The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-07-31

Griggs -3-3-4-2-4-5-3-S-z
Felix ..-..... $3.50 3-5-zS
G. Snyder =. -3-4-2-4-3 $3.50
A most interesting feature of the
contest is the identical score made by
Allen, Griggs, Felix and Snyder.
HurIey's two on No. 2 and his two on
No. gave him the two points under
the four players. Whitney came out
ahead with his three on No. 1 and his
two on No. s. If Whitney can lower
his five on NO. he will be neck and
neck with Hurley. He also has an
easy chance to make a two on No. 5.
This will give him the prize unless
Hurley can make a spectacular play
on other holes.
Five golfers from Emporia, includ-
ing Pro. Chauncey Trout, played on
the Country club course the first of the
week. The players drove down in a
motor car and from Wakarusa to
within a few miles of Topeka raced
with. a Santa Fe train. They kept
ahead of the train until they reached
a crossing, where they decided to
grant the right of way. They declare
the speedometer on their Cadillac reg
istered seventy-two miles an heur.
The players included Chauncey Trout,
Frank Fountain. William Byrnes
Thomas Byrnes and Marshall Warren.
Trout went to Emporfa from Tulsa.
He formerly was n the shop with
Pro. Chester Nelson at Oklahoma City.
He holds the Emporia Country club
record with a IS. The amateur record
is Sc for the nine holes
While Pro. Trout of Emporia was
playing on the Country club course
here Sunday he asked a Topeka, PLAYER
where No 2 hole was located. Just
over the barn. he was told. Trout
laced out a drive directly over the barn
| that landed in a NEARBY farm ward
The amateur did not know he was
giving his information to a profes-
sional.
Pro. Nelson of the Country club has
relic putter that he wouldn't sell for
flock of brides. It was given to him
| in 1910 when Nelson was a youth in
| knee pants by Jack McDermott after
McDermott had lost a tournament on
4 the greens at indianapolis He blamed
the loss of his game on his putter.
Nelson was caddying for him at the
time. McDermott was for two years
winner of the western open champion
| ship and for three successive years
winner in the national open champion
ship.
| The registration caddy system has
| been adopted by the Shawnee cit1h
1
| plan for the members. The system
! does away with the trouble club mem
| bers have been having with caddies
| who hide behind the rose bushes
awaiting their favorites. The regis
tration plan also provides players with
| caddies in1m ediately upon their ar
| rival. Stawitz reports that the bows
are making more fees under the re-
| arrangement.
The chariot racers" who wrap
| handkerchiefs around their hair while
playing golf at the Shawnee and
| Country clubs are causing no end of
criticism among the baldheaded.
| The tournament committee of the
Blue Hills club is carrying on an edu-
cational campaign. Each member has
found in his locker Recently a type
written copy of rules and ethics that
each member of all the clubs might
do well to menorize and obey:
L Did you ever consider how unsports-
nzanlike it is to concede yourself or your
| opponent putt, when playing in medal
competition?
! =. What right has the player with whom
you are playing TO concede you putt and
| thus speak for all the other players in
! the club against whom you are playing ?
). When you fail TO prepare your score
card properly and turn it in. do ycu realize
the extra amount of work you impose upon
/ the committee
J l. The committee considers it Just as
much its duty to raise a handicap as If
does to lover one. If you feel that your
handicap is too severe, do not fail to notify