The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-06-07

brake, of Topeka, was state golf cham
pion at 16. Waldo Crowder, of Law
renee, a 16year-eld lad, was con-
tender at the state tournament this
year and almost made good. Pat
Campbell. Frank Griggs and !. W.
Felix are young men, tho considerably
older than "Bonie." Wilbur Cole
hasn't voted yet, but he is almost as
efficient in chasing the pill around
the links as he was chasing coolies in
France. Miss Helen Lewis, 10 years
old. a student in a local business col
lege, is showing the 'grown-ups"
thing or two about the Scotch pastime.
No, golf is not an old mans game.
Neither is it an exclusive young mans
game, like tennis, baseball or football.
It's a sport for all ages, men and
women, boys and girls. Many man
in his seventies gets as much enjoy
ment out of golf as the husky chap
in the early twenties. Perhaps no
game covers such a wide span of
life.
Arthur Bonebrake, former golf
champion of Kansas. will be assistant
director of the Polk school playground
this summer.
A very pretty Fillmore street girl
is going to take up golf on the Shaw
nee links this summer. A young busi-
ness man is going to teach her. She
y
doesn't play golf. Interesting things
may develop before the season is over.
A Kansas City team of golfers came
to Topeka on Thursday of this week
and played a match with local golfers
at the Country club, winning by a
margin of four points. The visiting
team included H. T. Alternately, ]. F.
E. c. Smith, ]. G. Forrest, F. P. Neal.
George S. Hovey, j. A. Prescott,
Mason Dean, Charles S. Jobes. w. NJ.
Fible. E. F. Swinney and j. Mathews.
Charles S. Gleed and Hal Gaylord
accompanied the players, but did not
play, but cheered 'em on. Opposing
them were E. L. Copeland, George w.
Snyder, F. M. Bonebrake, George A.
Guild, Willard Hall, Robert Pierce,
DR.. w. n. West, w. w. Strickland,
H. S. Morgan, A. Fassler, J. A. Cole,
T. D Alden, Justice Silas Porter and
NJ. A. Low.
The charming Topeka girl who
chuckled with glee when she sliced
drive, and laughed merrily at missing
six-inch putt. has quit playing golf.
The strain of appearing light hearted
at 'boners" was too mich for her.
The Kansas City team which de
feated the Topeka men on the links
Thursday merely got even" Topeka
men sent them to the clover on a
Kansas City course a few weeks ago.
The nineteenth hole is becoming
more and more active daily. Wait
untiLJuly and August. Then is when
the nineteenth is a busy place.
Another war time golfer has ap-
peared. Lieut.. Wilson Hobart, just
back from overseas, is curious to know
if he can WELD as clever a stick as
he did before he got into the army
If you happen to hear of a some
thing good along the golf line, call
us up. Every golf player and en-
thusiast of Topeka is an associate
editor of this column. Or he can be
editor-in- chief, or managing editor, or
take any other journalistic title he
wants, just so he delivers the goods.
The rain has played the deuce with
golfing in Kansas in the last few
weeks. Players could start out on the
first tee and work up a sweat in
few minutes. On the fourth hole it
would begin to rain. The weather
man has certainly put a dampening
aspect on the great old game. But
cheer up. regular furnaeed golf
summer is ahead of everyone and
the cobwebs will soon come off the
shower baths.
Charles Dillon, who is going to Min
nesota for the summer tomorrow,
played his last game Friday afternoon.
Despite the fact that he made the
Shawnee short hole in three he was
not satisfied and alibied for himself
by announcing he had already packed
his golf glasses and was therefore
handicapped.
Otis Hungate is now playing to an
appreciative gallery. His dog follows
| him to the Shawnee course and fol-
| lows him around Some of his friends
! say that Hungate is trying to teach