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

ever before. All that goes into the
manufacture of a ball is cheaper than
it has been in years. The average
golfer is willing for the maker to re-
ceive just profits. but he is unwilling to
donate too literally to the Causes
pecial1y when he realizes that balls are
given away to the players of note.
Golf sticks also never seem to have
been given the opportunity of sliding
down the war scale. -
Chester Leasure of the Hutchinson
Gazette doubts the story that John D.
Rockefeller attributes his success to
golf. Leasure claims that it is success
/ that enables one to play golf.
| Golf stockings cover a multitude of
shins, says the Chicago News.
! Several Kansas City clubs have made
arrangements with the Lawrence
Country club for inter-cIub week end
matches. This is a stunt extremely
popular over Kansas since the recent
squirt in golf.
The golf caddies in New Jersey are
organized and hold a state tournament
each year. Topeka caddes have enough
clubs and balls to stage a middle-west
/ tourney
a Country club lad. In commenting
on a paragraph in this column to the
effect that recovered lost balls were
not returned as readily as at Shawnee,
he said: 1.-The guys lose balls and then
find them at Shawnee"
Charles Hall of Birmingham, one of
the entrants in the National Open Golf
Championship, has caddie who takes
1 the cake for faithfulness. Just as the
birmingham player was teeing off one
day he noticed a forlorn, unkempt lit
tile darby watching him intently. To
his surprise he recognized his favorite
club-carrier from his home club. How
did you get here. Hall asked when he
recovered from the surprise. "Ah beat
nah way. sub. Yassuh, on freight
train, suh.'
Joe Wilson has accepted the nomi-
nation for the contribution of a cup to
the winner of the summer inter-club
! championship victors. 1t will be
known as the Wilson H-B Trophy"
and will be presented with an es-
pecially planned ceremony when
properly won.
The trough" has been cut at
Shawnee and the entire course is in
/ its best summer condition. Shawnee
uses the sand greens and the greens
|
over the crab grass.
At the Leavenworth Country club
and also at some of the clubs in Kan
sas City caddies are used to keep the
green's free of crab grass. Certain
times of the season are set aside and
from twenty to thirty caddies are
turned loose on tt e velvets. The
system has proven a success. 1t is
too late for the caddies this year at
the Country club.
Frank Griggs and Jack Campbell
played recently over. the Mission Hills
course in Kansas City. Griggs played
fell down on the greens. The greens
were slow-and any player attempt
ing putting under these conditions
after a dry month at the Country club
would realize the hazard.
Charlie Flanders, caretaker of
Shawnee, may blossom forth any day
as golf club inventor. Flanders has
been watching the Highland laddies
pound the ball out of his tall grass
for years and his observations have
not been confined to grass cutting. He
the Shawnee Special' when it is
ready for actual performance. He
carved out the club head himself from
an old oak bridge plank. 1t is a
wooden cleek. 1t has not only a
weight, in the back but on the toe. The
head is thin and with its adjusted
weight and the whip of the shaft it
will get distance from the rough,
Flanders predicts. The face is curved
III such a manner that he believes he
has control of the slice and hook.
Flanders has tried out his Shawnee
speciar' in a sort of an executive ses-
sion. No one was around to offer
suggestions or ridicule. Charlie says
the club head of his original wooden
c1eek was a trifle too small and he is
working on a new one now.
Flanders also has made a wooden
putter from this same oak plank. II
: is carved along the same lines as a
Schenectady putter and, according to
players who have tried it, is twice as
accurate due to its weight and size and
balance.
The Shawnee caretaker is a genius
! with clubs and before many years he
should have a complete set of the
, HON e-made variety with the improve
ments that he believes should be made
A prominent Topeka woman came
out to the Country club with hel
chauffeur the other evening to get her
husband. They had planned to go to
a dinner downtown. Owing to the
dust on the road between the club en-
. trance and the pavement 1t was neces-
home, change her clothing and dig out
the road dust from her countenance
Why isn't that road oiled?
Persons playing at the Country club
Wednesday were surprised upon their
return to the city to see water run
ming in the streets. The rainstorm, ur
until o'clock, did not touch the Dud-
, ~ links.
Frank Griggs has been spending
several hours a day this week laying
Tout green's on the Country club New
Nine" No. IS is now ready for
Aridy's construction gang. 1t will be
100x125 feet in size and will be To-
Gated just west of the old No. 1 tee
and south of the chi1dren's putting
clock. Griggs has arranged 1t in
such manner that the larger trees
can be saved. but all the trees in the
a orchard will be cut out. The new