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


The fnter-club spring tourna ment'
nc first match Of its kind between
the Shawnee and Country cluos' be-
Sins Monday.
This Il a medal play tournament. no
IIayers of both clubs who enter will
7Iay all next week. including Sunday,
Lay IS, at Shawnee, The foilowing
week the players Will use the Country
club course.
Eighteen holes will be played on
each course.
Tho champion of the tournament
VII be the player who makes the low
est medal score on the IS holes. Sec
IA prize goes to the second best card
y prize will be given to the player
1uakins the lowest score on Shawnee
2 nd another to the winner at the
Country club
The four low men of the Shawnee
week will be made into a fOursome to
play on the Country club links, Sun
Cay, May 20. This is done simply as
4 means of providing a feature for the
GOLF gallery on that sdate.
TIE spEiug tournament was suggest
cd originally by Golf Chairman Griggs
% the Country club as a means of
giving Topeka golfers plenty of prac-
tfce and play previous to me state golf
tournament at Wichita in June. The
inter-club spring tournament does not
interfere with the city championship
match play tourney held in late sum-
mer or fall.
Plans for the matches beginning
Monday were worked out by Tourha-
IT ont Chairmen Felix of Country club
and Anderson Of Shawnee and by Golf
Chairman Griggs of the Country club.
The prizes will be donated by To-
peka business firms and are under the
supervision of Bayard Whitney.
The event of the week in Topeka
golf circles is the spirit displayed by
the Shawnee club in taking final steps
TO purchase the Highland Park course
from the Country club. President Phil
Eastman is ably supported in his move
by such men as Otis Hungate. Ed
Curry, Arch CatIin. Judge Whitcomb
and A. D. Gray and with c. P. Buck
teams that will put over the stock sale
there is absolute promise of immediate
success.
With stock sales to all Shawnee
members the course Will be paid for
in three years Then will come the
plans for a magnificent clubhouse
fssing the present No. l green and the
extension of the links to eighteen
holes.
The sportiest course in Kansas will
be the reputation of Shawnee's fair
ways when improvements are COM
pleted.
Interest is increasing daily in the
State Editorial Golf association tour
nament to be held on the Country
club course here May % and IS Cups
and prizes will be awarded to the
champion. the runner-up. consolation
winner and low medal holder
Secretary Cavaness of Chauute has
been called out of the state due to the
illness of Mrs. Cavaness and will be
unable to attend This Is the only dis
appointment of the touERey plans.
Dope favors Charles Scott If I11a
and Roy Bailey of Salina as the tour
uameut winners. Scott won the To-
peka Press club tin-cup at the mid
winter match in Topeka in January.
Governor Allen has not started his
golf season but promises to be on
hand when the sun gives him the op-
portunitye OF draping his shirt collar
TO the second button The governor
and Senator Capper played consist emit
" last summer at the Country club.
If you don't settle down in your
game you'll have to settle up
Mrs. C E. GauIt. women's go1t
chairman Of the Country club. is
planning inter-club women tourna-
ments this season. An exchange OF
golf eourtesies will be recognized al
least once a month by each club, it is
planned.
Fred Darby, former president OF
Rotary club, who has left to attend
the International convention of Rotary
in Great Britain, spent several hours a
day this week at the Country club