The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-05-07
INTERCOLLEGIATE GOLF.

Chicago, Ill, May 7.-Dr- Dana
Evans. physical director OF North
western university. has started a move
ment that may develop into a real
national intercollegiate golf champion
ship
/ His plan is to conduct a national
/ tourney two days before the big inter- n
Z collegiate track meet set for June Is :
/ at Stage field As a starter he con-
suited two big schools, Chicago and
Illinois Coach Stage. himself golfer /
/ of class, member and officer of the
i Olympia. Fields Golf club. heartily in
I dorsed the idea and said Chicago
! would present a team for the occa-
sion if the plan is carried thru-f
I IIlionis, thru its golf coach, Howard
| G.. Lassman, also heartily Endorsed the
! idea and said Illinois would support
/ it by sending a. team OF four TO COM
pete on the dates mentioned. Asked
what he would suggest for a tourney 5
! like that he added he would favor the
/ idea of a seyenty-two-hole medal play
| tourney
| This week more letters will be
started~to the Big Ten colleges and
/ other universities. It is thought Michi-
gan will have a team The tourney
/ will be open to teams or individuals
/ up to the number of four and il nee
essary Narthwestfrn will hang up two
cups. one aNeaR prize and the other
an individual trophy.
Notices will be sent to the Eastern
(
/ Collegiate. the Missouri Valley confer
ence the California colleges and other
groups The teams will pay their own
| expenses.
| Leavenworth. May 7=0fficers at
Fort Leavenworth would like to ar
I range some friendly golf tournaments
with other clubs. Maj J. l. Topham.
director of golf of the Fort Leaven-
worth Officers club. has announced
the wish of the organization TO play.
{ The officers club has just opened an
Is-hoIe course on the military reser-
walton that is considered one Of the
best in the country There are about
SIS officers and women at Fort Leav-'i
Eenworth who play golf. according to
Major Topham. and. in addition. the
tclub membership includes~fift rest
dents of Leavenworth.
/ Excelsior Springs. Mo-. May -
The fifth annual invitation spring
tournament, which will be held over
the course of the Excelsior Springs
Golf club May 90 and 81, promises to
be the biggest ever held here More
entries and a better class of play
probably will be the order.
Jess Shuttle, the Kansas City cham
pion, won the tourney last season
from a Chicagoan- There were eighty
six entrants in the 1920 event and il is
expected there will be nearly one hun
bred this season. The players will be
paired in flights of eight.
"Iehabod Crane" Freshman and
| Paul Revere" Hayden played a con-
versationai twosome on ladies' dav
of this week at the Country club.
PROUD OF u. S. GOLFERESS.
New York May Miss Alexa-
lstIringS American weIl-wishers. and
ltney are legion. who have every con-
lfidence in her ability to uphold the
; lDrRSfiQ6 which he has
lside against the brilliant women
lgoIfers for which Britain Is famous.
Unjust be gratified and even elated by
the manner in which the Atlanta girl
has conducted herself in the two Eng
fish tournaments in which she has
PLAYED thus far Even granting herr
tabTfty as a super golf womaH-the4
greatest woman player ever developed
lin America-there were comparatively
few OF her most ardent admirers who 4
-ttwould have predicted quite the bri--s
liant performances she has turned in@
Il thus far.
Ranelaeh tournament by Miss Leitch =
the British womens champion. and by
Miss Joan Suckers, and in the Soils
illustrated Cup contest at BurfIill BIS
Miss Janet Jackson. the Irish wonen'sf
ititle-holder. and by Miss Leitch again.
iStill her showing was such as to war
irant tha belief that she is capable of7
tpiaying on even terms with any of thee
British women golfers.
Her margin of defeat at Ranelaghs
was only three strokes and IL was the
same in the Burhill 36-hoIe events@
considering the fact that she has JUST
faced her hardest handicaps-ini-s
ItiaI nervousness, unfamfliarity with
.lcourses, an eager and sometimes over
II Jealous gallery, to say nothing of being
forced to play before a battery ofS
Iciiczing canlera+that margin is
slight. SO slight as to be almost neg =
In Erlf of han 20
leaps, she Is capable of holding her
own in a medal play tournament. sheH
Twill undoubtedly be far better off
|, when she goes into match play at
iTurnberry. for match play has thus fsrz
Ibeen her forte.
: In medal play, there is always thef
possibility OF the element OF Iuck&
.entering to a considerable extent Fors
Example. at BurhilI, in both mornings
land afternoon rounds. Miss Sterliug's
ball. going to the seventeenth holes
struck a tree In the one case il
icarTomed towards the green and she{
, AFTERNOON it bounced into the rougft
land she required seven. The dif-s
ference just represented the marginl
between the American girls score and
that of the winner. It was miscueS
lon the seventh and seventeenth that
: icost her a victory.
There are several things Of Interest,"
! to note in Miss Sterlings debut intor
british golf society. She has already
, learned the right to the reputation that
! preceded her to the other side. and
golf critics are now singing her
: praise as the best golfer that has ever
, gone to represent America in ths
, british won1en's champ ionship t0urna-s
. iment. Further than that. the Atlanta
gir1 has won her way into the heartz
: iof Brit sh golf followers by her modest
s. demeanor. coupled with the respect.
that goes with ability.
GEORGE sTAwITZ OF SHAWNEE
SAYS:
Tomorrow will be mothers day"
: Either stay az home and spend a sun