The "Technocracy" of Golf Maintenance .

By W . C. J A C K S O N TECHNOCRACY as defined by Mr. Scott, • tha t eminent engineer a t Columbia University, is the development of the ma-chine to the point of production where the social or labor order can live on fewer working hours.

Looking back over the last fifteen years of golf course maintenance, we see three very definite periods, classified generally as follows:

1. The Awakening to a Higher Order of Maintenance.

2. Experimental Stage of Better Turf Production.

3. Development of Equipment to the Highest Point of Efficiency.

Lately we have been confronted with a fourth stage which we migh t call the Economical Stage Due to Depression.

Personally, I think this last condition, in the end, will do more good to bring the care of golf courses to an intel l igent basis, and afford a combining of the three pre-vious stages to put this main tenance on a practical plane, than any th ing that has happened in the history of golf.

To prove this point we mus t go back to a t ime in about 1918 and offer a resume of these stages. It was about this t ime that certain prominent seed houses and golf course supply companies realized the coming demand for better courses and ap-plied all of their resources to the propa-ganda necessary to st imulate th is demand. Famous golf architects were employed and so-called "turf experts" were sent abroad to advise clubs on their problems.

Unfortunately some of these experts in reality knew very little about turf produc-tion and their sole aim in l ife was to in-duce a club to purchase twice as much seed or fert i l izer or material as was neces-sary for the mat ter in hand. But they did this much good, in tha t they awakened greenchairmen to the point of thinking and finally bringing the issue to a point of readjus tment .

Some of the wiser heads got together and with the help of Drs. Piper and Oak-ley, agrostologists in the Depar tment of Agriculture, the Green Section had its in-ception. The first years of its infancy were employed mostly in criticizing commercial experts and condemning nearly everything promulgated by them. In much of it they

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were r ight and served as a check on over-commercialization.

Then entered a period of experimenta-tion with put t ing green grasses and we saw the entrance of stolonized bent greens. Various s t ra ins were introduced, such as, Metropolitan, Washington, Virginia, Sea-side, etc. and a craze for these greens swept the country.

Golf courses tore up their existing greens to reach th is "Answer For It All." Too much reliance was put on anyth ing tha t emanated f rom the Green Section and hundreds of courses went blindly through a period of inflation with enormous recon-struction and re tu rn ing programs.

Frankly, looking back over a period of fourteen years there have been only two th ings insti tuted of real value as f a r as turf culture was concerned, and they were the use of mercuric and mercurous chlor-ides in the place of Bordeaux mix ture for t rea tment of fungous diseases and the ap-plication of a rsenate of lead, for the re-tardat ion of weed growth and the elimi-nation of grub and earthworms.

Then what has been the one thing tha t has enabled golf courses to reach a high-er s tandard, and expedite its grooming for immediate play? Oolf course equipment and machinery, of course.

Personally, if I had to employ a green-keeper tomorrow I would far ra ther he would be a competent mechanic than a renowned turf expert. Manufacturers real-ized this a few years ago and to that end they really worked. So today we are able to mow 18 greens in from three to four hours, mow our fa i rways in f rom seven to eight hours, water 18 greens in f rom three to five hours, and water our fair-ways in from one to three days, mix our compost in one-fifth the time and keep our mowers sharpened and equipment in apple pie order.

The greatest expense in the maintenance of a golf course i s ' t h e labor; material used

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and initial cost of equipment is small in comparison. If we had to maintain a mod-ern golf course at its present standard with the equipment available fourteen years ago, the cost would be enormous or almost impracticable.

Today I am caring for an 18 hole course, one of the best in the Middle West, with perhaps the largest green area in the coun-try, 1,000 acres of park area, 5% miles of roadways, 3 polo fields, 2 tennis courts, stables with capacity for 100 horses, estates

i built on the club grounds, 3 trapshooting stands and one of the finest tree and shrub nurseries of any course in the United States for a total cost of $25.000 annually and I only work my men IVz hours per day!

The answer is purely and solely stand-ardized, modern equipment, repaired and kept in shape all of the time.

Club's Green Damaged by Small Boys

T H E UNICORN Country Club, Woburn, Mass., suffered malicious damage amount-

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How Texas Club Builds Sand Greens That Satisfy

IN C O M M O N with golf courses in this section of the country, where rainfal l is inadequate for the maintenance of grass

put t ing greens, our club, being unable to install a sprinkler system, was confronted with the problem of the proper construc-tion of sand greens. The sand greens as first built were very unsatisfactory, be-cause the heavy ra ins churned up the sand, washed it off, and floated the lighter fuel oil out of the sand on to the fairways. This not only interrupted play, but necessi-tated a continuous outlay for labor and mater ia l in replacing sand and oil. In the winter of 1926 the sand greens were rebuilt , and we now have no trouble f rom the loss of sand and oil by wind and rain .

Our course is located on a high ridge or divide with headings of small draws or valleys leading out from the ridge. The soil on the ridge is r a the r poor, with layers of stone underneath, and the grass is poor.

Here is an article taken from Golf Monthly of Edinburgh, Scotland, telling how the Live Oak G. C., located at Weatherford (near Fort Worth), Texas, builds its sand greens. The author of the article is Wright D. Taylor, green-chair-man of Live Oak.

Our sand greens are 42 ft. in diameter and are built on the native soil. In re-building them 3 barrels of r a the r heavy fuel oil were first put on the base and al-lowed to soak in for a few days in order to kill the vegetation and to help keep the base from absorbing the oil out of the sand on the green. The base is tamped smooth and almost level, leaving the top of the cup about % in. higher than the outer edge

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of the sand green 21 ft. distant. The pur-pose of this slight risa is to keep as much water as possible out of the cup. It really helps rather than retards good putting.

Cup holes, which are 3 ft. deep, are filled to the bottom of the cup with small stones so as to permit quick drainage of any water in the cup.

For about a foot around the cup the hard base is levelled with the top of the cup, so that in play the sand can be drag-ged on this to a depth ot ^ to in., suf-ficient to permit a ball to run t rue if struck true. This also prevents the players creat-ing a saucer-like depression of several feet around the cup resulting from their drag-ging sand away from instead of toward the cup and dragging the sand too firmly. This hard ground around the cup also, to a large extent, prevents sloughing of the side walls of sand into the cup and creating a hole at the top that is much wider than the regulation 4*4-in. cup.

In our case we obtain a mixture of lime-stone gravel and sand washed into ravines. We first screen out the rough particles through a screen of eight meshes to the inch, and then screen out the dir t and very fine sand through a screen of 24 meshes to the inch. It is this dirt and very fine sand which, in our opinion, is the chief cause of sand greens becoming packed by rains and play. The portion of the ma-terial saved for use is about 20 per cent of the whole.

This is then thoroughly worked in a mortar box with heavy oil or residuum un-til the sand has absorbed all the oil it can. At first thought this amount of oil might seem to be too much; but a f te r the sand is spread, much of the oil will pass down into the base, and that on the surface dries out to such an extent af ter a few days that it will not stick to the players shoes. The screening of and working oil into the sand should be done when the material is thoroughly dry, as it can be done much better when in that condition and at far less cost, the process being a tedious one at the best. As this residuum is a rather heavy oil, it can not well be worked into

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the sand in cool weather. In th is case it should be well heated or thinned with a very small amount of light fuel oil.

The sand is spread only 1 inch deep on the green, because only a light smoothing of the surface is required to permit a ball to run true, and it is deep enough to cause a ball to stick to the sand green if it hits the near side f rom a good distance—up to about 50 yds. in case of a mashie shot of fa i r height. A few weeks later, a f te r ra ins and play tend to pack the sand, the sur- } face will need to be regularly roughed up to a depth of about % in. and dragged with a mat. We use light drags made of two pieces of half-round l ^ - i n . moulding nail-ed together, wi th a flat handle of about y4 by 1V4 ins.

Our sand greens have sodded dir t r ims and are built sufficiently high to accomp-plish their purpose of keeping outside water off and washing rains from remov-ing sand and needlessly floating the oil. To facilitate play the rims are tapered sev-eral feet outward to a feather edge, leaving the surface a r a the r gentle swell. Rain water on a sand green is drained off through one or two 2-in. gas pipes set into the rim of the green, which, a f t e r ra in , quickly drain off the water, soon put t ing the sand green in a condition for play.

Pr ior to July 1930 we had not begun to remove the di r t and fine sand f rom the ma-terial used on the greens, which we con-sider to be the chief cause of packing. The old sand greens, prior to that time, had nevertheless gone a long time without re-quir ing re-oiling and were splendid greens when properly roughed up and dragged with a mat . The sand greens we recon-structed in July 1930 by removing the di r t and fine sand, appear a f t e r two years a s good as they were the day they were finish-ed, which is cer ta inly enough to sa t is fy anyone.

We a t t r ibute the satisfactory resul ts we have had with our sand greens largely to the coarser sand which we use, but especial-ly to the heavy residuum from oil refiner-ies or cleanings f rom old fuel-oil supply tanks of steam users, which we use in place of the ordinary light fuel oils. There is a little oil in the residuum to dry out and float off, and it serves its purpose of holding the sand together. Our sand greens will not need to be re-oiled more often than once a year, and probably less of ten.

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Mixed German Bent Seed Is Often a Costly Gyp

USE SEALED bent (state or government sealed) or trade-marked bents whose

guarantors are houses of unquestioned reputation, or you are liable to get gypped unmercifully on the German bent racket, warn some of the leading seed authorities.

German mixed bent, they advise, should be purchased only after an expert, micro-scopic examination has been made. The German mixed bents today sold in the United States frequently are German bent chaff with less than 5 per cent live seed because the bent seed carries an import duty of 40 cents a pound and there is no duty on the chaff.

Fred Radway, New York seed dealer, tips off the way the racket is victimizing golf course and other seed buyers, and warns against the purchase of unsealed bent, by showing GOLFDOM copies of sev-eral letters from Germany in which the gyp proposition is presented. Here is one of the enlightening communications re-

ceived from Germany, from which is quot-ed verbatim:

"We allow us to point to you that it would be extremely favourable for you to buy the south german creeping bent of highest purity (80-85%) with a duty of $40. —per 100 lbs. and besides the chaff, for which you need not pay duty.

"By corresponding mixture you can re-duce the merchandise to the practicable quality of 65-70% purity and by this in-crease the quantity by nearly 15% hav-ing the great advantage of not paying any duty for this 15%. The chaff cost only $4.50 per 50 kg. cif., New York and as said no duty."

From another letter written by the same people, later, is a quotation on south Ger-man bent 82.5% purity and 80% germi-nation, accompanied by a quotation on chaff, not more than 1% weeds and 2% bent grass corn.

This explains the large amount of chaff of suspicious origin found by investigators like the New York State Experiment sta-tion in some lots of lawn mixtures. The

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only protection seems to be for the buyer to insist on the better quality and to have the vendor tell the truth on the bag labels in such a way that a check-up is easily and the vendor can be held strictly ac-countable.

IN AREAS where daylight saving is in ' effect, and it is daylight until almost nine o'clock, clubs have had considerable success with Saturday evening dinner dances by serving at tables set out on the ) clubhouse lawn. The novelty of eating outdoors appeals to members, especially during hot spells when every breeze is precious.

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The Par XL layout will go in an area less than a city block and provide a de-mand for every club in the bag in playing 18 holes. Fairway, greens, rough and traps are provided on the layout.

A call boy located on an elevated stand 120 yards from the tee calls the distance and location of each shot, so the next shot may be played for the location indicated by the scorecard.

The tee is 50 yards long and is divided in the middle by a protective fence, thus giving the course plenty of playing ca-pacity.

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N E W S C O R E C A R D C A T A L O G Park Ridge, 111.—Graphic Score Book Co.

is now mailing its 1933 catalog of score cards, tourney forms, handicap cards and record books to all clubs. Included in the catalog is an interesting article by W. W. Smvthe, advocating the adoption of "deci-mal par" in fixing handicaps.

Mr. Smythe points out that any hole

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from 251 yds. to 445 yds. is a par-4 hole under present practice, yet obviously the longer hole is more difficult to play in per-fect figures. By giving the shorter and hence easier hole a par of 3.5, the average length par-4 hole (348 yds.) a par of 4, and the longest par-4 hole a par of 4.5, Mr. Smythe believes a fairer basis for handicapping can be reached. The same system is recommended for par-3 and par-5 holes.

Club officials interested in reading the entire argument for adopting "decimal par" are requested to write the company for its 1933 catalog.

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way. M o d e r n , hospit-

able, and comfortable.

Like the Manager,

like the rates — »2.50

single, 13 50 double,

for a room with bath!

It's the

PICCADILLY ^ «-.it. STREET .«d BROADWAy • NEW YORK <2 WILLIAM MADLUNG, Mnq. Dir.

CREEPING BENT TURF" Illinois Grass Co.'» True Washington Strain Creeping Kent is used by h u n d r e d s of g r e e n -k e e p e r s , golf a n d c o u n t r y c lubs , e tc . , In so l id t u r f f o r m . F u r n i s h e d in r o l l s r e a d y t o l a y d o w n l i k e a c a r p e t . W i t h s t a n d s h e a t w a v e . G u a r a n t e e d q u a l i t y . A v a i l a b l e in s t o l o n s a l so . W e g r o w B l u e G r a s s Sod, too .

W r i t e t o d a y f o r p r i c e s a n d s a m p l e s . ILLINOIS GRASS CO.. llomewood, Illinois .1. A. Carter Sis. \gt.. ?;> K. Wacker Dr., Chicago

'Lock Your Hose Where it Belongs" McCLAIN UNDERGROUND

HOSE LOCKER Improve the appearance and safety of your course by keeping your Put-ting Green hose neatly rolled on a revolving metal reel in a durable steel locker below the ground at each Green, protected from theft, sun, weather and mowers. Big

hose capacity. Easily installed. Pleases players. Many economy features. Write for literature. McCLAIN BROS. CO., 119 2nd St., CANTON, OHIO

Rotary Screens - S O I L

F. S. CONVERSE CO. Box B, JOHNSON CITY, N. V.

W H E E L S P U 1 I S Quickes t t o put on and take ofT. D o u b l e s tract ion Durable a n d low priced.

All s i z e s f o r all purposes. S a m p l e s a n d c irculars sent free on request . Adv i se m a k e of t rac tor and pur-pose Intended.

If your Ford or equ ipment dea ler c a n n o t supply, wr i te d irect .

I m m e d i a t e s h i p m e n t . Pr ices reduced.

Golf w h e e l s and all Ford-son p a r t s o n hand.

R. S. Horner, Mfr. Geneva, Ohio

the business world due to his association with J. Wiss & Sons Co., of Newark, cut-lery manufac turers , with whom he has been connected since 1898. Mr. Gairoard is general manager in charge of sales, and will continue in this capacity.

During the war he was chai rman of a sub-committee of the Council of National Defense, having charge of the production of surgical scissors and shears for the U. S. Army and Navy. At present he is on the executive committee of the Ameri-can Tariff league of New York. For some years he has been on the board of direc-tors of the Newark Chamber of Commerce, and is now a member of the executive committee.

Mr. Gairoard makes his home in West Orange, N. J., and belongs to the Essex County C. C.

L A W S O N R O B E R T S O N H A S N E W

A T H L E T I C R U B New York City.—A new product which

used the athlet ic champions of the ent ire nation as the " tes t laboratory" is called Lawson Robertson's Athletic Rub. Lehn & Fink, the big drug house, has teamed with the celebrated coach of the Olympia Games to make it available.

Lawson Robertson, a record-holding spr inter in his day, claimed every other good lotion had some drawback,—an of-fensive odor, greasiness, st ickiness, or ir-r i tat ing qualities. So he developed one tha t would do the job for tired, aching muscles, yet be stingless, non-irritable and pleasing in smell. It penetra tes deeply into the skin layer.

L Y O N , I N C . , I S S U E S C O M P L E T E

C A T A L O G O N L I N E Nashville, Tenn.—A new il lustrated cata-

log describing the full line of woods and irons being offered by Lyon, Inc., is now being sent to pros throughout the country. These Macdonald Smith "Tailor-Made" clubs are built to order and use hickory shaf t s in all instances. Prices of the woods range from $15.00 to $20.00 each, depend-ing on the model and the catalog specifi-cally requests purchasers to place the i r or-ders through their home-club pro.

Save Mower Repair Expense and Labor with Budd Blades. Complete with attachment, first cost is little and replacement blades cost still less. An investment in Budd Blades NOW will pay for itself before winter.

BUDD MFG. CO., Dept. G, Ravenna, Ohio

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