The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-07-30

the deadly Microbus Golfus has per-
| formed deep and rapid ravages, is
torn between pride and shame. The
other day Milt had occasion to whack
a golf ball on the Shawnee course.
Just 200 yards ahead of him a
woman golfer was in action. Milt
knew the distance. Tho the woman
was exactly in line with his proposed
drive, he could not conceive that she
was in any danger whe tever. He
swung nightly on the ball. which
rose, flew. sailed, curved and i'm
pinged directly between the shoulder
| blades of the woman golfer zoe yards
| away Milt's abject apologies were SO
tempered with elation at having
/ driven 200 yards, that the victim of
his remarkable protective energy
doesn't believe yet that he really
meant them.
James Barnes is said to be the
| highest paid professional golfer in
| this country. He was born at Corn
wall, England, twenty-six years ago.
He developed his golfing ability al
| most exclusively in this country. He
| open championship but is a many
! time winner of the Western Open and
| has a long list of many other minor
championships tucked away to his
credit. While at the Sunset Hills club
! of st. Louis he was the winner of the
| Western Open in 1914, 1917 and 1919.
In 1916 he won the professional
golfers title, which held over until
| 1919 because of the war. The past
/ two years have been the busiest in his
golfing career. In 1919 he won the
North and South open, the Western
open, the Southern open, the Shawnee
! open and was the winner in the YAH
nundasis and Deland tournaments.
| He was fourth in the Boca Grande
event, ninth in the East coast cham
pionship in Florida, second at Palma
! Celia. at Tampa and st. Augustine
land fourth in the Asheville tournament
of that winter. He finished twelfth
in the National open last year AMI
was tied for third in this years Brit
ish open.
Last year Barnes was seventh in the
North and South, second in the Cana
dian and Metropolitan championship.
He won the Shawnee open, tied for
second in the Western OPEN finished
seventh in the National open and fifth
In the British open.
Barnes record as a golfer is ex-
tremely interesting. Even in the early
days of his career while at Tacoma,
Wash, he displayed championship
form, so much SO that Vardon in 1918
was led to remark of Barnes, "This is
| the real GOLFER" That was when
Barnes was but IS years old. Barnes
rise was very rapid. In 1913 at Brook
! line, Mass, when Francis Ouimet tied
with Vardon and Ray at 3O4 and later
won the playoff, Barnes was only
three strokes behind, tying with Wal
ter Hagen, Louis Teller and MacDon-
aid Sfith for fourth place. In 1914
Whitemarsh, outside Of Philadelphia,
thence to Broadmoor, near Denver,
and finally to Sunset Hill, from which
club he went to Pelham Bay.
There are few golf professionals who
have won as many matches in so
LII ID
also holds the record for playing sew
enty-two holes consecutively on a
championship golf course. He made a
mark of 276.
Just to show how the game has
taken in Washington-a story was
printed in the eastern newspapers
recently to the effect that Senator
Bursum, of New Mexico, did NOT play
golf.
! John Mohler, son of ]. c. Mohler,
finally has dropped tennis for the sea-
son at the Country club and has taken
up golf. As an indication of the kind
of golf material that can be developed
from youngsters, young Moh1er is
shooting ass with regularity already
and he has played only a week this
year. He trimmed his father in a
match the other day-and Jake"
Mohler is a hard man to defeat. Again
we insist that the young fellows must
take up the game if the Country club
lis to make a showing in state titles in
the future.
''I want a hard ball." w. H. East
man said to Pro Nelson the other day.
Nelson handed him a Radio.
rs that the hardest you have?"
Eastman inquired.
| Nelson nodded.
well, I just played nine holes with
lone of them and it is cut in a dozen
iplaces."
what you need is a lesson, not a
hard ball." calmly Informed the pro.
The lack of water at the Shawnee
lshoWers is causing considerable dis
Icontent among golfers at the Highland
leourse. The club is conducting a
membership campaign. and it has
levery advantage to offer a new mem
Der except the showers service. Some
days the baths are operating in true
form and then for nearly a. week it
will be impossible to obtain a drop.
install the bathing facilities-anJ ex-
lpense that is a total loss unless there
is a plentiful supply of water. No
matter what his score may be, a
golfers day is ruined unless he can
Ienjoy the refreshing shower in the
evening. The Shawnee club is stock
holder in the Highland Park Water
company, and the membership of ESQ
: persons Should be entitled to con-
federation and service.
Abe Mitchell the English golfer. re-
: firing from the national tournament.
. says he is fed up on golf. Wonder
how he will feel after he has COM
: Ipleted that sixty-day tour planned for
him along with Duncan? And his
. literary labors, too, must be oppress-
, ling. He and Duncan are supposed TO
: be writing descriptions of their games
: on alternate days. But Sol Metzger
: is doing all the work, apparently. This
| golfing pair will probably do almost
J las much writing as Vardon and Ray
: did and they never wrote a line
Buffalo News.
The sand pit that has been catching
downhill rolls at No. 9 green for so
many years at the. Country club was