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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-07-30
selection of Clubs.

SCIectlOn OF NIuDS.
To the beginner in golf the first
problem is in the selection of clubs.
1t has always been my idea that before
the embryo player places his money
in clubs he should take a few lessons
from a professional, who can, by OBJ
servation decide Immediately the size
and weight of sticks adapted to the
physical makeup of the pupil.
The necessary golf clubs are:
Brassy. Mashfe.
Spoon Niblick
AIid-iron. Putter.
You'n notice I do not suggest
driver. There is a reason for that.
The driver is a difficult club to mas
ter. The beginner should do, his first
driving with a brassy. The brassy has
more loft and the ball takes the air
with little effort. This instills conf
dence into the player and his tee shots
are easier to conquer.
On the fairway suggest the spoon.
The spoon is the simplest of wooden
clubs. 1t digs deeply under the ball
and picks it out of more hazardous
lies. Also it has considerable distance
and enables the new player to realize
the value of the wood club on the fair
way. It prepares him for the brassy
as the brassy paves the way for the
driver.
The In1Q-1TOn IS lIle Club NileAl NOSS
the work between the brassy and the
mashie. If the shot is too short for
the brassy Cor the spoon) and is too
long for the mashie. the mid-iron is
brought into play. The mid-ipon is the
favorite iron club for the average
player. -.
It will pull the player from the tall
grass, it will send the ball soaring to
the green and it will serve as the long
or short approaching club.
The niblick should always be handy
for the man in trouble. In the SAND
pits, in the hazards or in dropping the
is Indispensable.
The putter, of course, is absolutely
necessary on the greens.
Later, when the player has become
thoroly acquainted with the above
named six clubs he may add the driv-
er, the mashie-niblick and the ap-
preaching, iron to his collection.
Don't change your clubs after you
once learn them. A great mistake
many golfers make is to become dis
gusted with a stick and buy new
one. The player should make the
proper selection first and stick to it.
1t is better for his game-and his
pocketbOok.
Golfers place great confidence in
their clubs. And the proper conf
dence in a stick when you take it from
the bag is one of the real assets to a
good game. For this reason begin
ners should not rush frantically to a
stock of clubs and buy them indis-
criminately and rashly.
Buy your clubs wisely, learn them
carefully and diligently and they will
serve their purpose with you loyalty.
Ladies should be careful in select
ing clubs. Some think they should
have very short and light clubs and
some very long and heavy. The clubs
should be about one or two inches
shorter than the average mans club.
The wooden clubs should weigh from
twelve to thirteen ounces. They
should have very whippy shafts in
order to get the feel of the club head.
The grips on all the clubs must be
very small so they can grip the club
| in their fingers.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-07-30

this midsummer affair. Most matches
were hard fought and there were few
defaults. The spirit of the tourney
was typical of good golf.
A certain Shawnee enthusiast did
not want to miss his usual evening
round. He was too busy to spare the
time. His stenographer, who is also
becoming interested in the game, sug-
gested that work in the office be adj
journe1 out to the course. Mr.. BUSH
ness Man called up the Missus, took
her along as chaperon and while
shooting nine holes, with the steno
caddying, they planned a whole selling
campaign. 1t worked fine, but Mrs.
B. NJ. is worried lest the performance
be repeated at intervals, without her
having chance to chaperon.
Most of the golf widows have be-
come reconciled to the absence of
their husbands nearly every evening
and all day Sunday. They say it is
practically impossible to live with a
golfer, who is denied the privilege to
which he has become accustomed. Bet
ter no husband at all than one who is
suffering a golf-less crouch
Dr.. W. H. Euler is a new applicant
at Shawnee.
" T.. BfeISIOrQ, OF the country cIuD5
is enjoying his vacation by playing
eighteen holes each morning on the
Green Mountain Falls, Colo, course.
Brelsford is regaining his health rap
idly and incidentally his game is i'm
proving, according to reports of local
talent which he has defeated lately.
a foursome composed of Harry
lines, Bill Eden, Ben Wolfe and Milt
Tabor JOurneyed over the sporty Law
renee course last Sunday morning.
After learning what they know about
the game on Shawnee, with its delight
full rough, they had more than a little
difficulty among the cliffs and trees
of the Lawrence pasture. Without
caddies they explored their strange
surroundings, leaving an average of
eight balls each as mementoes of their
twenty-one holes play. Frank Mid
dleton of Shawnee also played the
Lawrence course Sunday morning. The
Lawrence Country club is one of the
most hospitable of hosts and Irving
Hill, president, leaves nothing undone
to make visitors from other clubs feel
at home. Incidentally, the cateress
serves a luncheon that is without su-
periority in Kansas.
When the hard surface road to
Lawrence and Kansas City is COM
pleted, the local golfers will fire.
quently try their luck on the Law
l renee, Leavenworth and Kansas City
courses. The Lawrence club recently
has added three holes and installed a
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-07-30

Studdard's putting was par, also. but
he lost the match on two bad holes
No. in each case. He took two rs
on No. THE last one at a most crit
tcal moment
Their medal scores:
Bailey ................. Al 42-S3
Studdard ................. 43-41-S4
The bracket score of the champion
ship flight on this page tells the story
of the fight the two players endured
to reach each other in the finals.
The second flight of the midsum-
ner tourney was won by 3. Whitaker,
who defeated 2. Sumey, 1 UP.
In the fourth flight J. R. Stewart
took the honors from H. Bennett, Jr..
to.
to fight out the third flight finals.
Chairman Anderson of the tourna-
rnent committee is to be commended
for the manner in which he conducted
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-07-30

Shawnee golfers all remember
Charles Dillon. Carrying a trophy
bag that he won at some 'fnterna-
tional OPEN within the golf limits of
Kansas City, he was a familiar figure
at the Highland course for some
years. Phil Eastman, always was a
member of his twosome or foursome.
The two coined more original local
sweet stick expressions than the rest
of the town wits combined-and yet
their game improved as the weeks
went by.
Charles Dillon is in Washington
now. He cIings to the game abroad
and with it all, including the wonder
courses of the east, he longs for the
old times at Shawnee.
He has written a. letter to Phil
Eastman. president OF the Shawnees,
describing the recent national open.
A copy of the lettey follows:
The Letter.
My Dear Phil:
You have read Jim Barnes's score long
ing it. But 1 have this to say: My plans
are made. My work is cut out for me. All 1
have to do Is change my stance trifle,
wind up carefully, and then lay into that
ball like Pansy Flowers on the dogs leg.
driver around my neck the ball will be
found firmly imbedded in the municipal
corn field, far off to the right, or deep in
the sands of the Potomac, a half mile to
the left. l know because l have watched
Barnes play, and believe me Long Jim is
some player of the ancient and honorable
game. Also 1 have seen Jock Hutchison
and Bobby Jones and Duncan and Brady,
and Abe Mitchell, and Kirkwood and
Young Mcleod, and Evans and Hagen. L
have seen Mcleod and Barnes do the
Columbia course in 69-eiehteen holes, re-
member, not nine-and l have seen Barnes
drive more than 800 yards. I've seen this
elongated machine do the seventeenth hole
in 5, and it's longer than our longest at
Shawnee-on the green in two, and a so
seeing these things was TO hasten into the
city and advertise my clubs for sale, but
on second thought l decided not TO let
anyone know 1 had ever played golf
Remember the story of the section fore
man who had four words of Spanish in his
vocabulary with which to manage a gang
of hands? Remember how he tried to hus-
tie them along one day when the general
superintendent showed up, and then ex-
never learned thelanguage." That's the way
I'm feeling about golf. Wish I'd never
learned to play it
Sheer at Brides.
But there's another thing to remember,
and it gives me some consolation in mo-
ments of the doldrums: Such players as
Barnes and Duncan make the game look
ridiculous. just as some of the baseball
stars make their game a laughing stock.
They are too darned perfect. They took
the much laude1~ par by the throat and
made its metaphorical teeth rattle. They
sneered at the little brides. Tuesday
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-07-30

club in an appeal to the state board of
health.
The Point" golf tourney
at the Shawnee and Country clubs
Saturday and Sunday netting more
than SITS to the tuberculosis sana-
forum porch fund brings to a fact in
figures the large number of strokes
taken daily by the golfers in Topeka.
1t is difficult to realize that more
than 1900 whacks were taken at golf
balls in this town in two days-and
there were no women playing on these
days either.
Somebody said, when we were a.
boy, that IAN honest confession is
good for the soul" And that some
body got it handed down from the
way of introducing golf. Now golf is
not brand new to the Eagle Eye. But,
candidly, after making a 100 yard ap-
proach and laying down the vulcan
lied marble within two puts of the
hole the thrill golfers say comes,
didn't arrive. After you have started
to work on a flock of Canadian geese
with pump, got your six out of
bunch of nIaIlards, put a soft nose
into lynX's head, bagged a deer at
400 yards running shot. landed a six
pound, big mouth bass, stood on the
brink of a $500 foot precipice and
counted fourteen snow capped Cas-
cade peaks what's a 100 perfect ap-
proach? Golf is scookum when you
haven't anything more exciting to do
1t is about like running fifteen balls
in pool. Once we pitched a shutout
game against the sand Rats" Yep,
it's a bromidium in a way. But when
you can't do these other things any
more pasture rolly holly will do
Wichita Eagle.
An old theory that golf balls will
explode if properly opportuned was
proven on the Country club veranda
one evening this week. W. H East
man was performing an operation on
an old ball that child had brought
him when a report was heard and a
stream of acid shot from the interior
of the ball to the summer suits and
blouses of outdoor breeze inhalers.
Fortunately the acid found its escape
out of only a small hole and the
stream was concentrated thereby
causing no casualties. The incident
was a lesson to children who have
years. They never can tell when
they will run into an acid variety.
Incidentally VIII Eastman is cured of
any more attempts to entertain chill
dren with surgical operations.
Golf has become so popular in
central Kansas that the towns are con-
weekend matches. Council Grove
and Harrington seem to be taking a
lead in the activity in this part of the
state.
A flock of blackbirds came to at
at the Country club one day this week.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-07-30

he wins the 1921 championship in the
tourney now in progress at Highland
Park he will be accepted, without
question. as ShaWnee's 1901 star
sweet sticker.
Bailey downed Studdard FL. 1t was
a pretty match and the club secretary
held the champion to the seventeenth
hole. Despite Bailey's tremendous
drives. Studdard was understanding the
champ on more than one-half the tees
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-07-30

green. Golf Chairman Griggs con-
sidered the new hazard more sporty
and still to a greater advantage. The
new trap will warn golfers against
slices and clubhouse approaches"
The odor from the city garbage
feeding station south and east of the
Country club is becoming a serious
menace. Evening porch parties and
dances are spoiled by this stockyards
stance" that rolls over the prairies
and green pastures when the breeze is
in certain direction. The effect has
become so bothersome that steps may
be taken by the membership OF the
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-07-30

Topeka women, altho recognized as
smartly clothed on the golf links, must
sit. back in humiliation at the shadow
in which they are hiding due to the
appearance recently of the first
woman player in knickers-and she
was from out of town. Knicker-
bockers have become quite popular on
eastern golf courses, and yet Topeka
women, who usually set the pace in
Kansas, have discovered that a girl
from independence, Kan, is leading
them. Mrs. Hugh Crawford, formerly
Miss Florence Davis, daughter of w.
H. Davis of Topeka. has been the
wearer of the latest in womep's golf
wear on the Shawnee and Country
club courses.
Miss Sidney NJ. Gardner a Shawnee
woman star, was unable to enter the
penny-a-point tourney for the benefit
of the tuberculosis sanatorium fund so
she handed Mrs. Kurtz Kellam a
check for SIS the other day. Don't
think by this that 1t would have taken
me 500 strokes to make the eighteen
holes, she said. THE money simply
constitutes my contribution
Governor Allen gave a sudden start
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-07-30

Golf stockings cover a multitude OF
shins, says the Chicago News.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-07-30

Which bring to mind the retort of
a Country club lad. In commenting
on a paragraph in this column to the
effect that recovered lost balls were
not returned as readily as at Shawnee,
he said: 1.-The guys lose balls and then
find them at Shawnee"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-07-30

Governor Allen drove ball in their
midst and hit one of the flock.
THE first birdie 1 ever shot in my
Ilife," the governor said.
Golfers are complaining bitterly
of the cost of golf balls-and their
complaints seem justified. 1t costs
S1.10 every time the average golfer
Hoses the average ball. and it is gem
orally accepted fact that the profit on
a golf ball costing 81 10 is war. wicked
ness. Golf is a growing sport, and
more balls are manufactured than
ever before. All that goes into the
manufacture of a ball is cheaper than
lit has been in years. The average
golfer is willing for the maker to re-
ceive just profits. but he is unwilling to
donate too literally to the Causes
peciahy when he realizes that balls are
given away to the players of note.
Golf sticks also never seem to have
been given the opportunity of sliding
down the war scale.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-07-30

Chester Leasure of the Hutchinson
Gazette doubts the story that John D.
Rockefeller attributes his success to
golf. Leasure claims that it is success
that enables one to play golf.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-07-30

Several Kansas City clubs have made
arrangements with the Lawrence
Country club for inter-cIub week end
matches. This is a stunt extremely
popular over Kansas since the recent
squirt in golf.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-07-30

The sand pit that has been catching
downhill rolls at No. 9 green for so
many years at the. Country club was
filled this week. The green is being
enlarged and will include the billy
surface to the east. The new trap
will be located to the northwest of the
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-07-30

Governor Allen gave a sudden star
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-07-30

The golf caddies in New Jersey are
organized and hold a state tournament
each year. Topeka caddes have enough
clubs and balls to stage a middle-west
tourney
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-07-30

Charles Hall of Birmingham, one of
the entrants in the National Open Golf
Championship, has a caddie who takes
the cake for faithfulness. Just as the
Birmingham player was teeing off one
day he noticed a forlorn, unkempt lit
tile darby watching him intently. To
his surprise he recognized his favorite
club-carrier from his home club. How
did you get here, Hall asked when he
recovered from the surprise. "Ah beat
nah way, sub. Yassuh, on freight
train, suh.'
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-07-30

The qualifying rounds for the club
championship of Shawnee for the
1921 Season are on. The scores have
not been up to club form to date, but
there are at least seventy more mem
bers to enter the tourney. There will
be two flights-club championship
and Eastman cup. The following
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-07-30
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-07-30

water system to keep the greens in
fine condition.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-07-30

will furnish plenty of golf sensa-
tions.
Pro Nelson was practicing driving
from the grass in front of the tennis
courts down No. 1 fairway the other
evening. A crowd watched him send
forty balls screaming down far over
the first ditch and sometimes over the
second. Out of the forty balls only
one fell less than 200 yards. A large
majority Of the drives went ESQ.
Wednesday evening Pro Nelson made
one of the longest drives off from No.
1 ever witnessed by Topeka golfers.
The drive cleared the second ditch
and, in the damp grass, stopped at a
point 500 yards from the tee. A mid
iron shot carried the professional be-
yond No. 1 green. No. 1 is a <s5-
yard hole.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-07-30

Persons playing at the Country club
Wednesday were surprised upon their
return to the city to see water run
ming in the streets. The rainstorm, up
until 6 o'clock, did not touch the Dud-
" links.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-07-30

When the hard surface road to
Lawrence and Kansas City is COM
pleted, the local golfers will fire.
quently try their luck on the Law
renee, Leavenworth and Kansas City
courses. The Lawrence club recently
has added three holes and Installed a
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-07-30
Studdard, 4 and 3d..

club in an appeal to the state board of
health.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-07-30

Frank Griggs and Jack Campbell
played recently over. the Mission Hills
course in Kansas City. Griggs played
par on every fairway on the links but
fell down on the greens. The greens
were slow-and any player attempt
ing putting under these conditions
after a dry month at the Country club
would realize the hazard.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-07-30

Joe Wilson has accepted the nomi-
nation for the contribution of a cup to
the winner of the summer inter-club
championship victors. 1t will be
known as the Wilson H-B Trophy"
and will be presented with an es-
pecia1ly planned ceremony when
properly won.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-07-30

The trough" has been cut at
Shawnee and the entire course is in
its best summer condition. Shawnee
uses the sand greens and the greens
committee does not have to worry
over the crab grass.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-07-30

Frank Griggs has been spending
several hours a day this week laying
out green's on the Country club New
Nine" No. Is is now ready for
Aidy's construction gang. 1t will be
100x125 feet in size and will be To-
Gated just west of the old No. l tee
and south of the children's putting
clock. Griggs has arranged It in
such a manner that the larger trees
can be saved. but all the trees in the
orchard will be cut out. The new
sand trap southeast of the bungalow
is as large in appearance as the
Ninth and Kansas avenue hotel site
! it undoubtedly will, appear much
! larger when used as an actual hazard.
The finals of the Country club 1921
championship will be played between
| Ilif Felix and Monte Kistler tomor-
row. Felix has been i'll and the
match was postponed until his re-
covery, Kistler not wishing to insist
upon default honors. 1t will be a
battle well worth seeing and the two
/ should have an interesting gallery.
Topekans who are not members of
4 the club and who wish to see the
match are welcome to follow Felix
! and Kistler around the course. Both
men shoot Al golf and their shots
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1921-08-13
DIR. HARDING AND BRIDE PASS
OLD-EASHIONED HONEYMOON
76-Year-Old Bridegroom, in House Slippers and SmoS
ing Jacket, Pufs His Cigar, While Newly Welded
Wife Sits Close By Talking Of Days Events

their elopcment to Monr' :. Mich, was
revived
Then they ta'' 4 IL plans for the
future as s...iastically as any
newlyweds
The er'' yom began to tell abou,
the c3z title home he had built
and f. -, ,shcd up Center Street for
he ~ his Wife. 1t was waiting for
- =" IL she would rather move
t ne. but his daughter. Daisy. was
anxious for them 10 remain ut the
old home.
The married folks announced they
would he Mt home at 49S Confer
street for Il while anyway. DR..
Harding resumed his practice Fri
day. and the whole household was
back to "normalcy" Mrs. Hardin
visited her husbands office. where
She assisted for number OF years
but only remained part Of the time
She spent much OF the afternoon in
u bingham apron husyinE herself
with preparations for dinner Friday
night and otherwise looking after
affairs at home,
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1921-08-13
MAN IN JAIL is FOUND
SUFFERING FROM WOUNDS

pANNiLLE. VA. Aug l2.-Iohn
North was removed yesterday from
the city jail /, the General Hospital
Tor treatment. being found weak from
loss OF blood from two wounds in
The head received under circumstances
winch have not been cleared up
North was found intoxicated late
!aSt night. but friends with him pre-
vailed on the police to allow them L.
take MIN home. He became unman-
ateahlc, the police say. and went To
inc home of his brothcr-in-law. !. i.
81. SING. on Wilson street. where. (,
Il alleged. he made several threats.
Leaving the house. he went farther
down the street and invaded Other
premises, kicking open a front door.
whether he fell or whether he was
pushed has not been learned. bu. he
sustained scalp wounds falling down
me concrete steps. the police finding
MN there. ~ first he did not APP
pear To b" badly hurt, ana he was pu,
IN Jail, but it was later deemed best
TO remove him 10 the hospital.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1921-08-13
ARE RESCUED AFTER THIRTY
HOURS ADRlFT ON LAKE
Try Associated DIESEL

CLEVELAND. ONO. Aug. l2.-J.
III. Rookie and young woman giving
her name as Miss Frances McGavin.
were rescued from Lake Erie this
morning after being adrift and help
lees in an open powcrhoat for thirty
hours.
Coast-Guard Captain Hansen. in the
guard cutter. picked up the helpless
boat five miles northeast OF the har
Dor after receiving a wireless mes
sage OF distriss from the steamship
Lakeland, a frcightcr, which sighted
the boat adrift on the lake.
Rookie and the young woman were
on the verge OF collapse from hunger
and loss OF sleep when they were
rescued.
The couple had started from the
Cleveland Yacht Club. At Rocky River.
"Wednesday night for II short lake
ride, Rookie said. An hour later the
engine went dead and stiff. ofrshorc
wind carried them far into the lake