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


waterway. The next day they show
up with pockets full Of balls for sale.
The greens on the Country club
Players are beginning to take ad-
vantage of crowded hours and are
playing practice holes on the new
course.
Topekans. who are wise to the
Wichita course, have spent many
hours this last week on their irons,
brassies and spoons in preparation for
the state tournament The Wichita
fairways, unlike the Topeka courses,
of grass growth, ofttimes making diff
ficult lies for long shots after the
drive.
Charles F. Scott of lola, president
of the Kansas Editorial Golf associa-
ton, reports several new members for
this writer-golfer organization. At
least forty editors are expected at the
fall state tournament in lola in Octo-
Der.
Harlow Hurley of the Country club
shot a 146 for IL holes recently. Pro
Nelson brought in a las not long ago.
This is consistent sweet-sticking
and establishes record scores for four
rounds.
Country club women, with perfectly
good golfer-husbands. are taking les
Lsons from Pro Nelson. THE pro
doesn't scold me and his language is
so much more refined" one of the
women explained.
Topeka golfers, who are SO fussy
over their drivers and who nurse them
with jealous care. might be interested
in knowing that Pro Nelson of the
Country club drives altogether with
brassie. THE hard tees bother me
when I have a driver in my hand" he
says.
A party of tourists drove up along
the sixth fairway at the Shawnee club
the other day. Two men were seen
climbing out thru the tent outfits,
boxes and extra tires Someone within
sticks. For thirty minutes these
coast-to-coasters unwound along the
fairways adjoining the road. The call
of the tee was too much for them.
One day recently while Governor
Allen was under the showers in the
locker house the Country club
Forum" in~khe basement of the club
house was settling the fate of the in
dustrial court.
Country club players must register
on the blackboard outside the caddy
house before they are given caddies.
This new rule does away with the
trouble of remembering the first ar
rivals" It also gives Caddymaster
Howard an opportunity to send boys
out on the course to find caddyless
players.
Due to the high cost of travelling
and the augmented interest in golf
scores of Topekans have planned this
summer to spend their vacations on
the two links. zone can get the tan.
the sunburn, the exercise, the rest, the
air and still have all the comforts of
home" one business man explained.
At a recent afternoon bridge party
the women dallied in a perfunctory
way with the cards and spent the en-
| tire time talking golf. Come again
some time" the Disguised hostess said
| in parting to her guests, Sand we'll
have little chat about golf"
A revised story: The wife Of To-
peka golfer has just started playing
the game and she said that not until
recently did she know that damnbras-
! sic was not one word.
! The golf course of the Columbia
| Country club, where the National
| Open Championship tournament is to
be held July 1922, 1921, Is located at
| Chevy Chase, Md, a beautiful suburb
| of Washington, six and one-half miles
north of the White House, the heart
! of the national capital. It is at the
head of Connecticut avenue, a wide
| and splendid thorofare, and can be
| reached by motor or trolley direct to
the club house.
The course covers. approximately
1876 acres Of rolling country and is
| diversified not only by elevations but
by brooks. that form natural hazards
| for eleven of the eighteen holes. The
| outlook from the, club house Is over
a picturesque landscape, stretching
away to the northwest. The course
| was originally designed by H. H. Bar
ker, the professional at that time al
the Garden City club, but while the
general direction of the holes remains
unchanged, the positions of practi-
cally all the green's and tees have
entirely new in their construction,
and the course has been heightened
until now an accurate survey shows
it to be $3.50 yards from the middle
of the championship tees to the mid
die of the greens, with possible ex-
pansion to over $500 yards. In It'll
development advantage has been
taken of the expert advice and sug-
gestion of golf architects and players
/ Walter J. Travis has planned and
suggested most of the changes, but
the course as a whole Is monument
to the skill and daily attention of DR.
Walter S. Harlan, former vice
president of the United States Coll
association, and chairman OF the
green committee for the past nine
years. DR.. Harlan has devoted hi:
entire time to the Improvement OF
the course. and every bunker is the
result of his personal observation a:
to the best method Of penalizing mis-
placed shots. DR.. Harlan has alsc
conducted for many years an expert
mental grass farm for the purpose Of
producing the best possible putting
surface on the greens. The result /:
q course which Vardon and Ray, upor
the occasion of their recent visit, un
hesitatingly pronounced the bes
(which they had played over in thi!
} country, and. it was this commenda
ton which largely influenced the Sc
lection of the Columbia Country clut
for the national event.
The Columbia course will be fount
to possess a remarkable fascination