The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-05-31

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gate and Studdard still have a fair
head of hair and they intend to keep
i it. They always play hatless with
only a shade to cover their eyes. I'm
der this system they claim that in one
week their locks grow from fairway
to a rough.
Shawnee players who are not salts
fled with their handicaps should see
L. r. Booth privately. 1t is rumored
| that several believe they could have
had a few more strokes than they were
given for the flag tournament
Fred Cooper and F. G. Willard are
having little war that might be cata-
| logued along with that of the Poles
and some of their neighbors. There
| has been about half stroke differ
ence in their playing on nine holes
and neither has been satisfied with
the spoils of war this week.
| Some enterprising Ford owner could
| make a lot of gasoline money by jitney-
! ing along when impatient members
are impatiently waiting to catch a
| street car to the Shawnee links, or
are nervously waiting to travel home
to an impatient wife.
A member of the Shawnee club was
! standing at the Get Away" tee swing
| ing his driver and waiting for a three
some to get ahead of him when a
woman walked up to him and said:
81 beg your pardon. but are you Mr.
Nelson with whom / had a lesson APP
pointment this afternoon?" The gen.
tleman from the Wolff Packing plant
had to admit he was not a profess
siona1, but the compliment made him
so swelled up he drove over the ditch
just to show her he was some amateur
Judge George H. Whitcomb is a
| frequent player on the Shawnee course
| this spring. Judge Whitcomb not only
| enjoys the game but he admits ii
does him a great deal of good, phys
ically and mentally. And Judge Whit
| comb is the type of man to not allow
| golf or anything like it to injure him
morally as some players do when they
| have bad days and muddy up their
vocabularies.
Phil Eastman allowed little
| shower to run him off the course
Wednesday afternoon. But Phil is a
good golfer and good golfers. like good
| baseball players, always have a pocket
full of alibis. Mrs. Eastman was
with him when the shower came up.
E. R. Nelson. Country club profess
sional, Frank w. Griggs, E. A. Camp
| bell. Horace G. Humphreys and 1. w
Felix played on the links of the Law
renee Country club this week to get
in touch with the course once more
The state tournament will be played
at Lawrence next week and these men
are among the entrees. Felix scored
| the lowest, a total of SO, Al out and
| 43 in.
Pedro Gonzales, a Chilean, who lee.
/ tured in Topeka several years ago or
| the development of American indus
tries in South America, has done some
| developing himself in the golf line. He
| plays on the links at Santiago, the
capital of Chile. and this spring was
! the winner of a tournament held al
Buenos Aires between the best golfers
| of Argentine, Chile and Uruguay. A
magazine published in Buenos Aire:
| devotes a great deal of space each
month to outdoor activities in Latir
| America, and golf appears to have had
a remarkable growth in the past few
years 1t is said that the links of the
| National Golf club at Montevideo are
among the best in the world.
Arthur Bonebrake, state golf cham
pion, is going to the state tournament
| at Lawrence next week with full con
fidence that he'll win again. He's no
| worrying about the outcome. He be
lieves that his closest competitor will
be Topeka men with whom he play
daily.
Tom Griffith, former state cham
pion, will head the Wichita delegation
to the state tournament which in
cludes Harry Heimpel. George Hamil
ton, Will Pitts and Doctor Edgerton
Grant Chamberlain, of Hutchinson
who has figured in every state tourne.
for many years. will be on hand
Chester Nelson. Wichita PRO" will b.
the main official at the tournament
Eleven loving CUPS and Twenty-Five
other prizes will be awarded the win
ners and runners-up in the six flights
After the state tournament is over
the next big event which will test tn
ability of Kansas golfers, will be tn
Transmississippi at st. Louis, June t
IA. Frank Griggs, of Topeka, wa
runner-up in 1913. and Topekans PHI
their faith on Griggs. Art Bonebrake
Bat" Campbell and other brillian
golfers who are planning to enter.
Ed Thrills team was victorious Il
the Memorial day tournament on tn
links of the Country club yesterday
defeating President w. N Vests golf
ers by narrow margin of sever
points. This means that Doctor Yves
and his mates must dig down in thei
jeans and produce the necessar-
! francs for a dinner at the dubious
in the near future.
The play was close enough to b
exciting. The weather man could no
have picked a better day on tn
course. because the sun was no
enough to make the golfers feel tina
they should play in August, or mid
season form. and many of them did
Even Frank Crane. who likes the at