The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-07-23

cred the endurance requisite for the
long, tense journey, and Walter Hagen,
the greatest of the American home
breds, who has been working hard to
regain his old-tinae form.
On the horizon of golf stretches out
the greatest panorama of the year.
What the outcome will be offers a
grand field for speculation.
Tiff Felix missed an s-foot putt for
a 3 on Country club No. / the ether
yard stretch is no dub's aecident-it is
snappy golf.
You have seen a 3-some composed
OF Ilif Felix, Frank Griggs and Tom
Frost on the Country club course oc-
easionally? The, other morning there
was another -Griggs-F g.
some but it was composed of the
young sons of these three crack golf
ers. The Country club may be falling
down completely in the education of
junior players but 1t is making up
for it by bringing in the Juvenile gem
Grafton.
Erwin Keller, motorcycle authority,
is taking up the game of golf. After
a lesson from Pro Nelson the other
day he admitted that it wasn't nee
essary to bring one of his machines
in use to run down his puts off the
tee.
If the "roll-their- girls (and
women )don't use a. little more judg-
ment on the Country club verandas
a good many games are going blooie
on the ninth green.
The street car motorman who re-
leases his air brakes just before leav-
ing the Country club terminal insists
that he doesn't aE1o it purposely just as
a golfer is laying into his drive on
No. tee. The accidental STARTERS,
however, are becoming noticeably and
suspicfously regular.
The death of M. A. Low was a blow
to Country club golfers. For years
he was g. regular pedestrian on the
real sport of the game and was lib
eral in his views on expansion and i'm
provements. Altho he has not been
playing this season he made several
visits to the club and watched the
players from his car.
The fairways at the Country club
never were in better shape than they
have been this week, but the greens
have been swept with the annual crab
grass pest. Accurate putting is beyond
reason ana the element of luck, COM
bined with deadly approaching, must
join in keeping down the score.
A monstrous sand pit is being dug on
the Country club new nine" This
be used when the eighteen holes are
laid out complete. The canyon is
startling to players who have been ac-
customed to Iadylize bunkers and
hazards, but it benefits the game.
What is the course record ?" PRO
Nelson asked of a fellow player at
Shawnee recently. And then he pro-
ceeded to nearly smash it. But for
trouble in the rough on No. he would
have set new mark for the Highland
ladies.
Cullen Cain, formerly with The State
Journal and now conductor of q
column "Culling the Sport Field" for
the Philadelphia Ledger, is recognized
as a sport authority over the country
following the successful manipulation
of his page in the p. L. His stuff is
quoted everywhere and yet with all his
wisdom, his cleverness, his originality
and his observation he writes the fol-
lowing to his column in answer to a re-
quest for few items concerning golf
I'll see you in hell on a hot griddle
before Iwrite line about golf"
What Cain needs is a gentle invita-
ton from his friend and neighbor. Jay
House. Let him hit one ball with one
club just once and his column will
change its color scheme.
Among the coming "Junior'' golfers
at the Country club are Miss Betty
Frost, Miss Barbara NGault and Miss
| Catherine Cole. These three girls are
playing consistently and from lessons
! given graciously by their parents are
absorbing the proper stance, form and
| conversation.
At the Leavenworth Country clut
| this week Frank Griggs came within
! one stroke of tying the course record
of So. But for a 8 on No. 9 he would
have solved the perpetual mysteries OF
the oak trees on this beautiful links
His drive on No. was within a short
distance of the green, but a mussy APP
proach robbed him of the opportunity
and he took a 80. Topeka visitors to
Leavenworth are loud in their praises
/ of the club, the home and the course
| Tournament Chairman Anderson Of
! the Shawnee club and Chairman Felix
| Of the Country club have arranged fol
an interclub tournament that should