The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-08-25
~GOLF NOTES

Golfers who qualify in tournaments
and then fail to appear for play have
been criticised severely this week by
officers of the Country club. Tuesday
afternoon five players-three of them
visitors-were compelled to take their
brackets by the default route--a most
unsatisfactory condition. Several who
qualified even failed to telephone
their defaults.
The willow tree on No. is still a
mental hazard for Sen. Emerson Carey
of Hutchinson. Last year at the In
vitation tournament his drive landed
in the branches of the tree and the
ball stayed there. He lost the hole
and the match N that one play. The
senator isn't shooting within mile
OF the willow this year.
The wichita golfers failed to ar
rive this season The invitation to JOIN
the state tourney in Topeka was not
acknowledged.
Gerald Smith of Manhattan. the H.
year-old boy golf wonder of Kansas,
was matched in flight with Ed Tir-
, Tuesday afternoon The game was
rather one-sided. to be sure. but Sec
rotary Thrill has great respect for the
youngster. Despite the fact that this
is his first season in golf and the first
tournament he ever entered he has re-
markable nerve" Thrill says He
shoots the ball straight down the
course and fights for every hole. I'm
for him."
One of the features of the tourna-
| ment is the surprisingly large number
of s'south-paws" The lcft-handers
are putting up mighty sweet matches
! despite the old adage in their disfavor.
| Owing to the crowded course. play
ers are spending little time hunting for
lost balls. This means a haIvest To-
the caddies after the tournament is
over.
The women of the Country club did
not allow Ladies' day. to disturb
them Tuesday. They transferred their
matches to the Shawnee course. The
Shawnee club has issued a general in
vitation to all visitors and Country
club players for the week.
Justice Porter of the supreme court
is a rival of John Norton in the dis
| play of the championship enthusiasm
\ in the game. The two are playing O.
''galleryipg'' every minute of the day
'I am going to learn to play golf
| just so 1 can understand this wild Ian
guage I read in the newspapers" a
Topekan informed a golf reporter to-
day. He should be able to understand
the language on the course when a
shot goes wrong.
Stanley Clithero took twelve puts
on nine holes In his first match in the
second flight Tuesdav This is birdie
putting. and probably is a record that
will not be equaled during the week
An onlcoker sees great variety OF
form and stance in a state tournament
| One player in the course looks like
Abraham Lincoln on the state house
grounds when he bends to drive
Another brings his club hack slowly
dragging in the dust only to raise il
suddenly. raise his body with 1t and
come down in a flourish of arms and
legs. Another golfer insists on carry.
ing his own clubs and always Law:
them at certain angle when he
! shoots. One young tanned visitor
| ducks his head to avoid a collision with
his club on the completion of the
stroke. But they all play good golf.
Emerson Carey's defeat of Licb.
man Emporia. runner-up in the last
state tournament at Salina, was an in
dication of the great game the Hutch
inson salt hackcr-statesman- editor il
playing this season. Carey qualified
with 81 and Liebman an "a. Carey
took Liebman down and T. Liebman
did not enter the consolation after his
defeat.
A pretty match Tuesday was the I
1 up battle between Bob Yates of To-
| peka and Lovelace of Hutchinson.
/ Yates did not have his victory tucked
away until the pair had reached the
club house on the second round.
| J. c. Mohler of the Topeka Country
! club took the nineteenth hole to settle
| their golf dispute Tuesday. on the
nineteenth Mohler offered congratula-
tions. It was a sensational match all
| thru.
Pete Middleton went the limit late
! Tuesday to put out George Model OF
| Winfield. formerly of Shawnee. To-
peka- Model plays left handed and
not until tho nineteenth hole did he
| give up the honors to the state cham
pion.