The Ear Muff Club

The Ear Muff Club
Bill Dwyer was a veteran journalist from Lawrence. Formerly
press secretary to Governor Richard J. Hughes, Dwyer was the
author of ''The Day Is Ours!: An Inside View of the Battles
of Trenton and Princeton'' (Viking Press, 1983). A paperback
of the book has been published by the Rutgers University Press

Bill wrote:

What was the Ear Muff Club? In answer to that question, which
came up the other day at lunch with Anon., I have gathered some
information, most of it from my friend Don Delany, the Times of
Trenton music maven.
The Ear Muff Club was made up of some 20 men who were determined
to make golf a year-round sport. They played on Mondays at the
Yardley Golf Club from 1950 to about 1960. They competed in a
tournament in the spring and they got together for a picnic in
the summer. In some years they came close to playing all 52
Mondays. Snow, not freezing temperatures, was the only thing
that stopped them.
''There was one day when the temperature was nine degrees
above zero, and I had to quit after nine holes and go in for
a hot shower,'' Delany recalls.
Ear Muff membership, in addition to Don, included Frank
''Minnie'' Nolan, Tony Nini, Roger and Ernie Delmont, Red Tracey,
Lester ''Huck'' Costner, Mike Paparella, Lou Crecco , Edward
''Moon'' Mullen, Mike Frascella, Jim Purgavie, Walter Scott,
Tom Prior, Steve Perry, Jim McDonough, Paul Cooper, Harold Kroske,
Harry Kramer, Dr. Charles Smith and Bill Gallagher.