The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-06-25

B. Glass A will include the low thirty
two scoring players. Glass will take
care Of all other scorers. Two matches
a week wilr be played to decide the
championship. The finals will be
played. late in July. This is a no
handicap event with medal for the
winner.
Frank Griggs of the Topeka Coun-
| try club who was elected to the vice
presidency OF the Kansas State Golf
association will leave in a few days to
inspect the government post course at
lLeavenworth in preparation for the
plans of the 1922 tournament. AS vice
president Griggs is in charge of the
| association until the president and sec
rotary are elected by the hostess club.
AT this date there are only three 49,
hole golf courses in Kansas where
state tournaments can be played
Wichita, Salina and Leavenworth.. To-
peka has two 9-hole courses that have
been laid out for IS holes and will be
in condition in a short time but no
promises could be made for the 1922
tourney.
The Topeka Press club is planning
a midsummer sweepstakes to be be-
gun some time next week. Handicaps
will be handled and the spoils will be
divided among four winners-low
| medalist and three low handicap win
ners. The first nine holes will be
played on Shawnee and the second
min on the Country club course.
L. J. Pettijohn, secretary of state,
| is having the usual luck of a COMPARE
| lively new player with a few lessons.
II took course in professional golf
the other day." opined the state Off
cial. land now cannot hit 'em with a
| ball bat" Two weeks is usually re-
quired for results in such cases.
Will Townsley. editor of the Great
| Bend Tribune, was in town several
days last week. He spent an afternoon
| at the Shawnee course and registered
a 56-5S- Townsley is one of those
truly thoughtful chaps who always
takes his clubs with him.
| Charles Flanders is a true friend of
the Shawnee members. He has re-
duced the overhead expense of the
game by moving the roughs and in
| consequence fewer dollar and dollar
and a quarter balls are being sown just
off the fair ways than at any time
this season.
| Emmett George, secretary to Gov
ernor Allen and sensation among the
beginners at Shawnee, has established
a wholesome respect for Bill Kercher
| of the Southwestern Bell Telephone
/ company. George took" Kercher for
a round at the Country club Sunday
morning. They arranged customary
features tending to add zest and inter-
est to the game. On the eighth hole
Kercher politely offered to double
spot the governors secretary one and
play it thru. When Kercher came in
with a par on the hole, George swore
undying hostility to all corporate in
/ h1 dYfy IN o.
slump after a low score of 81 last
week.
W. G. Clugston quit the game for
an entire week. There was a reason.
1t was a 60 score on Shawnee. For
| three days he tried to exchange his
clubs, bag and balls for lead pencils
/ and cancelled postage stamps.
! These are great days for low scores
for the short drive boys on the Shaw
| mes course. A hard fair way and good
| turf have been a big boost for the
new players who are out for improved
ringer scores.
| Charley Sessions's criticism of state
| house golf enthusiasts threatened to
| discourage timid officials who want
| to retain their popularity with the
folks in the rural districts next year.
There is also bit OF speculation as to
-
recent years. When Charley's boss
was in the governors office he was
one of the real golf bugs of the state
house and even now borrows a bit of
the governments time to chase the
pill on Washington fair ways.
Malcolm Gray, secretary of the state
board of administration and brother
in-law of Governor Allen, is talking
| golf in his sleep. He played his first
Rq
holes at Shawnee. Now he is a new
member of Shawnee and is trying to
absorb all of the golf literature and
information in town.
i Justice Silas Porter is ordinarily
very modest man but-well his ringer
score is something which the supreme
II court justice just naturally speaks
has registered a 50 on the Country
4 club course. This is the music: 533-
i 425-43S. Count 'em-32. He will
send q defy to Governor Allen to beat
4 1t.
j Harry Sharp. secretary Of the As
ISOLATED Industries and a new mem
Der at the Country club, borrowed a
kit of tools and played his first game
] this this a rich mans game" said sharp
as he calculated the cost of the after
Moons initial outing.
i Emerson Carey, of Hutchinson,
former state senator and a regular at
tendant at the state invitation tour
/ neys in Topeka, is building a 5000
yard private course on his country es-
tate five miles northwest of Hutchin-
son. Carey is authority for the state
ment that it will be the finest watered
course in the state and will be ready
for par play this fall. This probably
is the only private golf course in Kan
sas- The entire Carey family is golf
enthusiastic and they all play a sweet
game.
The difference between a pro and
most amateurs is that a pro plays all
the harder when his game goes bad
Not long ago Assistant Pro Howard.
of the Cnunfry club Started on a