club. This is not the time to change.
However, we as an organization of
greenkeepers should make a firm stand
against any practices which are detri­
mental to greenkeepers and greenkeep­
ing.
Lowered incomes have forced
many clubs to cut their greenkeepers’
salaries drastically. We should ever
strive to see to it that salaries rise again
with a rise in income. We should as an
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organization fight against unfair cuts,
and against any invasion of our profes­
sion by outside interests.
The Greenkeepers Club of New Eng­
land is the logical place to look for a
new greenkeeper. Any club desiring a
greenkeeper and writing me will be
furnished with a list of men who are
desirous of obtaining a position, with
their qualifications.
All communica­
tions will be kept confidential. There
is no better source from which to pick
a greenkeeper than the local greenkeepers’ association. We welcome in­
quiries.
GUY C. WEST, Chairman,
Employment Committee.

As we have among our members
several who are members of the Alumni
of the Mass. State College Winter
School for Greenkeepers, we are print­
ing the following message, which is selfexplanatory.
M e s s a g e to A lu m n i o f M . S. C . W in te r
S c h o o l f o r G r e e n s k e e p e r s , T h ir d A n ­
nual C o n fe re n ce on O u td o o r R e c re a ­
t io n , M . S . C ., A m h e r s t , M a s s ., M a r .
12 to 15, 19 36.

Fellow Members:
After two years of getting organized,
I feel that on this, our third meeting,
steps be taken toward our purposes of
organizing. We now have approximately
200 men eligible to the Association, and
I wish to make the following sugges­
tions :
1. To make the School a focal point
for the collection and distribution
of information as,
Maintenance costs, percentages and
other statistics. Employment, by ad­
vising the School of positions open
in your vicinity, and by employing
Stockbridge
Students
on
your
courses, in Placement Training.
Advise the School of your observa­
tions and experiences in golf course
operation.
Write the School for information
desired on turf, equipment and all
other factors entering in golf course
operation.
2. Support the financial needs of your
organization by payment of dues to
cover cost of printing, postage and
other expenses involved in collect­
ing and distributing information.

3. Elect officers for reasonably long
term, say from 2 to 4 years, and
class representatives
one
year,
these men to be your class proxy to
vote on points of discussion.
4. Encourage social functions, as an
annual dinner held by members each
year at the school (each man paying
for his own plate); have periodical
meetings by members in geographi­
cal groups, and encourage corres­
pondence between groups and in­
dividual members.
5. Advancement and promotion of the
Profession of Greenskeeping.
Keep in contact with other Greens­
keepers’ Associations.
Recommend the school to prospec­
tive students, and suggest to the
school, men who qualify as students.
Distribute information relating to
our activities to golf periodicals as
the N. E. G. A. “ Newsletter” , “ Golfdom” , “ The American Golfer” , “ The
Greenskeepers’ Reporter” , and simi­
lar publications.
Encourage friendly relations and a
better understanding of mutual
problems between Chairmen of
Greens Committees, Pros, Golfers,
Club Managers and ourselves.
6. This being the tenth year of the
M. S. C. Winter School for Greens­
keepers, it is a good way to celebrate
the “ birthday” of Prof. Dickinson’s
Brain-Child, by having a big family
reunion in 1936!
Cordially yours,
CLINTON K. BRADLEY,
Vice President.
(Classes of 1932-33)

Mr. Paul J. Lynch, Superintendent of
Recreation for the City of Troy, N. Y.,
will address the Park section of the
Recreation Conference on Friday after­
noon on the subject of “ Parks and
Community Recreation” .

It is the great mortification to the
vanity of man, that his utmost art and
industry can never equal the meanest
of nature’s productions, either in beauty
or value.— Hume.

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A New and Better Mower
- The IDEAL BULLDOG
T h e n e w “ B u lld o g ” m o w e r m ark s th e g r e a te s t a d v a n c e m e n t
t h a t h a s b e e n m a d e in t h e p r o d u c t i o n o f f a i r w a y m o w in g e q u i p ­
m e n t in r e c e n t y e a r s .
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Howard B. Sprague, Agronomist
N. J. Agri. Exp. Sta.
R o llin g
is a desirable means of
smoothing the lawn surface. There is
no object in spring rolling, however,
until all possibility of freezing and thaw­
ing is past. If the lawn is rolled when
the soil is moderately moist, but not
soggy, surface irregularities may be
smoothed without injury to the turf.
One or two rollings in spring are suffi­
cient under ordinary conditions. Re­
peated rollings during the growing sea­
son may cause injury to the turf as a
result of undue compaction of the soil.
The danger is greatest on heavy tex­
tured soils, treated while excessively
wet.
The roller should only be heavy
enough to press the crowns of the grass
plants into the soil, and correct the open
soil structure produced by winter
freezes.
Since the weight required
varies with the type of soil at hand, a
water ballast roller which permits ad­
justment of weight is desirable.
T o p -d r e s s in g s
of screened soil or
compost may be applied to turf for cor­
recting surface irregularities, and for
increasing the general level of fertility.
Although top-dressings in spring are not
essential for producing satisfactory
lawns on soils of average fertility,
there are some conditions under which
top-dressing is advantageous.
The
regular application of a suitable com­
post to a depth of 1-8 to 1-4 inch in
spring and fall, will gradually build up
a desirable soil on established lawns
located on poor shaley, clayey, or
sandy soils. Top-dressings also aid in
smoothing the surface of rough lawns
and are therefore frequently applied in
spring on plantings of the previous year.
Thin areas may be top-dressed to ad­
vantage before adding seed, to provide
a suitable seed bed.
A rich top-dressing prepared by pul­
verizing spent mushroom soil, or by
composting manure and loamy soil, may
take the place of commercial fertilizer
in lawn management, if applied fairly
liberally in spring and early autumn.
Satisfactory top-dressings should be
loamy to sandy loam in texture, well
supplied with organic matter, mildly
acid to neutral in reaction, and com­
paratively high in plant food content.

A top-dressing with these character­
istics is useful on average lawns, but
is most essential on closely cut turf
where regular dressings are required to
maintain a true surface.

FROM

OUR

F IL E S

It is sometimes recommended that the
piping for fairway watering be laid deep
in the ground below the frost line. That
is a costly practice and comparison be­
tween that and shallow placing of the
pipe proves that pipe laid deep or be­
low the frost line is vastly more ex­
pensive and in the end really less practi­
cal.
Not only is the expense of installa­
tion much heavier, but it is expensive
to change any of the pipe lines later
if a fairway or other part of the course
is redesigned and laid out to require
some changes in the position or course
of the pipe. It is also expensive and
slow to do a necessary repair.
A pipe placed between 6 and 12
inches below the surface is far less ex­
pensive and more practical. It seems
desirable to have the pipe at least six
inches below the surface so there will
be no possibility of any of the pipe
coming to the surface under any cir­
cumstances where tractors with lugs
would tear it. This shallow placed pipe
is easily blown out before the severe
frost comes, so that there is no danger
of the water freezing. Rust which ac­
cumulates in the walls of the pipe is
also easily blown out, and from one to
two days only are necessary, depending
on the thoroughness with which the job
is done.
It is important that pipe sizes be not
too small, as the frictional loss of pres­
sure from the walls of small pipe is
often serious. Another source of fric­
tion pressure loss is the friction on the
walls where the water passes through
complicated valves before reaching the
sprinkler nozzles. There is no advan­
tage in having water come to the valve
at high pressure if the frictional loss
in the valve is so great that the ef­
fectiveness of the nozzle is seriously
impaired.
You can get some idea of the relative
frictional loss in pipe when you consider
that the circumference or frictional sur­
face of a 4-inch pipe is approximately
12 4 /7 inches at any point, and the
cross area would be the same. A 3-inch
pipe has a circumference or frictional

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Cuts ribless 18 inch
swath.

N EW
The M odel K (rugged, cast-iron con­
s t r u c t i o n ) i s th e
greatest v a lu e in

Improvements in the condition o f your course usually call for
corresponding increases in maintenance costs — but net when
you use these mowers . . . The Giant DeLuxe Pennsylvania
Fairway soon pays for itself,—for it works 20% faster with a
20% wider cut with 20% less operating expense . . . Yet this Giant
36 inch unit costs but «$15.00 more than the 30 inch unit! In
addition to cutting down your operating expenses, the DeLuxe
Fairway holds its maintenance cost to a new "low” because
its unbreakable malleable iron construction eliminates the usual
waste o f time and money caused by broken parts.
'The 30 inch DeLuxe Pennsylvania offers all the mechanical
features of the 36 inch Giant in the conventional 30 inch size.
At $100 a unit these unbreakable units are available singly
or in gangs o f 3 — 5 —7 and 9.

O n ly r e l i a b l e d e a le r s a d v e r t i s e in th e N E W S L E T T E R .

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wall at any point of 9 3/7 inches, and a
cross area of 7 1 /4 square inches. In
other words, as the diameter of the
pipe decreases, the area decreases more
in proportion to the circumference of
frictional wall.

The

V e te ra n

G reen k eep er

S ays:

When all the workers on your course
Are with you to a man,
And everything they do for you
Is every bit they can:
When you can count your daily work
As so much healthy fun—
You’ll be a super-greenkeeper,
A HUMAN MARVEL, Son.

hardy, never winter kills unless drain­
age is extremely faulty. Planted to­
gether with Redtop, Kentucky bluegrass or the Fescues it will crowd them
out in a few years.
The cost of seed for a golf course is
so small compared with other costs o f
constructing or maintaining a course
that it does not pay to plant an inferior
grass. Better sow Rhode Island Bent,
the seed that has produced the beauti­
ful lawns and wonderful golf courses
along the New England Coast and north­
ern states. This strain of Rhode Island
Bent is acclimated to the American cli­
mate and is grown in the state o f
Rhode Island by American Farmers.

■
— Golf Course Common SenseA r e a s R e q u ir e d f o r V a r i o u s G a m e s
R hode

I s la n d

B ent

Long before the Boston Tea Party
the New England farmer’s harvested
Rhode Island Bent Seed which at that
time was called Burden, to plant on
their fields and it was on this grass that
they pastured the famous Narragansett
breed of pacers— the “ Rolls Royce”
transportation of Colonial days. It was
here that Bent grass was first discov­
ered on this continent and from this
smallest state in the Union, Rhode Island
Bent derived its name. Rhode Island
Bent is the natural grass of the New
England States. It is the predominant
volunteer grass of the high, dry land
in this section of the country. If a field
is left after cultivation and not sown
with any grass whatever, Rhode Island
Bent takes possession of its own accord
except in very wet places where Sea­
side Bent is the natural grass. Rhode
Island Bent, the seed o f which is the
most plentiful of all commercial Bents
makes an excellent turf for lawns,
tennis courts, playgrounds, etc. Rhode
Island Bent is growing on more golf
course greens than all other varieties
of the Bent family of grass put together.
The plants of Rhode Island Bent
spread but not in the same manner as
either Creeping Bent or Velvet Bent.
That is, they do not send out runners
or stolons above or below the ground.
The tuft or stool of the Rhode Island
Bent plant gradually spreads out at the
base and where the seed is sown suffi­
ciently thick and there are enough
plants they will crowd together and
make a very fine turf. As well as mak­
ing a beautiful turf it is extremely

G o lf.
18 holes, 100 to 125 acres;
mown fairways occupy 40 to 50 acres.
9 holes, 50 to 75 acres; mown fairways
occupy 20 to 25 acres. Fairways, width
150 to 200 feet. Area of puttinggreens, 1-10 to 1-4 acre.
P o l o . ^Boarded field, 300 yards by 160
yards. Field not boarded, 300 yards by
200 yards. Goals placed 250 yards
apart.
L a w n T e n n is . Court markings are 78
by 36 feet. Desirable total area per
court, 130 by 65 feet.
L a w n B o w lin g .
42 yards square or
larger. If flooded for curling, 45 yards
square; curling marks or tees, 38 yards
apart.
B a s e b a ll.
“ Diamond” is a square
with 90-foot sides, diagonally 127 feet,
3 3-8 inches. Area of field varies,
average 3 1-2 acres.
F o o tb a ll.
Between goal-posts, 330
feet. Total advisable length, 400 feet.
Width recommended, 160 feet.
C r ic k e t.
Field should be 1 5 0 yards
square;
pitch or distance between
wickets is 22 yards.
L a w n H o c k e y . Length 110 yards by
50 to 60 yards wide.
A r c h e r y . Golds are from 30 to 100
yards from the archer. Allow an addi­
tional 300 yards at back and sides for
safety.
L a c r o s s e . 100 to 125 yards long, 90
to 100 yards wide.
C r o q u e t . 35 yards long by 28 yards
wide.
C l o c k G o l f . A circle of turf 20 to
24 feet in diameter is large enough.
T e t h e r B a ll. 20 by 20 feet.

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SEEDS

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New England Golf Courses
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A. N. P E C K H A M
K IN G S T O N , R .

F. i . Woodruff & Sons

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Milford, Conn.

The Worthington Overgreen
Cuts Three Greens
In Less Time Than
It Takes One Man To Cut One

In short, it does three men’s
work. Releases two men for
other work. These Overgreens
pay for themselves in the money
they save.
Send for Overgreen Catalog.
Get the facts. See for yourself.

gton
ower

M a i n Office:
STROUDSBURG
Pennsylvania

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