Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 140, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 June 1916 — GOLFER HAS PRIVATE TUTOR [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

GOLFER HAS PRIVATE TUTOR

Topping Employs Noted Professional at $2,500 a Year to Teach Him Game. New York. —Henry J. Topping purposes to make a clean-up on the links this summer and to attain this end he has engaged Macdonald Smith, a noted golf professional, as his private tutor at a salary believed to be $2,500 a year. Mr. Topping won the Ardsley tournament, defeating some of the best golfers in this country. Mr. Topping, like many other golfers, has his careless spells. It was to cure these and to speed up his game* a little more that he recently hit on the idea of hiring a private tutor. He selected Macdonald Smith, a young star who won the Metropolitan championship at Scarsdale in 1914 in a new world’s record for 72 holes. Mr. Topping has for several years appeared well up in many of the lead-

ing golf meets. He first attracted attention from golfers when he defeated Chick Evans in a 19-hole match in the semifinal round for the North and South Championship at Pinehurst, N. C. In the spring of 1914 he accompanied Francis Ouimet, Jerry Travers, Chick Evans, Fred Herreshoff, Frasher Hale and Edward Knapp abroad for an invasion of the English links. Mr. Topping- lasted longer in the British amateur championship than Travers, Ouimet, Hale and Knapp. “Hen” Topping, as he is familiarly called, married Miss Rhea Reid, only daughter of Daniel G. Reid, the Wall street magnate. The elder Mr. Topping, also a golf enthusiast, presented the Greenwich Country club with $15,000 to remake the fifteenth, a hole in the course he didn’t like. Now the fifteenth is one of the best short holes in the country.

Henry J. Topping at the Finish of His Drive.