The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-04-23

chairman of the Country club hanol-
cap committee. Whitney asks MEM
bers to send in their cards at once.
He asks players to turn in every card
they score on nine holes. Persons
who refuse to submit their results
will be given the maximum handicap.
Country club ringer score" begins
tomorrow. Watch for the Is on
No. 5!
Beauty, fashion, grace and person
atty were welded with golf in a Tues
day afternoon feminine array on the
Country club course. Topeka could
be represented in any of these attrib-
utes by the following sweet" stick
artists who made up the matches:
Mrs. Dana Davis. Mrs. Irwin Snat-
finger, Mrs. Charles Wolff. Jr., Mrs
Kurtz Kellam, Mrs. w. D. Updegraff,
Mrs. Jack Campbell. Mrs. Ivan Dibble
and Mrs. c. E. Gault.
If Robert A. Gardner of Onwentsia,
runner-up in last years British anna
teur championship tournament, de-
cides to make the trip again this sea-
son in quest of the coveted title, he
probably will have slight advantage
over some of the other American con-
tenders in the matter of putting.
Gardner had grown quite fond of the
Schenectady putter, but discarded it in
conformity with st. Andrews rules in
his remarkable effort to land the Eng
fish amateur crown.
Swinging golf stick is fine for hui
mans, of course. but did you ever try
swinging a garden rake in lieu there
of? asks the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Being o human" we are not inter-
ested in the advantages of animal or
plant life.
Miss Alexa Stirling, Mrs. Fred c..
Let's, Miss Marion Hollins, Miss Edith
Cummings, Mrs Quentin Feitner, and
two or three other American women
golfers will compete in the champion
ship matches of the Women's Golf
Union of Great Britain at Turnberry,
Ayrshire. Scotland. beginning May so.
They have already gone to England
and are familiariZing themselves with
British courses. They will practice for
two weeks over the course where the
championship tournament is to be
played Each of these women has
won titles in this country and are con-
ceded to be the very best women play
ers in the United States. Miss Stirling
is probably the most brilliant of
American women players.
"Play him for a goat is the new
Swope park slogan in Kansas City.
A goat is metal pocketpiece that
each member in the contest possesses
at the start of play They are num-
bered and no member can have more
than one goat at a time. If one
loses his goat in match he may
purchase another from the club for
25 cents. The person having the larg-
est number of goats" at the end of
the season wins the prize. No one can
play the same opponent more than
twice week while the tournament
lasts.
Golfers playing over the Palos Hills
course in Chicago this summer must
be forgiven if they bring in weird tales
along with their scores, the News ex-
plains. The player that blows up
along about the twelfth hole will be
able to furnish an alibi which can not
be disputed if he blames his misfor-
tune on nervousness occasioned by APP
pearance of the ghost of an Indian
chief that insisted on playing the last
| five holes with stone Ratchet.
The site of the Palos course CORE
| spends on archaeologists' maps to
the favorite burying ground of the
| Pottawatomie Indians. Neighboring
| tribes were Jealous of the comfort
and prosperity enjoyed by the Potta-
watomies and descended from the
north and west with inimical designs.
After much battling and pipe smoking
| bacco were laid to rest in Palos Hills.
And thereafter the surviving braves
were wont to come and hold council
within hearing of their comrades who
had not been SO fleet of foot.
| Later the white man, bearing de-
grees and a spade, came to the resting
place of the Indian forces and dug up
those nearest the top and tenderly
carried the remains back to his uni
versity. The workmen preparing the
| land for the Cook county municipal
| golf course found more, but there still
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who are inferred so deep that only the
dub golfer will be able to find them.
Elmer speck of the Detroit Country
club says it might not be such bad
| idea if there were a penalty attached
| to going over on another fairway.
| When a golfen makes a bad shot he
| is usually penalized by finding his ball
in a trap or the long grass, but when
he makes an exceptionally bad shot
he oftentimes finds the ball on the
| fairway of a parallel hole and often
in a position where he can get home
with his next shot as if nothing had
happened.
| The United States Golf association
| has started its bureau of information
relating to the upkeep of golf courses.
| It sends out a monthly bulletin to the
/ clubs. giving matters of interest on
fertilizers, grass growing. It's latest
/
putting green and has photographs OF
| the implements used.
| This Is the first time in the history
| of golf that America has sent a team
| to the British open championship
! tournament. In other years, the event
has always had a smattering of entries
| from this country. but they have made
| the journey. either on their own initia-
tive or thru their clubs. The idea OF
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/ last year by James D. Harnett of Coli
Illustrated and a campaign started to
raise the necessary funds thru contri-
buttons of 81 made by golf followers
| at clubs turnout the United States. As
a result Of this campaign, this years
| invasion for the first time in history
| takes on a national aspect for the
| funds have been raised by golfers be-
| longing to clubs in every part of the
Union.