The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-04-15

direction from east and west to north
and south. Under the present ar
rangemenr- No. at the Country club
is the only hole were the short swing
boys can boast of their 2OO-yarders
when the wind is in the south. At
Shawnee the south wind clears hills
raises particular youknow on Nos
I, and z.
WOMEN's DRIVING.
Chicago. April 15.-The tremendous
driving ability of Miss Glenna Collect.
of Providence, on the golf links as
| compared 10 the average woman
golfer has started a discussion among
| golf experts as to why women cannot
drive as far as men.
The forum also mulled the reason
why the best female golfer could not
J score as low as the male champions.
\ Some of the ruminators held that the
| difference was anatomical, others that
\ 1t was muscular, while still others
declared the whole difference was
mental.
The ANTAGONISTS commended that such
long drivers as Miss Collett, who can
/ hit the ball $50 yards or more as COM
pared to $40 by Jesse Guilford. ma
| tional amateur champion, Miss Marion
! Holm. national woman titleholder.
and Miss Alexa Stirling, former cham
pion, were just as strong muscularly
as Harrison Johnston, of St Paul,
who can average 500 yards. or Robert
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| Guilford in the finals last summer of
the championship. The difference,
they maintained, lay in the bone and
joint structures. They cited authori-
ties to the effect that a woman's
sternum and shoulder joints are so
constructed as to prevent freedom and
strength combined, SO important to
lusty wallop with a brassie. They
quoted again that the pelvis was SINH.
larry incapable of the strong pivoting,
or body twist, which a man is capa-
BILE of.
They also pointed to the straight
hips of such experts as James Barnes,
national open champion; Jock Hutchi-
son, British open champion, and VIII
lie Hunter. British amateur titIehold-
err, and others as proof that the
straight lines of a man were most
fitted for long driving than the modu-
lated structure of woman.
Partisans OF Drawn empirica1ly said
that mans muscular tissue was
stronger than woman's by nature and
that the skeletal formation had moth
ing to do with il.
The psychologists based their argu
ments more on the scores of the two
sexes as long driving does not neces-
sarily spell victory in golf. They held
that woman with ages of orious life
behind her had never acquired the
leonine courage instilled in man as
the protector of the home, and that
without this courageous determination
to play boldly and firmly under diff
ficulties women could not equal mans
par on golf links.
The golf bugs dissembled when this
minority was dubbed gynephobes by
the others who said the shortness of
the score feminine naturally resulted |
from the lack of distance both with |
wood and iron.
Topeka golfdom has been Felixed |
and Griggsed and Hurleyed until there |
is general feeling among the play |
ers that these Three Musketeers must |
be depended upon to stand the city 3 !
defense against all corners. 1t is a /
mistake. Felix, Griggs and Hurley |
have battled a good many years for |
the honor of the game in the capital |
cfty-and they have done well. It is |
time that someone step in the trio s /
shoes. And it must be the young |
blood. In Chicago this season the city |
has started a campaign to develop |
successors to Chick Evans and Bob /
Gardner. Chick and Bob are behind /
the move They realize that there is
limit to their game. They realize that /
the only hope is in the youth of the /
links. Topeka this season must en-
courage the youngsters. It has been
quite a while since a state champion
ship was awarded here-and the
awards of the future are going to the
younger players. With all due respect
to Felix-Griggs-H urley. of course but
there is a demand for the rah-rahs.
Inc Famous bungalow just OH from
No. I tee at the Country club will be
moved soon to a point west of the new
locker house. This bungalow is sum-
mer headquarters for the vacation
widowers of the club who prefer the
Dudley yard to the lakes and noun
tains. It is planned to move the
house and not disturb a stone in the
massive fireplace.
TRICKS IN GOLF.
ChicarO- ADriI 15-There are tricks
in all trades. but in golf at least the
tricks do not spell supremacy as eX-
empliffed by the trick shot golfer, Joe
Australian open champion,
now touring America with the inten-
ton of trying for the open title at
this summer.
kirkwood can perform seemingly
impossible tricks with a golf ball and
a putter, mashie or driver, but, while
he plays a splendid game, he has no
been able to equal any of the leading
Yankee golfers. He does not drive
as far as Bob Gardner. approach or
putt as well as a dozen American
players
He can drop a half dozen balls in
a straight line and with a mashie
pitch the farthest one into the hole
precisely and thus continue down the
line until all disappear within the 4
inch can, but when he plays regular
round OF golf he puts not better than
many other good players and picks
up no strokes by reason of his wiz
ardry.
.Kirkwood can putt his ball against
and from the lip of the cup driving
the near ball away and boiling his
arm but this could not be- done In
The difference seems tC
be that Kirkwood performs his stunts
at calculated distances, SO that Ions
practice and q delicate touch make
he work exact, while in a regular
round the ball must be played from