The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-03-27
Topeka Is Easing Into Most
Successful Season.
More Than 500 Players Are
Watching the Clouds.
COSTING MORE TO PLAY GAME
Clubs, Balls. Knockers Mashie
Over Trees in Price.
Women Interest to Reduce
Number Of "Golf Widows,

topeka Is easing her joints for the
greatest golf season in history
More than soc local golfers will
walk thousands OF miles this spring.
summer and fall along the fairvavs
OF the Shawnee and Country cIub
courses IN the fascinating game Of hit
and hunt"
interest never was so general in golf
as this spring. The membership of
both clubs is the Iarges- in history
and as result the links are IN the
pest shape they have been since they
were laid out
As a result OF the added zest to the
game Il IS believed that this season
VIII develop many new sweet play
ers. 4 sweet player is a man who
plays a sweet" game The man who
plays the sweet game is the man
who makes sweet shots a sweet
shot IS ball soaring across the fields
that IS sent by d sweet stroke A
sweet stroke is the action of a
sweet player So there you are.
Topeka has been able TO send
additional contestants to each state
tournament as the years go by In
cIdenCaIly. these players have won
cham pionships for several seasons.
But IL isn't pionship- honors that
a town holds to encourage golf. Hon
ors should be won on down the line
l4lL4 ne VIII LT1a ADVANCE
ment OF the game here. Topeka is as
sured Of flight cups in the state
tournament this year
Women Are More Active.
Topeka women golfers were respon-
sible for the ladies' state tournament
at the Country club last fall This
tournament brought out a good as
sorment OF talent among the women
players Of the Shawnee and Country
raf~r FarF.
the women this season viii prepare
the way for the coming state tourney.
Golf as a recreation. as a game. and
as a ''reducer" has proven most at
rracrive 10 women. Also the game has
made summer acquaintance possible
again between husband and wife
acquaintances that in the past were
early morning breakfast recoEnilons
and late evening after-dark how-do-
you-dos. Altho more men will play
the game this year. the increased in
reresr among the women will lessen
the number OF golf widows" in all
parts Of the city of Topeka A golf
widow IS a woman whose husband
plays golf from after business hours
until dark ana who post-mortems the
game during his few hours at home.
Equipment Is Expensive.
Golf equipment this season keeps
pace with the H. c. OF I.
Inc ordinary good SerT1ceaDIe ana
long distance ball costs one dollar.
The better balls are S1.25. The day
OF 5O-cent and 5G-cent balls has
passed Clubs have gone up in pro-
portion. Bags are mashed over the
the trees and knickers ana stockings
are n keeping with the usual prices
demanded at clothing stores IN fact.
golf clothing Is hard to buy-the
manufacturers are TOO busy trying to
keep up with the demands Of the he
butterflies OF the street.
Caddies probably will make further
wage suggestions in Topeka this sea
son. They received a raise last year
but that was last year The caddy
problem has made caddyless players
out OF members OF both Topeka clubs
and they declare emphaucally that
they'll never hire a trailer again
The high cost of clubs has reduced
the usual freak assortments in the
bags OF the golf dends and as a re-
suit the scores are reduced by the con-
stanr use OF the old favorites-tlle
driver, the brassy, the midirou. the
masl1le, and the put1er.
Tournament committees are busy
arran ging contests that will last thru
out the golf climate and in a week
Or two the season will be on N full
blast
This has been an unusual winter for
golf and with the exception OF a few
short weeks. local fans have been slip
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