The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-06-04

field of honor recall that wore q zse
| ers, wool stockings that itched my legs enuf
to keep me from thinking of off shots.
prints on all the sand pits on the course.
In my matches try to make every contest
sH Is msary EDITOR That %aehsss ds
newspaper. the Topeka State journal He
told sadly as he WINGED from the pain
OF sunburn on his neck and arms, that he
didn't believe he'd ever play golf sgais
H paid my caddy-hire as evidence that he
who have askea me e give them
will have to pay me l taught Roy Grant
to shoot an So for SIC Nit Tootle turned
player before took him on.~ Among those
hees. Prof. Lowe wrcnn. All golf players
in distress need do to get my assistance is
reeM ao me foF s0eca instructions
at 25c to 81 a hole.
They are playing team golf in
England, and it is said to be a great
sport. The average golfer sets forth
on the course with five clubs in his
ibag-driver, brassie. midiron, mashie
and putter. The same Slubs-or
more, if desired-are used IN team
golf. The only difference in play is
that every club has its individual
lplay. Take the five-man team as an
example:
Player No. 1 carries a driver. and
his only shots are made from the tee.
Player No. 2 uses a midiron, and
player No. 8 a brassie. They get their
turns on the open fairway, between
Itee and green. Player No. 4 totes a
lmashie and he shoots only when this
lclub is needed for an approach shot.
lor to play out of "a rut or from the
trough. The last player carries the
putter and he does the green work.
land holing out
i Under the rules of team golf,
match between two sets OF i've players
is cracking good game OF chance.
One player may be off his game while
another may be good enough to make
up for it.
Donald Ross noted golf course
architect, was in Kansas City last
week looking over the Hillcrest course.
which he laid out some eight years
} ago. Mr.. Ross was induced by the
\ club officials to suggest improvements
that would make the local links rate
among the first twelve in the United
States.
Donald Ross. while talking of the
coming match in Kansas City, featur-
, ing the star golfers, said to a Journal
reporter: IF they had searched the
Il couldn't have found four players who
, would furnish more sensational and
interesting golf than the four players
who will play here. If ] am within
1 900 miles of Kansas City on Sep
itember 8 I'll see that. match"
, Without their leader, Mrs W. B.
: Flagler, theN women golfers of the
: Shawnee club made their first pill
grinage to another course Friday and
on grass greens they won by one point
: the match play tournament from the
women of the Country club. 1t was
the first experience in match contests
. by the Highland players and also their
! initial appearance on a links where
blue grass surrounds the cups. Their
victory was a source of considerable
joy today on the part of their brother
golfers, who never have been able to
: take the Dudley stickers into camp.
Mrs. Flagler, Shawnee women's
) chairman, has been able this year to
4 create a surprising interest in golf
Thursday is ladies' day in Highland
Park and a large turnout is regularly
; registered.
The Country club women will play a
return match on the Shawnee course
Thursday, June 9.
Y The inter-club events are preparing
S the women for match play in the state
3 tourpament at Wichita late this
month.
The Friday scores follow:
Mrs. Fred Hes (S) defeated Mrs.
$ Burrow Co, 81.
Mrs; E. Z; Carpenter tsl defeated
Mrs w. ID. Updegraff (C), 81.
$ Mrs. Kurtz Kellam (C) defeated
Mrs. G. K. Thomas (s). ga.
Mrs, Clarence Jordan Co defeated
Mrs. w. E. Bacon (S), 3-2.
IVAN MRS n, H H0 CPS !sj dsfeateaMrs.
Mrs. H. w. McKibben (S). defeat
s ed Miss Genevieve Funk (C), Az
Mrs. Ilif Felix Co defeated Mrs.
/. G Carter (S), up in 10.
C. 4 r Buck S r. t Saul "a GO defeated Mrs.
Mrs; A. e. wilson (s) defeated Miss
e Mary Kramer Co, 81.
; Mrs. H. A. Jungk (S) defeated Mrs.
Dick Hayden Co, sd.
Mrs. Monte Kistler (C), defeated
Mrs. H. H. Raymond Isl, AZ.
Mrs. J: A. Cole Co defeated H. M.
Mrs. churchir sarge defeated
Mrs. Ed Arnold CO., al.
me match between Mrs. Felix and
Mrs. Carter. They were even I'm IN
No and Mrs. Felix won on the first
Dye mole. The three best medals were
made by Mrs. Kellam (52), Mrs. Cault
(58) and Mrs. Hobson (54),
Topeka golfers:
inc local ambitious cup possessors
VINO are expecting to attend the state
| tournament at Wichita should teIe-
phone Frank Griggs for reservations.
Ii eighteen players are signed IN a
special Pullman will be chartered from
the santa Fe. leaving here the Satur-
day night before the first day of the
qualifying rounds.
George Thompson, secretary of the
Country club, has returned from a
vacation trip IN the Ozarks. He re-
ports that he saw ideal golf hazards
Wherever he went and insists that
there are several persons In Arkansas
who have heard of the game.
o Clarence Jordan of the Country club
: confesses that his ambition in golf Is
d 10 play just enough to be able to
claim that he can defeat his wife. In
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