The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-06-27
First > Wagon Rut, Then .
Corn Field Appeared.
TROPHIES TO CAPITAL c1Y
Local Players Well Pleased
Over Championship Meet.
Records Of Course Held BY
Country Club Enthusiasts.


in charge Of the Kansas State Golf
Contest1
Well. the state championship 10 over
for another year ana Claude Adams Of
Hutchinson. holds the title in Kansas.
The finals proved to be close contest
but the golf was very poor for cham
pionship affair.
OF course there was a heavy wind
which seemed to affect the playing. but
at that, the golf should have been Of
higher standard.
The players started on at $40 O'Clock
prompt, Stinson winning the first hole
In s. Stinson also won the second hole
with s and this put him two up Ad-
ans won the third with q s and the next
the seventh, making the match even
and they halved the eighth and ninth
holes which left them even at the turn,
both went out in a.
Stinson won the tenth hole with . Z
and the eleventh was halved but Adams
won the twelfth in three. The next three
were. halved. Then Stinson camo up
strong and won the next three holes
making him three up. On the seven
teenth, Sttnson drove into a ditch ana
could not find his ball within the time
limit SO he lost the hole. They halved
a lead Of two up. stinson made the
eighteen holes in 66 and Adams In IS.
The Last Eighteen Holes.
Starting the afternoon round. they
halved the first hole in 6. Adams was
in trouble at the second hole but made .
wonderful recovery and they halved
the hole In S. They also halved the
next hole in s, Adams again running
down putt from on the green. Adams
won the next three holes, making him
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test. The next was hclved in but
Stinson won the next, again making
the match square. Stinson also won the
ninth hole. leaving him one up and nine
to play.
Both played, poor, golf on the tentlur
and halved out in 5. Adams won the
eleventh with a 4, also the twelfth
with a 3, which again put him in the
lead. Stinson won the fourteenth in
making the match square again with
four to go. He missed an eighteen
inch putt on the sixteenth hole for .
half and the match was again even
and only two more to play. Both play
ers seemed to badly affected with
nerves.
On the seventeenth hole Adams
made a beautiful drive which ran over
the green, out Stins0n again drove into
a ditch where he had lost a ball during
the morning round He made a good
second but the ball ran over the
green into the long grass. He
then played his third shot fif-
teen feet over the hole. Adams made
a beautiful second and his ball stopped
winning the hole in 3 against s, MAX
ing him dormie one.
On the eighteenth hole, Adams
drove first and sliced his ball over ON
son appeared to have a chance to win
the hole and make the match square
but he sliced his drive, as did Adams
short time before, putting 1t about
fifteen feet from Adams ball. Both
played their second over the trees to
the edge Of the green. Stinson had to
play first and still had a chance. but
he threw 1t away when he knocked
his third about six feet, just getting ON
the green. This gave Adams more
confidence and he played up about
three feet from the hole and holed out
in 4, winning a hard fought match by
two up, as Stinson missed his putt The
scores were approximately. Adams IS.
Stinson 81.
Luck FAvors Adams.
Adams certainly got the breaks il
luck during the entire week and this
certainly had much to do in making
him a champion. OF course, do not
mean to take away from him any
Of Topeka he was three down with
four to go and drove his ball in the
corn field on the fifteenth hole. WILL
son, through a Misunderstanding, let
him play from there instead of maxi
ing him lose a stroke. He won the
hole and then won two Of the next
three, tying the match and winning
the nineteenth when he should have
lost the match by two up and one.
Then when he had to play the state
champion in the afternoon. he put up
his best game OF the week.. SO when
things were breaking like that, / was
almost sure he would win the cham
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