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The Topeka state journal., 1922-05-20
THE CADDIE


IT was a little caddie boy who said to
me in shame:
"I've beaten many man at golf, and never
won a game
you've beaten many a man." said l. "and
vet You say to me
You've never won = single gamer That
surely cannot be
Il beat my man today, said he. AT
least he sNvoTe I did;
He dubbed three shots on Number Seven,
and said 'Confound you, kidt
1 wish you wouldn't stand so near when
I am set play;
I've told you now a dozen times to Keep
out Of my way
ssTbFee years I've caddied at the club and
twice a week or more
I've had to tote the losers bags. and al
ways they were sore,
And always they have made it plain upon
the eighteenth tee
That they'd have won the game hands
down if it hadn't been for me-
1T seems l always beat the man who plays
a rotten game,
And every time he dubs shot 1 have to
take the blame.
But when that fellow wins a match, he's
proud as he can be
And takes the credit ali himself and never
mentions me"
Copyright 1922. ~ Edgar A Guest)
The Topeka state journal., 1922-05-20

4oFk Tribune Incl
Let the b start down with the
turn of the body and tie arms and
when the club head is about halfway
down then it is time to start the
| wrists working to get the club head
thru.
AS the left wrist is straight at this
point it means that it must be used
like a, back stroke in tennis.
With the right wrist bent back 1t
lends itself to more power in throwing
the club head thru.
The simplest way to remember the
whole forward motion is this. ifr con-
nection with the wrists-try to use
the wrists at this point as you would
use in throwing ball. just before
the ball leaves the hand.
Now in this case you would meyer
| try to snap your wrists at the start
of the throw. You would let your
arm start forward with the body. turn
ing with it, the wrist held in a nat
ural way. In fact, you wouldn't think
about your wrists at ALL. But as the
arm got well forward and it became
time to let the ball-go. then your
wrist would give it the final impetus.
You could get no distance in throw
ing a ball if the snap came too soon,
before the arm had gone forward far
enough.
And you could get no distance in
throwing a ball if the wrist was rigid
If you will go thru the motion of
throwing a ball you will see that
there is nothing complicated about the
way you would use your wrist. Yet it
is almost exactly the same action.
The main trouble is that most peo-
pie try to do entirely too much with
their wrists. They keep figuring out
various ways to work the wrists in.
where they should wait and let the
wrists work naturally. If they begin
to bother with any turning of the
wrists at the start of the back swing
or thru the back swing they are sure
kill both power and direction.
On the down swing the left wrist is
more of a steadying guide than any
| thing else Yet it adds a certain
amo&nt of power and that is why it is
better to grip with the left hand fair
| ly Well over the club shaft. in place
of under it.
With the left hand over there is
! more power and greater control in the
left wrist, using natural way with
out any turning. Naturally it must
give to some extent. at the start of
the swing, but even this shouldn't
be forced.
And above all else remember not to
get the wrists in too soon once the
down swing has started.
This causes more missed shots than
almost anything else in golf thru the
eagerness every one has to hit the
ball Let them take their time as
the club head starts down
The Topeka state journal., 1922-05-20


eUsing the Wrists"
Sometimes / think that one of the
reasons why golf is so hard to learn
is that so frequently many of its sim
pie parts are made to sound SO com
plicated that few can follow the in
struction.
A few days ago one of l1y pupils
came to ne TO-, scme advice about
what he called 1.-The right way to break
the wrists" He had heard and read
so much about using the wrists, ana
the importance of using them in the
right way, that in trying to follow sew
eraI suggestions he had about
To Aim the way of using the wrists
had become about as complicated as
advanced geometry
Using the wrists in the right way 4s
an important part of the good golf
kswing-
But there is 10 great problem
about it In fact it is one of the
simplest parts of the swing if one will
only take time to give a little atten-
ton to it.
Helpful Suggestions
The first advice I am going to give
is this-'Don't try to do 100 much
with the wrists in going back"
Here they must work in a natural,
easy way.
At the start of the back swing the
left wrist should be a little Grmer
than the right, due to the fact that
the left hand is gripping more firmly
and that the left hand and arm is
starting the back swing.
But even then the left wrist must
not be rigid. Not flabby and not rigid
just naturally firm.
In fact, it isn't necessary to do any
thing with the wrists in going back.
Just forget them.
Keep the left arm straight or nearly
so, push the club head back and
around with the left without trying to
work your wrists at all you will find
that they are in the right position.
The natural way for your left wrist
at the top of the swing should be just
as if you were lifting your left hand to
the right shoulder-the 6 me with the
right wrist lifted sideways to the
shoulder.
There shouldn't be any more wrist
action in taking your club back than
You would use in t~king our hand
back to throw a ball.
In other words start with, your
hands right on the club and try to
keep them that way to the top of the
s~ing-but don't keep turning them
too much.
The Down Swing.
In starting the down swing it is i'm
portant to remember again not to use
the wrists 100 soon
Don't think of them at Ill at the
start of the dowlwar-; hloy-. for they
don't figure here.
The Topeka state journal., 1922-05-20

Emerson CaKey. millionaire salt
packer and former state senator is to
build the first private community golf
course in Kansas. The new nine hole
course has been laid out by Kansas
City landscape gardeners and the $500
fairway will be around a community
center laid out five miles northwest
of Hutchinson. 1t will adjoin Willow
Brook. Senator Carey's private course
and country home.
Details for the project have been
completed and the course may be
opened this year. In the center of an
eighty-acre tract Senator Carey has
laid out fifty building sites 1O0x1 SO
They will be reached by special drives
from a hard surface highway to
Hutchinson and will be connected by
circular drives in the park The
course of play Will be around the
Each of the residence owners will
hold title to a share in the private
golf course for use of members OF
their families and friends. Lakes and
play grounds have also bee laid out
by landscape experts and Senator
Carey's plan is to move some of
Hutchinson's most exclusive families
five miles into the country.
The tract which he has laid out In
a mile from the new $4,000 Hutch
insoR Country club house. Cow creek.
which causes combined ,oy and sor-
row to residents of Hutchinson, loops
and winds thru the new exclusive
tract. The district is to be known az
Island Park
It is Senator Carey'sf plan to ~
spire the building of some of the
finest homes in Reno county in Island
Park His second private golf course
will adjoin his Individual course and
well watered BY private irrigation
system Water to the greens is car
rfed in pipes which are made a "a IT
of a metal fence surrounding the
grounds
Theories on economic operation OF
golf clubs. recently advanced by Pres
ident Price Wickersham of the Kan
sas City Golf association, have been
r1lf tr,to actual raracfice h.E Nh. Ka---
The Topeka state journal., 1922-05-20

Chicago. May 2O.-A formal cam
paign against tipping with severe pen-
alties for both Upper and tippee has
been started by the Olympia Fields
club. said to have the largest mem
bership of any golf club in the world,
with four 8 hole links and a fifth
planned.
In a letter sent to members today.
the house and the sports and pas
times committees advise that the rules
forbid tipping of walters. course start
ers and caddies pointing out in diplo-
matic language that the practice
in favor of the more liberal tipsters.
vt is advertised to the members that
any infraction of the rule will cause
the member to be cited to appear be-
fore the board of governors and the
recipient of the gratuity to be forth
with dismissed from service.
In many cases, golfers have tipped
caddies because of friendliness for the
LAD who helped them win game by
careful attention or saved them ex-
penses by unerringly finding balls
driven into the rough, but gradually
situation developed in which GER
tain members found that they could
get the choice caddies by liberal dis
tribution of money to caddies and
caddy masters and that they could buy
restaurant and unlicensed chances tn
start when they pleased by feeling the
walters and the course attendants.
L Rules against tipping have been
posted by a number of clubs, but 50
| drastic action as is now threatened
| by the Olympia Fields club is without
recorded precedent
The Topeka state journal., 1922-05-20

Chauncey Chic Trout, Country
club professional. is doing excellent
work at the club this season. Not only
is Trout a finished player of more
than ordinary ability but he is a most
competent teacher Of the game. His
many hours of lessons daily indicate
mis- success in pounding golf sense in
TO the players who have gone along
Tor years with no apparent improve
ment in their game and with a vast
collection of habituaT weaknesses and
faults Chick Trout also is taking
a great interest in tournaments-th
life of golf club The Country club
has been weak in tourney play for
many years out the pro- is working z
with Chairman Thrill of the commit
tee In pushing the matches to COM
pletion this season. Trout also has
given his services free to women be-
ginners and has been instrumental in
assisting Mrs. Updegraff. ladies' chair
man, in arQusing interest among the
women players of the club
The Topeka state journal., 1922-05-20


ing of elected shoes and tl- beating
of hopeful hearts. the Country clubs
famous "Old Nine" is TO be abandoned
Beginning Monday the New Nine"
will be placed in use and the old
course remodeled to conform with the
eighteen hole plan. In another four
weeks the Country club will be play
ing a regulatiO 6.000-yard eighteen
hole links and an ambition of many
years will be realized With the de-
parture of the "cad Nine" goes the
records that have been fought for
and established in hundreds of hours
of effort and skill Scores of state
stars have been developed on the
Country club original nine and state
amateur and invitation tournaments
have brought thousands to the capital
city. Originally the course was with
out bunkers and traps. Later it was
shape It is in today. No is
the only hole that has been
tampered- with to aEy extent At one
time it was circus ring and later
was fIattened ana bunkered and
trapped. other green have been
changed but not TO such an extent that
the course was altered. Country club
players will miss the "Old Nine" NO.
l with its flocks of 6's, its glorious
IS and its always to be talked about
As. No 2 with the green hole high
drives and the most satisfactory s
with 2 now and then. No with
l1lE WAuQ NHS SQQAn anu AAu
drive to the road; also the treacherous
slices that send the players out into
the Topeka avenue roadway. No 4,
long and straight with that ever
tricky green approach thru the vii
lows No. 5, the veranda's favorite
and the hole where the few is of thu
II years have been made. No. 8,
straight away and almost out of sight
with a perpetual opportunity for two
powerful wooden shots No. z. over
the hill and hidden with the chance
that slice will land in the road or the
prickly hedge. No. s. over the willows
and the brook with the fear that
long drive or a approach will land
in the car tracks. No. ., u the hill
to the clubhouse. while the veranda
looks at your approach and your put
ting.
Yes. well miss the "Old Nine" It
was a pretty layout despite the shots
into the sun and the roadway slices
and the gentle hazards that made it a
course for the Tired Business Man.
has been based on the "Old Nine
plays and dreams that it will seem like
strange course in the future.
Now for the New Nine" New fair
ways. new green's, new natural prob
lens. new shots. new approaches, new
slices and hooks-a new outlook on
the entire golf situation. And best
of all, new records to shoot at and no
holes into she setting sun.
Fred Ackerman is the new Topeka
sweet sticker. He brought in a 81
this week and is out hunting now for
a par 36-his last chance before the
"Old Nine" is abandoned. Ackerman
is hitting a long low ball and is play
ing a deadly approach. A few more
37's and he will make a Big Four
out OF the Griggs- Felix-Hurley Big
Three"
Pete" Middleton leads the Shawnee
players with a 80 on the ringer score.
Middleton is going hot this spring He
is adopting the Trout style of play
and shows great Improvement with
a better -putter Middleton would be
golf course The Crow Brothers. Ltd
follow Middleton on the Shawnee
ringers with a 81 for Jock" and a 33
for ''Bub." The ringer leaders follow.
The Topeka state journal., 1922-05-20

DR.. W. X Hobart's~ 40-35-75 with
owen Carl in the Lawrence--opeka in
ter-city match 1t the Country club
Sunday was the first sign of summer
with the doctors game. DIR. Hobart
former city champion. and always to
be considered in TOpeka's top four
with the Hurley-FeIix- -Griggs COM
binatiOn, is due f. a great season.
He had a fair season last year altho
he did not slip under the SOS. The
season before he was flirting with the
EOS constantly. DR.. Hobart is a
steady heGdy golfer He has one OF
the longest irons in Kansas and plays
it deadly. On No Sunday. he laid
his drive so close to the pin that he
was conceded n ? by his opponent. No
? is a 264-yard hole
Harry Graham and Cyrus Monroe
were battling at the Country club one
afternoon recently. Graham shoots
right handed and Monroe left handed.
Graham's ball rolled to the extreme
edge of a trap. making it necessa rv
shoot. Monroe batting for Graham" ="
he shouted to the other members of
his foursome as he motioned to his
partner to handle the shot
The southpaw argument has not
ceased Last week in this column the
experience OF Dr. c. S. Wolfe was
dWelt upOn. DIR. Wolfe is left handed
but shoots from the starboard. Now
comes Cyrus Monroe. He is left
handed but owing to the advice of
friends switched to the right last sea-
SON. All year he topped and chopped
around the Country club course one
day last fall he picked UP a southpaw
driver-iust to feel natural again. The
bail landed 220 yards toward the hori-
zon- Monroe's outfit has been changed
from driver no putter and he is hitting
as the lordintended again.
Kansas towns are competing for the
heavyweight golf title The tonnage
game is held now by a 262-pound play
er who shoots an so.
Some Al Jolson stuff.
Il was playing with a Jewish doc
tor friend of mine. He lost five or
six balls on the first hole and decided
to quit. 1 told him to go to the caddy-
master and have hi name put on his
lost. After his name was imprinted he
asked the caddymaster il he. would
put MD" after it. This was done.
Looking over his collection for a few
moments l.e hunted up the caddv-
master again. Please he said add
my office hours"
Still another
It made a 80 today. Yes. I counted
correctly. On the second hole, tho, I
did a little better"
And one more:
why is it that when I shoot golf I
always get sevens and when I shoot
craps I always set twos?"
The mosquito-bar water pitcher
goes to Fred Ackerman of the Coun-
The Topeka state journal., 1922-05-20

sas City organization and the success
or failure of the ventare is being
awaited with interest. says Frank g.
True. The primary purpose. TO lower
the cost Of the game and establish
closer relationship between cls1bas IS
but one phase of, the newly adopted
system.
A committee on club economies has
been appointed. This committee. CON
sisting of one member of the K. C. q.
A, and two others selected at large.
will meet with the chairmen OF the
various house committees and with
chairmen of the green committees.
Supplies will be purchased in the bulk.
while a uniform system OF treating
the courses and the exchange OF it,
dividual club methods will be another
feature of the plan. In alt ten COM
mittees will be appointed: one to
handle caddfe affairs. one to superin-
tend the annual eaddie tournament.
one to supervise the city championship
tournament one to be known as the
golf committee, which will bring to-
gether the chairmen of the handicap
and tournament committees, one each
for the senior ands professional tour
nament. 10 a series of inter-cIab
matches and one to arrange for ex-
hibition attractions between various
American and British stars who will
be brought to t. city to compete.
The fraternaI spirit existing among
Kansas City golf clubs. whether great
er than that existing in other cities
or not. iwill be the paramount factor
in determining the degree of success
of the community purchasing plan.
The clannish attitude which has
handicapped in some cases golf clubs
in the middle west, does not exist in
the city on the Kaw. PrejudiceS long
ago have been cast aside and sup
planted by general interest in the inn
provement of solf. Thousands OF doll
lars have been spent in the irnDrove-
ment of Kansas City courses in the
last year. --
The Topeka state journal., 1922-05-20

The best golf of the match was
played by DIR. w. X. Hobart, former
city champion, who brought in a-4035
for a IS. His 8 3 was one of the pret-
test nine holes of golf ever played
on the Country club course.
The Topeka state journal., 1922-05-20

led by one point. rs to "a. The tour
ney has brought out many good
rounds and has matched several close
plays.
George Snyder of the Country club
scooped up another state honor for
Topeka golfd ON Friday afternoon
when he won the Kansas golf cham
pionship of the bankers association at
Wichita. Mr.. Snyder won with card
holds the state editorial and bankers
cham pionships-
Three members of Topeka's famous
Santa Fe TraiP' fursome, w. w.
Strickland. ]. R. Kooptx and ]. NJ.
private course at Hutchinson this
week.
The first handicap list of the season
is issued today by Chairman Gavltt OF
the Country club. In other words
war has been declaredi
Gavitt does not claim that his initial
list is accurate. He bases it on the
few cards that have been turned in
and changes must be made thruout
the season.
a rule has been adopted whereby
a player will lose a. point for every
card less than five that he turns in
This will wipe out the custom of card
less games and will force golfers to
pay more attention to their spot
scores.
Chairman Thrill of the tournament
committee is planning many handicap
play events this season and only thru
cooperation with Chairman Gavitt of
the handicap committee can these
Journeys be played without complaint
and without unfair pairingS,
The handicaps are for match and
medal play. First score, match. and
second medal. The list folloWs:
The Topeka state journal., 1922-05-20

Topeka and Lawrence golfers tied
in the first team match of the season
al the Topeka Country club last Sun
day. Each team made twelve Points
Seventeen Lawrence players came to
Topeka for the first inter-city match
of the season. The success of the
trial event has proven to Topekans
that this means of meeting out of
town golfers is preferable to a golf
league" plan.
rrha Tam nnints fn1lnur.
The Topeka state journal., 1922-05-20

Theories on economic operation OF
golf clubs. recently advanced by Pres
ident Price Wickersham of the Kan
sas City Golf association. have been
put into actual practice by Nhe Kan
The Topeka state journal., 1922-05-20

Something new in golf attire was
witnessed on the Country club COURSE
the other day when a visiting knight
Templar was seen playing in full Ma
sonic dress, plume and all. He left
his sword with the caddymaster.
The Topeka state journal., 1922-05-20

The ringer score at the Country club
will not be started until the eighteen
holes are ready for play. Th--t means
no ringers until much later in the
season. The Old Nine will be torn
up soon and the New Nine will be
played only as nine holes for a short
period. These confusions make it i'm
possible to form an accurate ringer
score. The delay has been fatal to
many players who have made some
sensational as and 5's this spring
season.
The Topeka state journal., 1922-05-20

try club. On No. ? the other day his
drive was headed out of bounds when
il hit a tree and bounced behind the
No. sand box just off No. 2 green.
His second shot rolled under the sand
box. climbed thru a. sand pit, rolled
over the green and sank in the cup
for a birdie 2.
The Topeka state journal., 1922-05-20

The Presid dent-Secretary match at
Shawnee viii close tomorrow evening.
When the pairings started off this
afternoon President Eastman's team
The Topeka state journal., 1922-05-20

Here is one for "Bing Bang Bill
Biby-he can use it for domestic pur
poses when the occasion demands
The Topeka state journal., 1922-05-20

George Piper, Shawnee beginner, set
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 53r distance.
The Topeka state journal., 1922-05-20

led by one point. rs to "a. The tour
ney has brought out many good
rounds and has matched several close
plays.
The Topeka state journal., 1922-05-20

The board Of directors of the Coun-
try club has appointed a committee
for the purpose of considering the
plan of placing a locker room in tho
basement of the club house for the
women golfers. The increased inter-
est among the golferesses has neces-
STATED larger quarters and showers.
The women are demanding more ac-
The Topeka state journal., 1922-05-20

Harry Gavitt, chairman of the
handicap committee of the Country
club, is anxious for not less than five
cards from each player for the pur-
pose of establishing spots for the
1922 season. Handicap play will be 4
feature of all tournaments this sea-
son and in order to avoid confusion,
complaint and argument it is neces-
sary to have scores
The Topeka state journal., 1922-05-20

Now for the New Nine" New fair
ways. new green's, new natural prob
lens new shots. new approaches, new
slices and hooks-a new outlook on
the entire golf situation. And best
of all, new records to shoot at and no
holes into she setting sun.
The Topeka state journal., 1922-05-20

Several Topeka golfers viii play
Sunday at Fort Leavenworth in order
to get the feel of the scene of the
1922 state tournament in July. The
Leayenworth links are among the
prettiest and sportiest in the state
Oak trees and wooded rayines make
it a treacherous but wen laid out yard.
Among the players who will visit the
army course are Chick" Trout, Ilif
Felix, Frank Griggs, Tom Frest, Fred
Ackerman, Monte Kistler and Harlow
Hurley