The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-04-15

and she shot q s5 on nine holes 'I
will make champion out or her IN
two more months" promised the for
mer inter-scholastic champion and
tional matches.
A rare husband who'll make such
promise in golf
Yes, stree!
If "Chick" Trout could sink his
short puts he would make q new
record on the Country club ''Old
Nine" His best to date-and he has
been playing in mud and on a COM
paratively strange course-has been
Va 80 which is three below par. His
long puts are uncanny but his short
drops have been treacherous.
of the Country club, is the first cas-
ualty Of the 1922 season. He was iii
at home this week following three
days of wading thru the soaked grass
on Dudley yard.
Country club members had hoped
that all the new tees under construc-
ton would follow out the new system
OF irregularities begun on the New
Nine last summer. The old plan of
making the player climb a high square
outlook station" to play his drive
has been abandoned on most courses
over the country. Unless a tee of
this construction is squared away ex-
actly with the line of flight it is con-
fusing and an unnecessary hazard.
Low tees, irregular Il outline and flat
allow grassy shots and also relieve
the player of getting into the spot
light when he takes his turn at driv-
ing.
The president, vice president and
secretary of the Shawnee club, Phil
dard, have sent an accepted chal-
lenge to the president, vice president
and secretary of the Country club.
W. W. Strickland, Frank Bonebrake
and H. B. Fink. The match will be
played soon, both courses to be used.
Now that Bayard Whitney has been
relieved of the handicap worries of
the Country club he has started out
his 1922 season with a bang. He an
ticipates giving a receipt to several of
the brothers this year. Whit's great
est achievement was his on No. 1
two seasons ago.
The women's state golf association
plays in Salina in June. Despite the
fact that this tournament is only
about two months away Topekans
have not begun their training. C'mon
with the Knockers so we can get this |
season under way!
Frank Darling, in charge of fed
eraI vocational training in Topeka is |
a new member of the Country club. |
His first act was to be matched with |
Frank Southwick in the president |
secretary match.
Going down No. at the Country |
club is a reminder of the entangle- |
Inent in France. The engineers stakes !
make walking a matter of judgment |
rather than mechanism.
Chicago woman golfers have organ |
lied a league of public links players
of their sex to hold interclub tourna- |
ments this season. So many women
courses that the promoters expect to
hold a city tournament with more |
than 100 players entered. While |
there are no experts OF national fame I
among the members as yet. several
of the feminine club wielders can /
score close to women's par.
James Carberry. professional at the |
LAGRANGE Golf club, Chicago, brought |
back the strangest freak shot from his |
winter golfing in Florida thus far re-
corded. On the 55O-yard fifth hole of
the Highland Park, Fla, club, Car
berry pulled his drive into the rough |
270 yards from the tee. He sent a
25O-yard brassie straight down the
edge of the rough and failed to get
He then pitched a mashie
into the cup, thereby scoring an eagle
3, without having been on the fair
way or the green at all. For the tyro.
it might be explained that an eagle is
B. score Of 2 strokes better than par,
which is perfect golf, while a birdie
is score one under par for the hole.
By official edict, the United States
Golf association has taken to itself
the privilege of making spectators paw
an admission fee to the three national
Any short sighted
person who esSayed to make the gate
without a greenback held between the
thumb and forefinger. is to be given
the golfers rush. This is much more
than the low brow
buns rush. INDUCED in by the bour-
geoise, inasmuch as the use of mashies
and niblicks is allowed and it is not
necessary to replace divets.
J. NJ. Kelley. assistant superintend-
ent of the Missouri Pacific. who is
to play golf. sung on a ball
yesterday and the pile driver had 10
be ordered out to fill the depression
in the turf.-Atchison Globe.
Armin FassIer is in favor of a via
1uct to the Country club-or at least
l pontoon or ferry service to the club
IN rainy weather. One evening re-
Gently he started out to the club in
his big Marmon following a heavy
rain Crossing the Shunganunga
bridge he saw the water that rushes
Town from the Country club fairways
earring madly across the road at an
estimated depth of from one to two
eet. Stopping his car he backed
lround planning to turn and run for
he heights and the pavements- The
ar sank gracefully into the mud and
water and refused to move. Stranded
n mud and water, Mr.. Fassler looked
lelpIessly about. One of the man
gers of a near by ice cream factory
aw him. Mounting a gray horse he
Irove to Mr.. Fasslers aid. Ten min
ties later Topeka's widely known citi-
en-, astraddIe the old gray mare, was ,
cen going north on Li1coln street.
Hts day YVES done. II