The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-05-17

Country CLUB course, Wnere II VIII be
located until the lease runs out-or
of advantage to both golf organiza
tions. The Country club will be able
to make permanent plans for its big
18-hole course and new club house.
The Shawnee club will have a mag
nificent home and a course that has
been petted and teased into shape for
many years.
Tom Fullerton is authority for the
statement that in the east soldier
trousers are all the thing on the links.
They are more comfortable than
"knickers" are cooIer-and are
cheaper. And. he claims, the players
are adopting the spiral puttees. In
other words, Americans are adopting
their own golf uniform as a graduation
from the Scotch fashions.
Frank Willard is back on the Shaw
nee course. Willard is veteran of
the old Topeka Golf club, whose links
were located out near Potwln' over,
looking the river and the Rock Island
tracks Willard is playing tight
game already. He made a At on nine
holes the other day, which is no mean
score for early season dandelion play
ing. Willard probably has the most
unique collection of clubs in town. He
asses sticks of the vintage of 1883
and the way he uses them proves that
the game is played by the man and not
the equipment.
Judge Whitcomb. who is president
of the Shawnee club, and who also
is on the bench in the district court.
faces the worst legal tangle in his law
career. Two years ago Frank Willard
decided he would quit golf. and under
this belief he gave his scoop shovel
niblick to Arthur Carruth. Carruth
had a bad day with it and traded it to
Phil Eastman for another. Eastman
lifted ball out of a pit onto the green
and declared the club invaluable. His
next attempt was disastrous however.
and he presented the iron to G. A.
Belts for winning from his opponent in
last falls championship match. Now
Willard has swung back into the game
and wants his club. Belts says 1t was
a gift to him-a gift of honor for win
ming a match. incidentally he says it
is the best stick in his bag. Eastman
says he traded a perfectly good nib1ick
for ia trade that proved expensive
and unfortunate. Carruth says he is
indebted to Eastman for the trade and
considered the original presentation as
binding. Next week the four will play
a tombstone 1s-hole match for the
niblick. Judge WhitcOmb will umpire.
The cold rains this spring have set
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Shawnee and Country club courses.
Nevertheless the players have taken
advantage of every bright day and
have kept the dandelions fighting for
an existence.
The golfer in Kansas is a happy
man during the summer. If it is hot
and dry he can play golf If it is
rainy and wet he can sit back IN his
office chair and glory in the value OF
10 ~
sunshine, he is happy.
The Shawnee club has several acres
of idle land and last fall it went in or
a wheat growing gamble. AS a result
the field today is waving in won
drous growth of grain that will net
the club a good many dollars for i'm
provements and upkeep-
H. L. Armstrong. one of the former
Country club pace settlers. who is now
a member of the Shawnee club. i:
shooting in his old form and his
friends predict he will be hard mar
TO beat for the club championship
Herb was out Thursday Afternoon
and shot two ASS.
DR.. c. H. Morrison. one of the re
turned war heroes, is a frequent play
err on the Shawnee course these days
He has been going around with {
OF Ms OlQ ITl6HQS anu
1 Eastman and Charles Dillon who have
/ been playing with him, are trying t.
persuade him TO start a movement Il
| place band at every tee-each claim
/ ing he wants this done for the benefi
/ of the other
! J. S. Fritton. the groceryman. is on,
I of the enthusiastic new members o
! the Shawnee club. Triton was gu
hast Sunday and after going TIVE
rounds refused to leave the course
i No, I'm going around again." he said
Il need the practice" Fritton enjoyet
the day all right. but the most pleas
ure he has gotten out of his golf 81
! far CAME when he beat Irwin Snattin
ger one hole out of eighteen some tim
! ago
The crop of caddies'' has not be
! gun 10 ripen at the Shawnee club
Players have been complaining tina
caddies are as hard to find as ball
that get into the rank clover in tn
draws Last Sunday a number of boy