The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-08-06
SHAWNEE COLE CLUB

July was the greatest month for golf
in the history of Topeka. More play
ers were out on the two courses than
during any previous month since the
game took a firm hold on the town.
The membership of both clubs is the
largest by at least l than ever before
and the interest in golf has increased
fully I per cent.
In July there were more new play
ers out than at any time since the
shawnee club was organized six years
ago and practically the entire MEM
oership was new at the game.
At the Country club the July rec
ord is proven by the payments in
caddy fees. Nearly $1,000 was paid
out by the members for caddy hire in
July. This exceeds all previous fig
ures by 5000. Nearly 5000 hours
were used for the game at the Coun-
dies=and at least !, 900 hours can be
added for players who do not use cad
y dies, by players who used caddles
q double and by golfers who were
unable Saturday afternoons and Sun
days to get caddies.
At Shawnee there is no record kept
of caddy fees as the players pay the
boys directly and by the round instead
of BY the hour. Interest in golf at
Shawnee, however, is greater than at
the Country club. There are two rea-
sons for this. In the first place,
Shawnee is distinctly a golf organiza-
ton. There are no social features.
In the second place there are more
new players and more younger play
ers who have taken up the game at
the Highland Park course
Saturday afternoons and Sundays
lead all other days. The two courses
are crowded = on these days. The
crowds have made it necessary for the
Country club to begin work immedi-
ately on the additional nine holes and
the construction is progressing rap
idly. At Shawnee plans are being
made for the New Nine" not later
clubs have the ground for the en-
largement.
There is no other outdoor sport in
Topeka that involves so many partici-
pants as golf.
''scotty" Robinson is the new house
man at the Country club. He came
to Topeka from the Leavenwortn
Country club and has had several
years experience with the navy in Of
ascotty" is a real Scotchman and
caddied during all of his boyhood days
in the old country.
''Fhe caddies Received cents day
when L was on the job he said re-
Gently "If boy lost ball he didn't
get. paid for that day until he found
it 1 can't help but note the differ
eflce in this country. A caddy IS pald
ten times as much in hour as we
received for a days work and losing
a ball seems to be part of the game
And the rough in Scotland in my time
was real rough-not moved grass. The
courses usually were surrounded with
thick hedges-the meanest place in
the world to find a ball. Moving ma
chimes were not used. When the grass
grew a little taller than usual few
more sheep were turned in to keep it
down.
Pro Nelson has done his bit to re-
duce the price of golf balls. Altho he
has received no reductions from the
dealers he is charging 10 per cent less.
The robbery in golf balls over the
country is angering players. Manu-
facturers seem to be holding the war
prices over the heads of the dealers
despite the sharp reductions in all that
goes into the making of the balls.
Team golf, popular in England but
almost unknown on most American
links, is becoming popular on the Chi
cago courses. Each player on team
carries a different club. one doing all
the driving, another all the brassie
work, another all the putting, and so
on. Only one ball is used by each
team, and with each player using
only the club at which he is most
adept. remarkable scores are being
made
Shawnee members are complaining
because non-members are crowding
the links.
Leonard vardon Of the family of
golf fame has been engaged by the
St. Cloud. MINI. Country club as its
golf instructor. Leonard is the SON of
Thomas Vardon, professional golfer at
the White Bear. Mimi. Golf club, and
a nephew of Harry Vardon, profess
sional golfer of England.
Hurry Country clubbers, and better
your score before the new trap is
built guarding No. 9 green.
Young Jake schaefeT has taken up
golf to improve his billiard play,
which threatened last winter to Guido
the wizardry of his father. The young
balkline player has decided to make
Chicago his home, after living for
some time in San Francisco. 1t was
on the advice of his manager. Charles
Tennes, that the cue expert took to the
links with driver, iron and putter to
abet control of his cue. Tennes has
posted a purse of $4,000 for a match
between Schaefer and any other bill
lard player in the world. Golf has
another advantage
st. Louis, No. is to be the mecca
for amateur golfers of the United
States from September II to ~, when
the national amateur championship
tournament is to be played over the
st. Louis Country club course. Chick
Evans, Chicago's leading amateur,
who won the title last year. viii enter
the event again in defense of the
championship which he now holds.
Other of the citys golf stars will be
there. to contend for the highest hon
or which the amateur golfer can win
in the United States.
Golf experts from all parts of the
United States. who have played at st.
Louis, are of the opinion thaS the
golfers who enter the national anna
teur will experience the most difficult
and still most fascinating journey
they have ever taken over a course,
says the Chicago News. There is "a
marked differences between every
hole, with the result that each shot