The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-08-23
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ordS have been broken.
The club grounds are laid out es-
pecially for the playing of that great
est game, golf, the most popular,
most fashionable and most scientific
game played out of doors.
This game has been in existence in
the United States about thirteen years.
and today no game is played SO eX-
popularity as golf. The old man and
the child play on equal terms. This
is the game where the structural
steel worker and the captain of
finance can join hands, play and be in
peace and perfect equality and fra
ternity.
This is one of the games where labor
ofttimes gets the better of CAPITAL
and still the dove of peace reigns
This is the simplest of games, and yet
IKE woman (the noblest work of
COD, is never quite understandable
never mastered, and charming in it's
new phases and allurements; the
royal and ancient game played by the
Scottish monarchs and English kings
so long ago that it's origin is lost in
the shadow of ages past. Four hun
dred and more years ago it took such
a hold upon the people of Scotland
that the Scottish parliament, fearful
lest the people should forget the arts
of war and the neglect of archery.
prescribed a law prohibiting golf; but
to no effect. Orthodox deacons be-
came so interested that they INDUCED
in the game on the Lords day and
were churched for it, so that James
Sixth of Scotland was forced to en-
act law to the effect that persons
who attended church on Sunday
morning, might, without censure or
eternal damnation, play golf in the
afternoon This is the national game
of Scotland, and it was but fitting
that the unfortunate but most beau
tiful queen, Mary Queen of Scots,
should have been an enthusiastic
deVotee of the game.
PEBBLES was reared, and lived in
Earlsferry in F'ifeshire, Scotland,
greatest golfing center of the world.
the same town James Braid halls
from, and from this greatest of
champions he learned the game. AS
a professional golfer, he has partici-
pated in nearly all professional cham
pionships and tournaments in this
country in the last eight years, and
in 1909 tied for fourth place in the
national, later defeating the cham
pion in a match game at South Bend,
Ind; that same year won the In
diana and Texas championship and
was second to Fred Mcleod in the
indianapolis tournament in 1910. He
has held the position of golf instruc-
tor and greenskeeper for the follow
ing we'll known clubs: South Orange
Field, South Orange, n. j; Fairview
COUNTRY club, Tuckahoe, n. y;
Sound Beach Coli and Country club,
Sound Beach, Conn; st. Joseph Val
lev Country club, South Bend, Ind;
DALLAS Golf and Country club, Dallas,
Tex, and Wichita Country club, Wich-
tia, Kan.
In addition to his participation in
national tournaments and other events
of Importance in the golf world, he ma :
never lost a challenge match. Only
this summer he defeated Tom Hughes.
of the Wichita Country club, eleven up
in the first IS holes of a challenge
match. He. made this score on tEc
greens of the Wichita club. The second
half was to have been played on the
green of the Topeka Country club, bus
Hughes realized that he could not over
come the handicap and forfeited the
match. with an agreement to play an
other. The first IS holes of the second
match will be played on the green OF
the Topeka Country club some time
next month.
An invitation tournament has been
arranged; at which players from all ad-
Joining states have been invited to PLAY
and it is expected that the first half
of this return challenge will be played
a day or two before or after this tour
nament.
Mr.. PEBBLES will leave, after the IN
vjtation tournament for a number of
towns in this section of the country,
where he will play match games or cx-
hibitions. Among the towns he viii
visit are Omaha, Sioux City and Des
Moines. Other towns have not been
arranged for but negotiations are pend
ing.
PEBBLES expects to return to the To-
peka Country club for the season Of
1914. Mr. PEBBLES will install number
of new traps before the tournament
which will make the course harder and
80 efficiency
PLAYERS 1t will also make the course
a better test of golf.
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