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

Great interest is being manifested
among local golfers in the coming
Transmississippi tournament which
will be held at the st. Louis Country
club, st. Louis. Mo-. June to Il.
This will be the biggest golf event in
the middle west this summer. A large
number of Topekans will participate.
The receipts from this tournament
will be given to the Red Cross and
for that reason the management has
decided to eliminate expensive prizes
in order that the gross returns FROM
tournament may be as large as pos
sible. Last year at Kansas City the
Transmississippi gift was $4,000 and
officials of the tournament hope to
pass the $4,000 mark this time.
Entrance is open to all amateurs of
good standing in clubs belonging to
the Transmississippi Golf association
and the rules of the United States
Golf association will govern all play
in this tournament
Returning soldiers tell of the lack
of interest taken in France in golf,
or any other outdoor sport, for that
matter. Tennis is the only game that
is known at all in France, and since
the war the racket and ball have been
| discarded. In England. however. golf
has assumed as gWht a part in ma
| tional interest as 10 NDas in the United
at Paris, Nice. Cannes and a few other
places largely patronized by American
and British tourists. President Will
son plays golf almost daily on one of
the Partisan courses with his physi-
clan and fellow golfer, Admiral Gray
| son.
| The twentieth annual tournament
for the western amateur championship
will be played on the course of the
sunset Hill Country club. Sappington
| (St- LOUSY, Mo-, June 16 to 81 inclu-
sive. The winner of the tourname
| will be the champion for the ensuing
year and his club shall have the GUS
tody of the George r. Thorne trophy
for that length of time. A gold medal
will be awarded the winner; a silver
| one to the runner-up, and a bronze
medal to each of the losers in the
semi-finals. A trophy will be awarded
| to the player making the lowest score
for SO holes in the qualifying rounds.
Topeka members of the two clubs will
be eligible to play in this tournament.
On June IA, the Olympic Team
| Trophy tournament will be held at the
| Sunset Hill club. The golf associa-
| tons of the world have each been in
vited to- send a team of four players
The competition is SO holes, medal
play, with the total medal scores OF
each team to count.
Lieutenant Francis Willard, who
has just been discharged from the
navy after having spent practically all
of his time conveying soldiers to and
from France since the beginning of
the war. is back in Topeka and the
most thrilling sport he has been able
to find here has been that of trying
| to beat his father, F. G. Willard, at
golf. Lieutenant Willard is we'll
| west, being an old Topeka high school
and University of Michigan football
star.
The month old" golfer was just
getting to a point where he could keep
Then, holy smokei He discovered
that he hadn't begun to learn how to
use a brassie or an approaching iron
or a putter. And, worse still, he had
not learned the difference between a
cleek and a niblick!
]. c. Mohler, of the Country club
challenged two members of the Shaw
nee club several months ago and the
two were heard plotting against hin
the other day. Yes. they are willing
to play him-but they want a little
more practice. they want the weather
a little warmer and they may try tt
make it foursome with lady in al
effort to fuss him.
John Kinkel, of the public utilities
commission, has an alibi that is a new
one so far as is known. After playing
in hard luck Thursday afternoon h,
said he believed spending two night
in Pullman car was responsible. Blu
then, railroads have been responsible
for lot of Kinkers troubles.
Herb Armstrong is shooting a regu
lar DOGGY at the Shawnee links AM
undoubtedly is one of the stronges
and most consistent shots on tn
; course. Armstrong always has beel
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