The Topeka state journal., 1922-05-20

Mrs. Biby hit ball that truck an
! obstruction and bounced off the fair
way. 1t was on Ladies' Day and turn
| ing to the members of her foursome
she said, II just knew I shouldn't
| have used that ball today. It bounces' y
| Mrs. George H. Allen and Mrs. Joe
| Wilson are two of the most enthu-
/ two rounds Ladies' Day and then sat
/ out on the veranda and in true man
! fashion post-morteIped until their
| husbands arrived.
| Ed Currey of Shawnee has offered
! suitable ground free, for lease or for
sale for the person or persons who
will build temporary club house or
| locker house. Now for an organiza-
/ tion of players who will p oVide the
facilities. Or couldn't someone build
a locker house for, rental purposes
4 For $1,000 a locker room could be
constructed that would draz- at least
| $500 a month in rent during the play
| ing season.
How difficult it is for an expert
| golfer to make a bad shot as COM
pared to the proneness of TIE duffer
| to hit the ball poorly was demon
| strated at the trial of steel shafted
clubs by Bob Macdonald, the long
Edgewater Golf club. Chicago.
1t took Macdonald some time to
hit the ball anywhere but in the exact
center of the face of the club after
| Albert r. Gates, president of the
Western Golf association, had re-
quested that the ball be hit off the
| toe and heel of the club to help in
| the decision to be announced as to
whether the steel shaft is a mechan-
ical aid in making good shots from
poor strokes
While the Scot after he gave up
after trying to foozle. average 22b
yards with six shots made with
/ hickory shafted club he could do no
/ better than an average of 206 yards
with a steel shaft; and every specta tor
seemed to believe him when he said
| the club could never mako a golfer
| but the stroke could make any club
hgo well.
The famous golf pair, Barnes and
! Hutchison, are making their plans
! for titles this year Topeka golfers
are especially ir crested in these 1871
champions as they appeared here in
36 holes of play on the Shawnee and
Country club courses last fall. Barnes,
national open champion and pro of
the Pelham Country club. New York,
| will go after the British open title
this year. Barnes wilt leave at the
1 end of the month, in order to arrive
| in England in time to play in the
| Gleneagles tournament and the Brit
ish championship at Sandwich, June
/ ana
This wiz be Barnes third try in the
British event, his first attempt having
| been made two years ago, when he
finished fifth in the list with an aver
age of II, five strokes back of the
| leader George Duncan. He was a.
member of the team that went over
a year ago and had the distinction
| of leading the field until the final
4 round There. however, his game col
/ lapsed. as a. result of his poor physical
condition. and he was forced to con-
| tent himself with a tie for sixth place.
hmm ediately following his return
from the ritish championship
Barnes went to the national open at
Washington and proceeded to walk
away from the field that included
besides the American stars, Duncan
and Mitchell, representing tha British
pros, and Joseph Kirkwood. the Aus
Ftralian champion.
| 1 During the course of his recent trip
! around the rim OF the United States
+ accompanied by HHtehison, Barnes
annexed the California open title and
| finished well up in the southern tour
naments-
| George Piper, Shawnee beginner, set
a pace for the yearlings the other
day when he sent a drive 220 yards
down the fairway on No. 6 while
standing on one foot Piper refuses
/ to accept tradition and custom in golf
and as a result he often sends the ball
screaming for distance