The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-06-14

Trans Mississippi tournament at St.
Louis this week." declared DR.. w. N.
West, president of the Topeka Coun-
try club, today. will prove to be a
big thing for Topeka and Kansas in
golfing circles. Not only in the west
but also all over the county, as this
meeting is one of the big events of
the year among the followers of the
game. Bonebrake's performance,
coming so soon after the fine work
done by Frank Griggs and E. A.
Campbell at Kansas City last year,
will be very apt to mako the golfers
who attend these tournaments sit up
and take notice. They will realize that
in the future Topeka will have some
one there who is to be reckoned with
before the finals are reached.
1T also clearly demonstrates to
members of the Country club the ne
cessity for an early development and
putting in first-class playing condition
their eighteen-hole course, which is
conceded by the best authorities to
be one of the finest in the country and
one which will rank with the best for
tournament play. When this is done,
Topeka need have no hesitancy in
going after big events of this kind, as
she will have a golf course second to
none in beauty and architectural con-
struction. There is one very impor-
tant thing that the Country club
golfers should bear in mind in con-
that is that if they anticipate send
ing someone good enough to make
showing against such talent as is rep
resented there, it is almost impera-
tive that a first-class professional and
coach be kept and maintained by the
club, and considered as a part of its
necessary equipment. The right type
of man will be of unlimited assistance
to those anticipating taking part in
these events.
The women of Kansas will probably
| organize a Woman's Kansas Golf as
ISOLATION this summer as an auxiliary
| of the State Golf association. In To-
peka and other golfing centers. the
women realize that some recognition
should be made of their playing. At
1 the state tournament. there always is
a contest among women, but it is of
| small Importance when the state affair
| is going one.
1t is believed that the movement will
be started in Topeka and taken up
with every golf club in Kansas. Those
| who are backing the plan believe that
it is quite possible for ladies' state
tournament to be held before next fall.
Last night the members of the To-
peka Country club sent telegram of
| congratulations to Arthur Bonebrake
who was not eliminated until the semi
finals in the ns-Mississippi tourna-
ment at st. Louis.
1t is probable that the Country club
will hold it's annual invitation tourna-
ment this fall. For the past two years
this has been dispensed with on ac-
count of the war, but this year 1t is
| hoped that the tournament can be
held. Visiting golfers from nearly ev-
cry club in Kansas, and in other west
| ern states, always attend the Topeka
invitation tournament, which is of in
terest to followers of the game.
The following men have been voted
int membership ES OF t the Shawnee Tne
trail Y. NJ. c. A., Carl Erickson, 621
West Tenth; Ainslie Anthony, 1927
Polk street; N. w. Benning, Central
Y. NJ. C. A; D. J. Johnson, 1925 Har-
rison street; NJ. c. Pennekamp, War
and P. w. Agrelius, 1902 Fillmore
street.
Herb Armstrong. of the Shawnee
be carried out shortly. All match
players will carry an American flag
to be displayed from a golf bag by
a caddy. This flag will bearecognized
on the course as match play and will
give the players absolute right of way.
The flag does away with the necessity
of sending out an envoy caddy every
time a match wishes to go thru the
golfers ahead.
Otis Hungate, Prominent Topeka
attorney, is the hobbiest hobbier of
the Shawnee links.
Ote is a lover of horses and cattle
and an authority, too.
Just to keep up his study of live
stock he owns a COW. Each morning
he takes the first car to Highland
park, near the golf links. and armed
with a bucket he milks his pastured
Holstein. Now the first car always
waits at the end of the line twenty
minutes. This is just right for Hun
gate for he is able to drain the COW
and catch the same car back to town
In the evenings Hungate plays golf
until dark. Then he goes to the locker
room, lays down his sticks, picks, up
his pail and saunters off over the
! fields to his COW for the evening milk
ing.
Meanwhile he practices law.
J. C. Mohler and Bill Kereher OF
the Country club played a match with
Phil Eastman and Arthur Carruth, jr.
of the Shawnee club on the Shawnee
links for the conversational cham
pionship of Topeka Wednesday.
Kercher. who says verbal exaspera-
, tions are frowned upon at his links
was able to unload nearly two months
of pent up enthusiasm during the
game. The wind was blowing a gale
but it created no competition for Bill
Incidentally Jake Mohler, who is nc
dub of a player. came in with a 9e
on Is holes-a marvellous score con
sidering the strange course, the oil
greens and the difficult approaches
The championship goes to the Coun-
try club players until a later date
when the Shawnee Representatives
will attempt to have gathered a new
and original vocabulary.
The famous "Well- Under-the-W Will
lows on the Shawnee course is nearly
full. Tired golfers these days have
only a short pull on the old oaker
bucket to raise it to the glistenine
surface.
The grass greens on the Shawnee
course are still a little raw, but are
being improved daily. In a few day.
there will be grass greens on every