The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-08-20

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may place a fire under their anger by
reading this: In the last week Charles
Flanders, Shawnee caretaker, has re-
turned to players 211 lost balls.
However, there has been a decided
improvement in the lost and found"
column at the Country club. In the
last two weeks a big increase has been
shown in returned balls. The players,
also, should bear their share of the
blame because they are not observing
etiquette in playing found balls.
/ Apparently most Topeka golfers are
"hot weather pitchers" Last Sunday
was decidedly cool and the worst
scores in weeks were made at the
Shawnee and Country clubs Players
turned in SOS who never shoot worse
than as. 1t takes Old Sol to make a
golfer put away his clutches.
Despite the wave of poor scores the
first two cool days of the week. Fred
Alderman of the Country club i'm
/ proved his ringer score on two holes,
In speaking of intercollegiate golf.
James Convention says: "Gone were
| the majority of those youths who
went back like streaked lightning and
wound the club around their necks
! and finished in much the same way.
rarely knowing where the ball was
going when they hit it, This depic-
ton of youth in golf should be a les
son to older players who seem to
think that their troubles in golf are
up like a contortionist when they
swing at the ball A controlled club
means controlled ball.
/ Pro Nelson, of the Country club.
apparently was exhausted from a
hard afternoon one evening this week
and before he drove he simply
dropped his ball on. the tee. Then,
without a visible effort, he laced it
| out across the fairway 225 and $50
yards. 1t was a beautiful exhibition
of what man can do when he has
confidence in his swing.
There is a movement on foot in.
american golf to build fairways in
such a. manner that long distance
players who are inclined to slice will
| be penalized for their efforts in
pressing. 1t IS claimed that most
Americans slice because they aspire
distance rather than direction and
cure this pull habit. If this penal
izing hazard plan keeps up golfers
will begin putting their way down the
/ fairways.
The Shawnee Golf club officials
were figuring last week on spending
| considerable money in giving the ra-
| vines over the course a thoro house
| cleaning. Cut grass and debris had
| matted thick in the draws and the
! hazards were fast becoming unnatural.
! Then came the cloudburst, the flooded
| streams and today the bitches are as
clean as tho they had been raked with
a fine comb.
A golfer was playing on a fairway
| n q he ~ l.
a ball alighted near him. Looking at
it he noted a familiar name and
STOPPING to the ground he saw that 1t
was his ba1I-a new one he had lost
carrier in the afternoon. He picked
1t up, put it in his pocket, spied the
man who shot it, and played on In
the locker room later the unethicaI
guilty one approached the golfer
say, I noticed that you discovered
your ball. he said. 81 found it in. the
see if you would discover the name. I"
The question is-was it thick. or
thin excuse?
Jock Hutchinson says the most val
liable stroke ffr-golf is the mashie or
mashie niblick to the green. And yA
you see golfers every day who use Hp
their vocabulary Off the tee. If ali
goes to show that the American is ever
aS1aXlous to put on re gra-a-nd
One man at the Country club is so
enthusiastic over his "sweetie's'' golf
ana she is so enthusiastic over his en-
SliuSdasIn that she plays No. 8, No. z,
NO, ana No. in row that he might
watch her from his motor car. And
they say love is blind!
If the party that left two bottles
ana some other equipment under the
big spreading willow tree 400 wards m
NO. IalrWay will remove the remains
they viii cork up a lot of sickening
comedy that is being wasted every day
at the Country club
We must confess that We are oct
ing tired of that continuous headline
tnat appears in the newspapers almost
qsal!y- English Golfers Win" George
DuiLean ana Abe Mitchell are doing it
SO steadily that it has ceased to be-
come news.
II 1t is permissible to stamp your
} Cup on the ground every time you
trtahe d PAD shot. why wouldn't it be
etllcdi ia throw your hat in. the air
every time you make a good one? Golf
; is a H. o. A. G.
Jack Crows defeat By Charles An
aersoh IN the Shawnee championship
tournament was one of the unsefs of
the season. Not that Anderson does
not play tip-top golf. hut that cham
pionshIp doping has become such a
. stern habit on all links 1t took nine
Teen hoIes to turn the trick. Crow
was dermied on No. 16 and with a
bndle and par he won No. IT and
NO; 1S. Such a comeback usually
ehds IN defeat for the leader,
put after Anderson had topped his
, nfassle on the nineteenth Crow at
tempted to steal the hole with a bras
sic out OF the rough and his ball fell
INTO sand trap short of the green.
crows third was a difficult niblick
our or a washed crevice and his ball
cropped into the trap guarding an
otner Slde of the green. This nrened