The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-09-04

topeka pest -8Ol1eES IOu1y are the
veterans of the game playing at the
Country club A new crop must be
encouraged and plans have been sug-
gested to arrange for this harvest"
ideas have been sent to this column.
The most practical seems to lend en-
coura cement to the youngsters by es-
tablishing three games of junior golr
at the Country club next season. Fhe
college grade would include young
men from 20 to rs. The high schoof'
grade would care for boys from Is TOT
20. ThsF Juvenile" grade includes all
boys>Sounger than Is.
Tournaments could be arranged for
the entire season. Trophies would be
available for the winners of the three
classes Just before the state tourna-
ment and the state invitation tourna-
ment an open championship would De
played for a Country club junior rep
resentative to the two tournaments. II
the state tournament IS played out OF
the CITY the winner of this match
would receive as a. prize his expenses
to the affair.
There is a noticeable lack of new
material at the Country club The
links are crowded with grown men,
business and professional men, and
men who never will make under Az
If they shoot a lifetime The clup
needs the youngsters for development
into Topeka representatives IN cAaui-
pfonship classics.
The playing Of Gerald Smith, the
11-vear-old boy. m the recent state
Invitation tournament indicated what
youth can do III goH
If the Country club would place
seasons tournament of this kind IN
the hands of a man like kurtz kellarn'
who handled sixty-four amateur base
ball teams in Kansas City. MO- Ior
the spaldfng company one summer,
there is no doubt as to the results III
golf material in Topeka.
At the shawnee club there is more
voung blood in golf but even there the
Younger players average between lhe
ages of 90 and 25. The developfne3SS
of BOYS in their late teens is a goiI
asset
In this column few. weeks ago was
o,,oted an article from Chicago setting
forth the shortage of golf youth there
and the necessity of an appeal 10 the
bows to take up the game ana keep
Chicago in the championship class.
The appeal is applicable in Topeka
Golf which has taken a place as one
OF the leading sports OF the Onitea
states will become better annually.
This wear several United States pro-
fessionals went to England to com
nete in the British open tournament
and Vardon and Ray came here TO
play exhibitions and compete IN the
National open tournament, which Ray
won. Next year six British stars will
twelve Americans will 60 abroad.
If international competition of this
nature is Increased yearly it will be but
a few years until there will be series
of matches each season Between both
professionals and am ateurs of the two
countries This will give golf an in
terhational flavor that will bring it to
the front as one of The greatest sports
In. the world. It never will replace
baseball but thes two sports are en-
tirely different and each has its field.
Eddie Cochran.
One of the recent Country club
features" was the "Brother-in-law''
tournament conducted by a foursome
of kin golfers. Major Leavitt and his
brother-in-law. Ed Thrill, played Will
bur E Bullis and his brother-in-law
George Model. of Winfield. The
Leavitt- Thrill family is leading in the
matches. The gallery consists of the
wives and sisters-fn-law.
The weeks rains have dampened
some Of the enthusiasm in Topeka
but it was warped only to rise again
with the warm sunshine.
The bench under the trees at No. ?
tee at the Country club course is the
ideal location to spend an afternoon
watching the golfers. More real golf
playing can be seen from this bench
than from any other place on the
course, even including the club house
From No. 2 the spectator can see the
difficult approach to No. I green
where treacherous traps guard the
hole. He can sit behind the drives
from No. 2 tee where the ball is shot
to clear the barn hazard. He can see
the drives from No. 4 come rolling al
most TO his feet-som etimes-and wit
ness the all-important second brassey
as it sends the ball down the fairway
toward the sheltered green near the
club house. Across NO. As tracks he
can follow the long iron or mashie
approach to No green. It is a
pleasure spot for golf followers.
Three members Of the Two Crows
Bailey Middleton Fore Forty Four
some of Shawnee reached the semi
week. Two of the three reached the
finals and one captured the cup. A
sweet foursone, that.
It has been suggested that instead
of the usual hit-the-nigg baby games
at the Free fair this fall, Secretary
Eastman lay out a putting green and
establish competition and award prizes
for the best putters This, at least,
would prevent golfers from spelling an
entire afternoon of play when they at
tended the fair.
What is your worst hazard on
Shawnee" a Country club player
asked Of Shawnee player the other
day.
The Highland Park car line" was
the answer.
The Patten- Observation-Disclosures .vaude-
vile Three has not appeared on the
Country club links for several weeks
due to the hay fever epidemic.
Just to show how the golf bug bites:
VIII Townsley, editor OF the Great
Bend Tribune. played a. round of golf
with Charlie Scott of the lola Register
and Herb Cavaness of the Chanute
Tribune, in Minneapolis, MINI, re-
Gently. It was the first time Townsley
ever saw a golf ball or a golf sticlA
Before he left Minneapolis he had pur-
chased dozen balls. a bag, sever