The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-06-14

a green in London.
there is little choice between the two
in order to make a good score. The
grass greens are more accurate on the
pitch approach, but the oil greens are
better for sure putting.
Jake, by the way, as everyone in
Kansas knows. is secretary of the state
board of agriculture. While playing
No. 2 Wednesday he was able. thru
wind directed hook. to make an in
spection of the Shawnee clubs wheat
field-a Shawnee asset on unused
ground.
II hereby declare this field to be
100 per cent" declared Secretary
Mohler.
And so it will stand in the next
crop report-market quotations and
fluctuations Notwithstanding.
Shawnee players, don't forget to
turn in your cards!
This weeks rains have only Grip
pied golf. On the Country club course
the players flock to the first tee as
soon as n shower passes over. At
Shawnee they prance around like rest
less race horses awaiting the clear
ing of the skies. Both courses are
slow. making it necessary to carry
every shot, but it is a part of the
game to learn all weather conditions,
and the players are not complaining.
A number of Shawnee club mem
| bers are beginning to wonder what
V. F. Robey will do If he ever set
ties into a steady stride. Robey swings
one of the most vicious clubs of any
member on the course and when he
connects squarely he certainly makes
| his ball sqJeal.
Miss Gardiner, one of the lady MEM
bers of the Shawnee club, is playing a
steady game-steady in performance
and steady in times out. She rarely
misses an opportunity to shoot a nine
or an eighteen when the daylight
| lasts.
| Work has begun on the grass greens
at the Shawnee course. New cups
| have been made and the caretakers
are rolling and cutting the grass.
| Many players who are having trouble
with their pitches expect to set new
records when the grass green's are
available. The plan is to leave the
sand greens for those who prefer to
use them.
A Topeka golfer who is accused of
| having used his wife as an alibi for
| d a shower
has been doing some explaining. 1t
| seems the facts are Mrs. Phil East
man is never afraid of water but her
husband sometimes prefers it warmed
when applied on the outside.
Otis Hungate believes that con-
sistency is a jewel. He played four
rounds in one afternoon. Three of
the scores were just the same and the
fourth was only one stroke off. Hun
| Z
have discovered one of the great Sc
crets of the game-that of keeping
out of the rough at all costs.
1t costs two persons one dollar and
a half to go to the Shawnee links in a
| taxicab. Some of the members be-
| lieve that if they were able to own
an automobile and were willing to
| haul passengers instead of playing
| they would make money by putting
an advertisement in the papers and
agreeing to shau1 passengers for 25
cents head.
The Meadow Lake Country club of
| Kansas City will hold a special -tourna-
ment June % and 20 for professionals.
The tournament is to be a tri-city,
four-man team event, with three pro-
| fessionals and one amateur for each
team. The competition will be ~
holes medal play. an1 invitations have
y,
st. Louis and Chicago.
The San Marcos Country club at
Chandler, Ariz.. had a job lot bunch
of caddies in the form of Mexicans.
Several of them are Villistas who es-
capped over the border to take up the
practical pursuits of caddying after
several years of adventure in Mexico.
incidentally DR.. K Bannister, of the
San Marcos club, won the southwest
ern golf championship at FL Paso.
Texas, recently.
Bob PEBBLES. former professional at
the Country club, is now with the Idle
Hour Country club at Macon, Ga. Ac-
cording to reports. Bob is still shoot
ing as clean a game of golf as he
used to do on the Topeka links
The A. E. F. championship, played
along the Mediterranean at Nice.
France, was won by an enlisted man
playing with borrowed clubs. Sergt.
William Rautenbush, of Chicago, was
the winner. and Lieut.. James Hubbell
OF Des Moines, Iowa, runner up.
The Golfers Magazine tells of the
oldest golf links in the land The
club is the Midiron club. WATERFOWL
Mass, and the course is laid out on a
private lawn. There are five holes