The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-09-04

the handling of misdemeanors."
Especially can the automobile
rose high in the air from the tall grass
and landed on the green. The back
spin stopped the roll. 1t looked like
halved hole until Griggs sent his
approach close to the pin and holed
2 up.
No. is, long hole. was halved with
SIS. The pair shot together from
the tee to the last putt.
within two feet of the cup. Hurley
sink. Griggs did. Hurley / up.
Standing on No. IT tee it looked like
an extra hole match. Griggs stood
with a "A for SS. the second nine
| par. With a win and tie he could
send the 36-hole event to extra holes.
In the last seven holes they had
played Griggs had won five and
halved two.
Their drives were alike. 23o yards
down the fairway. Hurley's second
| yards. Griggs' second was short
about fifteen yards. Griggs' third was
| short OF the cup.
Then came the shot that won the
match.
Ten yards off the green and TWEEN
ty-five yards from the cup Hurley saw
his chance to lay close for an easy T.
Griggs still had long putt for his
par. Hurley Clipped his ball per-
| fectly. 1t carried straight and true
closer it approached, on a direct line.
| Nearing the hole it steadied down to
roll and reaching the pin it hest
| tated a fraction of a second and
/ dropped.
A birdie 8 and the 1922 champion
ship of the Country club!
Griggs waved his hands in a con-
gratulatory salute across the green
| He had staged a wonderful come
back-a fight that seemed hopeless
after his hard luck on No. 8 and 8
when the gate was opened to him.
1t was the prettiest 36-hole final
event in years in Topeka.
Four of the prettiest shots ever
made by a foursome at the Country
club CT the short No. 16 hole we.'e
registered Sunday afternoon when
/ Chick" Trout, Frank Griggs, Harlow
| Hurley and Tom Frost dropped their
mashies within a radius of ten feet
fcom the pin. Frank Griggs was IL
side with a two foot putt which he
sunk for birdie two. The other three
took as. Then the foursome stepped
to No. II tee and sent out 220-yard
drivesethat could have been shaded
with q cherry tree.
new fountain has been planted
in the shade of the trees near No. /
tee, No. tee and No. 6 green at the
Country club. 1t is the coolest spot
on the course-and the most welcome
location for a drinking fountain.
! Woe to the foursome that includes
President Strickland of the Country
club these days. He is stopped at all
points on the course by players who
have suggestions to make as to the
improvement of this and that.
| For the first time in four or five
weeks the Lincoln street drive to the
Country club was without a binding,
| choking dust Sunday. The rain Sat
urday night held down this feature of
| the disgraceful road-but it didn't i'm
prove the holes and ruts and broken
1 stone and general debility of this COM
| bination city-county highway.
Topeka's better golfers who keep
abreast with the latest in golf form
| are carrying much shorter clubs these
| days. In former years the average
golfer thought he must have a long
| whippy driver. Now the 42-inch
rather stiff shafted club is considered
best for accuracy and results in the
wooden shots.
Tom Frost who was on his vacation
and did not qualify for the Country
club championship took the heart
from the defeated brothers when he
| played in the finals yesterday. He
and Chick" Trout formed a four
some with Frank Griggs and Harlow
Hurley for the entire So holes of the
crown flight Sunday morning and
afternoon. And it was Tom Frost who
drew first blood of the battle when
he played his ball out of the hedge
on No Is and tore open the skin on
his right arm.
Unless he can qualify Tuesday Har-
low Hurley, Topeka's golfing star, will
not be able to enter the city champion
ship. Hurley has been under ply
he broke over with Is holes in the
Country club semifinals with Tiff
Felix Saturday and Sc holes in the
finals with Frank Griggs Sunday.
The Country club women's golf
forces were augmented today by the
return of Mrs. George H. Allen from
played regularly while away and in
dications are that she'll lose a few
strokes from her handicap upon her
entrance into the Topeka game.
The regular Tuesday Ladies' day
events for this week at the Country
club have been postponed until next
week. due to the Scotch mixed four
somes today. More than fifty women
players are in today's events-and it
is an 1s-hole tournament. The women
usually play only nine holes in hot
weather.
I The John Fleishman-Dr. Jimmy
Stewsrt-Dana Davis-Jack Kritser