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While Spencer, assisted by-Karl on off-school days and evenings, was busy <br /> building greens, the other Charter Member of the golf construction "crew", Frank <br /> Eisinger, was building fairways. Again the basic sod was disturbed as little as <br /> possible. Ftank dragged off rocks, trees, brush, everything that he could hitch <br /> his team to, following this with his horse-drawn disk which pulverized the high <br /> • Spots. This was ftrlfhwedby dragging a "planker" over the ground, and the final <br /> procedure was rolling with a horse drawn roller. No seed was used on the fairways; <br /> indeed no seed was ever used on the fairways at Orono except later in areas where <br /> grading alterations were made. The native quack grass, bluegrass and white clover <br /> eventually took over providing a very drought-resistant turf as later years would <br /> proven <br /> • The greens had to be watered, however : :.A.Arater tank was bought and mounted <br /> on one of Frank's wagons. Not having a well on Eke property, Prank would take • <br /> the water wagon home with. him in the evening . fix. it frog.iL is well with the <br /> assistance of a wind milt._ pull..it back the next mornit5 <br /> ezA4 Bosh the water care- <br /> fully on the "greens". It worked out fairly uel1. Orono 1/1$414 heNfas have existed <br /> if .it were not for the hard. and sk,Elful labor .ghat-Ft • Ginger applied in those <br /> difficult but exciting days. <br /> As soon as the grass an the fairways was strong enough and long enough to mow, <br /> Frank did the lob with his team and three fairway mowers, very sim,-Amr to the <br /> fairway mowing units now attached to tractors. Mowing fairways and rough with horses <br /> was common ps a dice in the. 'Arty 1920s. The first tractor mowing of fairways was at <br /> Minikanda in 1915, folLawel iy'*bat at Woodhill in 1921. Teeing grounds were not <br /> terribly imports nc at e4ixrkf•(h'ono• Wooden or plastic tees were unknown so the ball <br /> was teed up on a I.E'tbie mound of wet sand. The markers were put ikely spot <br /> on the fairway w.._:. the "tee-stand" nearby. A tee stand was a wooer or metal device <br /> that held a pail o taster over a sand container. The player tipped a bit water <br /> onto the sand, took up a couple of fingers full, built a Little tee about half the <br /> size of his ball, placed the ball carefully on top, and--wham! c-- <br />