The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-03-10
SPORTS TO LIFE!
Golfers, Tennis Players, Shoot
ers Preparing for Summer.
Topeka Gun Club to Hold Big
Shoot Here June 8.


high pressure these days. and every
! outdoor pleasure lover is getting ready
/ for "a big summer of it" Not only
are the golfers and the ball players
and the racquet wielders coming to life
on every hand, but the fishermen, the
campers and the gun manipulators
are showing an increased interest in
their pet pastimes And with little
! baseball in evidence, the Topeka sport
| lovers undoubtedly will take to these
affairs with a keener zest than ever
| before
| Certainly tennis and golf are due
! to have a most successful summer and
indications point to a big season with
the guns. The Topeka Gun club has
always been one of the Invest and most
up and coming organizations in the
city and its members say they are
going to Guido all previous accom-
plishments this summer. The Topeka
Rifle club also will soon be on its out
door range and enjoying weekly
shoots.
Members in Form.
The members of the gun club have
kept pretty steadily at their traps all
winter and there has not been a month
that some of them have not been out
busting a few just for the fun of it.
AS a result many of them, like A. r.
Springer. are in better form than they
ever were before at this season of the
year and they will he greatly disap-
pointed if they do not get among the
top notchers at the big Chapman
shoot which will be held this month.
The Chapman shoot is held in honor
of the patron saint of Ireland and is
one of the most famous in the whole
state.
The Topeka club will. in all prob
ability, hold it's annual registered
oh 1l,r.R- Il
officers say it will be the most pre-
tentious affair of is kind ever staged
| in Topeka. On account of the high
price of ammunition and other abnor-
NAL conditions great many clubs in
the smaller towns in the state will
not attempt a registered shoot this
season; and for this reason the hun
CRY powder burners will flock in large
/ numbers to those that are held.
! The tennis and golf players have
! hardly gotten under way here yet. but
the more enthusiastic followers of
both have been taking advantage of
! the ideal weather and have been plug
ging away at the -of game"
| Need More Accommodations.
The great problem with both these
| sports this season is going to be that
| of providing accommodations for all
! those who wish to indulge in them.
| Both the Country club and the Shaw
| nee Golf club have all the members
! they can accommodate and the Shaw
nee has a long waiting list.
/ The tennis situation was far from
/ ideal last summer and many. players
were always complaining that there
| were not enough courts. Undoubted-
| ly there will be a greater demand for
| playing facilities this summer as
many of the baseball fans will turn
to tennis, and Commissioner Porter
will probably be called upon to lay out
as many courts as his department can
get to. Already demands are being
made for courts in North Topeka.
All in all. when the baseball fans
get themselves adjusted, it may not
! be such q dull sport summer here
| after all-but it is hard for those who
! love to hear the crack and the ring
| of the bat, driving out a safe hit to
feel that it is going to be like the old
/ days when the Savages were with us.
And those who have not yet found a
way to spend their Sunday afternoons
will probably have to take up walking,
| or boating or fishing to pass away the
/ time.