The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-05-07

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Merriam. by the way. plays<an old
type of a dreadnaught driver that he
only nine years This driver is per-
feet dog-leg in shape, the lead is held
in with countless nails, tacks and
screws The face is jagged and cut.
It has been broken on an average of
once a year and the scars give it
rustic appearance. Merriam has pc
culfar manner of shifting his dread
naught into the head winds on hrs
down stroke-but he seldom fails to
lace out a sweet drive. The driver Is
one Of the places Of interest" pointed
out to Country cIuBA visitors.
The mention OF Doctor welding
brings out an interesting study in golf
disposition Doctor Wedding plays a
game that dovetai1s with the Jake"
Mohler style of play. A bad lie, an
unfortunate slice. a DETECTED putt
none of the exasperating details of the
game disturb men Of the Welding
Mohler type.
Just as soon as the rock road is
built out this way, I'll join a Topeka
golf club" farmer living ten miles
southwest of Topeka said the other
day. 7 used to jeer at this cow-pas-
ture sport, but it seems that the ma
tional pastime has been shifted and /
might as well follow the cr9wd-''e
The Topeka (Kan.) State Journal
carries two columns of baseball and
other sports AID an entire page of
golf news each Saturday. What rights
have the poor downtrodden in uppish
Topeka Los Angeles Times.
You answer this challenge. prize
for the best retort.
Chick Evans took his mother with
him to England where he will attempt
to win the British Open.
An unusual offer to golf enthusiasts
has been made by the WykagyI C. c.
of New RochSlle, n. Y, in an effort
to bring out the amateur or profess
sionaI able to break the par figures
of the course. Wykagyl has the repu-
tation of having one of the most diff
cult courses in the country. Par is
fixed at u, and no golfer has been able
to reach this figure since the course
was lenthened last year. So Wykaygl
has offered prize Of $500 to any pro-
fessional golfer, or trophy of equal
value to any amateur who breaks the
par OF the course with the lowest fig
ure during this season
Charles Dillon, former Topeka and
Kansas editor and journalist, who is
now located in Washington, D. c., has
written to Phil Eastman, president of
the Shawnee club. a most interesting
letter on President Harding's golf.
1t follows, in part:
The best thing I gee about Warren is his
real Sportsmanship- He plays ofteneg on
Chase. and when he's there-at the Potomac
course-he insists en- tn king his place in the
rack along with the rest OF US. Indeed II
he could shake the secret service men for
an hour or two we'd never know, by his
conduct, that the president was among u.s.
But under the rules governing presidents,
not to be driven off It IS related OF T. k.
that this rule was exceedingly irksome to
forgotten. he sneaked down into the White
House basement, and came out the coal
door to cvade the secret service men, and
entering taxi in Pennsylvania avenue,
drove to the French embassy where he had
agreed to play cards with N; Jusserand;
Strange as it may seem. there Is much in
Harding to remind me of Roosevelt. W. g.
Is just as true a sportsman as T. r. he
has good a temper: he is as quick to
For instance, one Wee ago today-Satur-
day-the rain fell steadily from 3 a m.
until nearly noon. Tbeve was drizzle all
day. In the afternoon this turned to a
light rain 1t was So nasty that We called
off our proposed golf game What was our
astonishment, Sunday, to read that the
conference with foreign diplomats and
had walked with his partners to the Pc
round in the rain. 1t is said the secret
service men looked grim III bet they
did.
course one afternoon when was there with
my partner so l had a chance to watch
him He stands and drives just like Judge
sideways or turn his body into a screw
shape. That is, he drives with his body,
distance, but he goes straight, Keeps out
OF the rough, talks very little, and puts
like Il professional. I saw him make sew
eral ID and 20-foot puts with perfect ease.
I played-er tried to playa game Thurs
day, the day the president, on the May
flower and Secretary DENLY on the Sylph,
ncasad dou-r +ba riVer an tha wav 10 Hamn
ton Roads to review the Atlantic fleet. l
remembered afterwards-in going over the
events Of the afternoon. that Kingbury, my
partner, had said, as We started from the
first tee, THE president and Secretary
DENLY will be going past soon: don't you
think we'd better waltz" | smiled, toler-
antIy. Il should worry about the presi-
dent.s His party means nothing in my life
Later [ wished l had taken kfngbury 8
rsuggestion. We were on the second green
aud [ was Just about to make a 10-foot putt
grass green as smooth as ice-when
at the navy yard I smiled. Once more
put my eye the ball BANG4 L stood
up. Bang, bang, went the cannon, and then
why wanted TO watt he observed, as one
who says. "Didn'tsI TELL you 500" No
one can play golf" he added when the
yard is saIuting the president. And this
afternoon We have the secretary to salute
toe-y
Well Of all the games. Twenty-one
guns for the president and seventeen fer
the secretary, and I wus earned glad Mr.
Coolidge had decided TO work that day, or
we'd have had ninteel more for him Z
remember the story of the guy who spoiled
crucial moment. Imagine the effect If you
can. OF campo going off just as you
address the bailr and begin to wiggle. The
squeaky shoes the eadaF had in the Follies
aren't in it But that wasn't all After
the firing had ceased on the western front
every steamboat this side OK Copenha gen
passed up or down the river. and blew its
whistle every ten. feet. Finally sat down
on the grass and sohbed aloud.
Wei. I made something over 80. It
doesn't matter how muchA I lost no balls
and / kept out Of the Potomac
Women golfeR have only few
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