The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-08-20

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Of this committee that he has been
neglecting his game. The club has
been boosting him for the honors.
Interest in the national amateur
golf tournament to be held September
II to "a at the st. Louis Golf club
has strengthened with the definite
announcement that Charles Evans. jr.,
present holder of the national and
western amateur titles, would defend
his honors in the most significant meet
held in the United States. Evans first
won the national amateur title in 1915,
the same year in which he also
emerged victorious from the national
open. He again climbed to leader
ship of American amateur golfers last
year when he won the tournament at
the Engineers club on Long Island.
The tournament at st. Louis this year
promises to be one of unexpected oc-
curreaces, meet in which the specta-
tor may register surprise at not infre-
quent Intervals, The course at the st.
Louis club is one of the most difficuIr
in the United States.
The United states census bureau
reports that 81, 900, 600 men apd
women past IS years of age are no"
EMBODIED in the insufferable lone
someness of the unmarried state"
Add to these the number of married
women whose husbands play golf and
the figure assumes alarming proper
tions, says the Kansas City Star.
Jim Barnes, national open cham
zion, remarked after winning the
title, s"Fhere wasn't a time during the
tournament when even thought OF
getting mad or allowed myself to be
worried. made up my mind before
the tournament that I would give 100
per cent of time to playing golf and
let the breaks Of the game take care
Of themselves"
If every golfer will take the advice
game, says Eddie Cochrane of the
KansaasCity Journal. Loss of temper
and worry over the game cause more
dubbed drives and missed puts than
anything else. Golfers who keep their
temper and plod along steadily,
usually finish in front of those who
play brilliantly at times, but lose all
control Of themselves when they make
a few bad shots.
DR.. Jimmy Stewart, former Wash
burn football star and previous to the
war Country club sweet sticker, is
getting back into his game again this
month. His golf is improving weekly,
and by the end of the season he will
be accepting much lower handicap.
zone thing I will say for Charlie
Mitchell said Governor Allen the
other day, as he signed up for a
coup1a Spa1ding SOS, the is the most
good natured winner ever saw
The rains of the last tho weeks have
softened the sod on the Shawnee and
Country club courses and new players
especially are asked by the green's
committees to observe more rigidly the
rail 0nnadrvir1cr tho arla nf
torn turf. A cut turf in wet weather
will leave q bad scar in the fairway
when the sun dries the ground again.
Robert Stone and Ed McKeever, two
widely known Topeka lawyers, went to
the Country club three times in the
last two weeks in an effort to avoid
the telephones and the downtown wor-
ries and consult over law suits In
cidehtally, of course, they walked
around the course with their golf
sticks After the third attempt they
gave up their plan to discuss business
while engaged in playing the game.
Just about the time we would open a
subject for discussion it was time for
Bob to shoot and If he made good
drive it was impossible for him to talk
about anything else,'' McKeever ex-
planned.
Country club golfers have their last
opportunity Ln1S season OIL playing
amateur golf with Stanley Clithero.
It is understood that he has accepted a
position as professional in a central
Kansas town for next year.
Country club caddies are authority
for the statement that turtles have
made their appearance in the brook
crossing No. s fairway. The caddies,
players suspect, are using this method
of avoiding too strenuous search for
lost balls in the stream.
A Topeka fursome, held up on a tee
by a crowded fairway, started swap
ping, recently. imported bathroom
stories. The men did not realize that
a caddy was sitting in the grass near
them. After one especially amorous
yarn little voice chirped up:
Jaw, heard that story a long time
ago."
A certain unfortunate percentage of
/ the golf colony of Topeka quit the
game this week until after the initial
frost. Sunday and Monday brought in
several golfers with bleery eyes and
shifting nostrils. The two days