The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-07-12

sThey are teeing off today-the
Shawnee and Country club players
who have entered the third team con-
test of the season on the Country club
links. May the best team win.
Four well known Lawrence golfers
motored to Topeka Thursday and
played eighteen holes at the Country
club. The members of the visiting
foursome were Doctor Jones, Irving
! Hill, Cliff Carl and Otto Barteldes.
Following the game, they had dinner
at the club before returning home.
Arthur Bonebrake equaled the
Country club course record of "a the
other afternoon. while playing with
Stan Clithero. w. Cole. and George
Snyder. He missed q short putt on
No. and thus. by the fortunes of the
| putting green, which are almost as
| eccentric Of those OF love and war,
missed out in the establishment of a
| new record.
Do you remember four years ago,
when the Shawnee links were first
| opened to the members of the club,
| how mountainous the green's were
Greens was hardly the proper term.
"A player had as much chance making
a ten-foot put. as he did one of three
inches. But that did not detract from
the sport of the game. and 1t was good
experience for the beginners. Most
/ of the members had just started in
learning the game then. Now that
they can really play. they have regu-
| lar green's. But some players some
times call them irregular
Every evening. from 9 TO o'clock,
the Country club links are crowded.
1t is estimated that about seventy five
persons play every night.
The Country club invitation tourna-
ment is an event of Importance this
| fall. On account OF the war, the affair
has not been held since 1917. and prior
to that time it was a tourney equal in
interest to the state meet, Every
country club in Kansas has expressed
its desire to send representatives, and
| invitation cards will also be sent to all
the clubs in Kansas City, st. Joseph
and other adjacent cities.
The presidents cup tournament at
the Country club this week has CEN
| tered down to half a dozen players
They are Pat Campbell, Frank Crane
Dick Alden, Tom Frost, Doctor Lyman
| and Joe Duncan.
! Col. John s. Dean, a member of the
federal board of appraisers at New
York since the beginning of the war
is home on a furlo, and is spending
part of his leisure time on the links
In New York Colonel Dean has played
on many of the famous courses. among
them the Piping Rock. Sleepy Hollow
Knickerbocker, Westchester, Ape.
wants and the Garden City. Hi!
favorite Is the latter, where regularl,
once a week he engages in a foursomt
with President Peters of the Lonl
Island railroad; Chaplain Houlaha1
and Maj. General Shanks.
No one seems to be willing to try Il
beat "Bonie's' one arm record of 81
on the Shawnee links? Wonder why
Playing with only a n1id-iro I. W
Felix, state champion, won a thre'
cornered match at the Country Clul
the other day. making the nine hole
in Al. one under DOGGY. Joe Duncan
made DOGGY. and George Snyde
turned in a a., both using only a mid
iron. Felix is figuring on throwing
away his other clubs. or selling then
cheap. All he seems to need is 1
mid-iron.
Dick Alden is playing a great gam
in the presidents cup match at tn
Country Club this week. He elm
mated I. w. Felix. turning in AZ ant
a 3S. Felix made the same score, blu
Alden's handicap of two gave him tn
match.
Tom Frost and Doctor Lyman ais
pulled an interesting match for TIL
presidents cup. At the end of eigh
teen holes. they were even. and. lik
the proverblaI remark of the baseball
umpire, the game was called on &C
, count Of darkness" at the end of tn
twentieth hole. The contest will b
decided today.