Evening star., 1942-02-08
Salary Of Majority
Here Won't AVERAGE
Over 500 a Month
Dr.. Singer Hos Problem
Of Delivering Links
Material to Comps
Nv WALTER McCALLUM.


Material to Comps
By WALTER McCALLUM.
The golf professional. always q
willing worker for his country clup,
and for the membership Of that club,
ia going to be in a tough spot this
wear. Most of his troubles will CEN
ter around the golf ball situation,
which now seems settled TO tne
point where the pros will be able 10
obtain enough to last until around
july /, when the supply will dimln-
ish. and by late summer and early
fall a new golf ball literally Will be
. nugget without price.
In a city crammed with people. all
Of whom are going to want some
outdoor recreation when the long
davs of war saving time" come next
u,mmer. the pros can see only rosy
nict,,re of more golf being played
than ever before. But II they can
not obtain golf balls the players
can't play. and the pros are tnink,
ing up methods of conservation ana
aid to the men and women who are
going to want to play the game.
Income Certain to Drop.
Above all this, the income OF the
golf pro is sure to be cut. 10 get
the true picture you have to realize
that the pro profit on a golf ball OF
ton class ran around q or "a cents.
Golf pros. in the days when the
supply was unlimited, sold many
dozen over every week end at
every club. Probably at the Dig
clubs. such as Chevy Chase. Coium.
hia and Congressional, pro sales OF
high grade and therefore hlgn-
nriced golf balls ran into hundreos
of dozens year.
The pro profit, by the way. Will
he a little higher on the new prlce
scale setting the best grade OF goil
balls at IS cents each.
The way I figure the situation,
We golf pros are going to take
serious cut in income" said Tony
sylvester, Bannockburn mentor. 1t
NAV run around so per cent this
wear. although we won't know until
we find how many golf balls we
can get. If we can't get golf balls
to sell we can't make any proflt.
That adds up to and 2, doesn't 1t?
Would Raise Salaries.
The ,olf pro happens to be a
substantial citizen and necessary
part of every country club. He is
the hub of the golf wheel wherever
the game is played. In addition
to being a good teacher and good
player, he is a fair country ousi-
nessman. and when his income IS
cut it hurts. The average pro
salary around Washington tand
this will be news to lot of people,
is around 500 a month. less In
many cases. Salary, OF course, isn't
all Of the pro income, but there
isn't much more in the winter
months, and when the pro profit
on golf balls Is cut in half, that
is an added woe. The afduent clubs
would do themselves q lot OF good
by boosting the salaries Of the men
who are on the job 365 days a year.
Job for DR.. Singer.
The District Coli Association will
make a stab at collecting golf balls
and clubs for Army camps. even
though they don't yet know where
they will be shipped because the
Army has no central distributing
agency for this equipment. The
whole problem has been dumped in
the lap of capable Doc" o. U.
Singer of Congressional.
But down at Augusta, Ga. the
men who run the masters tourney
have figured out way to bring golf
smack on the doorstep of the Army.
This years masters tourney, Sched-
uled for Augusta, April 9-12, will
raise money to finance golf activi-
ties for soldiers at Camp Gordon.
large Army training center near
there. They've gone at 1t in a big
way, by providing a driving range
with target greens to be in use
by early spring. Included is NAM
moth practice putting green. From
receipts of the tourney will come
maintenance and operating equip
ment, such as floodnghts, golf clubs
and a thousand golf balls as a
starter
Included in the list of "a invited
contestants is Fred Mcleod, Co.
lumbia pro, national open king in
1908. But Freddie doesn't plan to
60. He thinks the golf season here
will be we'll under way by April
9 and, considering the expense in
volved in the Augusta trip, he has
about decided not to go. II wouldn't
have chance against those tour
nament-sharp guys" said Freddie.
ALSO they are too grim for me.
They 60 to bed at 10 o'clock every
night"
Witty Misses the Boat.
Witty Cox tells yarn on himself
which makes the former COB laugh
not too heartily.
booO o "a LIS q cdACcA4Adh cOAd LAC
three or four dozen imported golf
balls" said Cox. They hung around
In the showcase all summer. I
couldn't sell EN- Finally I gave
them away as prizes In a tourna-
ment. They were good golf balls
too. but they weren't known much
around here
early in November the same
salesman came to me. Wanted to
sell me a lot Of the same balls
for immediate delivery.s told him
about those I hadn't been able to
sell, and added: II don't want any
of your balls this year. Oh,
may be q dozen or so, but no big
quantity Boy, what I'd give now
to have about a thousand dozen Of
those things, at almost any price"
Cox, like one or two more of the
pros around town, is in civilian
defense work. Witty Is an air raid
warden at the apartment where
he makes his home. But Tony Syl-
vester of Bannockburn, q World
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