The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-09-02


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lished the former course record with
a 60. McKenzie's record was made in
a foursome.
The detour occasioned by the Qpn-
struction of the Topeka avenue con-
crete road has sent constant strea m
of motor cars along the west border of
Shawnee. AS result the clubs seem
cry needs busting off to make it in
company shape for the city cham
pionshir.
L. NJ. Hull a member of Governor
Aliens staff, will leave soon for Wash
ington to make his permanent home.
In his departure Shawnee loses a real
conner in golf. Hull has played only
two seasons of golf, but in that time he
has developed an IS game that gave
great promises to improve at least five
strokes next season.
The departure of Emmett George,
private secretary to the governor, will
lesson and with an original form that
never would be suspected to co-ordi-
nate with golf. George shot in the SOS
with out apparent effort.
Governor Aliens office has been
w. Y. Morgan of Hutchinson, doesn't
play. Here is a prediction: He'll be
playing by next May
What will it take to qualify in the
city championship?
Guesses run from IS to IS with a
general belief that it will take Sc.
1t depends upon the weather. If
tn Shawnee course is in the condi-
ton it is today there will be possibly
ten players in the 70's. If it rains
well, that is another story.
1t will require the short game to
keep down the score at Shawnee. The
ground is baked and the rough is
short and dry. Any sort of a drive
will reach the 200-yard stakes. On
2-shot holes an iron will reach the
green. On 3-shot holes it will be
drive and a brassie or spoon. Then
comes the game. Accurate pitches or
pitch-and-runs will hit the sand a
putt and the hole is made.
1t must be remembered that in the
recent Shawnee club championship
thirty-two players entered the first
flight with a qualifying score of 81 or
better. The course is faster than it
was when these rounds were played.
And Shawnee will send her best into
the city championship.
Country club shooters will bring in
good cards. Despite their inexperi-
ence with sand greens they'll find
easy putting at Shawnee. The Coun-
try club greens are~in wretched con-
dition and a smooth roll of sand will
be easy picking for Dudley stars. Also
the Shawnee fairways are in much
better condition than the Country
club turf. To linda BALI sitting high
on the grass will be like a long lost
friend to the golfers from the visiting
club.
If twenty-five Country club stars
enter the city championship it will
take an IS to get into the first flight.
Approximately $50 golfers will
tramp over the course of the Country
club at Brookline today in quest of
the national amateur championship
title, and for more than half of them
the end of the long days trudgeN will
be the nearest they will get to the
crown this year.
Virtually all the leading amateur
deYotees of the Scotch sport are en-
tered in the tournament and all are
expected to come thru the first quail
flying round which only those with the
best "a scores and ties will survive.
The first round of Is holes will be
followed by a second of Sc holes Mon
day which will leave 80 golfers eligi-
Bile for match play for the title. Play
will end next Saturday.
This is the twenty-seventh renewal
1895, but in all the intervening time
not such a gathering of international
stars has teed off opening day as are
prepared to start. The entry, of the
British team, which came to America
primarily for the Walker cup con-
test, has lent an international tinge
to the event that it has not had
before.
Like the national open champion
ship, the national amateur was estab-
lished in 1894, less than DECADE after
golf had attained widespread vogue
in this country, but 1t was not until
the next year that the United States
Golf association took command and
consequently the records are dated
from 1895.
The first year, prior to the organiza-
ton of the association, two champion
ship tournaments were held, the first
in September at the Newport, r. l.,
Golf club. which was won by w. G.
Lawrence, Newport, and the second
in October at st. Andrews Golf club
Yonkers, where L. B. Stoddart of the
home club was victorious.
Amateurs everywhere took courage
at the result of last years play, which
Jesse GuiIford. Boston, won by de-
feating Robert A. Gardner. 7 and 6.
Guilford was a dark horse in field
illuminated by such stars as Francis
Ouimet. Chick Evans, Bobby Jones,
Wlll1e hunter. I16 Inen BLUSH anna
teur champion, and Tom Armour, the
crack Scot.
Tho the American amateur cham
pionship has been played for twenty
five times. every year since 1895, ex-
cludipg the war period OF 1917-1S
only sixteen men have held the title.
and if several of the luminaries of the
past are on their game this year the
number of Individual holders may not
he increased. The dope says that
7 several are due to win"
Jerome D. Travers, New York. has
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