The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-07-23

lions from the golfers: Miss Betty
Frost, Miss Babbie Gault, Miss Marian
Moore and Mrs. John Long.
Frank Beck was playing at the
Country club the other day.
"Who is that feila taking so much
time on the green's ?" asked a men,
Der of foursome behind Beck
That's Frank Beck"
whats his business ~
runs a plumbing establishment"
THAT explains it,
ST drove nearly into the second
ditch my first time around" Ed
at Country club No. L tee.
eff 1 hear many more of these
stories I am going to begin to doubt
some peoples credit" Kaths rejoined.
Now that Topeka golfers have
adopted the custom of picking up
their wives at $50 and playing until
dark the towns golf widows have
given away to golf orphans.
Two days of a north breeze created
| the thrill of a lifetime for Shawnee
drivers on No. L. No. 4, and Not,
and Country club No. 8. The Shaw
nee players, who have been nerying
their drives to cut the corners on the
No. dog-leg, paid the cost with lost
balls.
Taking out-of town visitors to the
Country club-should be accompanied
with a warning that they should
wear goggles and an old fashioned
duster. The dust on this well Travelled
stretch of country road between the
pavement and the Country club drive
way is suffocating. The bumps on
the thorofare are enough to reduce
enthusiasm to a minimum. In short,
| fha road is a disgrace.
| Another interesting chapter has been
written into the history of golf during
| the past week, but it remains for the
next few days to supply the material
/ for the most interesting chapter of all,
| says the New York Times. The ma
I tional open championship at the Col
umbia Country club fairly teens with
eventful possibilities. only a few of
which are these.
| viii Jock Hutchinson, the Sir Gala
| had of golf, succeed in duplicating a
| performance last turned in by Harry
VaFdon, twenty-one years ago, when
the Beau Brummel of the golf stylists
won both the British and American
golf titles?
viii Abe Mitchell or George Duncan
equal the triumph of Ted Ray at To-
ledo last year, when the British ace
single-handed almost snatched victory
Americas most doughty defenders?
Will Joseph Kirkwood. the Austria
liam trick-shot marvel. carry the
American trophy to the far-off Antip-
| odes for the fist time?
| Will one of the amateur stars, Chick
Evans or Bobby Jones. say, come thru
the field with colors flying-a task
accomplished only twice in the twenty
tournaments that have gone before
Or will some unheralded golfer, OBJ
a big tournament, emerge from OBJ
British open or Willie HanteI in the
amateur, and head the list when the
last hole is played on Friday next2
These are just few of the thing
that may happen at the twenty frs
annual tournament, which will bt
4 graced by perhaps the most affluen
gallery that ever witnessed an even
of its kinda gallery that will include
the president. members of the embas
sizes, cabinet members and lawmakers
After what has already happened
during the present season anything il
within the range of possibility. Mira
Gle performer, tho they may be, it Il
not generally believed that the tive
British stars will win the American
title, for the simple reason that tn,
ODDS are all against them. The frs
line OF American defense includes thu
brilliant Hutch, whose year has beer
repIete with records and victories
crowned by his success at st. Andrews
jim Barnes, one of the greatest of thu
great and who has apparently recev