The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-11-12

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more victories and championships. If
you are to be defeated we hope you
meet in the finals. We want you to
come back."-TOPEKA.
There you are:
/ The twenty-five Shawnee and Coun-
try club women who tagged the gal
/ lery deserve credit for much of the
success of the exhibition. The shay
nee women, led by Mrs FIagler, and
= the Country club women. led by Mrs.
Aurtz Kellam, saw that the spectators
were properly marked indicating their
paid admissions.
The Country club gave luncheon
Ior the players, marshals, committees
and tag women. President w. N.
West of the club presided.
The bidding for caddies to the
IchaTnplons was a dismal disappoint-
ment. The cold weather and the long
legs of Jim Barnes scared out the
prospects Arch Catlin came limping
| IN from Shawnee at noon after racing
around the course with Barnes, taking
/ three steps to his one. Il want it I'M
derstood that I didn't bid for this job,
| he insisted. 1T was wished upon me-
L enjoyed it and was enthused with the
pleasure of spending the morning with
the American champion, but 1 have
/ v.
The noon rest apparently was a stimu-
/ liant to Catlin because he completed
the SO holes by following the after
| noon match.
| Frank Crane. a Topeka golfer of
many years sweet shooting and an at
tendant at all state and valley meets
/ caddied for Frank Griggs in the after
/ noon. Crane pulled off one stunt that
Will go humping down in local golf
| history The fore caddy had found
| Grlggs' ball in the sand trap on No.
/ and the gallery was waiting impa-
tiently for the Topeka golfer to shoot.
Marshal Mitchell was losing control of
the pressing crowd. Suddenly it was
| discovered that Griggs was stranded in
the trap with only a driver in his
| hand. "Whassa natter" was the uni
versal question. 81 might as well use
a crutch as driver out of this sand"
! said Griggs. ''Whereinen is my cad
! dy?" Mitchell. thru his megaphone,
sent out a call for Crane. He was
PACED from the entire gallery and
finally emerged. running at top speed
with the heavy bag bouncing against
| his legs. IT lost the ball in the sun
was his alibi.
The fore caddies for Barnes and
! Hutchinson carried British flags and
! for Bonebrake. Middleton, Felix and
| Griggs, Stars and Stripes. During the
| the crowd stood uncovered from Il
! until Hoop a. m. on No. fairwav at
| Shawnee. the boys reverently pressed
| the flags to their chests. It was an
| impressive scene.
! The players kept their left hands
| buried in their trouser pockets be
tween shots and before grasping their
clubs blew their war breath into the
| stiffened fingers. It was a great day
I for fOOtDall-Or skating
A few Of the motor car parties that
| lined the roads around the Shawnee
and Country club courses took a COM
Portable and economical peek at the
| international champions.
| The match was monument to the
/ industrious interest of Robert Fuller
| ton. Fullerton and Rutchison played
| together from boyhood to manhood
in Scotland. They would practice at
! night standing under a gas light in
| front of an inn near ST. Andrews
| knocking the ball out into the dark
| fairways, jumping out of bed at day
| light to find the balls. Fullerton be-
leves Topeka may be hostess to many
| such exhibition matches and he was
| pleased with the manner in which
Barnes and Hutchinson appreciated
the spirit here. The cold weather cut
| the out of town gallery and the local
sports will have to make up a deficit
| " uSAIdS the expense OF the exhibit
| tion-but it was worth it to Topeka
golfdom.
IT believe understand now why I
am golf widow" a Topeka woman
said last night after walking the
eighteen holes at the Country club.
The Shawnee club put the sand
green's into midsummer condition and
brushed up the course in true hostess
fashion for the match
Neither Barnes nor Hutcbison
smoke a pipe in the accepted old coun-
| try style during play. This still leaves
the pipe smoking field to Arch Cat
lin in Kansas. The two champions did
not appear in the loose Knockers and
Tapping coats of the British fashion
Hutchinson wore checked Knockers.
dark brown stockings and a light
sweater and cap. Barnes wore regular
civilian trousers, sweater and cap.
Jock Hutchinson told the crowd that
Barnes had the biggest feet that ever
came across the ocean.
The Kiwanis movie producers took a
motion picture of the players in action
and the gallery. Hutchison couldn't
resist the temptation to run around
the camera and appear four times in
the panorama.
Hutchison's quick back swing and
his athletic slap at the ball was a
wonder to golf students In direct op-
position to this style was the slow de-
lberate unwinding Of Barnes. The
smoothest form and the most natural
swing of the day was displayed by