The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-12-17
TOPEKA AGAIN WINS.
Lawrence Golf Players Lose the Match
SATURDAY..


Lawrence Golf Players Lose the Match
Saturday.
The Topeka golf players again defeated
the Lawrence players Saturday Five
teams were engaged, each team playing
Is holes. The Topeka players had 10 holes
the advantage when the match was ended
Only one Topeka. player lost, c. e Gault
was defeated by Professor Sterling by
tied. Sherman defeated Mcknight by II
holes, Morgan defeated Barlow by two
holes Iakin defeated Carr by one hole
The match between Iakin and Carr was
the most exciting, both being the cham
pions of their respective clubs, but neither
was at his best and their totals were by
no means the lowest, Carr finishing his
last round in Il. On the first round Lakin
Won but two holes and halved two more.
This left the score at the end of the first
round FIVE up in Ca1r's favor. The final
round Mr.. La-kin recovered his old-time
form and was one ahead when the last
hole was played
Sterling of Lawrence and Merriam of
Topeka divided honOrs for the best score.
both making the round in 81. Barlow of
Lawrence and Morgan of Topeka each
The weather was not ideal for golf. the
cold and fog making 1t decidedly unpleas-
Sterling, 6o-51; Gault, 62-54; Sterling 4
Mcknight, es-7s; Sherman, 1886; sher-
Newson, 55-57: Merriam, 51-61: tied
Barlow, 52-56; Morgan, 60-52; Morgan
Carr 56-71: Lakin. 66-s1: Lalxin 1 up.
IJNO EEICIAIl ACCOJJNT
Few people besides the cows in the pas
ture realize the excitement of a game of
golf. Fully thirteen people went out to
the golf links Saturday to see the game
between the Lawrence and Topeka teams,
in which Topeka won by seven up, or
poker or some such score To the casual
observer golf is almost as exciting as
crOquet and it would be fully exciting
if stakes painted in different colors were
stuck at the home plate. The game of
Bows - With marbles called roIvp6liV o or
diffaTHnRa ha
the one who loses does not have to put
his knuckles down to be shot at in golf
as the loser does in rolly-pOlly-
There are several things essential to a
golf player, among them are a cap that
ion, knickerboclzers, a caddy, an assert
ment .s Of sticks and q large bottle Of Scotch
this paraphernalia any one can play
good game of golf, for the one object of
iature cistern which is in the center of
a sanded space called. for some unac-
countable reason, a putting green. There
are nine of these green's" and they are
as far apart as the naked eye can reach.
In the start of the game two opponents
get together and knock their little hard
rubber balls as far as they can-each has
a ball of his own. When they have
knocked the ball in a hole they pick it
out and knock it to the next hole This
is kept UP until all the nine holes have
been made and the ball is knocked back
home. Any one with half an eye for sport
can see how exciting it is. The beautiful
part of the game is the fact that when
that the neighbors cannot see without a
spyglass all the players go into the gully
rye. After drinking. this everybody says
"hoOt mOn." and then they start to
knocking the. ball to the next gully just
as fast as they can. This "hoot mon"
business is kept up as long as the game.
and the gullies and the bottle last. No
one cares much what the score is, for in
the excitement of chasing from one gully
to another one loses interest in the
score.
The caddy is a small boy who acts in
the same capacity for the boot mon player
as the bird dog does for the hunter The
bird dog locates a bird and points it. and
the caddy locates the ball and sits by it.
The caddy Is indispensable to the golf
sible in an amateur game of baseball.
The expressions used by golf players are
publication. so the reporter did not get
any but the best of Them They are
something like the following. barring, of
course, the language used by the scorer
when he fell in d ditch and player when
he knocked a ball in a patch Of weeds.
The reporter understood that their Ian
guage was official. but he has been I'M
able to find it in Mr.. Spaulding's guide or
IN any of the best authorities on etiquette
of golf When one of the players uses his
driver at the tee grounds and succeeds in
plowlng up the earth and missing the ball
he is supposed to say: This is a glorious
beautiful afternoon. How cheerfully the
little birds sing. I would that 1 could
linger and harken to their MARBLE. but
must away and hit again the delusive
ball" When the ball objects to going fur
Their than ten feet after being struck with
the cleek or the driver or the brassy or
the lofter. the man who is attempting to
urge it onward should turn to his oppon-
ent and say: This ball does not seem in
clined to go as I wish Is it not strange?
The next time I will strike to do better
and will say more kind things when 1 hit
the ball"
When one players is ten up and his op-
ponent cannot possibly gain the winner
should at once hum a dead march. This
Will add greatly to the playing of the op-
ponent and viii make him feel like crawl
ing in the next hole One rule in golf is
that all distractions within a mallets
length of the ball can be brushed away by
the hand. This rule is a. good one. but
will not work where the herd law is not
enforced The caddies seem to do most of
the work, and it would be a good thing
for them if they would organize. They
are obliged to chase from one end of To-
Deka township to the other on the look
out for rubber balls, and are not per-
mitted to hear the beautiful expression of
earnest thought which ripples from the
rosebud lips of the player who tops" his
ball when he desirH to do otherwise.
The score in the game Saturday is
known to a few of the players. and it is
reported that Topeka won by a
score of 10 up This is hearsay. for the
official scorer had not arrived from the
last gully when the game was finished
and nothing authentic could be obtained.
"A "a @ARAa-@ AHannsr