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Show STATE CHAMPION NOT IN IT Real Hero of the Links in This Community Com-munity Wss the Man Who Refused Re-fused to Plsy the Gsme. W had a chance to demonstrate our theory last fall, aays a writer In tbe Topeka Capital. It worked like a potato In a rheumatlc'a pocket. Through the Influence of the missus, who baa friends, we obtained a card to a very select country club In an eastern state, where we siayed ten days. The club had golfltl In Its most acute form. The men and women wom-en who frequented tbe club played golf, talked golf, ate golf and slept It. It waa the home of tbe state champion and the game waa the one Important topic of conversation. For a day or two we were lost In tbe atmosphere of golf which befogged befog-ged the place. Then we began to attract at-tract a little attention by Indicating In a delicate and polite way that the whole thing bored us to extinction. When we respectfully declined to engage en-gage in the game or borrow any of tbe Implements connected with the port there was great surprise. Our assertion that we did not play tbe game and did not wish to was received receiv-ed with amazement. Up to the time of our advent the state champion had been the colossal figure of the club At tbe end of three days we bad the state champion banging on to the ropes. At tbe end of a week his Istence had' been forgotten. As a curiosity he had been crowded out of place by tbe "eccentric" Kansan who aat around reading the reports of tbe world s championship games, deaf 14 golf and all of Its manifestations It Isn't always tbe hand that Is dealt you. It Is tbe wsy you plsy It. |