The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-07-16


Result of the second round matches
in the Midsummer Championship at
the Shawnee Golf club:
First Flight.
w. L. Bailey defeated o. W. Doing,
and 6.
w. r stinson defeated ]. B. Cody. 2
w. V. Crow defeated J. W. Harper,
and 3.
D. W. studdard defeated F. L. Camp
bell. 6 and 5.
- Second Flight.
F. D. Nuss defeated Geo. Gross, and
E. whitaker defeated DIR. E. E. Car
F. I. sipp defeated L. R. Booth
E. sumey defeated c. A. Anderson, 2
Third Flight.
r. P. Sewers defeated S. F. Hamil. 8
O. Butts defeated w E. Thrapp. I up.
Judge G. H. .Whitcomb defeated K.
= Alexander, l up.
A. I. Doing defeated W. T. Beerbohm'
Fourth Flight.
D. D. Longenecker defeated F. A.
Ripley, 6 and 4.
J. R. Stewart defeated W. FITZPATRICK
6 and 5.
H. Bennett defeated J. Smith, and ?.
F. Middleton, Jr. defeated w. W. Eden
up, 10 holes
Semi Finals to be played by Sunday
In the Semi Finals played so far
this week:
D. w. studdard defeated w. V. Grow.
r. P. Sewers defeated o. Butts, up,
10 holes.
A dignified Country Club golfer
wears a corset. This fact has been
discovered in the locker room.
Years ago Arch CatIin cut down
his clubs, believing that he could gam
greater accuracy with the short stick
and with the addition of wrist
strength could maintain his distance.
NOW look at him, said Frank Crane
while watching Catlin in stroke at
the Country club the other day. he
takes a shorter grip than ever before
A. e. BIyth, one of the grand old
men" of the Country club course,
never fails TO make two rounds after
6 O'Clock every day. He usually. plays
alone andS tf3sa Serapda fans say he
hits the Aa4l5 witches its course,
stoops do#fft picks Up his bag and is
ten yards on his way before the ball
alghta.
DR.. George H. Allen, 20 Country
club champion, played what is unan-
imously termed a dastardly trick on
Bob Yates in their match in the
championship flight Monday after
noon. Yates is a sweet shooter and
especially strong and steady in match
play but he insists upon his constitu-
tfoual rights in expressing himself
without reservation while on the
greens. Doctor Allen invited some
friends. including women, to follow
the match Monday and the judge was
bound, hog-tied and choked in his
safety valve OF personal condemnation
during the green plays. 1t was such a
crushing blow to Yates that he lost
the match is. "Of course Doc AL
len would have defeated me anyway"
explained Yates, but by the eternal
heavens he had no right to carry
along a censorship board"
Several golfers in Topeka have
adopted the plan of leaving a member
Of their foursome behind to hunt a
lost ball on a crowded course while
they play to the green, thereby hold
ing up the players behind who have
the rights to go thru when a ball is
lost and not abandoned. This is en-
tirely beyond the rights and privi-
lege5 and courtesy of the game.
a InaICn
my life" said w. E. Bulls, in ex-
planning the loss of his match with
!. c, Mohler at the Country club this
week "Mohler is the steadiest player
in Topeka. Time and again I would
drive straight and far and Mohler
would slice or hook to the rough. 1
would consider myself in a point of
great advantage when I would see his
ball sailing down the fairway from a
beautifully played shot from the tall
F,fz Ii. - -
creates true craftsmanship. The fight
spirit always wins. A player never
should grant hole until the last putt.
Ed Thrill and o. T. Chopper fought
nineteen holes in their Country club
championship match. To add spirit
to the match they put up Dunlop on
each nine. At the end of the first
nine they were. all square--no ball.
At the end of the second nine it was
the same story. Chopper won the bye
hole.
A pretty exhibition in the Country
club championship flight was between
DR.. W. n. West and Ilif Felix. Attic
Felix is a much lower handicap man
than Doctor West he was up against a
master hand in the match and won by
a bare 1 up. Twice during the game
DR.. West was up on Felix. VESTS
green work was battling to Felix.
Country club grass greens are the
fastest this season. Ordinary short
approaches will not hold and the old
pitch is out of the question. Golfers
who have control of the push shot car
figure on the 2-par puts but the
usual approach is turnover. Run
ming the ball to the green's seems tC
be the only solution for the dub.
Ralph Jack, 10-year-old son Of
Dick Jack of the Shawnee and Coun-
try clubs, is a coming golfer. He ha:
a wfde,- well-tfmed swing and play:
his irons with deadening accuracy
He has the advantage over hi:
father in that he plays right handed
Governor Allen has become so en-
thusiastfc over the game that from