The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-05-24

Eastmans Watcn registers 30 ihiies'
And this has been a cold rainy spring
with little opportunity for golf
Ed Thrill doesn't attempt to ex-
plain 1t except in the light of modest
handmade professional, but the other
a 130-yard mashie approach. The
ball shot high in the air, wabbled
from the bounce, crept up on the
green and disappeared. 1t was on No.
and Thrill calmly took out his card
and marked down for the hole.
some say his hand shook as he wrote.
Topeka golfers are invited to con-
tribute to this column. 1t is open to
all. Matches, unusual plays, freak
shots-anything of interest to the
Make IL YOUR column.
Don't let Topeka fall down on this
Lawrence tournament!
Go easy on your iron shots while
the ground is soft and the grass skins
easily from the roots. 1t means a bet
ter fairway this summer.
A Topeka woman sitting on the
Country club house veranda removed
her spectacles as her husband came
up the hill on No. 8. Il can't risk
getting glass in my eyes, she COM
mented to companion.
Interest of the Country Club golfers
is largely centered on the Decoration
day tournament for the benefit of the
Permanent Blind Relief War Fund for
soldiers and sailors of the allied ma
tions. The players will be charged a
cent stroke and officials of the cub
hope to clear $500. The entrees will
be divided into two teams. President
w. N. West and Secretary E. A. Thrill
will head the two divisions.
In the 1918 Trans Mississippi tour
nament, Frank Griggs, of Topeka, was
runner-up. The event was won by
G. L. Conley, of the Hillcrest club,
Kansas City.
Discharged soldiers. who are more
familiar with the workings of a hand
grenade than a mashie, are trying to
get back into form on the links. It's
little difficult at first, but the ex-
service men say that all it takes is
little practice and they will play as
well as ever.
Women golfers of Topeka expect to
| have a number of tournaments and
matches of interest this summer. The
number of women in the Country club
and the Shawnee Golf club who play
regularly is increasing each year.
The 1919 state tournament will be
held at the Lawrence Country club,
June to 6. Probably more Kansans
will take part in this event than in
any of the numerous tournaments
| scheduled for the golf season. Arthur
| Bonebrake of Topeka, at present state
champion, will enter again. and he
will meet crack players from all parts
of the state who are after his laurels.
| Dt,a 20 Ground the air
plane flights Tuesday failed to take
very many eyes off the ball. The cir
| Gus flew over the Shawnee and Coun-
try club links and for several minutes
the pilots seemed tempted to ruin a
| couple of greens and a fairway but
the landing was heightened to another
field.
There is a move among the Shaw
nee players to induce Albert or How
ard Patten to join that organization
Their membership would mean even
| more than their presence to u.s." one
member explained. 1T would require
them to ride out on the Highland
| Park line and eventually would lead
to an improvement in the service"
The 1oo-yard stakes will be placed
on the Shawnee links shortly. Then
a player will be able to witness his
previous "25O-yard drives" as they
Middleton, the ex-caddy at the
Shawnee club, is out daily and is play
ing a bang-up game. He is a natural
| golfer and it is predicted will be a
second 'Bony." He drives like mad
and is accurate as a landscape gar
dener in his approaches
Charles Dillon, chairman of the
membership committee of the Shaw
nee Climb is conducting another active
campaign for members. Dillon has
succeeded in distributing the bite of
the golf hug to many Topekans this
| season. He Is looking for more VIC
| tins.
One of the new season "dubs" was
course the other day. The three men
playing with him were fairly good
shots. AS luck would have it the
dub" made pretty drive, brassy, ap-
proach and put on the first hole and
won the hole from the foursome
Then, in order to preserve his reputa-
ton, he feigned illness. dismissed hi:
caddy and sneaked back to the club
house. "A good days work, I'll say
he maintains.
Notice any difference in the BALL
this year? Somehow or other the,
don't seem to have the distance. (No
a bad alibi).
The recent rains have made tn,
Country club course look like a fielC