The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-05-13

err DR. West wrenched his back while
playing on the wet fairway last month.
The first tee at Junction City is To-
Gated within a few feet of the club
house veranda. Timid players find it
ton on their first drive and as a re
suit many shots are topped and
dubbed and missed.
one of the prettiest foursomes ever
playing on a Kansas courses was an
event at the Junction City invitation
affair this week. State Cha Upon
Graham of Mcpherson with Pro Bone
Pro Trout of the Topeka Country club
and Pro Creavey of Kansas City.
Bonebrake and Graham won 1 up and
the match was even up for low ball
at the end of the first nine holes. The
following card shows the game:
Graham .454-445- $3.50
4-555-334-37-75
Bonebrake 543-454-433-35
S42-546-424-34-69
Creavey 453-444-423-33
464-444-433-36-69
Trout ...443-544-354-34
464-5S4-435-3s-72
1t will be noted that Creavey made
low medal on nine holes with a 80.
the eighteen. Trout's first round was
a birdie but he hit trouble on the
second thru unfortunate bounces into
hazards.
Arthur Bonebrake. Topeka's "own,"
played on the Country club course
Tuesday. 1t was his last visit to the
old links-the yard in which he
learned the game and the course on
which he made records later. When
"Boney'' comes again the workmen
will have torn up the "Old Nine" for
the 1s-hole enlargement.
Pro "Chick'' Trout of the Country
club has new plan for a tourney
event. On the New, Nine" there are
seven holes where long midiron will
carry to the green This makes an
unusually advanta geous course for
players with iron inclinations. In or
der to develop the long midiron shot,
Pro Trout has planned, with Chair
man Thrill of the tournament COM
mittee. a zone Club Day" Players
will enter the tournament with only
one club. This means. of course. that
the midiron will be the favorite of the
ma jority. One or two zone Club days
will give the players the proper ac-
quaintance with the iron for the long
approaches on the New Nine"
A further test of steel shafted golf
clubs will be made next week by Off
GERS of the Western Golf association.
A previous trial of the clubs was I'M
and snow.
The United States Golf association
has barred the steel shafts. as was
done several years ago in Great Bri-
tain, but it is said that two members
of the United States Golf association
committee that made the adverse de-
cision were friendly to the clubs, hav-
ing used them. but being absent when
the ruling was made 1t is said that
if the present experiments in the west
find the clubs are all right. the United
States Golf association will reconsider
the subject.
The clubs are not a patented affair,
and there is more than on9 type in the
market. They are advocated by club
makers solely because of the scarcity
of good hickory and the durability of
the elasticity of the shaft. One argu-
ment that has been made against them
is that the professionals will no longer
one OF the large club parts manufac-
turers declares that professionals Will
be able to shaft clubs with steel.
A number OF professionals and anna
tours have been playing with steel
shafts of late out of curiosity and they !
new clubs. Some of them find the
clubs heavy while others think there
is a softer touch to a wooded shafted /
club. None Of the experiments have
discovered any advantage in the steel
over wood, the users having declared |
that they would not play with the |
steel shaft from choice.
Conference golf among the colleges |
in the east is-sweeping the campuses
this spring. AItho golf is not the most
sensational game from the standpoint ]
of the spectator, it is developing in
tense rivalry. It is also warming up