The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-06-21
GOLF. PUTS

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If w. B. "Bin" Collinson, champion
Topeka tennis player, continues to
make the Country club course in Al
or better, he will probably desert the
racket for the mashie altogether.
Admiral Collinson, along with C. B.
Jordan. Bob Shoemaker. who now
lives in Milwaukee, Wilbur Cole and
other court stars, has always welded
a wicket racket. Now he shoots a
clever iron, and is beginning to lose
interest in tennis.
The admiral says that he is not
he is getting old. This has been the
accusation of numerous friends who
want him to continue tennis. But it
pleases him so much to hole out IN
three and four, that he has neglected
to get his vicious serve, and his back
hand lob into mid-season trim. If he
keeps up, the Country club will gain
an excellent golfer. but lose a corking
good tennis player.
Claude Black, a Cincinnati golfer
while playing a match on the Avon
hole in two recently, holing out his
approach. When the players ap-
preached the green they saw the ball
jump out of the hole, followed by a
big frog. The ball had landed on the
frogs back. This is a frog story
made his memorable hole in two a
few weeks ago, he only lacked the
frog to make the story complete.
Harry Vardon's feat a year ago in
making five successive twos on his
course near London has been eclipsed
by Walter J. Travis. former American
champion, who has been credited with
seven consecutive twos on No. 2. Gar
den City. This happened in the win
ter time. No. is very short hole,
but that detracts not the least from
the credit due Travis.
In a Palm Beach dinner at the
Royal Poinciana recently a miniature
golf course was laid out in the CEN
ter of the huge table.
Officers of the Shawnee Golf and
Country clubs hoped to have a large
turnout at the dual tournament, this
afternoon The playing starts at 1
O'Clock. The golfers will play on the
Shawnee course and will be paired
Reports have reached Topeka that
several of the Dallas and Fort Worth
oil magnates who purchased air
planes to go to and from their leases
also use the planes to get to their
golf clubs. Fort Worth men are able
to leave their offices early in the
afternoon, fly over to Dallas and land
near the links. play eighteen holes and
get back to their homes that evening.
Having finished putting up his al
falfa hay crop. Judge George H.
Whitcomb is back on the Shawnee
links after an absence of two weeks.
The judge says putting up hay is
A d. Gray, cashier for the Santa
Fe, believes that if all the Shawnee
grass greens were like the ninth one
he never would roll 'em over the sand
again. Tuesday afternoon with it
laundering. the wind blowing a regu-
lar gale and rain drops coming down,
Gray holed out a fiji cen foot putt.
He allowed for windage and for the
grass vibrations, according to Scott,
his opponent.
first tee the other day and made the
worst drive he has made this summer.
File was so disguised that he was in
no hurry to make his second shot and
when he got up to the ball a wood
pecker was perched on it and trying
to peck thru the paint. This made
him disgruntled as well as disguised.
But he slammed into the ball with his
brassie and when the round was COM
pleted he had new low score to
boast of. Being superstitious, this
player is now pleased when he dubs
his first drive and he believes If he
could train woodpecker to peck on
his ball every time he goes out ne
would soon become Chick Evans.
Arthur j. Carruth, jr. who is
spending his vacation in Chicago,
Louisville, Toledo and other points
that can be- found on the railroad
maps wrote a Topeka friend the fol-
lowing account of his golf proves
in Chicago:
Talk about your golf-boy, boy!
I'VE arrived IN Chicago at noon
Sunday, the folks met US, we ate
hooray-boy dinner, and then-then-
eighteen holes on the Hinsdale course
"a beautiful rolling velvety links with
two big lake holes, thousand
bunkers and pits and green's fifty feet
square.
And listen-with borrowed clubs
made 45 out and a IS in or total
of 81. Maybe 1 didn't surprise the
natives. Incidentally I surprised my
self. The very best game by far that
1 have played this season.
you read of these big scores. Let
| me tell you-if man is able to make
a so on Shawnee he can walk right
| on to one of these finished courses and
make a AZ or 43 or A like shooting
fish. Every fairway lie is brassie
Every green is "a pitch approach
Every shot can be judged and gagged
The variety of traps and bunkers
and their location necessitating accur-
ate shots is all that is bothersome-
and they are fun compared with our
ditch and rough lies"
Golf is certainly a great game to re-
store life and vitality to a man who is
getting along in years. 1t makes the
has been" realities once more. and if
there is such thing as a fountain of
youth. Ii certainly must spout nrlt of a