The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-05-28

Three events for the Memorial day
period have been scheduled at the
Country club, Tiff Felix, tournament
chairman announced today.
Sunday, all day, every golfer of the
club Will have an opportunity to enter
the sweepstakes, is holes, a ball for
entrance. This Is a handicap event,
and four prizes will be offered for the
low scores. The handtcaps give each
contestant chance to take home the
offerings.
Monday morning will be devoted to
2-ball mixed foursome play. This is
9-hole affair, medal play. The play
ers go out in foursomes, two men and
two women. Each mixed pair plays
one ball, taking alternate strokes.
Suitable prizes have been offered in
this event.
Monday afternoon the golfers will
recognize the usual flag feature. The
players are given their handicaps and
pay until they exhaust their supply
Of strokes, planting a flag at that
Point The winner has the far flag.
Two prizes offered.
This program is the first real tour
ramUn play Of the season at the
Country club. 1t will be followed by
a series of matched plays.
The beating rain Thursday placed
the Shawnee and Country fairways in
excellent shape again. The stretches
and cracked, causing freak shots and
uncertain bounds. The rain will re-
duce the enthusiasm of the players
VINO have been watching their drives
run over Nos 2, and at the Country
club and Nos. and at Shawnee.
Harlow Hurley and Ed Bracket
represented the Topeka Elks at Man
Iat,an Thursday in a tournament
anong several cities in this part of the
state.
Ilif Felix was given a new mid
n2sh,e to try out at the Country club
the other day. Laying fifteen balls on
the ground by No. green he shot
them straight and true to a spot that
could be bounded by a green 100 yards
down the couVe on No. l fairway.
Pretty good Stick Felix compented
to crowd of awe-stricken dubs who
were witnessing the nonchalant feat.
Bob Fullerton, Topeka's most IA
NOUS golfer. but now a business man
with a pitifully receding interest in
the game, played many years in Scot
land before he came to this country
with the first consignment of British
professionals to take up instruction
work among American clubs. In
giancing over the list of British cham
pionship finalists in The State Journal
last Saturday evening. Fullerton re-
called that he had witnessed nine of
the classics while he was in the game
overseas.
zone match I'll never forget" Full
lerton relates.~ 1T was in 1898 when
TAFT won his second championship. He
was one down with only three holes to
play. n was on a hole guarded by a
huge sand hill about rs feet high
Between the sand hill and the green
was n bunker-the green lust off from
the bunker. It had been raining and
Tait's drive landed in the water in the
pit. His opponent drove to the right
Of the green. 1t was a deciding hole
Tor Tait-and the gallery surrounded
the green, the bunker and even stood
on top of the big sand hill awaiting
with intense interest the next move
TAFT stood on the edge of the water
filled pit and studied his ball as it
bobbcd up and down on top of the
ripples Suddenly he reached in his
bag, pulled out a mashie and with a
splash waded into the water. The
crowd yelled in approval. 1t was the
sporty move to make and they liked it.