The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-04-23

Shawnee members. it is up to you'll
That beautiful Donald Ross course
you are using in Highland Park can
be purchased from the Country club
necessary that at least $50 members
subscribe at once to the 500 stock
sale
BY June 1 the Shawnee club must
make the first payment of $4,000.
This means instant activity on the
part CT the Highland golfers
If the Shawnees do not accept this
generous Country club offer, it means
that in 1880 the lease expires and the
Shawnee club is without grounds.
The directors have decided to draw
up a sale contract at once if the mem
bers indicate their loyalty by buying
the stock. Every detail has been
worked out by the club heads. It has
been d difficult task to formulate this
plan.
A meeting of the entire membership
will be held at the Chamber of Com
merce Monday evening, May 2. At this
meeting the directors must be assured
bf a large subscription to stock.
Members are asked to bring their
sheck books with them. If the stock
not assured at this meeting it means
that the sale probably will fall thru.
The subscription will not be diff
cult to handle financially. The direc-
Tors will give three years for the final
md with dues at $25 a year, this is
he best golf course in the country for
mch a membership price. Covering
rolling ground, growing in trees ana
Ihrubbery, laid out by Donald Ross
worlds most famous golf architect,
within one block of a car line and
within ten minutes by motor car from
The city, it is ideally situated.
shawnee club members must rally
10 the support of the directors at the
to he
nent of SIS, 900 by June 1 means there
< only a month for the club to get
Is feet planted firmly on the ground;
Shaw vince members. it is up to you!
President Eastman's call to the
membership for the meeting May Z
Do the Members of The Shawnee Golf Club !:
4 meeting of the members of the shawnee
solf club Is called to be held at the ChaHl-
Yer NJ Commerce parlors at o'clock p. m,
fonday, May :. :, s,
The board of directors has received IRON pm
The Topeka Country club the terms Dy
shich the Shawnee Golf club can purchase
no shawnee course. Definite action must
re taken at once to cohsumate the pun
At this meetings amendments to the CON
titution viii be presented liking lIe uue'
4 stock owning members, non-stock OWL
mr. members, and associate members
The Shawnee Gulf club must decide at
his meeting whether u VIII 1 1Mn ~ q q
nd progressive golf club, or whether II
rilI not own its own golf course ana III Il
eT T,r sei q1fnre Of the club should be i'm
orfnnt matter to each member and each
member is expected to show his interest IN
he club by attending this meeting.
PHI EASTMAN, President.
The shawnee budget committee for
.921 in a report by Arch M. Catlin at
he recent meeting of the directors
aid out plans for the expenditure OF
6192 This is S1.305 more than IN
,g2O. but it includes a large payment
o the Country club in the purchase of
he grounds. The operating expenses
or 1921 have been cut much lower
nan in 1920. This enables the club
o nav out on it's links. The budget
committees work should be given wide
appreciation by the membership
The increase in the membership of
he Country club means a crowded
curse this season. The delay in club
louse improvements and in the adj
ition of the new nine" holes un-
loubtedly will force the directors to
,ush the betterments for next year
the plans made late last fall were
arried out the remodeled clubhouse
could have been in use by May 80
md the additional nine holes by
July l.
Ed curry, one OIL 1Op6hd IIlOoI Gil
husiastic golfers, holds the record for
ong distance playing. Five years ago,
With his brother Frank, he played
t-nety-six consecutive days at the
country club. Previous to the first
lay his brother never had a golf stick
n his hand and never saw a golf
curse. At the end of the ninety-sixth
lay he turned in a perfect SO on the
Country club nine. 1t all goes to show
What practice and persistence will dc
golf.
Frank Curry, by the way. is now
laying golf in Likasi of the Belgian
.ongo. Before he left for Africa he
Lsked a friend what he should take tc
rear. "AlI you need is a dress suit
md a. set of golf sticks his friend in
ormed him. Curry appreciated the
ldvice. The Likasi links are wonder
al, he writes.
Here is a story on Frank Curry that
ridges the gap between the 96-day
Fame on the Topeka Country club and
lle Belgian Congo play. Following
lis taste of golf in Topeka, Curry
rent to Arizona for the Inspiration
Copper people. His first action was
llong the liens of golf. He laid out g
iourse in the sand and soon he ha6
Interested James Douglas of New
FORK, president of the company
Douglas put up a sterling silver cup
Eighteen inches in height, for the win.