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ApnLMay Eoents

April 1-15-Twelfth Annual Hid-Aprfl
tournament at Ptnehurst
April 11-1o-Southern California Golf As
ISOLATION Amateur Championship tourna-
ment at the Pasadena Golf Club and Flint
ridge Country Club.
April 14-16-Southern California Golf As
ISOLATION Amateur Championship at the
May 2-3-Shanley Memorial Cup tourna-
ment at the Lakewood IN. j. Country
May a--AnnuaI Invitation tournament
at the Annandale Golf Club.
May 4-6-Annual Spring Invitation tour
nament at the Lakewood IN. - Country
Club.
May 11-13-Invitation tournament at the
krdsiey Club, Ardsley on-Hudson, n. y.
May 11-13-Annual Invitation tournament
at the Baltimore Country Club.
May 15-20-Britfsh Women's Champion
ship tournament at Princes, Sandwich.
May 1S-20-Maryland State Golf Assoe1-
alton Women's Championship tournament
at the Suburban Club (Balbmore).
tournament at the Country Club Of Aaltnaic
May 4-Interscholastie Championship
tournament at the Greenwich Country
Club.
May 22-26-Women's Metropolitan Cham
pionslrip tournament at the Morris County
Country Club IN. j.
May 2-26-Philadelphia Women's Cham
pionship tournament at the Huntingdon
Valley Country Club.
May 22-27-British Amateur Champion
ship tournament at Prestwick.
May 24-27-Annual Invitation tourna-
ment at the Midwick Country Club.
May 25-27-Annual Invitation tourna-
ment at the Garden City Golf Club.
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decide firmly and definitely what club
you need to reach the green
Make a practice here of a firm and
after you have once drawn the club.
Be sure then, in taking your stance,
of the right line of play.
Don't wait half way thru the swing
to wonder whether you are aiming too
far to the right or TO the left
whether you should have used a
mashie in place of a jigger-or a
spoon in place of an iron.
Have all that definitely located be-
fore you start your back swing. With
that decided. you then have but one
job left-and that job is to put your
entire thought upon hitting that golf
ball with the best swing you have.
What most golfers do is to start
out thinking properly and then break
the thought half way thru the swing.
1t also means lifting the head and
right shoulder. It means an almost
certain foozle Or badly struck ball.
Looking at the Ball.
It isn't necessary to say Look at
the ball." If you are thinking about
the bali as you swing-thinking all the
way thru your swing-you are most
certainly going to look at it,
You don't have to bother about
keeping your eye on the pail. just
keep your mind there and your eye
will be there. too.
This is equally true of putting. You
can't be wandering what the right
line is and how hard to hit the bail
while your club head is in motion, as
the majority do.
That part must be settled first.
Then, with nothing else on your mind,
you can swing the club head properly
in an even, true line and hit the putt
Just as it should be hit. Your original
Judgment as to the right line and the
speed of the green may be poor. But
at least you will hit the ball correctly,
and that, after all, is the most i'm
portant part of it all.
Think thru your stroke about hit
ting the ball-think all the way thru
and let everything else slide.
Make a practice of this, just as You
make a practice of swinging CLUB,
Why can so many golfers swing COR
rectly at a cigar stump or a dandelinn
head and not at the ball? Because in
the first instance, with no thought of
distance or bunkers to break up their
concentration, they are centering their
so the club head comes thru with fine
freedom and with unusual snap.
Unless you make practice of cor
rect thinking-of making mind and
muscle work together-of concentra-
ton upon the swing alone, you are
not going to get very far. 1t may not
come any too easy at first, but it isn't
out of reason and it will make all the
difference in the world IN your game.
If you will only make a practice of
this mental control, the lessons that
are to follow will be of value. If you
forget this part of it you might as we'll
quit golf or make up your mind to be
a duffer the remainder of your life.
For at least you will never be con-
sistent and you will never have even
the outside chance for steady play.
This was the strongest point in the
games of such great amateurs as John
Ball, Walter j. Travis and Jerome
Travers. who were three of the
greatest thinkers thru I ever knew.
They followed thru mentally. as well
as physically. and the result was sew
enteen championships at both stroke
and match play.
(Next Lesson-"Important Features
of Stance and Grip.")
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ARTICLE II.
Developing Mental Control.

! ARTICLE II.
Developing Mental Control.
1t has been only in recent years that
/ have realized fully the very great
| importance of mental control in golf
In fact, it is so important that be-
lieve it to be the foundation of cor
rect play with every club.
| 1t is so important that I am going
| to make it my leading instructive ar
ticle, since without it the rest means
almost nothing at all.
I only wish 1 had enough words, or
| the right words, to impress the i'm
portance of the mental part of the
game more fully upon my readers and
pupils, for the rest of the task after
| ward would be easy indeed.
By mental control I mean the sort
of thinking that works to the right
sort of concentration.
know how the average duffer tries
to concentrate. He frequently over
the right way.
Right Concentration.
I don't call it right concentration,
for example, II you look at the ball
and think about the bunker or the
trap on ahead.
You may be concentrating. but you
are concentrating on the wrong
thing.
I believe that at least so per cent
OF the golf strokes badly played are
the result of breaking this concentrat-
ing effort at the vital part OF the
swing, which is the speed area that
starts from foot to two feet before
the ball is hit.
At this point instead OF thinking
on thru, the golfer suddenly shifts
his attention to something else on
ahead-up goes his head and flub
goes the ball.
When you are hitting the ball you
have got to think about hitting the
ball-think all the way thru about
hitting the ball-and think absolutely
of nothing else.
You can't suddenly decide that you
are hitting too hard or too easy; that
you have the wrong club; that pos
sibly you are not going to carry +he
bunker, or any other of the different
thoughts that may suddenly arise at
the right moment.
When you have once started your
swing 1t is too late then to think of
anything else but hitting on thru.
One Example.
Here is one example of what 1
mean. The fifth hole at Columbia
wrecked any number of scores with
its out OF bounds swinging into the
left of the course.
When I first played this hole saw
its danger. and so I decided to in
vestigate the right side of the course
at this hole. the safer side. to see what
trouble waited for me there.
I found there only average rough.
not very hard to play from. So when
came to play my second shot at that
hole I dismissed any thought of going
out of bounds from my mind, deliber-
ately aimed to the rough at the right
side and then put my entire concen-
was no time, half way thru my swing,
when I was in any doubt as to how
close I was drawing the line.
Aiming to the right of the course
knew I was safe, and so had moth
ing on my mind except swinging the
club.
The result was that I averaged par
for that hole five successive times, in
Guiding the qualifying rounds. while
most of the others were taking an
average around s or 7. or even higher.
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ish titles, and one may go on goffing
many years after the age that would
prevent indulgence in other sports.
College golf has made such strides
of late that not only will the Big Ten
hold a tournament on June 10 in Chi
cago, but the University of Chicago
has announced a complete schedule of
intercollegiate contests the same as
football and baseball. The program
University of Wisconsin at Madison,
May 13.
University of Michigan at Chicago.
May 90.
Northwestern University at Chicago.
University of Illinois at Urbana,
May 20.
Ohio State University at Columbus,
June 5.
Purdue University at Chicago, June
The University of Illinois and Pur-
due have golf links of their own and
other schools are arranging for
courses.
Charles Anderson, chairman of the
tournament committee of the Shaw
nee club, has made tentative arrange
ments for the seasons schedule. Sew
eral dates have not been set due to the
dates OF the Transmississippi in
Kansas City, but the events are
planned. Matches open with the
Spring Interclub tourney, the date to
be agreed upon with the Country club
will be a 36-hole medal affair, Is on
Shawnee and Is at the Country club.
1t is probable that qualifying rounds
will be arranged to choose the fifteen
or twenty representatives to play for
each club. The tourney is strictly a
n afr piV
players an opportunity to have their
off rounds without serious conse-
Quences.
The Shawnee ringer score begins
May 1 and is closed October Is. This
is an all season contest open to all
and is a means of assisting players to
better their medal scores.
The President-Secretary team match
will be played May 1921. President
Eastman and Secretary Studdard will
choose their teams from the entire
membership soon. The officers bat
tie at Shawnee will open up consider
able more enthusiasm than at the
Country club due to the fact that
there is no dancing fraternity or So
cial set to be attracted.
The annual opening flag tourna-
ment will be held May 80.
The midsummer club championship
tournament, sixteen in each flight.
will be held in June, date not set.
Sweepstakes and driving contests
will be a July 4 feature.
The club championship for the 1922
season will begin the middle of Au-
gust. This is the event of the year at
Shawnee-the event that draws the
largest gallery and creates the most
competition.
The presidents cup handicap medal
play tourney will be held Labor Day.
This is a Phil Eastman feature in
augurated last year for the dubs."
The city championship play at
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course for the purpose of selecting
twenty-five players. In this way the
contest will be assured, the contes-
tants may be matched properly and
without delay and the tournament
ended on time. Heretofore the visit
ing players have been matched as they
appeared and in many instances the
contest was a burlesque.
The Shawnee club has room for
fifteen new members. Here is a
chance for the 1922 golf possibilities.
When the membership is closed and
the season is on in fun blast it will
be a difficult matter finding a berth
in a Topeka club.
A Difficult Course.
From London Opinion.
An astronomer was entertaining a
Scotch friend. He showed his visitor
the moon thru a telescope and asked
him what he thought of the satellite.
It's a RIGHT" replied the Scot, who
was an enthusiastic golfer, "but it's
awfu' fu' O. bunkers."
A meeting of the Western Golf as
ISOLATION to consider the barring of
the use of clubs with steel shafts will
be held soon, according to announce
ment by Albert r. Gates, president.
Steel shaft clubs already have been
barred by the United States Golf as
ISOLATION.
EddieS Cochrane of the Kansas City
Journal is all wrought up over what
he terms the silly arguments about
the stymie. Was Eddie ever stymied?
A report going the rounds OF the
women golfers of the Country club
that an additional membership fee of
$50 a year would be charged to wives
of members is only a wild runor. Ad-
ditional fees of $40 and $40 are
charged as Junior memberships" to
the sons and daughters of members
but nothing is fairfield for the wives
of members. Incidentally. what is the
matter with the women players of the
Country club this year?
Country club players have been try
ing for three years to entice Capt.
Arthur Mills to the game. He was
'ganged" at the Eiks club recently
and his friends insisted that he don
a mother-hubbard end sunbonnet and
try his hand at the game-espe cially
due to the fact that he was matched
in the president-secretary tourney
with c. B. Merriam Il am Sc years
of age" the captain stated. I'm four
more years L will be qualified to hob
BILE around that golf course with the
rest OF you old birds" He addressed
his remarks to Frank Griggs, Harley
Hurley ct al.
GU LhGAAAldn VI GEul6E was a
Topeka visitor this week. THE west
ern Kansas country is crazy about
golf" he said. I'VE built our course
last year. This year we are enlarging
it to a standard 3,000-yard links and
there is a great enthusiasm. Every
town you enter in northwestern Kan |
sas is talking, playing. dreaming
golf.''
As vice president of the Kansas ,
State Golf association Frank Griggs
receives many inquiries from all over |
the state as to membership in the as
ISOLATION. 1T is a dull week when |
one or two Kansas towns do not ap-
ply for a place on the rolls" he said
the other day. Towns really never
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A PRAYER TO THE GOD OF
GOLF.
BY EDGAR A. GUEST.

Oh, god Of golf, now hear my plea;
Make a fair butter out Of me!
l do not ask of you too much,
The champions sure and certain touch,
The master stroke-Just teach me now
to get a four-foot putt somehow.
Upon the practice green I can
Get down my ball with any man.
But when the game grows close and tense
Somehow lose all putting sense.
Teach me. pray thee. then, to stand
AS one whose brain controls the hand.
Teach me to know that never up
Is never to get in the cup"
Grant me a little sense in this,
To give the ball a chance to miss:
And when the line describes a curve,
Defend me from a faltering nerve.
Let me be bold, as bold as they
Who win my golf ball when / playa
Teach me in every Circumstance
At least to give the bail a chance.
And let me hope, as other men,
To hole long one now and then.
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result If the club head followed or
/ preceded the hands, respectively.
Kirkwood can also put an extended
slice or hook on a ball but that play
is used by Jock Hutchinson, British
! open champion. James Barnes, Ameri-
can open title holder, and many other
premiers of the game, just as eff
GENTLY and probably with more GER
tainty.
The plausible reason why they ex-
cell kirkwood in open play is that
they get in a secluded part of the links
and practice the likely shots of an ac-
tual round as assidiously as he re-
hearses his trick shots.
President Harding was anxious to
make up a little foursome the other
day so he sent to Chicago for George
A O'Neil, pro and architect. Governor
Allen usually calls up F. c. Kaths at
the Bank of Topeka or Charlie Mitch
ell OF Crane & Company. OF course,
Washington hasn't the material that
can be found in the Kansas capital.
Golf etiquet: If you must use ivory
in your game let it be in the head of
your club.
The many Kansans who appear at
the Shawnee and Country clubs daily
with cards from other clubs with
request for playing privileges indicate
the greatly increased interest in golf
Topeka on business these days bring
their sticks with them. Local golfers
should sacrifice their afternoon plans
If possible in order to play with these
visitors. It means much to the court
eous reputation of the Two local clubs
Only two or three more weeks,
Country club members, to smash the
Nine" When the holes are changed
and the construction gangs leave, a
new set of records will be established
on Dudley yard. The first man who
plays the new eighteen holes will have
the honor OF hanging up the first rec
ord score OF the course.
1t has been suggested that Presi-
dent Strickland of the Country club.
President Eastman of Shawnee, Gov
ernor Allen and Senator Capper make
up the first foursome to travel the
new Is holes at the Country clup
when the course is opened officially.
Country club golfers who make
such a display of towels after the
showers may be interested in know
ing. the house committee warns, that
it costs 10 cents each to laundry the
bath necessities.
Shawnee will be playing at least II
holes within the next thirty days.
While the new green's are being built
on the "Oid Sine, IlVe addltlonal
holes on the course will be placed in
shape for playing. The trees were
planted. the pits dug and the bunkers
built several years ago on the south
and southeast so acres of the 1920
acre tract owned by the Shawnee club.
The holes. as staked out by Donald
Ross, will be used. The only cost
will be in moving, in maintenance AMI
in the construction OF five sand
greens.
The inter-club contests between the
Shawnee and Country clubs probably
will be monthly affairs this season.
Instead of throwing the match open
to all members it is planned to sched-
ule a qualification round on each
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shawnee will be held In September.
This is a tournament started three
years ago by Chairman Anderson. -
has become an event of great interest,"
in local golf circles All golfers in the
city are entitled to enter.
Chairman Anderson is keeping -
a snappy golf interest thru his tour
neys and the membership is support
ing him.
Shawnee committees for the 1924
season as announced by President
GREEN: ]. A. Crow, chairman; I.
W. Felix. F. A Scott and C. W. Seely.
HOUSE: A d. Gray, chairman: VI
P. Hillhouse and W. z. Monroe.
BUILDING: C. p. Buck. chalrnans
C-E. Curry, A. NJ. Catlin, H. Bennett,
jr., and Leroy Wilkinson.
TOURNAMENT: c. A. Anderson
chairman; Mrs. c. P. Buck, in charge
of women's play.
MEMBERSHIP: C. P. Buck. chair
man. Members to be appointed
The new members of the Shawnee
club since January have been posted
by Secretary Studdard:
B. B. Eitelman Erwin Keller
r. Il. Fadely F. s. Osborne
Leroy NJ. Hull 6. 3. Ramsey
l. W. Felix c. A. Rttchte
+. L. Fellows g. II. Smith
Malcolm Gray L. =. Tanner
Ward NJ Keller Jno. A-worley
Jake Mohler has come back" The
state secretary of agriculture always
has been a golf bug. He has been city
and club champion and he has been a
leading figure in state meets Two
years ago he fell into a slump with
his wooden clubs. In a frantic effort
to remedy the disease he purchased
an array Of new sticks but to no avail
This season witnesses the famous old
'feeF' that once made Jake a feared
and fearful opponent. His spoons and
brassies from the rough this year are
wonders of distance and accuracy
Boys in the Country club neiBhbor-
hood reaped their annual spring -har-
vest recently when they fished the
brook draining the links following the
heavy rains of last Saturday and cap
tured several dozen golf balls-oalla
that had been lost in the ravineS.
The annual President Secretary
team match at the Country club ends
this evening. The course was filled
this afternoon with players covering
their final rounds. At the beginning
of the afternoon play Secretary Fink's
team led by a large margin. The
losers put on a dinner for the win
ners at the club wednesday evening
The standing when play began this
El91
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sHAWNEE GoLr CI.uR

Locs south and
east- thru Highland Park Take
Highland Park street car.
120 acres, 8 holes. II holes by
May Is. Is holes in 1923.
Phil Eastman. president.
D. W. Studdard. secretary.
Club phone-11S.
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CHICK EvANs On BAsERAIL

Chicago, April 15.-When the great
army of American baseball rooters
marched to the grandstands Wednes-
day for the opening OF the season, not
emily to cheer the home team. but also
10 confuse the visitors. a phiIosophiz-
sng golfer delivered himself of the fol-
lowing soliloQuy:
1t may seem strange to the fol-
Flowers Of other sports but golf seems
10 be about the only outdoor sport in
which there are no rooters, either to
applaud the leading player or to boo
his less fortunate opponent. In a
gallery OF thousands. not one golfer
expresses his longing for the suprem-
acy OF his favorite player, or shows
any outward expression Of delight
when his champions opponent is max
ing poor shots
Even the players share in the sup
preston OF glee over success or fail
ure and the two players, altho intent
on winning. go visiting along in a
friendly way while every atom OF their
being is struggling to gain the upper
hand in fair play. The one who Is
down viii join in the applause of the
gallery over a fine shot by the leader
and sometimes offer an alfbi for
fooled shot by his opponent, even
Rpoiogfzing for having inadvertently
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ToPEKA COUNTRY Gle

Location-Topeka avenue, Lin
coin street and 2Tth street. End
Country club car line, south OF city.
100 acres. is holes.
W. w. Strickland. president.
Homer b. Fink, secretary
Club phone-9S4-
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CpEN CDR CLINTON Of HE UT7D SZ77Es.

Copyright. 1o22. New York Tribune Incl
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Listen Kansas golfers,

Remember Senator Bookings anti
golf platform announced last winter E?
Remem Der how the state took 1t up
as a sensation worthy OF consideration
and condemnation? Well. sir. Mister
Docking is considering Withdrawing
from the race Tor governor.
Co out tomorrow and shoot away
n coupla practice balls in celebration
OF the event.
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The high wind from the south in
the early days Of the week made the
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George B. Snow-you all have
heard OF 'im-is making his cam
= align over the state on foot. While
Slher candidates for governor are rid
ing on inflated tires and in Pullmans,
Snow is tramping the violets.
II should be in good form to play
golf on the Country club links when
am elected governor" he confided to
4 friend the other day.
Truly. golf is becoming Nn issue of
craftsmanship in Kansas.
Emmett George is slipping Mr.
George is private secretary to Gov
ernor Allen Last season he Joined
shawnee and without a lesson. or n
word of instruction or guidance he
bought a set OF rusty golf tools and
started in He shot a 81 on the first
nine holes he played-and on that
sporty Highland Park course, too. He
improved steadily. Last fall he
sneaked back into the state house
with a record Of a month in the
fortiesi It was unbelievable. But the
old bug is turning. Emmett is playing
beginners golf this season. He may
get out OF II and he may not-but
Colonel Bogey's anger will not be ap-
peassd.
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As vice president of the Kansas
State Golf association Frank Griggs
receives many inquiries from all over
the state as to membership in the as
sociation. ut is a dull week when
one or two Kansas towns do not ap-
ply for a place on the rolls" he said
the other day. Towns I really never
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The inter-club contests between the
Shawnee and Country clubs probably
will be monthly affairs this season.
Instead of throwing the match open
to all members it is planned to sched-
ule a qualification round on each