New Britain herald., 1924-01-10
FLOOD HAS SCHEME
 ID HELP GOLFERS
Fund to Aid Committee Propagate
 Grasses Is Suggested

Val Flood. professional at the Shut Of the greens committee of the U. $. Golf association, held at the Hotel Astor in New York last week. and has prepared a statement for the Herald following that event. Val" has al ways been interested in the grass problem for fine courses and has had considerable success in growing the most desira ble strains at Shuttle Mea- dow. He advances proposition which he thinks will benefit the greens of the country very much. The state ment follows;
 The committee Of the |. s. Greens section is well balanced faculty, combining dignity, psychology, aggres- siveness and altogether 'staya ability"
 Finley Douglas occupied the chair at the recent meeting of the commit tee-and those of us who have known him long and well admired his un- changeable and serene purpose of working always for the very best in- terests of golf. Professor Piper. Car rier and Oakley are the trio around which is woven A versatile organiza- ton. The greens section has come 10 stay and the sooner all cooperate with 1t the better for all. That they have made, and will continue to make. mis- takes, is admitted. 1t is also true that they have accomplished wonders in a very short space of time. The greatest achievement, to my mind, is not the propagation Of grasses, killing of grubs, or curing brown patch, but the exposure Of fakirs and grafters and causing them to either get out of business or mend their ways. For years such people preyed upon the fellow who did not know what was needed, and even the fellow who knew the game had to pay 250 per cent more than the material was worth. Personally I feel that CO., operation is the keynote for every body, but, to be frank, I do not feel that the organization has vet reached that stage where if is a court of last appeal. Sooner or later it is bound to arrive there.
 Tn the meantime there is a lot of things to be thrashed out combining theory and practice, by mutual help. There were differences of opinion on some of the things brought up hut no antagonism to the section as an or ganization, which must be looked upon as a forward movement.
 Papers were read and lectures were given on such important matters as drainage. brown patch. vegetatiye planting. the Japanese beetle, soil i structure. etc, in which moving pie | lures played great part. Every | body pronounced the meeting n sue. | cess.
 one thing brought out by Professor i Piper was the fact that you cannot work without money. The present funds are derived from membership subscriptions but these are insnffi- eient to carry on the extensive work involved, Of course Washington 1 helps. but. even with that help and i tho fact that the committee is serving I without pay they still find themselves ! unable to accomplish half the work | which they wish 10 uncover.
 Might I suggest that every member ! club. or non-member club, which in | any way derives benefit from the com mittee,s research work, SOW a seed of | $50 in tho budget for the coming year. i the same to be handed over to the ! greens section, I would like to see i the Shuttle Meadow club SOW tho first i seed. in such a manner that it will | start 10 grow and will prove to have ] a true creeping nature. It shall be | known as the New Britain strain
 There was rumor that someone had made a will leaving the greens 1 section a million dollars at his death | but that is a case of wait horse till l the grass grows" Ii is too vague. he l may live 20 years, the work is too im- i portant. the money IS needed now.
 Zacbariah Sutciiffe, the penny | poet" once said: Help the poet whes he lives, not when he is dead
 VAL FLOOD.