The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-08-14

Griggs. Country club tournament
chairman, to add to his Curtis. Cap
per and Allen trophy cups, a beauti-
full 3-quart cup from J. 3. Billiard
| j. W. Watson of Mission Hills club.
/ Kansas City, Mo. has laid out sixteen
golf courses in the vicinity of Kansas
. City this season. This indicates the
tremendous interest in golf.
The Shawnee women's champion
ship has been postponed until a date
/ in September to be announced later.
This match was to have been held this
month.
! Tomorrow is sweepstakes day at
/ Shawnee All players may enter with
! the deposit of one ball. The number
/ of entries will decide the number OF
prizes to be given. This is a medal
play match based on handicap.
! Warren Bailey came in on nine
with a So the other day at Shawnee.
: The amateur record of the course is
/ So. made by Arthur Bonebrake. Pete"
Middleton and Joe Duncan. Middle
! ton holds the record on s with a as.
The Dave August-Harry Endlich
golf ball mentioned in this column
is becoming famous The pair has re-
ceived numerous requests for demon
STATIONS. 1t is a special brand, much
larger than the ordinary and of suffi-
Gent size to cause the two players to
! open negotiations with the club for
/ larger holes.
LET me see one of those new
balls" friend asked August the
other day.
81 don't have them with me-" was
the answer. THE kids are playing
handball with them over on the lawn"
A Parsons newspaper mentions two
local golf celebrities as coming In re-
| beautiful As" What must the dubs
turn in?
A current golf magazine states that
the. golf situation has become so seri-
| Gus in Chicago that the newspapers
are devoting space to it on their edt-
toriaI pages in the midst of the presi-
Dental campaign" The trouble seems
TO be in the lack of youngsters to take
the places of Chick Evans, Bob Card
ner, Albert Seckel, Warren Wood and
Ned Sawyer. In explaining the reason
for this lack of new material the mag-
| azine says: Nearly everyone is agreed
that the source of trouble is lack OF
| tournaments in which rising young
golfers may compete. A good old
fashioned invitation tournament is so
rare that a golfer wouldn't know how
to act II asked to one"
This certainly indicates the value of
tournament play. 1t is a lesson to the
Shawnee and Country clubs in Topeka.
Quickly and efficiently conducted tour
naments are the life of the game.
Tournaments locally this season have
been the most successful in years.
But the good work must be kept up to
bring eventual results.
Have you ever known of a summer
with less wind? With the daylight
savings law in effect this would have
been the greatest golf season in his
tory for Topekans.
Mrs. Fred lies. of Shawnee, one of
Topeka's best woman golfers, played
at Excelsior Springs this week.
I Topeka golfers are still waiting for
Justice West of the supreme court to
explain the wearing of suspenders.
This column Is wide open for the clear
ing up of this mystery.
To the outsider, golf must be an ar
canum. ]. C. Wolcott, State Journal
staff photographer was at ShawneeI
the other day. II should think the Oil
| would ruin the grass he stated, point-l
ing to one of the oiled sand green's.
Golfers and golf editors and golf
professionals over the country have
engaged in an international argument
over the use and misuse OF the stymie.
1t seems that Robert Gardner chair
man of the American committee, has
favored rules that are generally &C.
| cepted by England. Meanwhile the
average match will make house rules
| for the handling of the stynie on~the
green. AS usual rule the player
whose ball creates the styrnie is more
than willing to lift.
If the Country club invitation tour
lInament overflows the course players
lin the Waterloo consolation match
Ilmay be transferred to the Shawnee
Iicourse, This will give a distinct ad-
Ilvantage to out of town players who
Hare used to the sand greens.