The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-07-17


themselves to any drudging routine of
exercise are going to find in golf a real
elixir OF youth-the only golden pan
acea that will bring back a has-been. -
a prediction by George AIDE.
THE prettiest. best attired. most
fashionable foursome in Kansas"
commented Country club player as
he watched match swing down on
No. the other day. And he was
about right. In the match were Mrs.
Charles Wolff, Mrs. Dana Davis, Mrs.
Ivan Dibble and Mrs. Kurtz Kellam-
The interest in golf and the clubs
springinS up in the smaller towns of
Kansas bear out Mr.. AIDES assertions.
But-register disgusti-we don't
like that expression. too old for ten
MS or baseball" Golf has ceased to be
AN old mans game"
Funny how golf gets EN- On the
two Topeka courses Monday aftern Don
probobly there were fifty business men,
who, If dampened in a rain storm down
town, would have rushed home,
changed their clothes. taken a hot
bath, doped their chests and prayed
for deliverance from pneumonia. The
rain came down in sheets, it soaked
the same business men to the skin,
it made the grass field of influenza
and still these followers of the erst-
while Colonel Bogey played thru to
the end. The rain made possible a
beautiful assortment of alibis, to be
sure. but it did not disturb the
matches. Again we say-it's funny
how golf gets 'em.
This is the day the Shawnee and
Country clubs play their second
'Neighbor Tournament" of the sea-
SON. The Shawnees are playing over
h. low al-e
ago the Country club players trimmed
the Highland Park golfers on their
home grounds-the first time a visit
ing club has been able to inflict such
a drubbing. Revenge is sought out
today
The ''Neighbor Tournament sug-
gests a plan that has been talked up
frequently of late at both clubs. 1t
is proposed that each Saturday or
Sunday ten players from each club
visit the other for match play. In
this manner the players would become
better acquainted and golfers would
become accustomed to the oiled sand
and grass greens.
Tom Clark, the Blue Hills profess
sional widely known in western pro-
feSSonal golf circles, probably will be
with another club next summer. Clark
Is contemplating a change and already
has received several offers from out
of-town clubs. Clark, whose brother
Walter is professional of the Denver
Country club, is one Of the best play
ers in the middle west. and has wide
reputation as a golf instructor and a
club maker.-Kansas City Star.
Harlow Hurley, crack golfer of the
Topeka Country club. played a round
at the Country club Recently and tied
the amateur record of 20, which was
made by Jay Ward. Hurley and Ward
left Thursday night to play in the
Western at Memphis. Ray Ouimet of
Htllcrest did not make the trip.-Kan-
sas City Star.
Topekans who match at the Kansas
City Country club tell of the playing
OF Grandfather" Ward, the second
generation ahead of Jimmie Ward,
famous Kansas City amateur. The
old gentleman is 70 years of age but
stil plays mighty sweet game of
golf Driving with an iron but deadly
in his approaches and puts he shoots
in the thirties on nine often. Several
years ago Grandfather Ward de-
cided that he would quit Sunday golf.
He never misses a Sabbath on the
links. but it is the longest day of the
week to the veteran enthusiast. He
Lspends his time watching the matches
and following the players over the
course.
Arch Catlin of the Country club,
altho a fisherman and a hunter, has
sworn hatred towards woods in gem
eral-and a clump of trees at the
Kansas City Country club in particu-
lar. While playing with the Topeka
bankers against the Kansas City bank
ers in the annual tournament We'd