The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-08-09

i balls bounce for incredible distances,
I but there are very few cracks in the
ground and what few thefe are are
not especially annoying.
Jack Crow turned in his best score
at the Shawnee club this week. 1t
/ was 40 and was turned in the first of
/ the week during the hot days.
Arthur BonebraKe turned in a score
/ of 81 at the Shawnee course this week.
/ Boney habitually plays the course in
! 40 or below.
| There is a good bit of agitation at
both golf courses concerning the
habits of some of the players of over
! established on both courses and it is
not considered either fair or just to
the caddies or the club for members
to offer or to give more than the es-
| tablished price.
The recent showers have failed to
( fill the immense cracks in the fair
ways at the Shawnee and Country
clubs but in some mysterious manner
have stimulated the growth of the
the ball hunters.
The caddies in Topeka are talking
''unionism". They are not complain
ing about the hours-they are too
short now-but they have a feeling
that a boy of fourteen or less should
be able to earn as much as dad. AS
it stands a boy has a bad day If he
doesn't make a dollar And the club
house man has a bad day If he doesn't
eventually get that dollar for pop and
candy.
Members of the Shawnee and Coun-
try clubs are still trying to resume
diplomatic relations. AS the rule
stands members of one club are not
allowed to play on the course of the
other. 1t is hoped that arrangements
can be made whereby certain days can
/ be set aside for an exchange of
courtesies between a certain number
Of players by invitation.
Judge George H. whiteomb, presi-
dent of the Shawnee Golf club has re-
turned from his vacation. He played
on the "old home course Friday and
was in tip top form. The Judge adj
mits that he played every day while
away.
Personal and confidential: Charlie
of the Shawnee. please ask George if
he has some white lettering paint after
using his box car red on the bath
house. Use the white on the 200-yard
stakes.
well. I'm up on you. here
you have me euchered then"
That's cinch."
Bert Briggs. Shawnee's champion
left-hander. found himself perched
with a hanging lie on the edge of one
Of the dog-leg precipices the other
day. For a Highlander the shot
would have been an impossiOflity. But
for Briggs-a 200-yard brassey.
One Of Shawnee's best players took
an eight on No. 5, the short hole, re-
Gently. And yet he turned in 40 for
the nine. Most players depend on No
to cut their score.
Charlie Dillon-not Chas. Dillon
has a suggestion to make in connec-
ton with the mental hazard of the
lake on No. 4. He would have a sign
painted and placed at the waters edge
reading. This is not a lake. II is
mirage" Dillon swears-not asserts
that this would promote high and
far driving from No. As tee.
The evening airplane flights over
the Shawnee and Country club golf
links gradually have accustomed the
players to up-in-the-air disturbances
and now. instead Of dropping their
sticks and gazing up into the sky with
squinted eyes and opened mouth. they
yell Fore" and play on
You have heard Of the early bird
getting the worm. Topeka golfers at
tempting to cheat the day out of an
hour or two at night and hitting dollar
golf balls far into the dusk, have made
it possible for caddies with early
morning ambition. to add greatly to
their earnings by picking up the Colo
nels and Dimples. ct al. by the bas-
ketful.
While waiting the customary hour
for the 2-hour delayed Highland Park
car last night a Shawnee player Great
ed an innovation that will prove pop
ular. After smoking all his cigars and
cigarettes he produced an old-fashioned
mouth-organ In thirty minutes he
had the 40 o'clock gang around him
and the barber shop chord kept the
unused trolley wire throbbing in uni