The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-21

Robert Fullerton received letter
today from Donald Ross, the expert
who will come to Topeka from Hol-
yoke, Mass, to lay out the permanent
eighteen-hole course at the Shawnee
Golf club. Ross stated that he would
be here September. L sure.
Charlie Mitchell and Sad Hodgins
are restless for a battle the golf
links, but they never can get together.
The contest is to be staged some morn
ing at $50 o'clock on the Shawnee
Golf club course. AS a matter of fact
this very contest has been set a num-
!. Der of times. but every time Charley
gets up early enough to be at the
course by $50 Sad is in bed. When
ever Hodges is ready Mitchell is in
bed. Hence no match so far. When
some appointed morning there should
be some" match for the two have
been dreaming about it for many
nights and early mornings.
Six Canadian golfers will compete
in the national amateur championship
tournament of the United States Golf
association over the Detroit course,
starting Saturday, August %.
George S. Lyon will come from To-
ronto, Montreal is sending T. B. Reith,
Charles B. Grier and Godfrey Turpin;
F. r. Martin and A. Martin are going
to represent Hamilton.
England will not be represented in
this tournament, although invitations
have been extended to several of the
veteran golfers who are not eligible
for military service.
Chicago has unofficially advised the
tournament committee that at least
nine of its best amateurs will come.
The men named are: Charles (Chick)
Evans, Western amateur champion;
Ned Sawyer, Walter Egan, Mason
wards. Kenneth Edwards, Albert
Seekel and H. r. Loudon.
w. E. Bacon, who has charge of the
newspaper room at the historical
ciety, and Mrs. Bacon are two most
enthusiastic golfers. Mrs. Bacon is a
southpaw and her husband plays right
handed.
Robert Fullerton, the local sporting
learned the game in Scotland when
he was boy, tells a story of the at
titude of caddies toward the players
in the old country.
who are too old to go to sea- Fuller
ton explained, land they take up
caddying for a living. They hold any
one who is not a good golfer in utter
contempt. If a member of the nobility
goes around a course and plays bad
golf they have no use for him and
treat him as a cOmmOner but if some
ordinary person comes on to the links
and plays a great game the caddies
treat him like lord
Fullerton tells the following story
of an actual happening:
st Andrews is a great educational
center as well as golf center and one
day professor from the university
was playing on the famous links. He
drove the ball into a bunker and was
having hard time getting it out. The
caddy, a withered old man, was stand
ing at one side with the bag CT clubs
over his shoulder and was watching
with utter contempt the efforts of the
professor. He finally said: 'Ye may
have darn fine head for Greek and
Latin but it takes brains to play
govt .
The "mashie' is proving to be one
of the most valuable clubs to the play
ers on the Shawnee Golf club course
because of the uncertainty of the tem-
porary greens. To play a stroke with
this club is a difficult task for the or
binary beginner Robert Fullerton
gives the following on how to play
the maShie'':
1.-The success to be attained in the
playing of a maShie stroke consists of
in a particular position with
to the ball that will give a
'back-spin' or English reducing the
run or roll to a few yards. This
'back-spin' can be developed by Drac-
tice to make the ball roll back few
feet towards the player at the finish
of the carry
when this English is applied
properly it will be found impossible to
get little distance over ninety yards,
although by reducing the backspin
the ball can be driven 125 to $50 yards
with the same length of swing This
will explain the theory some players