The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-16
First State Tournament to Be
Held Next Week.
Play VIII Be on the Country
Club Links.
GOOD TIME EXPECTED
Wichita Will Send a Delegation
of Fifteen.
Begins on Wednesday and Con-
tinues Till Saturday.

Topeka will be the host next week to
oU or more~golf players who will be
tournament, the guests of the Topeka
Country club. The State Golf asso-
clatlon under whose auspices the tOurn-
ament will be held, was organized last
year In Wichita, at the conclusion of
an invitation tournament which was
attended by number of golfists from
various sections of the state. The
tournament will start Wednesday, June
i2S. and will continue for the remainder
of the week, ending on Saturday.
Golf players will be here from 'Wich-
tia, Hutchinson, Newton and Coffey-
vile. These towns have golf clubs
which are. members of the state associ-
alton. Wichita is planning to send at
least Is players. Hutchinson will send
about ten. And the other towns will
send enough to swell the number to
80 or so. An additional invitation has
been extended to the officials of Fort
Riley, many of whom are expert golf
players.
All the matches of the tournament
will be played on the links of the To-
peka Country club.
The tournament will start next We'd
nesday, a week from today. At 1870
a qualifying round will be played which
will consist of is holes. The 80 play
ers who make the lowest medal score
will qualify.
| Thursday morning at $50 the 80
players who qualified will draw for
| pairs and will contest in pairs. The
/ 16 winners will continue the playing
for the championship, while the IL
i losers will enter the competition for the
/ consolation trophy. In the afternoon
1.-THE first round in both the champion
| ship and consolation events will be
played.
Thursday evening at 1880, a compli-
mentary dinner will be given by the
Topeka Country club.
| Friday will be one of the most i'm
portant days in the entire tournament
for it is on this dav that the greatest
| work will be done. In the morning.
commencing at $50. the second
rounds in both the championship and
| consolation events will be played. In
the afternoon the semi-finals will be
played in both events. BY this time all
but the real contestants for the cham
pionship will have been eliminated.
/ The tournament will close Saturday
morning. At $50 the finals will be
played in both eyents-36 holes foI
both the championship and consola-
ton events.
Another feature of the tournament
will be the contest between different
teams of four men each representing
each club. These teams are all to be
previously announced and will compete
for the team cup. These events will
Their scores will be kept during the
morning contest, play being against
Bogey.
i Every effort is being made by the
Topeka Country club to make the tour
nament a big success. 1t Will be the
first affair of the kind ever held ir
Kansas and the local club wants tc
make it one long to be remembered
The club house with all its privileges
will be at the disposal of the visitors
Il Social events and other functions viii
be arranged for the entertainment o.
the visitors and those from out OF
town will be shown that Topeka car
furnish a good time And it Is not un-
I likely that Topeka will make an eff
fort to secure the next tournament, al
though it is likely the other teams vii
want the honor passed around.
Henry Scandrett is chairman of the
local committee on arrangements ant
he is devoting a great amount of time
in his efforts to make it a successful
tournament
The personnel of the different teams
and individual competitors in the tour
nament has not yet been learned. The
team which will represent the Topeka
. club is now playing the qualifying
| events.
There will be a reception at the
Country club tonight and the stree
cars will go straight through without
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