The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-06-11

| Campbell looked like midsummer
form before the showers came ana
drove him from the course. 81
ways in excellent condition. The few
| mud spots around the hazards didn't
alarm members who defied the clouds
and intermittent showers this week for
game on the course. A little SUM
shine will put the fairways in wonder
full condition.
During the week of dampness,
Charley Flanders has given the Shaw
nee rough a haircut and shampoo.
The tall uncut has been removed
along practically the entire course and
comment from members indicates
there is a flock of votes at Charley's
disposal any time he decides to run
for office.
Dave Palmer. general attorney for
the Southwestern Bell company
played his first game on the Shawnee
last week. He registered q A after
| having gone wrong on the dog leg.
He misunderstood the No. fairway
and when he drove to the rough below
NO. . green he said something that
sounded like comment on a public
utiilties commission decision.
BAR FREAK CLUBS.
London, June 11.-Freak golf clubs.
/ such as the Corrugated" "" grooyed.
and slotted" probably will be barred
on Britlsh courses in the near future,
according to a statement issued bv
! the secretary of the rules of golf
committee
Many members of the COMMITTEES
are said to be against the use of these
| clubs and the action is contemnlated
1t continues, 'as they, understand thar
the executive committee of the United
| states Goit association adopt SINH
lar attitude The secretary adds
that no action is intended until after
me amateur and open championships
fhave been played.
The rules of golf committee of the
Royal and Ancient Golf club, CARRYING
out the decision reached at the au-
tumn meeting of the club. have issued
! their revision of the rules, which
came into operation on May /.
among the most important altera-
| tions Is thar referring to- the sections
dealing with ut-of-bounds and the
lost and unplayable ball. After May
or casual water) or be deemed by
| the player to be unplayable, the
player shall play his next stroke IS
nearly as possible at the spot from
which the ball which is lost or un-
playable was played. adding a penalty
stroke to the score for the hole. If
the stroke was played from the tee
| ing-ground, a ball may be teed; in all
! other cases a ball shall be dropped."a
The penalty for a ball out of bounds
Is to be the same as in the case of g
lost or unplayable ball, but s'the PEN
atty stroke may be RENTED by local
rule The rule further states that
"a player may stand out of bounds
to play a ball lying within bounds
i Perhaps some American golfers who
4 Crouch to the green's committees that
install troublesome traps and some
times contrast such a hazard with the
fairness of British bunkering" might
drop some of their grumbling If they
knew the real conditions on some of
the English links, says a. New York
writer. What would they think, for
example. of a bunker right across the
fairway in front of green so precipi-
tous, SO awful, in a word that a ball.
played into it is considered out of
bounds?
Yet that is precisely the situation
that confronts a golfer playing the
, short 18th hole at Oxhey. the home
lcourse of Ed Ray. the United States
open champion. Any one who doubts
this astonishing instance of bunkering
should read this comment in the Lon
, don Mail of April s, describing match
at that course between Duncan and
Ray.
AT the 18th. hole of 1o2 yards.
, with pit go feet deep between tee
, and green, Ray failed to hit his shot
with quite sufficient firmness and
down into the depths it went. Under
a local rule such a mishap counts as
out of bounds-partly because the
average individual would never sue
coed in raising the ball from the brok-
, en- ground ia the gulf and partly be-
cause lie woulC have to develop the
| attributes eff a mountain goat to climb
the precipitous slope"