The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-14

After several days of experimenting
one of the prominent members of the
Shawnee Golf club announced with an
air of finality that pipe was the only
thing for a golf course. 81 tried Smok-
ing cigars" he told his friends, but
the smoke got into my eyes and 1
couldn't drive well. One day I tried a
pipe and it's just the thing. Just
what the practice is in this re-
spect in Scotland no one seems to
know.
The program for the state invitation
golf tournament to be held Septem-
Der %, "a and 25 on the Country club
course will be out next week. The club
members expect to have one of the
largest and best tournaments ever
held in the state.
When Grantland Rice wrote his
golf poem, "Rubaiat of Duffer,"
he probably did not know that he was
hitting upon the maelstrom of trouble
on the Shawnee course. Here's the
poem:
Some time 1 think that never looks so small
The waiting cup when putt the ball !;
For though L putt and putt and putt and
The balIy pill will rarely ever fall.
A party of Country club players in
Guiding Catlin, Hansen, Bartell
PEBBLES, and Tom Frost went to En-
poria last Sunday for match. The
Topeka team came home winners and
reported that they had a great match
PEBBLES broke a record for the course
and Bling Bartell claims that he
made one of the longest drives of his
career. bling" says the ball went al
most 500 yards.
A great many beginning golfers
have considerab bic trouble in mastering
the upright swing (the club over the
shoulders) and as result most
noviceS use what is known as the flat
swing (the club below the shouldersl
With this swing it is easier to hit the
ball but the trouble lies in the fact
that not all clubs are built so this
swing can be made perfectly. George
Duncan, a Scotland expert who has
been called the greatest golfing genius
of the century, is a great believer in
the upright swing He does not think
that any player can endure for long in
first class golf these days and be as
consistently successful as he should be
unless he swings in the upright way
with his wooden clubs. He believes
that this system means everything to
accuracy and direction, and while
granting that the flat swing may be
more neutral, is convinced that the
upright method is best in the long run.
He has tried both.
Alex Smith, who has charge of the
Wykagyl golf course in st. Louis, de-
livered the following lecture the other
day to a man who was having trouble
with his drives:
1.-The average amateur tries to get
too far in his drive and often sacrifices
direction for distance. A shorter but
straighter ball is much more service
able than the long drive that is in the
rough three times out of four.
IF you are always sure of getting a
drive of only 100 yards every time, but
ball that is straight down the course,
to
than the long drive that is half the
time off the course.
mo one need to be ashamed of a
190-yard drive. If his shots from the
tee average this he will drive as far as
any man need to on d golf course. In
these days of scientific trapping it is
the player who handles his iron shots
the best that wins the championships.
A well-played approach is better than
a mighty swipe from the tee.'
The fascination of the game of
golf that has gripped so manyTopekans
recently is we'll expressed in the story
of a certain Scotch clergyman who,
after a hard days golg during which
some sulphurous expressions escaped
him, remarked to his companion,
svitha deep sigh: Eth, Mon, 1 maun
gee it up"
What gee up gowf?' his friend
Ma, ma mon, not govt. but the
meenistry.''
"Bob'' PEBBLES Now Downtown.
Owing to the demand for his hand
made clubs, Bob PEBBLES, the Coun-
try club professional is making the
H. B. Howard & Cos ZIG Kansas ave
nue. his downtown headquarters where
complete line of Golf clubs and
supplies will be shown.
Bob imports a number of differ
ent styled club each year such as the
lor etc, these will be stocked along
with his own special clubs.
Bob PEBBLES, the Country club pro-
fessional, is in Chicago practicing for
the Western open Golf champion
ship tournament which will be held
August Is and 10 at the Glen Oak
Country club, Glen Ellyn, Ill.
The H B. Howard Co., is the larg-
est Sporting Goods house in Topeka.
ADV.
NJ. d. G. Co. 10; Beatrice Creamery g.
The Mills Dry Goods company ball
team defeated the Beatrice team a.
Western league park Friday afternoon
by the count of 10 to 9.
The score: r H E
Beatrice. ... 9 10
Batteries: Hanley and Gunnerson;
Sullivan Logan and Bell.
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