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The Day of the Deep- Faced Iron By P. A. VA1LE

Are You Doing Your Bit? By H. B. MARTIN .

Henry C. Frick, Golfer Gil. Nicholls, Gftlfer

Is Ouimet Through?

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PAGE Frontispiece—Henry C. Prick at Play ..... 200

The Day of the Deep-Faced Iron—By P. A. Vaik. Illustra- tions from Diagrams ...... 201 Gil. Nicholls, Golfer. Illustrations from Photograph , . 205 What Produces Bad Form 207 Gallery of Banker. Golfers. Illustrations from Photographs of Investment Bankers Taken During the Recent Meet' at White Sulphur Springs ...... 213 A Psalm of Golf—Poem 218 The Mechanics of a Useful Golf Shot, the Wind-Cheater—By Our Own Expert, Illustrations from Diagrams . .219

Henry C. Friek, Golfer 220

Are You Doing Your Bit?—By H. B, Martin. Illustrations from Drawings by the Author . . . . . 222

Is Ouimet Through?—By W. W. Young .... 227

The Woman of It 280

Through the Green 232

Editorials: "The Ouimet Outrage" — "Balfour and Lloyd

George Lack Follow-Through" ..... 285

Periseopie Peeps ...... 2-1.1

Golfers' Calendar 254

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By P. A. VAILE Author of "Modern Golf," ate.

WONDER if more than three golf- got so bad at these that he positively I ers in a hundred have taken the "funked" them. He was more afraid trouble to think about the construction of a two-foot putt than of a twenty- of their clnbs. I doubt it, but I feel footer, and nobody, least of all Vardon sure that they will do so, now the dan- himself, knew the reason. A very sim- ger of the shallow-faced club has been ple diagram will show why Vardon recognized. failed on so many ridiculously easy The fact is that human skill is not putts. Here is the solution: great enough to enable any one success- In Figure No. II, the ball is shown fully to use the shallow-faced irons, cocked up on the grass. The shallow Even Harry Vardon cannot do it. Pie putter has, in its downward stroke, tried it and failed. Vardon, some years which is usually characteristic of the ago, took to a shallow-faced putter. It stabbed putt, gone a little into the turf. ruined his game on the green for years. The result is that the top edge of the It was pointed out to him in this Maga- putter, instead of the face, makes con- zine that so long as he. continued to use tact with the ball. It need hardly be this putter, that was shaped as shown explained that this cannot make for ac- in Figure No. I, he would fail on curacy, especially if the ball happen to the green, particularly if he continued be a "pimply" or "brambly" of the al- to stab the ball as he did. most obsolete kind, Vardon gave up the shallow-faced I have seen Vardon again and again, putter and stopped stabbing. Soon aft- when he was within a foot or two of erwards he won his sixth open cham- the hole fail simply for these reasons: pionship, and said that he was trying to putt with the top edge his work on the green was splendid. of the shallow-faced guitar and hitting When Vardon was using the shallow- the ball beneath the center of its mass. faced putter it was, at times, ridiculous This naturally resulted in Ms start- to see him missing two-foot putts. He ing the ball with a jump, instead of Copyrighted, 1896, by GOLF, INCORPORATED, All Rights Reserved. 202 THE DAY OF THE DEEP-FACED IRON

rolling it as he should have done. It unsound mechanical methods and imple- also means that his inaccuracy was ments. It was fatal even to such a greater relatively in the very short great stroke player as Vardon. Is it not manifest, then, that poor, ordinary mortals cannot afford to take risks of F/GI this kind when the super-golfer finds himself unable to contend with them. In order to get back to his oldtime form and win his sixth open championship, putts than in his approach putts. The Harry Vardon gave up the shallow- reason for this was that in longer putts faced putter, that was less than one- the strength of the stroke would hold half the diameter of the ball, and re- the ball to its course against the irreg- turned to his old upright-faced metal ularity of. the green and the untruencss of the contact between the edge of the putter and the excrescences of the ball; but near the hole Vardon had to putt gentty. It followed then that there was F/GM a much greater chance of the limply or brambly marking making itself felt, for there was very little strength in the putter as shown in Figure No. Ill, side stroke and every irregularity of the view, and Figure No. IV, front view. green and of the ball's surface would be This putter has practically no loft. It is much more apparent. about as deep in the face as the diame- An illustration from another game ter of the ball; and during this match it will make this clearer still. A racket was rusty. Francis Ouimet says Vardon's work on and about the green was a splendid performance, and it is on his account of Vardon's win that I am making these statements. Vardon had to give up the shallow-faced putter for the old deep- faced club. Now, if in the putt, the easiest of all strokes, Vardon could not was introduced that had the strings successfully contend with the knotted at each crossing point. It was of the shallow-faced club, what earthly claimed that this enabled the player to get a fine grip on the ball. So it did in the hard, strong strokes; but -it was found that in the short, delicate volleys near the net the knots quite spoiled one's accuracy of direction. This is in exact analogy with the approach putt and the short putt. The nearer one is chance has the ordinary player to do so to the hole and the more delicate the in the other clubs, where the margin of shot, the greater is the danger of using error is much less than in the putt. fe. THE BAY OF THE DEEP-FACED IRON 203

Vardou is known to be. a wizard with what happens in about nineteen of the eleek. His push-stroke is famous. twenty cleek shots, as one may often Not one player in a hundred, has any see by the mark of the ball on the club idea of playing the push-stroke with the as in Figure No. V. That is why the cleek. Almost any player, who speaks cleek has gone out of favor so suddenly of using the cleek will say that he wants and so completely in America. it shallow in the face "in order to get Here again we have the experience of Harry Vardon to guide us. Pie gave up the ordinary cleeh long ago as the medium for the production of his fam- ous push-stroke. He found, that to do himself justice, he had to have a club with a deeper face. Not only has it a deeper face, but it the ball up." It is, in scientific golf, has greater loft and a more upright lie, the. loft of the club and the allocation so that we may be pardoned if we say of weight that "gets the ball up." It is that it can hardly be called a cleek. not necessary for the club to have a Perhaps it would be more correct to call narrow face in order to get the ball up. it his pusher, for that, really, is what The loft and the distribution of the it amounts to. weight are the prime factors. Here is Vardon found that in the ordinary a piece of news for most golfers. One cleek there was not room on the face may have three eleeks similar, so far for the ball to get the run or roll that as regards lie, loft, weight and shaft is necessary to produce the back-spin and may play one's shot in exactly the. that is the prominent and beneficial same manner with each of the three and characteristic of the push-stroke, so he yet get three entirely different results was forced to adopt an iron with a merely from the distribution of weight deeper face. on the back of the blade. So it is with Is it any wonder that ordinary golf- .any club that has to pick up the ball. ers, who try to play the push-stroke It is the loft and the allocation of the with an ordinary shallow-faced cleek, weight. If a cleek will get the ball up, cannot get very good results when the the fact of its having a quarter of an inch or more of extra depth on its face would not prejudicially affect the shot, provided it was properly played and that the weight was correctly appor- tioned in the blade. F/GW Figure No. VI shows, slightly exaggerated, what very often hap- pens in cleek shots. The. ball is greatest of stroke players has to use a taken high u]), for the cleek goes more sensible club? into the turf a little and, being shallow- Now, it ought to be very evident to faced, gets in under the ball, so that it anybody with very slight power of rea*- overlaps the top edge of the club. This soning, that it is quite useless for ordi- is not conducive to accuracy, but it is nary players to try to make golf more 204 THE DAY OF THE DEEP-FACED IRON difficult for themselves than Vardon who are exceedingly handicapped by does for himself. Vurdon has shown them, without realizing it. them conclusively that for his master- The lime has come for club-makers stroke he must have a deep-faced iron, to put a little brainwork into the iron and, quite apart from this fact, the in- clubs, to cut away from the useless tra- telligent American golfer has quietly ditions of the mild Scotch cleek-makers, been coming to the same conclusion him- and to give their patrons something self, so that now it is no exaggeration to say that the day of the deep-faced iron is on the land, and the greatest de- velopment in all the iron clubs will be the abandonment of the silly, shal- low-faced, fan-shaped irons that have, been the bane of so many players' lives and ver}' soon we shall have the general adoption of a saner model, they can understand and use, something approximating more to the contour of that will assist them to play golf, in- the face of the driver and the putter, in stead of a thing that fights against them short, to parallel lines for the top of all the time: in short, to put into their the club and the sole as shown in hands a friend on whom they can rely Figure No. VII. in time of need, instead of a mere ac- There is no good reason for the "stra- quaintance, whose personality is always bismic" things that are now used as iron distasteful to them, and with whom they clubs by the vast majority of golfers can never feel "at home." Copyright by Underwood & Underwood, N. Y, "Fighting" face of Gil. Nicholls, the noted professional, at the Golfing and Country Club of Great Neck, Long* Island.

GIL. NICHOLLS, GOLFER His Remarkable llecord of the Past Winter Makes Him a Favorite in the Coming Open Championship—Others Who Will Hear Watching

T a recent dinner of the Profes- ment staged by the New York News- sional Golfers' Association Gil- paper Golf Club, but as the Van Cort- berAt Nicholls was toasted as being the landt course is not of championship favorite to win length—being about 500 yards short of at Brae Hum this summer, if war con- the required 0,000 yards—this record ditions do not necessitate the post- could hardly stand. ponement of that event. The rea- Nicholls not only covered himself son for tin's was the compliment that with glory by this one performance, but several speakers paid the Great Neck also by winning five out of eight tour- professional on iiis remarkable per- naments in the Southland during the formance at Asheville, N. ('., where he winter, thus setting a mark that will be played 72 holes in 277 strokes, beating hard to beat. by one stroke the record made for this It was some time before Nicholls hit distance at the Searsdale course in the his stride. Three events, including the Metropolitan championship tournament important Belleair tournament, slipped in 19IK away before he settled down to a steady It is true, that this record was beaten game. His first victory was at St. Au- by a stroke at Van Cortlandt Park by gustine, where he beat James Barnes last July in the tourna- by a single stroke. The next event was 206 GIL. NICHOLLS, GOLFER at- Jacksonville and Hagen was again ing home the last third of the way in 18 the whipper-in. This time the margin strokes, but at the same course Francis was two strokes. Coming back north Onijnet once covered the same part of the circuit players stopped for a day at the journey in 17 strokes in a match Camden and Nicholls won again. against John Anderson in the Mass- Asheville was the scene of his great- achusetts state championship. est triumph. There he made the re- At Wollaston, in that memorable markable score of 277 for the four match with Mr. Anderson, Mr. Ouimet rounds and led his nearest rival by 18 went down in 2 at the thirteenth and strokes. The others had simply played had all 3's from that point to the end ordinary golf, but Nicholls' golf was of the round. Brady himself on Sep- uncanny. Next came the North and tember 10, 1913, did the last six at South championship at Pinehurst, and Wollaston in 18 strokes, and the last the best the Great Neck pro could do nine in 29 strokes in making a record was to finish third, but he came to life round of 64. His figures the last nine again at Columbia, where he led the holes were 3, 4, 4, 3, 4, 2, 3, 3, 3. In field by a safe margin. This was really his remarkable scoring feat at Pine- five out of the last six tournaments hurst, getting his record round of 67, played. he had much longer distances to nego- There is a saying among the pros tiate than at Wollaston, as shown by that when Nicholls starts on one of these statistics: these rampages it is impossible to beat him. Somehow the further he goes Mole. Distance. Brady. along the route the better he becomes. 13 830 3 It is the brand of golf that he is play- 1-1 432 3 15 212 "2 ing now that has led his friends to pick Hi 424 3 him for a "winner in the open at Brae 17 106 2 Burn. IS 402 S He was not content with winning five tournaments, for in addition the records The trouble with Brady at the home of nine courses fell to his lot in the hole was that he was trapped on one South. Pie was pressed closely for hon- shot, then overapproached. He did his ors by Mike Brady, however. Brady best to get down a long putt for 4, corralled the only two championship which would have, given him seventeen events — the tournaments at Belleair strokes for the last six holes, but he and the North and South open at Pine- just missed. His 74 the second round hurst. at Pinehurst was a slump compared Brady made the last six holes of the with his 67 in the morning. morning round at Pinehurst in 18 Nicholls will bear watching this year, strokes. This gave him a- 67 for the and so will Brady. But what about round and by its aid he established such the chances of Walter Hagen, Jim a lead on the other j)layci's that he was Barnes, Jock Hutchinson and Bob Mc- hard to catch, although he did play Donald, to say nothing of a couple of rather poorly on the second round. He good amateurs ? once equalled this at Wollaston by com- H. B. MARTIN. WHAT PRODUCES BAD FORM Because there is so much sound and practical golf doctrine in ii, roe arc pleased by the opportunity to reprint for the benefit of our renders, xvomcn readers especially, the following chapter on "What Produces Bad Form," from "Golf'Golf forfa Women/' published hy Maffat, Yard $ Company, New York.-— EDITOR.

T is the ambition of every one to play It is to gain this certainty that the in good form. Some thoughtless player analyzes her every action and personI s make an idol of this, and bend practices diligently that method of play all their energies toward attaining the that she believes to be right. When she appearance of playing correct style has formed the habit of managing her- without serious consideration of the fact self and her club in the manner that is that the appear/nice of anything is, after most nearly sure of producing the shot all, only the husk. she desires, she will have attained the Strange as it may seem, it is quite pos- only real "good fevrm." Good form is sible for a player to go through all the of value when gained incidentally as the requisite, motions of the strokes in golf result of well executed strokes, but, if in a manner that is apparently faultless, striven for ns the. end in itself, it profits and yet to lack that final something that the player nothing. would make her a good player. In vul- "Bad form" is the result of strokes gar parlance, this final something would executed wrongly as to grip, stance, be called "punch." In the language of swing, or action of the body. It may golf, the term that most nearly ex- not be apparent to the eye that the presses it is "correct timing." player is doing something that she Throughout the physical action of should not, but if her shots fail in their turning the body and swinging the club desired result, it is certain that she is there must he an unfaltering determina- somehow wrong and the cause of her tion to hit the ball that will make every mistake must be found and rectified be- movement focus on that one final act. fore she can regain any confidence in Without this concentrated mental effort her game. a form that appears perfect must fail. Notwithstanding long mid patient It is necessary, then, that a player effort thoroughly to ground herself in should avoid striving for the appearance the rudiments of golf, it is quite pos- of good form, and should make every sible for a player suddenly to go "off effort to cultivate that mental habit that her game" for some apparently unac- directs all her energies to the culminat- countable reason. She may be n begin- ing instant of the stroke—the instant ner or she may be an experienced and that the club hits the ball. It makes no seasoned player, but nevertheless she i.s difference what she does before or after likely at any time to hi! the subject of the ball is hit, if she gets the results. one. of these discouraging attacks, It But—and this is a very large and im- may be in the use of her wooden clubs portant "but"—it is not at all likely that she suddenly develops strange pe- that she will consistently get good re- culiarities, or it may be that her irons sults unless she learns to manage her refuse, to act regularly, or .she may do club before and after the moment of the well enough through the fairway but impact in the way that she knows, both miss putt after putt when she reaches from study and from practical experi- the green. Whatever form her difficul- ence, is most certain to send her ball the ties take, she will probably feel com- distance and direction that she desires pletely disheartened until she has man- it to go. aged to set herself right again. 208 WHAT PRODUCES BAB FORM

The process of finding where the with great ease and style; she may be trouble lies is not an easy one. Fre- able to do it all—except that she cannot quently a player is absolutely unable to make a clean shot. This is a most dis- perceive that she is doing anything couraging state in which to find oneself, unusual and yet her shots persistently but, when once in it, the only course to go wrong. In such a case it saves time follow is to forget everything and to go and temper to engage a professional back to the first principle, and keep teacher to watch each shot and leave it one's whole attention absolutely fixed on to him to discover and to correct the the ball. fault. When it is impossible to call in Sometimes the player finds herself in assistance, the player must examine her a sort of mental mane on the subject of method of play carefully and in detail, driving; the more she tries to get out of and try to find for herself the root of her difficulties the more entangled she the evil. becomes in all kinds of unexpected It is surprising, but true, that very faults, and things go from bad to worse. often she will find that she is not keep- When she finds herself in such a state ing her eye on the ball. This is the first of mind she may as well give up at once rule of golf and is dinned.into the play- and practice putting and short approach er's ear at all times, until from frequent shots for a while. After she has given repetition the words lose effect and are her mind a complete rest from the sub- unconsciously disregarded. A person ject of driving she can return to the tec who is told that she is not keeping her and will probably find that her difficul- eye fixed on the ball is often resentful ties have fallen away and that she is of the criticism; she feels that, no quite all right again. If, however, she matter what else she knows or docs not has developed some fault that appears . know about the game, she should not be elusive, she must strictly apply herself accused of neglecting this perfectly ob- to discovering what it is and to correct- vious duty. If she is honest with her- ing it. It may be her grip that is self, however, she will, in many cases, wrong and, if she suspects this may be have to admit upon second thought that the case, she should look at her hands although she may not be allowing her carefully and make sure. Whether she gaze to wander entirely away from the is using the overlapping grip or not, her ball she is at least not looking at it with hands should be so placed on the club the concentration of mind that she that the shaft of the club is resting at should. Sometimes the player suddenly the base of her fingers and the knuckles realizes that she has been looking at the of both hands should be facing in oppo- top of the ball, or at the ball as a whole, site directions along the line of flight. instead of that portion that she expects If she has allowed the club to drop back to hit. into the palms of her hands, or if her knuckles are facing skyward or ground- A stranger to the game of golf will ward, she can easily see the fault and sometimes take a club and make a good, correct it. clean shot with no trouble at all. She is said to have "beginner's luck," but as a It may be that her stance is wrong matter of fact there is no luck in it. and that she has unconsciously fallen The reason for her success is that, she into the habit of arranging her feet in is given a club and told to hit the ball some way, either in relation to each and that that is all she has in her mind; other or in relation to the ball, that is her whole effort is directed toward different from the position that she had striking the ball, which she promptly previously adopted as the correct one does. Later, when she has been in- for her. Possibly she is throwing the structed in all the details of the art of greater part of her weight upon one driving, she may be able to make the foot or the other and thus putting her- swing in the most graceful and ap- self out of proper balance. Again, her proved fashion, she may twist her body, grip and stance may be perfectly cor- rest on her toes, and follow-through rect, but she may be swaying to the WHAT PRODUCES BAD FORM 209 right as she draws the club back fvom way the fault lies in the club and she the ball. should get a new one. This is one of the most common of As the club is carried back from the faults and it is very difficult to overcome ball there must be no suggestion of a once it has become fastened on a player. straight-arm motion. When the club is The easiest suggestion for correcting an at the top of the swing it has turned up- error is for the teacher to say "Don't do side down, its heel is toward the sky, it," but such a simple and obvious sug- and its toe is pointing to the ground, its gestion is not especially helpful. The face being toward the line of flight. player may answer, "How can I prevent It is n common mistake, to he afraid of doing it?" and unless the coach has beginning this turning movement too some further advice to offer, the player soon. The player having it firmly fixed will not be particularly benefited by his in her mind that the club roust meet the services. Although it is a bad plan to ball squarely, unconsciously tries to correct one fault by substituting an- cany the club back as far as possible other, in" this case it seems necessary. with its face toward the ball. This is When the player sways to the right her unnecessary and leads to various compli- weight will at the same time be trans- cations. The turning of the wrists and ferred to her right leg. If, therefore, forearms should begin, almost immedi- she will take her stance with her weight ately after the club leaves the ball, and a little more on the left foot than on the bending of the left knee should fol- the right, and see to it that she does not low closely. In other words, the whole allow it to shift, it will he impossible action of winding up the body should for her to sway her hody sideways. begin soon; it should not be delayed until the lifting of the arms pulls the When she feels confident that she is body around. able to keep her body and her head steady, she can forget about keeping licr If the player feels convinced that she weight on her left foot and resume her has started the upswing correctly, she play with her weight evenly distributed may find that she, has made some mis- as it should be. take on the way that will bring her out Beginners are inclined, when ad- of position when she renches the top. dressing the ball, to hold the arms too It is advisable, for her to ascertain if stiffly and the hands too high. On being this is true by pausing when she reaches corrected for this fault they often go to the top of her swing and observing care- the other extreme and drop the hands fully how the various portions of her too low. There is a happy medium that body are disposed. The faults that she must be adopted from the. start and, is most likely to find are that her left once the habit is formed, the player is wrist is curved out from the shaft of the. not apt to break away from it, unless club instead of being below it, that her she conceives the idea that she can cor- right elbow is pointing out too much in- rect some other fault by changing the stead of lying fairly close to her side, position of her arms and hands. or that she allowed the club-head to It is not easy to describe accurately drop below the point where it must stop the attitude that should be. assumed in order to have the, shaft of the club while addressing the ball. One can sim- parallel to the ground. ply say, "Avoid extremes." The knees It is very possible that her hands and should be flexed, the arms bent a little arms arc in correct position but that her at the elbow, and the hands held so that weight is decidedly oil her right leg. they appear neither to be reaching out Perhaps she has allowed her left foot nor to be. so close to the hody that the to turn around so that her heel is point- arms will be cramped while they arc ing out toward the hole. This turning swinging the club. It is necessary, of out of the left heel is a very common course, that the club be soled truly, and error, and I believe it arises partly from if in doing this the player finds that her the use of the word "pivoting," to des- hands must be held awkwardly in some ignate , the movement of the player's 210 WHAT PRODUCES BAD FORM feet. When a beginner hears about and patient when she is suffering from pivoting on the left foot she naturally a temporary relapse. forms a mental picture of the foot Too much emphasis cannot be laid screwing around. She will think this upon the fact that, from the top of the and consequently will turn her heel out- swing, it is imperative for the body to ward, unless someone explains to her take the lead. In order to get real that she must simply raise her heel and power into a .stroke it is necessary to allow her weight to fall across the ball draw immediately upon the strength of of the foot. the body. A blow struck by the arms There is another fault in driving that alone is comparatively feeble. To have is common to beginners, but not often real effect a blow struck by the arms found among experienced players, and must be backed by the weight of the that is topping the ball. This is caused body, or by the strength of the muscles usually by lifting the head or the body, of the torso. On account of the fact but it may also be caused by swaying that, in order to retain accuracy, it is the body to the right as the club is car- impossible in the golf drive to allow ried back and not swaying it forward the body to plunge forward toward the again as the club comes down. It will ball, the required power must come from be seen, then, that the whole plane of those muscles of the torso that are the club's swing is moved to the right brought into use as the body turns. so that, when the club-head reaches the Any one can see the evil results of lowest point in its arc, it is not at the the extreme fault of allowing the hands ball but some distance behind it. As to come through first and no one could the club-head meets the ball it is on the possibly advocate cultivating that error. rise and consequently the ball gets away Whether the downward swing is started with a certain amount of top spin that by the arms or by the body, however, is causes it to duck to earth immediately. impossible to ascertain by the eye. One Swaying of the body sideways, or can judge only by the amount of force forward and backward, or lifting it, or the player has summoned, as shown by swooping down on the ball are respons- the ball's flight, whether or not she has ible for all manner of erratic shots. effectively gotten her body into the Sometimes the player combines two or blow. There has always been a great three of these motions in various degrees deal of discussion and disagreement on with the result that the club hits the this point among players, and the rapid- ground before it reaches the ball, hits ity with which the whole action of arms the. top of the ball and then the ground, and body takes place has prevented meets the ball with the toe or the heel, positive proof of what the best drivers or makes any one of several other disas- really do. Recently, however, there trous forms of contact. These arc igno- have been a number of cinematograph minious enough, but the most distressing pictures taken of champion players fault of all is when the club simply fans making a full shot with either an iron the air and leaves the hall untouched. or wooden club, mid from n careful The remedy for this class of faults study of a series of these, photographs lies in cultivating the habit of keeping it is possible to see. exactly where the the eye on the back of the ball and hold- player starts the downward swing. ing the head stead}^. It is not easy to The consideration of such a fine point do and, even after a player has appar- as this should not concern the beginner. ently mastered the art of making all her It is only when a player has become so body movement that of twisting, she is proficient that her game requires only apt to fall back into some of her former the finishing touches that she can afford bad habits. However, golf would not be to indulge in trying for the last factors the fascinating game that it is if it were of perfection. A beginner, on being told possible to attain perfection, so the to start the downward swing from the player must,never he discouraged, but body, would surely lunge forward or be pleased when she is making progress swoop down on the ball. The dividing WHAT PRODUCES BAD FORM 211 line, between, starting the stroke with iron through the fairway. The cleek, the arms or with the body is so fine that as I have said before, is a most valuable only an experienced player can con- club, but on account of its uncompro- sciously command either the one or the mising nature is not so generally pop- other method without sacrificing en- ular, especially among women golfers, tirely the harmony of her stroke. It is as the mid-iron. The mid-iron is a com- well, however, even for a beginner to fortable companion, and seldom fails to understand the ultimate end that she is accomplish what is expected of it. Of striving for even if she is not as yet pre- course it happens sometimes that a pared to put her knowledge into player will go completely wrong on her execution. iron shots, but, on the whole, the iron is To attain that perfect concert of the the most reliable club in the bag. various portions of her body that alone The mashie, on the other hand, is the will result in a player having a smooth source of a great deal of trouble. This and rhythmic swing is indeed difficult. is partly owing to the fact that a To be able to apply force in the way in mashie is used generally in situations which it is required demands an even where accuracy is required. A few balance in the use of the. arms that is yards here or there, so long as the ball difficult to adjust. In spite of what has good direction, docs not generally anyone, may say about favoring the left make a great deal of difference in a arm or the right, no thoughtful person drive or brassie shot, but when the can seriously believe that the best re- mashie is used, especially in approach sults can be obtained in any way except shots, the difference of a few feet, or that of using both arms equally. This sometimes a few inches, will mean suc- question of the mastery of the right arm cess or failure. or the left arm has been discussed in a After the freedom of the full swing previous chapter, but it is of such im- of the wooden clubs or the slightly re- portance that a little repetition on the stricted swing of the cleek or iron, the subject may well be allowed. To the player is inclined to feel cramped and query, "Which arm or hand should con- stiff when she takes her position for a trol the club?" the answer must be, mashie shot. A half, or at most a three- "Both." Admonitions such as are fre- quarter swing, is all that should ever be quently heard, to the effect that the used for this club. If greater length is right arm and hand supply the power required than can be obtained by a de- while the left acts as guide, or vice cidedly curtailed stroke it is practically •versa, are .entirely impractical, and if certain that some other club should be followed would lend to an uncertain employed. No advantage, can be ob- and ineffectual style of play. This is tained by forcing a mashie shot, nor, for especially true in the ease of women that matter, should any other club be players because they particularly need pushed beyond its natural limitations. the united strength of both arms as well as the smoothness of swing that can be It should be kept in mind that very obtained only by the combined effort of little body motion is needed, and that the right and the left. the shot is accomplished chiefly by the arms and wrists. This recommendation The driver and the brassie are so is a dangerous one to make because, if nearly alike that the rules that govern followed too closely, it .may result in a the use of the one arc, with few slight stiffness that is very undesirable. It is changes, applicable to the other. It fol- impossible to describe exactly how much lows, therefore, that the faults that a or how little the body is used; the player may develop in using her driver player must work out the problem for are almost sure to be repeated in mak- herself. There are certain pitfalls, ing her brassie shots. Frequently a however, thai; must be guarded against player who finds herself "off on her and a brief consideration of them will wooden clubs" will abandon her brassie be of some service. for a while and use her deck or mid- The left shoulder must not be dropped, 212 WHAT PRODUCES BAD FORM

but must swing around parallel to sary that the lower edge of the club's the ground as the arms are drawn back. face should cut between the ball and the The right shoulder as the club is on its ground. To insure "getting under" the downward journey must not be lowered ball sufficiently the eye should be fixed, or the club-head will doubtless dig into not on the ball, but on the ground im- the turf. This inclination, common to mediately behind the ball. The most all beginners, to scoop up the ball, is concentrated attention is necessary, as the cause of a great many bungled the slightest wavering of eye or of mind shots. It is only by the strongest efforb will upset the nicest calculations. of will that a player can train herself I have, I believe, mentioned the to allow the club to do the work without points on which the golfer is most apt ' an assisting downward swoop of the to fail when using a mashie, and a great right side of the body. If the right heel deal of what I have said applies equally is kept flat on the ground, it will help to well when a niblick is the club in band. curb the natural inclination to drop the The getting out of bunkers, sand traps, right shoulder and bend the right knee or any extremely difficult lie tests the unduly. skill and often the ingenuity of the The stance for a masbie shot should player. Most remarkable stances have vary with the distance to be covered. to be adopted occasionally, and the The general rule is that the shorter th player has to make up her mind to do distance the more open the stance. The the best she can in a bad situation. If club should be drawn back, for a she has thoroughly mastered the under- straight shot along the line of flight and lying principles of the use of each club should follow out after the ball. Fre- and will maintain an unruffled spirit, quently players commit the fault of she will make a creditable shot, no bringing the club around to the left matter how great are the difficulties, after the ball has been hit, which is a It is the combination of knowledge, mistake carefully to be avoided. Dur- practice, determination and good, tem- ing the upward swing the right elbow per that makes the good golfer. As a must be kept fairly close to the side corollary to these, there arrives a cer- and; as the stroke is finished, the left tain sense that might be called the elbow should be pointing toward the "sixth sense" of the game of golf. This hole. In making a cut mashie shot the is more than a sense of direction or of club-head crosses the intended line of distance-—it is a sense of place. flight as in the sliced drive. Some in- 1 As an expert marksman can hit his structors suggest that while making tin. , target without talcing aim along the shot the toe of the club be laid out so as sights of liis rifle or, revolver, so an ex- to counteract a possible tendency of the pert golfer can lay his or her ball in the ball to go to the left, but such advice place selected by the exercise of a cer- should be regarded warily. If the face tain faculty that is acquired only after of the club meets the ball in any way long experience. Tin's faculty is the except at right angles to the line of final and indefinable attribute of the flight, inaccuracy of direction is almost greatest experts and comes, like "good sure to follow. form," not from conscious effort but as As the object to be attained in mak- the result of the blending together of ing pitch-shots is that the ball should all things that go to make the finished rise suddenly into the air, it is neces- golfer. Gallery of Banker Golfers

Snap-Shots Made During the Invest- ment Bankers' Meet at White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia, This Month Copyright by I' nderwood &• Underwood, N. Y.

CHARLES L. STACY of Toledo Ohio. RICHARD I,. MOIIHIH of New Yuri Copyright by Untlcncond (r Vnderwood, N. Y. WILLIAM (i. LEHCHEN of Detroit, II. 1*. WHMIIIT HI Kansas City, Michigan. Missouri, I AWRENCE C'lIAMUKKLAIN ill' New York (Top).

WILLIAM R. COMPTON of St. Louis (Bottom).

Photographs Copyrighted by Underwood fr Underwood, A'. Y L Copyriykt by Underwood & Underwood, N. Y,

GEOROE \V. HODOES of New York. AI.I.KN G. IIOYT of New York. niimiiiiiiiiiiiiHiim

A PSALM OF GOLF J. E. MIOTI.ETON in Munsey's Magazine

ELL me not in prose or numbers Golf is but an empty game, That a flag the landscape cumbers, That a bunker is a shame, Golf is real, golf is earnest! Two down at the sixteenth hole, And the stymie thou disccrncst Would inflame a bishop's soul! Some enjoyment men may borrow In a Kelly- affray; But more blest is their to-morrow. If St. Andrew's game they play. Art is long and time is fleeting, But a stout heart and a high May, by patiently repeating, Learn to putt before he die. Lives of golfers all remind us Bogey is an aim sublime; Make it, and we leave behind us Footprints on the links of time— Footprints that perchance another, Bunkered in a marshy plain, Some forlorn and swearing brother, Seeing, may take heart again. Let us then be ;ip and doing, Heedless of our wifely mate, Who, while we are still pursuing, Learns to grumble and to wait! THE MECHANICS OF A USEFUL GOLF SHOT—THE WIND-CHEATER By OUR OWN EXPERT

HE "wind-cheater" is a term some- as it is going down, and this sets up times used to describe that low the back-spin GN, which has so im- balTl against the wind that keeps close portant an influence on the flight of along to the ground for the first part tliis ball. It is not necessary to cut of its journey, and then gradually soars into the turf. Merely to shave it is all upward before pitching. It is a beau- that is necessary. The object of taking turf is not generally understood. It is that cutting into the turf allows the club in passing down to get much more grip to produce that invaluable factor in pitching, backspin; and the exces- sive turf-chopping that takes place is due in a great measure to the defective construction of the mashies, which in many cases prevents players from get- ting well under the ball. FIG. 1 the flight of the "wind-cheater" is tiful and useful stroke, and is always remarkable. It starts away with a obtained by playing down onto the ball large amount of baekspin, AB, as shown and sending it away with plcuty of in Fig. 2. For the first part of its back-spin. flight it keeps low, on account of the Played •with a cleek, it is often fact that in playing it the hands are called a "push-stroke," but why it is nearly always forward of the ball, so called is by no means clear, as there This naturally decreases the loft of the is nothing in the nature of a push in the stroke. It is a shot that requires very accu- rate timing, and to be master of it you must know perfectly what you are try- ing to do and how to do it. The club gets the ball in its down- ward swing, as shown in Fig, 1, and does not ground until after it has passed the spot where the ball lay. We see the head of the cleek AB coming down FIG. 2 in the line CD, and hitting the ball at G on its way to take the turf at D. It club, and consequently the ball flies will thus be seen that the club does not very low so long as the pace is suffi- reach the lowest point on its swing, D, cient to dominate the spin. Soon, how- until after it has struck the ball. In ever, the back-spin begins to assert it- nearly all other golf-strokes the club self, and the forward spinning portion is at the lowest point of its swing at or of the ball, below B, Fig. 2, which before the moment of impact. In this naturally is getting more friction than stroke it hits the ball a glancing blow the top part, which is spinning away 220 HENRY C. FRICK, GOLFER from the hole, begins to edge into the than from a high one. This does not line of least resistance. This causes necessarily follow—I am speaking of the ball to rise gradually, and is the perfect golf now, remember. It stands beginning of the beautiful flight with to reason that with a ball resting on which golfers are so familiar, and which the ground the club cannot get such a is shown in Fig. 3. AB is the fairway. downward glancing blow as it can if the ball be teed up high. Fig. 4< illustrates this clearly. It is plain that the higher the tee in reason the greater is the amount of back-spin that can be ob- -"Jp tained; also, of course, the ball is al- ready raised from the ground, the player can sacrifice still more loft than FIG. 8 in the ordinary stroke, and play it with almost an upright face coming down on The ball begins to feel the influence of it, as shown by the dotted line AB. the backspin at D, and then soars up One of the most famous European pro- fessionals often plays his tee-shot this to E. As the force of the drive and the way. back-spin diminish, the ball sinks to F, and on account of the fact that the traj ectory has been so low, and that the back-spin has become nearly exhausted by the time it lands, the ball frequently runs very well. With the cleek-shot, especially the half-shot, however, it sometimes holds its spin so well that it can be dropped on the green without much "run." It is quite a common idea that a low ball is obtained better from a low tee

HENRY C. FRICK, GOLFER

ENRY CLAY FRICK is not Friek seems to be ".seavming the hor- known as a great golfer, but he izon"—we seem to have heard that haHs some glorious paintings, a few steel phrase somewhere—in an effort to fol- shares and in appearance is very like low with bin eye what he didn't with his old Torn Morris, the "Grand Old Man of dub. Golf." If any one who knew Tom Mor- Some dny we intend to have a talk ris or is familiar with his photographs with Mr. Friek about his golf. For a doubts the last statement let him look at man with so many .steel .shares and the photograph reproduced in our fron- beautiful pictures his golf absolutely is tispiece and see if the resemblance not what it should, be, and we are almost of the steel man to the father of golf is sure that it is not mental or physical in- not remarkable in his general form capacity that causes this. We arc in- in profile. His physical form we clined to think tluit the matter has mean, of course, for we cannot satisfac- never been properly presented to Mr. torily judge of Mr. Prick's golf form Friek. Had it been wo feel sure that from this photograph as it is not a iin- he would ere now have shown signs of ish of any stroke we know, yet Mr. great improvement, and he would have HENRY C FRICK, GOLFER 221 got from it almost as much pleasure; hardly- say too much in admiration of and certainly more health, than he does their beautiful "disposition." It could from owning Rembrandt's "Polish scarcely be excelled. If we had those Rider." glorious panels money .could not get We mention the "Polish Rider" be- them so long as we could do without it, cause we do not think it deserves a and then we should mortgage them ]3lace in Mr. Prick's really wonderful away bit by bit and year by year until collection except as a curiosity, because toe went—if we had to; it is the only equestrian picture Rem- We once heard what Mr. Frick gave brandt ever painted. We think he for these. It was much money, but it knew enough not to do another. The did not impress us, for if he had had to man who painted "The Old Woman give double or treble the amount to get with a Bible/' one of Rembrandt's them we should have had nothing to say gems, also in Mr. Frick's collection, about it. They are worth anything one probably knew that horses were nob his might have to give to get them, and "long suit." It is said that Mr. Frick again we do not know how he ever per- paid $300,000 for the latter picture. suaded Pierpont Morgan to part with Personally, we have no hesitation in them, but because he did we would saying that we should not give it, even gladly take the trouble to tell him what if the bank would take the picture as is wrong with his "finish"—if anything. collateral security with our note of This is not at all what we intended hand, for, except as aforesaid, the to say when we started to write about money is not in it, but these New York Henry C. Prick, Golfer. What we had "art" dealers are artful, and if Mr. in mind before getting switched off was Frick wanted it as a curiosity what is the comfort, the solace, the fun and the difference between, say, $30,000 health that the rich as well as those in and $300,000? It is simply a matter moderate circumstances get out of the of writing, and probably his secretary game of golf. does all of it, except the mere formality Can any one doubt it when he sees the of signing, and Mr. Frick cannot feel the difference,, so why should we make thousands of happy citizens playing on a fuss? our municipal courses, at our golf and country clubs, or when he sees the Those who saw the Fragonard panels Rockefellers and other millionaires when they were in the Metropolitan wearing the smiles that won't come off Museum of Art should see them again in as they motor to the links ? Mr. Frick's beautiful home if they can. Can any one doubt the health and en- They were, of course, splendid in the joyment Henry Clay Frick gets out of museum. In their present environment golf after glancing at the photograph they are gorgeously beautiful. One can we have reproduced ? OLFERS hnve devised various The scale of fines should be regulated ways of raising money for the from one to five cents. For instance, it Gwar relief funds, but it remained for would not be right to charge Fred Haw- the Newspaper Golf Club, of New thorne five cents for each time he drives York, to furnish us with the most orig- a ball into the pond hole, us Fred is no inal idea along this line. It was Grant- millionaire. Neither would it be right land Rice, the new president; Charles to soak Ilnrrv "Pop" Haines a nickel Dailey, the new secretary; Fred for every time he takes more than two Flaugh, of the tournament committee, putts on a green. or maybe it was "Pop" Foster, the per- There are more righteous ways of petual vice-president, that gave birth collecting this fund, and if it is left to to this happy thought—anyway, it was us to make any further suggestions we some inspired genius. might add that it would be an excellent Here is the way it reads: idea to charge "Duke" Italian! and Frank O'Neill, two regulars at Van Golfer who tops his tee-shots C'ortlandt Park, a jitney each time they must pledge himself to pay a pen- failed to replace a divot; or Hob Med- nalty of five cents. ley might be taxed a like amount for Those who foozle their iron-shots, every time he holed out a midiron-shot five cents for each offense. from off the green. Those who put one into a water This goes not only for newspaper hazard, five cents. goiters, but for all lovers of the royal Taking three putts on the green, and ancient pastime, whether they be L five cents. members of the first, second, third or ARE YOU DOING YOUR BIT? 223

"Fourth" estate. Clubs would do well game. He didn't have to give up the to adopt this plan generally, as it would game. He devised the plan of penaliz- lie the means of raising a large amount ing himself every time he took three of money that the war relief funds putts, and the result was that he soon would not get otherwise. became a star performer on the greens. Taxing oneself for missing :i tee- The change came about in this way: shot or taking an extra putt or two is When he engaged his caddy he told him nothing new. We have heard of golfers that there was a chance to earn some with wager upon wager stacked up on extra money. He agreed to give the a single round where topping a shot lad a nickel every time he took three was most costly indeed. You might putts and asked the boy to hand back argue that the player hadn't really one of the nickels every time he took taxed himself for a had shut, but this is only one putt. practically what it amounted to. He had bet his opponent a certain amount that he would do the hole in fewer strokes, so if he failed in any particular It was virtually a bet, but a good one, shot and did not follow it up with a and well within the boy's means. splendid recovery he paid the penalty. Fletcher usually paid the price of his folly for the first few weeks, but it was not long before he began to putt very well. The idea worked in Fletcher's ease, and it would perhaps make some Charles Leonard Fletcher, of whom h'rst-rate golfers out of some duffers we we wrote a squib last month, is the orig- know. inator of a very practical idea that is calculated to improve one's putting, When Fletcher began playing golf he was a wretched putter and soon came The powers that be have decided to to the conclusion that he was either cut out championship tournaments until going to learn to putt or give up I lie the war is settled. Now that we are ARE YOU DOING YOUR BIT?

into the fighting business it seems a lot man who was willing to wager that worse than ever before, and there are "Chick" would still be holding on to more serious things to think of than his precious titles in the spring of 1018 golf championships. Golf itself must would cash in his bet without the cham- by no menus stop or be curtailed in any pion having to lift a club in defense of way. Men over forty are needed on them. the links more than ever. If there ever comes a time when the veterans are needed for service they will be ready Our friend Harry Vardon is still and the Government can thank (lie golf wearing the open championship crown clubs for furnishing men, although a over in . If tournaments were bit beyond military age, yet in perfect not revived there for several years physical condition. (n rather gruesome prospect to look forward to) Vardon would perhaps pass out of tournament golf with a cham- pionship title, in his possession, It "Chick" Evans will be open and ama- would be a just reward for the greatest teur champion for another year. The golfer of all time, for undoubtedly when ARE YOU DOING YOUR BITS 225

THAT mt pNS FLAG POLE OUKE

Vardon is gone, find we are ;ill gone let us hope it is a long way off future generations will look baek upon tin's great English player as the marvel of his age and admit of no player since who could take his place.

Down in Atlantic City, Maurice Ris- ley is called the Seacoast Champ." This is because he plays around the Northficld course under any and nil cir- cumstances. It might he said that Ris- ley was brought up on wind—speaking in a golfing way. Once he was a caddy, and the first thing he learned to do was to play a ball in tlir wind—with the wind and against the wind. He has never forgotten it.

The professional golfers arc elated over the prospect of doing something for the cause of war relief. Their tour- nament, to be held about the middle of July, will be the biggest thing of its kind ever pulled off. It will be the only big tournament of the year in the Met-

FIVE CENTS FOR EACH ^••^O' --O- BALL iWTB THE POAl£> 226 ARE YOU DOING YOUR BIT?

ropolit-in district. The pros will give king's game is that he has a stance that their services for nothing. Wouldn't it would seem to rob him of 33 1/3 per be a good idea for clubs to see to it that cent, of his efficiency. Canning's theory their pros surely attend and furnish is that by pointing the left elbow at the them with the wherewithal? hole one obtains accuracy. In his case all of the weight, or nearly all of it, is on the left foot. Gil. Niebolls claims credit for making a finished golfer out Frank V. Canning is one of the of Canning, as far as the psychology longest drivers in the country. The of the game is concerned, but does not strangest part of the chewing-gum claim lo be responsible for his style.

HY msr YOU 5I7*NP THAT

H(S UNfpUE STANCE.

L 228 7,9 OUIMET THROUGH?

It is well known that press criticism answer should be in the affirmative they spoiled the whole of one season for should organize at once so that they George Duncan. That is golf history. may prevent any other such outrage, Some unscrupulous scribes took it upon and if possible do something to ameli- themselves to keep prating about Dun- orate the insufferable condition of af- can's rapidity in playing and to say fairs under which Francis Ouimet is how much better he would play if he now laboring. would be a little more deliberate. "Con- "Is Ouimet through?" Who knows? stant dripping wears away stone." Probably Ouimet himself scarcely They got at Duncan after a while. He knows how much his game has suffered tried slowing up and ruined his game because of lack of opportunity to play for the whole of that year. in championship tournaments at that Who can say what the effect of all stage in his career when he was at his this unpleasantness and chicanery will best. Sportsmen the world over, and prove to be when Ouimet returns to the particularly golfers, will never hold the game ? "Usgas" innocent if it should prove that Nobody can say, not even Ouimet Ouimet's game has left him. It would himself. be just another nail in the coffin of the Some seem to think that it is almost United States Golf Association, if per- a certainty that Ouimet will never do chance it should still be in existence, or anything to equal what he has done. if in existence has not been hopelessly He did enough that day at Brookline supplanted in leadership by some more to make his place in the hall of golf representative, organization. fame secure, and it would be hard to The mere idea of a great game like imagine his doing anything to equal Ouimet's being spoiled, by an organiza- that performance in sensation or merit; tion that represents only about five per so, even if he is a disappointment when cant, of the golf clubs of the United he returns to the game after the States, and not more than about four "Usgas" have annulled their outrage, and three-quarters per cent, of the real as they must, it will be hard actually to golfers, is enough to make genuine charge it against them. But surely they sportsmen savage, and it has done so. have done golf an evil turn in robbing The Western Golf Association has it of the stimulus of Ouimet's name, given the U. S. G. A. a stinging upper- and fame, and game for the time when cut, and in other directions very active he would have been of the greatest steps arc being taken to stop its chances service to it. of working the game of golf any fur- "Is Ouimet through?" Has the ther injury. United States Golf Association by bar- "Is Ouimet through?" ring him for two seasons succeeded in There is something almost tragic in killing the great game that Ouimet had the idea. I do not often allow myself to 2ilay to put American golf on the to become ultra-serious about anything high pedestal where lie placed it when in connection with the game, but this, it he "took the numbers" of and seems to me, is an extraordinary ease Harry Vardon ? wherein one may be excused, for being It was indeed a proud day for Amer- emphatic. ican golf, and Ouimet's reward has Ouimet's achievement was a great na- been of such a nature that a casual tional event in golf and his "official" golfer asks me "Is Ouimet through?" reward has been needless humiliation. and points out the poignancy of the Since he was disqualified Ouimet has possible effects of the outrage in a man- practically been cut out of the best ner that has never yet been suggested practice, a class of play that is abso- by any golfing magazine or golf writer! lutely necessary to keep an expert's It is time that golfers asked them- game up to the highest possible stan- selves this question, and if they think dard. It has been a blot on the history that there is the least chance that the of American golf, even as is the more IS OVIMET THROUGH? 229 recent burring of Walter J. Travis, at garding amateurs, in the one case by the age of 57, because lie is trying to jeopardizing his game, in the! other by make golf courses better than they liave preventing his full enjoyment of the been. grand game, which he has upheld so Where and when, I should like to well, in the evening of his days. know, is this sort of persecution to end? Meantime keeps ringing in my ears We have in American golf two out- that question, "Is Ouimet through?" I standing names on account of their re- am loath to believe it, yet unless the markable performances. These are ban on him shall be lifted soon there Francis Ouimet and Walter J. Travis. must be grave misgivings as to his abil- These are. the two golfers who ac- ity to "come back." But there are complished the two great performances many who are vastly more capable than that put American golf on a par with I of answering the question, or of dis- the best in the world. cussing it, and GOLF will be grateful These are the two golfers chosen as for their opinions? the sufferers under absurd rules re- Is Ouimet through? THE WOMAN OF IT

E have been reading some self was jrmitlv improved. Therefore, Ilimilfh 1 lay down no hard and fast W strange adviec by Mi.s.s Flor- rule regarding I In- titmice fur putting ence L. Harvey. It is strange (for this is one place where Individu- how sadly all women writers fall down ality lias free play), I (In rrenmmrnd the position she assumes. The right toe on the simple mechanics of the game. is about three indies from Hie bull and We are told that: "The longer the at urn I two Inches to tlie light of it. Kor putt the looser the grip. Inversely, the shorter putts the weight is mure on the shorter the putt the firmer the grip and rlglll foot, for lunger ones more on the the more the right hand comes into left. play." Here now is a rase in point. It We hate to have to speak so plainly, does not matter how graceful and effort- but this is simply nonsense, and such less Miss (irant-Sutlie's style may be obvious nonsense that our contemporary it in wrong. It might be right for her. which published it should not al- It is absolutely wrong for !)!> of 100 low it to go out to harass its readers women. Here are the reasons! and possibly to ruin some one's game. The ball is too close to the right toe. We hold that an editor of a golf maga- Three inches from the right toe menus zine has a duty to his readers, that that one's head is too far out over the is not discharged by promulgating false ball. One has to look hack inxvardt doctrine. towards one's feet. That is one line of Here is Another wonderful assertion. tight. Then one has to look to the "Anything in golf that is graceful and hole still from a point nway beyond the effortless is good style, and there is ball. That is two Hues of tight and nothing affected about good golfing the hall has to run to the hole over a style." line into or onto which the eye cannot We have seen a "man" whose "game" gel. Thus in this sinner there are three was by dint of great practice in that planet of light, instead of, a* if the ei/e direction so "graceful and effortless" in aver the hull in the address for the that he had ruined his chance of ever put n« it ought to be, one. being a golfer. Style in golf should If the eye is over the ball the line only come fl* the natural result of cor- from the eve to the bull, from the eye rectly producing the mechanical require- to the hole and from the ball to the ments of the stroke. Anything that is hole are in the one vertical plane; that graceful and effortleis that results from is to nay that if a sheet of glass were this is to be commended, but style as to be put on the line of the put in a style is merely contemptible. vertical position all these lines could he Speaking of the stance for pulling on it. This triangle of vision is ruth- Miss Harvey says: lessly violated by the stance advised by As I said, I tried to copy Miss (Irani - Miss Harvey. It is not. good golf to Suttie hrciiusc her style is so good, mid, do so. In pulling the eve should be to my joy, found that my putting it- right over the ball in tin- address. THE WOMAN OF IT 231 Miss Harvey shows some quaint put- derstand the mechanics of the game. It ting stances, among them one that she will save them a heap of tribulation. terms n "square" stance. We may re- mark that according to golf parlance We were recently swinging a club this is not a "square" stance. It is with one hand, our good right, and we a parallel stance that is quite inad- could not hut be struck by the. tremen- visable in any kind of putting. In any dous outward drag of the centrifugal square stance, or any other kind of force. Of course it is there all the stance in golf, one should have one's time but it is not so apparent when toes turned out much more, also, we one lias the assistance of the left hand may be excused if we point out that to prevent its flying away from one. putts have no "flight"; they generally This set us to wondering if it would run! not be a good idea for one-bandt'd play- In explaining how she came to follow ers to have the shaft of the club tap- Miss Grant-Suttie's methods Miss Har- ered slightly so as to give them a firmer vey says: grip against the centrifugal force. It seems to us, in rather a vague way we Of all the grciit players, Miss Grimt- must confess, not having addressed our- Suttle assumes the simplest and most natural putting stance. It appealed to selves violently to the contemplation of me so much that I tried to copy it be- the problem, that such a construction cause it looked no nice. would improve the length of such a player as Louis Martucci for instance, That is the woman of it, but it has and would be especially useful to nothing in common with modern golf women. We suggest to Martucci that of the Alexa Stirling brand. It must he should experiment in this matter and not only look "so nice" but it must get let us know if he can get a longer ball. results. It will not do this if it is me- We are inclined to think that the prin- chanically unsound. That is why we ciple is worthy of trial by anyone whose advise women and girl players to un- grip is inclined to be weak. THROUGH^ GREEN

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ECENTLY I found in my mail presume that, as it is substantially cor- R a letter asking me which hand rect, we may accredit it to Vardon. The was more important in putting. I right is unquestionably the dominant thought it might be interesting to see factor in putting as in every other stroke what one of Vardon's "ghosts" had to in golf, but, as in every other stroke at say about it, so I turned to "The (al- golf, it is utterly unnecessary for the leged) Complete Golfer." player to have this on his mind. If he Here is what I found: "It is to a cer- is putting satisfactorily he need not tain extent possible to be definite in re- worry as to the distribution of power. marking upon the grip. Some good If his putting is not what it should be golfers clasp their putters lightly with let him investigate the matter. The both hands; others keep the left hand chances are that he will find that the loose and the right hand firm; and a left is not minding its own business. third selection do the reverse, each When one is putting badly it is very method being justified on its day." often because the left is doing too much. This is what one gets from "The This rarely occurs if one is just putting 1 Complete Golfer," alleged to be by naturally, but quite often is found in Harry Vardon. If this is even "to a those who have been instructed by pro- certain extent" what Vaidon's amanu- fessionals, far too many of whom are 1 still obsessed by the old tales of the 1 ensis considers "definite" I should be power of the left. 1 1 very sorry to linvc anything to do with him in his indefinite moments. Such nonsense is, of course, beneath con- tempt. It is simply the meaningless Speaking of the grip of the putter, verbigeration of one who is paid at so Vardon says: "For my part I use the much per thousand words for a book same overlapping grip in putting as in of a cerbain bulk. all the other strokes, making just this Fortunately, we find after this verbi- one small variation, that instead of al- age a definite expression of something lowing the right thumb to fall over the that may be of use. Speaking of put- shaft, • as when driving or playing ting, we read: "But in this part of the through the green, I place it on the top game it is quite clear that the right of the shaft and pointing down it. hand has more work to do than the This seems to me to make for accuracy." left" I think that the overlapping or Var- This is one of Vardon's inferential don grip is very suitable for putting. statements that in some departments of If one cannot use this grip the reverse the game the left is supreme, although overlap, which gives the right hand nowhere docs lie give any specific in- more command of the club, should be stance of the superiority of the left. used. This grip is formed by allowing He continues: "It is the right hand the forefinger of the left hand to over- that makes the stroke, and therefore I lap the little finger of the right hand, consider that it should be allowed while the thumb of the left hand is plenty of play and that the left wrist placed in the palm of the right hand, should be held more loosely than the or rather at the base of the right thumb, right." just as in the ordinary overlapping or This is an interesting" statement and I Vardon grip. This grip may be used THROUGH THE GREEN 233

with great advantage for all strokes in finger is permanently bent' in towards the game. There can he very little the next finger. doubt that it is superior-to the Vardou grip for most,, if not indeed all, women players. Whilst I had "The (alleged) Com- plete Golfer" down I came across, an Most professionals make a great mis- imbecile paragraph on page 17i> that take in teaching women the overlapping nevertheless has in it a bit of sound golf grip, that is commonly called the Var- that may help anyone who can believe don grip. One of the outstanding that it is sound considering what else claims thnt is made for this grip is that it robs the right hand of much of its goes with it. Here is the quotation: power and so prevents it interfering "When you hit the small of your back with the left hand. This is an ex- with the head of your club in the up- ward swing, it is not so much a sign that tremely doubtful "advantage" for any r man, even when he has great strength. 3 ou are swinging too far back as that It is an absolute certainty that 710 wo- your wrists are enjoying too much play, man has so much strength in her right that you are not holding your club with arm and hand that she wants to throw sufficient firmness, and that your arms some of it away. are thrown too much upwards. Try a tighter grip." Women .should consider this matter This is imbecility. I might add, most seriously and not let anyone mes- "and if the sole of your club seriously merize them into using this particular interferes with your left canine vise form of overlap. In this connection the your masliie and stand on yoifr left big remarks of the author of that excellent tne," It would have quite as much rela- book "Golf for Women" are well worth tion to practical golf as what I have reading. just quoted. Here, however, is some real golf which I hope will not be judged by the rotten company it is in, I am speaking from memory now, but for it follows directly on what I have I believe that the author of "Golf for already quoted: "Remember that the Women" makes a very strong point of grip with both hands should be firm. the fact that no women have any That with the right hand should not he strength to spare and that therefore the slack, as one is so often told." Vardon grip is the last thnt they should This is such important golf that I adopt, the old two-handed or double V shall forgive Vnrdou's "ghost" for a grip being" in her opinion superior to great deal of the absolute nonsense that the Vardon grip for women; and if my lie has made poor Vardon father, if memory serve me, she recommends the about nine of ten golfers will believe reverse overlap in preference to the and practise this eminently sound and Vardon grip, because it gives the right valuable advice. It would save mnny a greater power. would-be golfer from despair and make The claim in favor of the overlapping mnny a near-champion into the real grips is that it brings the wrists more thing if they could only believe this and closely together. I have never given get rid of the absurd idea of holding this matter much thought, hub it seems slaekly with the fingers, or some of to me that women's hands being so them, of the right hand. much smaller than men's, and also It is useless to think of using the softer, that they will fit more closely to- shaft of one's club as a banjo. It was gether and render the overlap less nec- not meant for that and no good can essary in their case than in the men's. come of it. "Hard at it" from the mo- Sherlock has very small hands and weak ment you .start downward until you have wrists. He does not overlap, but hit the ball and sent it on its way is presses his hands so closely together what Braid lays down as a rule, and that the top joint of his right little there can be no possible doubt that what 234 THROUGH THE GREEN

lie says is the only practical golf of the complain of the false position in which matter. incompetent journalists hired by un- scrupulous publishers have put the greatest golfer in the history of the I notice that some of the leading game ? players are prone to keeping their Pressing simply means misapplying heads still and their eyes on the spot one's strength by an excess of muscular where the ball was after it has been energy that prevents one being able to driven. This is not good golf. It fact control tlu1. stroke, thus destroying the it is very bad form and calculated to co-ordination of the swing and ruining affect prejudicially both length and the rhythm. Overhitting might almost direction. be used as a synonym, but "jumping at Harry Vardon does not approve of the ball" is one of the best jokes I have this idea. He says: "But I do not ap- ever come across, and 1 must say that I prove of keeping the eye fixed upon the did not think there was a golf journalist place where the ball lay, so that the silly enough to write such a thing. grass is seen after the ball has do- I confess that I have .seen many con- parted. Keep your eye on the hall until tortionists on the links and not a few you have hit it, but no longer. You acrobats, but T have ye.t to meet the cannot follow through properly with n presser who jumps at the ball. Ted long shot if your eye remains fastened Ray, in the old days, certainly had on the ground. Hit the ball, and then quite ft fierce hinge, but even lit! always let your eye pick it up in its flight as stuck to Mother Karth. Perhaps it quickly as possible." would not be too much to ask for dia- That is golf, and "Keep your eye on grams and dimensions of the most suit- the hall until you have hit it, hnt no able jump for pressing. And golf era longer," is so important that I can pay money for books compounded of hardly emphasize it too strongly, There nonsense of this description. It really are many good golfers in the United is wonderful. States of Aemrica who arc spoiling then' Some day f shall capture Vardon and game by mistaking turf-studying; for make him tell the world how much lie golf. really is responsible, for and how much This delusion must be relegated to is journalistic guff. Thai would he real the limbo of exploded fetiches along golf then; and Vnrdon would be glad to with the ancient idea of the gigantic do it, for if ever there was a golfer divot. Agriculture is agriculture, but it through and through that is Harry Var- forms no part of the noble game of golf. don, and nothing is farther from his thoughts than to It'll anybody anything he does not believe, particularly if it Here is something that very few golf- was prejudicial to his pupil's game. ers ever even heard: "You can hit hard without pressing, which really means jumping at the ball,"and swaying means hanging on a trapesse by your toes and I have been asked repeatedly who oscillating, and one statement is as true was the "Usga" who cancelled his sub- as the other. If I had made cither of scription to (ior.K after the roasting the these statements seriously I should ex- Outrage Corporation got in the January pect at least twenty letters telling me. issue, I got so tired of saying that f what a fool I am. did not know that finally I made in- The first statement is supposed to he quiries and found that it was one of the by Vardon. It may be seen at page 171 officials of the U, S. (1. A, who has been of "The Complete (as it were) Golfer." particularly ollicious, Though telling The second .statement is by me. It is me his name, the publisher requests that an attempt to match the first in sheer it be not divulged, as to mention it imbecility. Is. it any wonder that I (Continuetl on patje 2!)i)) THE OUIMET OUTRAGE a perfect right to do so, provided he did N Golf Illustrated and Outdoor not charge for such tuition. How America there is a letter from F, Woodward is giving himself and his five LI. Woodward, late head of the nllcgcd per cent, corporation away! This is the United States Golf Association. It is kind of reasoning on which Francis quite beneath contempt, but we may Ouimet was judged. condescend to use a few extracts nnd a He is now lining everything that is paragraph or two of the Editor's reply. done by acknowledged golf profession- Woodward says: als except that he. does not play the game for money." It would be hard to imagine a meet- ing tlmt was more open and where; less of anything bordering on ring rule or Does Ouimet teach the game for log-rolling was noticeable. money? See the veneer washing off. It is more than funny; it is pathetic. He doth protest too much. Who As a sincere well-wisher of the young could imagine "ring rule or log-rolling" man, it seems to me manifest, tlmt he in a meeting of gentlemen, amateurs— can only he hurting himself in the good and golfers! More from Woodward: opinion of nil golfers to permit .further resistance, against the opinion of the Why is it so dllttcult to understand delegates that was recorded in such that the present amateur definition is overwhelming fashion. Instead of being not an innovation? It differs in verbi- ninety per cent, in his favor, it was age only from the rule by which an nearly ninety per cent, against him, and amateur golfer has been (leaned ever I cannot bring myself to believe that he. since the organization of the United himself has instigated or looks favor- States Golf Association, ably upon the effort to prolong the discussion. Well, if it is only a question of "verbi- age" we ought to take Woodward's Well, everybody now knows that the word for it. Judging by his perform- vote against Ouimet was obtained dis- ance at the annual meeting of the so- honestly; by "sharp practice," to qoote called United States Golf Association, one of onr esteemed contemporaries. he should be (in authority on this sub- Woodward goes on to say: ject. Is it possible, that he means There are sonic of us who believe "wording?" Verbiage, verbosity, ver- that the game of golf and also the bigration. Docs Woodward know United States Golf Association can survive in the exact condition in which which of these it was? Possibly not, they were left at the close of the last; yet he is versed in all three. annual meeting. It is difficult to see how any golfer who keeps a golf store and personally Yes, some very unintelligent people attends to eusLomers could avoid teach- absolutely without prevision think that. ing' the game, and in Oulwet's case I he Woodward did not know of the West- fact lias more than once been reported as an actual occurrence. ern Golf Association's action when he wrote that. What rot! But even if he did, lie had Now for a few words of Max Belir 23(5 EDITORIALS

in answer. Quoting Woodward, Mv. BALFOUR AND LLOYD (il'X)RGK Behr writes: LACK FOI;L()W-TI1110UGII He says: "It was to bo hoped, after In our February issue we had Home- the decisive vote, of the delegates at the thing to .say about "Golf and States- last annual meeting of the United •States Golf Association upon the ama- manship." We were led to it by an edi- teur question, that for a time at least torial in The, New York World that agitation and opposition would cease." spoke of the imperial conference, that It would have, perhaps, if we. could all agree with Mr. Woodward that "it was about to be held in .London in would be hard to imagine a meeting March. that was more open and where less of The World expressed the opinion anything bordering on ring rule or log- that: "The Imperial Council to bo called rolling was noticeable." The correct- ness of that opinion is certainly open to in March will have, more power in state question and rightly so because it was affairs than in the past." evident that the supporters of the rul- In commenting on this we said (inter ing powers were bent upon defeating the Appeal of the Woodland Golf Club. alia): "The World is all astray, The This they sneeeded in doing by submit- Imperial Council will have just the ting an amendment to be voted upon same 'power," and that is 'none,.' The wholly unrelated in meaning to the delegates will be allowed to talk and original amendment advanced by the Woodland delegation. * * * vote, and then the real powers will de- In our "Plea for Francis Ouiniet" in cide what is to be done." the February number we said that a Our excuse for interfering in .such a vote to reinstate Ouiinet "would be. a grave and complicated Mutter was that blow from which the present definition it seemed to us that Lloyd George's im- could not well recover." And that ex- plains why the supporters of the ruling perial follow-through was and is—-as powers did everything possible, to pre- short as that of his drive. Neither of vent the question coming to a vote, them is as full and true, as it should be. which they succeeded in doing by re- sorting to sharp practice. .* * * The Justification of our opinion as to the last annual meeting was not free from fallacious nature of the IVorld'x fore- log-rolling and ring ruin. It zoim, in cast is now to hand in the shape of n font, dominated by ring ruin, cablegram telling of the result of the. Tims snith Max Belir, Editor of Golf Imperial—save the mark—•••Council. Let Illustrated and Outdoor America. What us have it: a nice state of affairs! In effect, he Preferential trade tarilTs between Ihe says that what Woodward says is false different parts of the Hrilinl\ Umpire and that the annual meeting of the have been 'approved by Iho imperial win- conference, the House of Commons was United States Golf Association (rep- informed to-day by Chancellor of Ihe resenting only about five per cent, of Kxehequer Bonar Law. lie added Unit the clubs of the United States) was con- the conference unanimously accepted ducted in an unscrupulous manner ut- the principle thai: each purl'of I lie em- pire, having due. regard to Ihc interests terly unworthy of true sportsmen. of our allies, Nhull give specially favor- The Editor of Golfcrs' Magazine said able terms and facilities to Ihe 'produce that it would be, and it was. We have and manufactures of other purls of Ihe told the world of golf what we thought empire. of the Association's conduct at that He explained that Ilicrc is no Inli'ii- tlon of making any change during the meeting, and we are glad now to have war and that the resolution leaves Ihe Brother' Belli- ranged alongside us. question of foodstuffs open, us it does Better late than never. He says that not involve taxation on food. they attained their ends only "by re- As was not represented at the conference, the resolution does not sorting to sharp practice." Good for at present include 11ml colony. you, Brother Behr. They resorted to sharp practice to Wo mny observe thai; nothing that brand Ouimet. There is a wrong that the conference thought of will take must be made right, and it will be be- place until after the war! Then they fore another golfing season has ended. will have to start it all over again ! We EDITORIALS 287 may note also that as the Premier of rank folly to postpone what we have to Australia was not present at the con- do after the war is over and peace is ference nothing that was done was bind- again on the land as it was for us to ing "on that colony." wait idly until after the peace was over. Shades of the men whose life-blood If we cannot understand this exposi- watered Gallipoli and South Africa! tion of the matter we shall be as badly "That colony I" caught after the war is over as we have Many years ago' there were British been by waiting until after the peace colonies at Sydney, , Bris- was over. bane, Adelaide, Perth, etc. These orig- We are whooping loudly just now inal colonies spread into the great states our joy in our new-found allies. Can of New South Wales, Victoria, Queens- we rise to the sise of the job that is be- land, South Australia, Western Aus- fore the world and make those allies tralia, etc., and subsequently these vast see that what is before, us now is sim- states and some adjacent territory were ply scientific world government? This formed into the Commonwealth of Aus- is a science that lias not been even con- tralia, of which the main island is sidered by the greatest men of the dif- greater than the whole of the United ferent countries, but it should be. States of America; and the ignorant Cosmoeratic development is the hope London scribe speaks of it as "that of the world and the goal of all good colony." democracy, yet none of the world's poli- The ignorance of the ordinary Eng- ticians has paid any attention to this lishman of his greatest achievement, the as a science in itself, which it undoubt- British Empire, is colossal; hut that is edly is, and England has not even begun no excuse for holding these futile meet- properly and scientifically to consider ings, meetings which are utterly with- the consolidating of her empire and the out legal effect. linking up of all the great federations By his follow-through ye may know within that wonderful "happening"— him in about nineteen cases of twenty; for that is what the British Empire is. and there can be no doubt of the cir- Can we then expect that she will take cumscribed nature of the British Pre- the lead in consolidating' the republic of mier's stroke. He has been trying to America with the other great federations carry the water hazard at the St. such as Canada, Australia,etc. ? We fear George's Channel hole for some time, not; and therefore we believe that the but up to date lie has not done it and burden of cosmoeratie work must and it almost looks as though lie never will will fall on America's shoulders, and if unless he makes a radical change in his she will carry the burden, as she ought game. and can, lasting glory must be her high It is possible that just within the nar- reward; for here indeed is needed the row limits of his game he may get re- greatest follow-through in the world. sults that approximately satisfy him, This is not the idle thought of a fool- but lie can never know the real delight ish fellow, merely seeking for a tag of the game until lie opens up his shoul- whereon to hang a .sermon, Arthur J. ders and lets his head go, putting his Balfour is an extraordinary man and an weight well into the stroke. ordinary golfer. He. is as different from This everlasting talk about what na- Lloyd George as one man may well be tions are going to do "after the war" from another—except in his follow- annoys us. We see the almost hopeless through. Both have the same: that is, mess that we in the United States are none. in because we left everything to be done Balfour lias said that the dream of in war until after peace. England and his life was realized in our union with we are making the same error now. We England. Balfour ought to know as should even now be making all arrange- much about the use of these things as ments for what we are going to do in anybody on earth, but on form he does peace after the war; but it is just as not. We have never yet seen anything 238 EDITORIALS

he lias written, nor have we heard him we looked hopefully to him to do great say anything, that goes to show that his things at critical times and just then he dream is ever going to be anything bub would go away to some German place a dream. with a Bad in its name and play corre- Candidly, we should think much more sponding g'olf. of what Balfour says about the dream More than ten years ago Balfour gave of his life had we heard or seen some- up the leadership of his party in the thing of it before the peace was over; House of Commons, giving as Ins reason and we should think more of it if he that he lacked the physical force neces- would now give us some indication that sary to do justice to his position, yet his follow-through is right. eight or ten years later England thought If a golfer were told to finish on the him strong enough to head her navy in hall, and he kept that in mind, it is a this tremendous war. cerbainty that his follow-through would If Balfour really knows what he be bad. He must get the ball a,? an in- means, what he should mean, what cident of the stroke. He must hit clean Lloyd George should mean, what our throuf/h it. Some little way ball and statesmen should mean, then he will give club travel in adhesion, then the ball xis, ere long, practical proof that his goes away and the stroke finishes in dream was not mei'eljr an alliance of firmness and rhythm and co-ordination. English-speaking peoples to engage in We shall have to be on the ball in the ignoble, but unfortunately neces- France, very soon, and it looks as though sary, task of killing people of another Theodore Roosevelt's impetuous energy race, but that lie saw the dawn of that and Woodrow Wilson's magnanimous great day that will mean the joining in statesmanship are going to put us there cosmocratic accord of the great nations very soon, but that is only the incident of the earth, a consummation that in the stroke. It is the follow-through should have been much nearer than it that we should even now be consider- now is had the statesmen and politi- ing' cians of the world known as much of We lmve waited, foolishly waited, , their international neighbors and rela- until after the 'peace, was over. We cer- tions as they should have; in short, if tainly do not stand before the world their follow-through had been half as to-day quite as we should. Shall we good as it should have been. make the converse error by postponing And this is why it is that we find our scientific development of peace until fault with the follow-through of Lloyd after the war is over, or shall we set George and Arthur J. Balfour. We about it immediately and so that the want to see them carry the water haz- world may know and see, the way we ard between London and Dublin; we intend to net when we. have, assisted to want to see them co-ordinate their obtain that victory which with our added stroke so that it will take in all the com- might is as certain as nnythinej humanly ponent parts of the imperial arc and not can be? to stop at that, but so to improve and Arthur J. Balfour is a great man in extend their strokes that they may un- many ways, but wo make no joke, and derstand the fullest science of the cos- we strain no point when we find fault mocratic game, so that they may in with his follow-through. If the truth time, and we hope in a very short time, must be told, JJnJfour is an artist, and. come to understand that they must put in many ways a dilettante. This is a the punch into their work, for so, and term that is almost too harsh to apply only so, can the great and wonderful to him, cultured gentleman and great work of cosmocraey be done, the work scholar as he is, but we know of none that must bring all the greatest of the that comes nearer to what we. mean, He. nations of the world into peaceable, business-like and scientific accord in de- is like an extremely scientific boxer that veloping themselves and the. other na- lacks the knock-out blow. He always tions of the world. P. A. V. has lacked follow-throu'fjh. For years THROUGH THE GREEN 239 THROUGH THE GREEN {Continued from page 23-1) would be a breach of publishing eti- allowing certain pupils to use it. No quette. I know him personally, how- doubt there is a lot of sense in learning ever, and am not .surprised, for his idea the with a wide driver like of the importance of the "Usgas" and this that will give the players confi- that of the ordinary golfer is wide as dence they do not have while trying to the poles apart. hit the ball with a narrow-faced club. I have heard it said that the slating All players who are off their game that GOLF handed to the "Usgas" was should have one of these clubs handy if the hottest thing' of its kind in the his- onl)r to use it in practice. tory of the game, if not of sport gen- "Dunn remarked that most players erally, and personally I should not used clubs that were much too long for doubt it. I am at times fairly facile at them, and suggested that a golfer "letting it go" myself, but that month shoiild be perfectly fitted to his clubs I was left standing, Anything that I if he expects to get the most out of his had to say was papesccnt compared game." with what was flying about the office There is much reason in what Dunn after that famous—or rather infamous says. It comes in very appropriately —annual meeting-. following the article "The Passing of It seems to me, however, that the the Cleek" in our March issue. work that GOLF did that month is al- ready bearing fruit. Things are mov- Speaking of the dreadnought seems to ing that are not "visible to the naked remind me that the advantage of the eye," and in due course the "Usgas" larger face was generally discounted by the fishing-rod shaft. It is not will be made painfully aware that the much good to have a larger face and a evil that one does 1ms an unpleasant shaft like a piece of string. way of "coming buck." Of that they will be made fully aware even if they What Dunn has to say about fitting do as they should and annul the Oui- a player to his clubs is, of course, right. mot outrage and then do their best to Not one player in fifty is properly fit- reinstate themselves as sportsmen and ted to his clubs. gentlemen by passing a sane amateur rule out iu the open daylight, like men and golfers, and framing it so that it The question of the best grip for does not inure to the detriment of a playing golf will soon hulk more landmark of the game like Walter J. largely in the golfing eye—or mind— Travis. By doing this they inujht rein- than most people imagine. Indeed, it state themselves a little in the e.stima- is not too much to say that there are tion of the golfers of this country., but signs of a decided change of opinion ere they can never annul the disgrace that long in favor of some form of over- they have brought on themselves. That lapping grip, even amongst the ama- is an indelible .stain that must endure teurs, while the professionals are al- while sport is sport. most unanimous in following the lead of the great English players. Those who at present use the old H. H. Martin, in a recent issue of double-handed grip, or the two-handed The Globe, New York, nays: grip with the thumb in the palm of the "John Dunn, during a conversation'' right hand, need not be cast down. It the other day, took out one of the old] lis not nearly so hard to change from dreadnought drivers HO popular a fowl jthese old grips to the more modern years ago and explained that he wasf Ihold as many people think. 240 THROUGH THE GREEN

This was proved by Robert A. Gar- attention of anyone who may do it to diner, former national amateur cham- the danger of the habit. pion. Breathing during the act of putting Mr. Gardiner first won the title when is almost sure to be fatal to the success a student at Yale in 1909. At that time of the stroke. If anyone doubt this, let he used the old grip, and it certainly one practice on a sub-target rifle was good enough then to win. machine and watch the variation of the Mr. Gardiner continued to use the needle caused by breathing. Nobody grip until early in the season of 1915. could shoot accurately whilst breathing. In July, however, he decided to change Nobody could putt accurately whilst to the Vardon grip. He practiced as- breathing. Breathe easily and naturally siduously with it and won the national until you come to the stroke, then there title at Detroit after only about two must be no movement of the lungs. months practice with the new grip. Curiously enough, I have never seen An illustration of this kind is quite this point made anywhere, although it enough to convince thinking people that may have been, HO perhaps we may there is merit in both methods of grip- count the wrong advice as, after all, a ping. Golf, however, is becoming so service to the game; but remember do scientific that the burning question is not breathe while you arc putting. bound to be: In which grip is there most merit? We unhesitatingly give our verdict in Recently .somewhere I read the fol- favor of the overlapping grips for men, lowing : but it is doubtful if they arc .suitable Putting IN a Rcnii, which one either for women, as it takes nvny too much lius or hasn't. Poor putlinji; cannot be blamed on the club. Here in what power from the right hand. The •Tunics Hobb, the famous British iiinn- amount of modern opinion and prac- teui'i had to say on the matters "It is a tice, particularly on the professional matter of iiulllViMViioc what kind of a side, seems to favor the overlapping club one uses if it is UNWI in Hie proper way, Tin; miller 1 UHC, an ordinary grip, which does unquestionably tend deck, I not when a hoy. My Mister i ,' to bring the wrists together and to put happened to dntw it: hi u penny riifllc, the club well at the base of the fingers, I have used it ever HIIKT, and nolhinu instead of into the palm as the old hold else." tends to. The matter is of such importance to I have heard many funny things the game that we should like to have, said about putting, but this in about the and to publish, the opinions of our funniest™and the silliest. It in certain professionals on the relative merits of that the eleek is not the most suitable the old and the modern methods. club for putting, and it is equally cer- tain that Jamie is not the safest guide to follow if he has never used anything Somewhere or other I rend recently else.. He may be good with IHH penny that one .should breathe while put- deck, but lie does not know how much ting. I am sure that some of these better lie might have been with a real people could write as good golf in their putter. Supposing now Hint it )md sleep as in their "waking" moments, if been a penny whistle ami Jamie had indeed they have any. The person who never used any other musical instru- circulates stuff like this deserves at ment, would lie any that if lie had the least literary castigation. He, how- germ he could get* out of his tin tube ever, serves the purpose of directing the what was in » /irst-el/iss /luto. EORGE DUNCAN is nearly al- style too closely to make any snch fun- G ways worth reading. Here is damental error in good golf form. something he has to say about the Here, however, is another quotation wrists in one of our contemporaries: from Duncan that is .worth reproducing and talcing a chance with: A great number recommend what is sometimes culled "a snap of the wrists I have no faith at all in the principle at the impact"- -this, in their estima- of "sweeping the ball off the tee" which tion, is the secret of long hitting. The is advised so frequently. It may be very phrase convoys a meaning of a kind well for a person who docs not want to but it is not too clear and personally 1 drive far or to make himself an accom- pity the man who in cold blood tries to plished golfer—if such a person ex- introduce a sort of bite into his swing ists. But, for the purpose of the mod- as he MI'S. A sudden redoubling of ern game, this idea of a, smoothly- vigor at this moment may suit some flowing sweeping movement of the club- players, but I eimnot help thinking that bead is useless. We are discussing it is calculated ttf make the average more particularly driving, and the individual bungle the shot. whole secret of long driving lies in the pace at which the club is traveling at Note this carefully, all ye snap-of- the impact, It is a matter of hitting as the-wrist artists. It is not golf. I have. hard us possible though with perfect rhythm so that none of the energy shall said so for years, and here is George be wasted and so that the bnll shall fly Duncan's idea. straight. In the same article Duncan says: There is a bit of mighty good and used to say. "1'unh your head forward during the up- sound golf that is worth the attention swing," and you certainly cannot put of anyone, but why will Duncan spoil your head forward when the right arm, his really useful stuff by a "follow-up" influenced by a tight grip, is pulling of nonsense such as the following para- you the other way. graph shows: This is such nonsense that it is hard It is through the medium of the right for me to believe Duncan wrote it. It wrist that most of the speed and power makes one wonder if Duncan is re- are imparted into the stroke, but it cannot set to work the very instant the sponsible for the good golf referred to down-swing begins. At the top, it is in above. n move or less impotent position be- Fancy the idea, of a man being un- min«e it is wider the shaft, The left wrist has to give the. club a start. It able to keep his head .still, or to put it has to pull the club down, if I may so forward, because his grip of the club express the point, into such a position with his right hand is firm. Duncan is that the right is free to assert itself. ii very good eoaeh, a mighty fine, player as most golfers know, a born mimic of • Not to beat about the bush, this is golf-style, and knows just what he is childish nonsense. Most of the speed doing at any part of lilt swing. Know- and power coming out of the "right ing this, I wonder how he can let such wrist" is imbecility that I would not be- nonsense go out under his name. Dun- lieve of George Duncan unless I saw can himself lm.s a grip like steel, and he. him write it or heard him say it, for does not take his head away from the there are few, if any, better coaches hole. He has followed Harry Vardon's than Duncan, and the man who teaches 242 VEU1HC0P1C PEEPS that is not golf-wise. T have above This may be said literally to be of shown where the speed and power is fundamental importance. I cannot re- got in the golf stroke and I ant very member that 1 have seen this matter as willing to listen to anybody who thinks emphatic/illy treated as it deserves. In he knows, more about it than I do, or cricket it would be impossible, for a has anything interesting to say. bowler to do any good if he was not "holding the pilch" Unit is not a cricket term with his feet, How could Says Dunean, speaking of the power a. baseballer pilch without a perfect of the left and right hands niul arms: grip of mother earth? A boxer or a Hut it is the right which produces fencer without solid connection with that healthy exhilarating "Swish" Hint what he is working on can do no good. 1 denotes n ' down-swing Invested wilh In every ease the footgear is of im- vim find speed. portance, but of greater importance Now that i.s surely good, but again still is putting one's mind into one's comes the wrong tail: toes. This is not: a mailer of imagina- tion, I f anyone has any doubt of the Wrist-action is the mime for all practical importance of what 1 am say- shots save that different decrees of ing let him ask the aforesaid boxer or tnutness of tlie wrisls during Hie swing lire required in various circum- fencer, for Ibey know what it means. stances. l'1or instance, if y»u arc tempted to use the hrassic lieeuiise mi •other cluh will put you on the |*reen I took U)i "How lo I'lay Clolf," by and the lie is not too «(iod, fairly loose wrist-action is required. Harry Vardon, in my opinion quite the worst book ever fastened on lo the great If anyone thinks that "fairly loose golfer by an irresponsible journalist wrist-action" i.s required for a brassie- with a handicap under HO, 1 can al- sliot when "the lie is not too good" lei ways rely on finding something funny him try it. He won't do it often, for in it, I came righl on to it al once, It "the lie is not too good," in fact it is is the push shot out of Ihe bunker. infernally bad. Here 11 is: "Some auialeurs do play tin- push- shot, and play il well. Bui I hey are a Here is a final Duncan axiom: small company: the great majority do It is when we arc goinjj; [irimnrlly for not appreciate either ils scientific beau- distance Hint Ihe looser WI'IHIH arc lo lies or its practical possibilities, The lie recommended, professionals resort In il in many situ- ations and find il invaluable. They I may remark that I have, personal even play il wilh a niblick in bunkers, knowledge, of the fact that Duncan does when Ihe ball is lying clear. Sonic- not drink spirituous liquor of any kind. limes you will hear a person re- Some people may think this statement mark when following a couple of pro- irrelevant. I hate to have to explain fessionals: '1 c/ui'l imagine bow these such a subtile reference to anyone's eon fellows manage lo gel so far out of dition of mind, hut really T cannot un- bunkers.1 The push NIM«| is Ihe solu- derstand, how any professional golfer tion to (be mystery. Ils feature on all could make such a statement when occasions when il. in properly executed sober. is that, il makes the ball rixr sharply, and yet prevents it from /lying high, We hear a lot about the grip of the and so losing dislauee." club and the grip of the ball, hut we I must, plead guilty lo ilnlieta" rarely, if over, hear anything about the ing "rise sharply." Is it a joke or a third, and possibly the most important crime, that, such absolute rot should he grip of all, namely, the grip of the fathered on lo Vardnu, perhaps the earth. greatest exponent of the push-stroke I

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that there is? The egregious journalist climb and curve upward, and the out- proceeds as follows: standing characteristic of the push- "It is dear that we could not hope stroke is that it does not rise .sharply. for a ball played out of a bunker to It always starts line. One cannot get behave in a manner better than that in- a ball up suddenly by cut producing dicated. We want it to ascend quickly, pure back-spin and then have the back- so as to escape the face of the hazard; spin make the ball go ahead like jump- we also want it to go a long way. The ing oil' a ladder when it has got up so push-shot compels it to do these two far. That is not practical golf or things. The back-spin is the influence mechanics. that works for so much good. For a [t simply cannot be done, for the con- moment after the impact, that spin is so tinuing tendency of back-spin in such a powerful that the ball, revolving rap- shot would be to force the ball upward idly in the direction opposite to that in and not forward. Top-spin would be which it is traveling, necessarily goes required for this purpose and top spin up sharply into the air. It is trying to is useless in golf. whirl back, as it were [in a manner of saying, so to speak, etc.—ED.] to the I notice from n daily paper that: player; but the power of the forward "Tennis courts and golf links are unfit movement is too much for it. The con- for vegetable gardens, and well-inten- flict of the two forces naturally causes tioned persons who expect to transform it to rise sharply. Almost immediately, them into productive gardens are however, they come to nn amicable un- doomed to disappointment, according to derstanding. The ball, having been the authorities of the Pennsylvania struck cleanly with anything up to a State College Agricultural School. The three-quarter swing, insists upon going soil, from which tennis courts are con- forward. It cannot be denied. [It is a habit golf balls have.—ED.] Hut the structed, i.s heavy and without plant velocity of the impact having been food, while golf course turf is a para- spent, | Velocity of impact is certainly dise for injurious insects. original.—ED,] the back-spin makes the "A statement on this point was issued shot 'flatten out' so to speak." as follows: 'The average tennis court, composed of heavy clay soil, does not What an amazing statement to find offer a suitable home for garden prod- coupled with Vardon's name: "The ucts. The soil is practically devoid of back-spin makes the shot 'flatten out' humus or vegetable matter, and it would so to speak." This is where the "as it be a matter of years to put it into a were, don't you know, in a manner of stale of cultivation. The ordinary golf saying, so to speak" always comes into links which has been in sod for a num- the ignorant journalist's futility. Back- ber of years harbors cutworms, wirc- spin never made any ball "flatten out." worms, and grub worms, all enemies of as it were, etc. It makes every ball corn and other fibrous crops. Use golf that carries enough of it to talk about courses for pasturing cattle.'

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Stanley Weir We have millions of acres of spare land has an article in Golf Illustrated and that could and should be used instead to Outdoor America on "Pronation and satisfy the need for added food produc- llotation." tion during war time. In case anybody wonld like the plain English of what he means it is the turn The following is from a letter of I'\ of the forearms and the body. L. Woodward to the Editor of Golf Il- He gives us the result of his cogita- lustrated and Outdoor America: tions in the form of "club-chatter" with some club-idiots, but he has dropped his The game of golf is altogether too sub-title "reporting club-chatter" since splendid mi institution to be made sub- I told him that that was his metier, and servient to the. personal exigencies of any individual no mutter who be may not attempting to write technical golf. be. While we. all wish that so good a I must, I think, in justice to the few golfer as Ouimet might be, kept in the golfers of this country, who read Mr, amateur ranks, we wish far move to Weir's funny stuff, have a few words to . preserve, the integrity of the game and keep it dear of every "scintilla , or say in reference to it. suspicion of professionalism." There He has discovered n book by a Mr. are some of us who believe that the Burnham Hare about the golfing .swing game of golf and also the United States Golf Association can survive in and he makes his club jays chatter the exaet condition in which they were about it. left at the close of the last annual meet- Golf has produced more queer think- ing. My suggestion to you, Mr. Edi- ers than any other science. Oh, yes, it tor, is, if you have as high a regard for both those institution!) as you would is a .science, and even the greatest sci- seem to bnve, let both remain for a entists are not above thinking that they while in their present promising state, know how to play it, and needless to untrammelled and undisturbed, and see if thereby much good and a happy issue any, they know less than the ordinary out of all our troubles may not speedily player. That has been proved. They ensue. start out without the necessary humility. It lias been said that golf does not Maybe "there arc some of us who be- require much brains, A first-class fool lieve that the game of golf and also the may take it in through iii.s eye. I have United States Golf Association can known one to do it, and such a one has survive in the exact condition in which quite a big advantage over the ancient, they were left at the close of the last semi-educated bug, who knows neither annual meeting," but there are some, of golf nor anatomy, nor even how to ex- us who do not. Those who do are the press wlmt he menus that he does not "Usgas," the ostriches of golf, who nre, know. however, beginning to dig the sand out Now ligure that out. It is a trifle of their eyes and frantically to beg for mixed, but I'll bet a. lot you will know some excuse to reinstate Ouimct, who what it means, which in much move; than probably has too much courage, mid anyone could do after wrestling with self-respect to accept reinstatement of 11. S. Weir's club automata. Really a status that he has never forfeited, as Weir wan never "cut out" for a ven- shown by the action of the Western triloquist. Not many people renlissi1. 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In answering advertisements please mention GOLF 247 PERISCOPIC PEEPS 248 anatomical terms. In various works on any sense—or anyone with sense. One golf this matter has been thoroughly recognizes them instantly as futile dealt with in exposing the fallacies echoes of Weir's golf imagination, about wrist action and in dealing with which causes him to see all kinds ol the natural "roll" or "turn" of the fore- things in the golf swing that are not in arms. I never can understand why it, and never will be, although, for all these funny chaps will persist in tryinjj I know to the contrary, they all may he, to make mystery where none exists. and quite likely are, in Weir's own golf operations. Here is another quotation from Mr Here, is a quotation from Burnham Hare's Burnham Hare's book thai Hare's hook. One part of his name is Mr. Weir's gibbering creations quoti certainly appropriate. 1 leave it to my with approval: "The pace and power o: readers to guess which it is. After they the club-head at the moment of the im have heard some of his ideas they may pact arc greatly increased by the incipi have no difficulty in arriving at a deci- ent pronation of the right hand whiel sion. This is the quotation: contributes the whip-like snap to th "It will he noted that the position of movement whereon depend* so largel; the two hands on the dub is identical in the length and straightness of th thnt they are both placed midway be- tween aupination and pronation, the drive." natural pose which combines comfort "Whip-like snap" never conlnhuln and power," and then Weir makes one anything to straightness. The speed o of his automata pipe up as follows: "So the golf-swing docs not come from th far so good," said Robinson. "Hut if incipient pronation of the right hanc the left hand is lialf-pronatcd /it the That is a mere incident of what the hi grip and the right hand half-supinatcd, mcrus and the radius and the ulna hnv there is only another half-turn possible." done in collaboration. It would seem to ordinary people "A golfer is none the worst for bein that, starting from this position, there something of a physiologist," says or is a half-turn to the top of the swing, of Weir's dummies. a half-turn in returning to the hall and Perhaps not, but he is much won a half-turn in the follow-through and for trying to parade a knowledge < finish. anatomy when hi' knows nothing of it This wonderful cackling about prona- Golfers don't want to know anythii tion and supination is ridiculous and is about the radius and the ulna nnd tl merely intended to cover one's poverty limnerus, because it generally is rot; i of ideas by clothing an ancient idea in I mav go back to terms thai they nude ^ BERMUDA "•4O HOURS fbon fkosr To funvc/ts" By Appointment Rest or Play in These Isles of Enchantment iitolTE HORSE Only Two Days from New York 1J* WHISKWHISKYY Splendid Hotels, All Outdoor Sports, I ESTABLISHED 17421742.. Unequalled Sailing, Bathing and Fish- AGE. QUALITY. BOUQUET. ing, Golf, Tennis, Cycling, Driving, etc. AN ALL PURE MALT SCOTCH WHISKY ASK FOR IN IT THE NON-REFILLABLE BOTTLE S.S. "Bermudian" Sailing from New York Every Wednesday Managers & S.S. "TRAS OS MONTES" I 7,000 Tom Displacement of Beginning Early 1917—Winter Season WT * NewS -S 9 VV e S t 8teaniers fortnightly for St. Thomas, Summer Resort St. Croix, St. Kitts, Antigua, Guada- loupe, Dominica, Martinique, St. Luciap Barbadoes and Demerara. Hotels For full information apply to will be interested in a new plan Quebec S.S. Co., 32 Broadway, New York for advertising in GOLF Or Any Ticket Atfent throughout the coming siMSnli FREE FOR SIX MONTHS fiWG^y0^ zine, "InvestinInvesting for Profit.Profit. " It is wortwor h #10 a coppyy to any y Write for particulars to OML? who has not acquired sufficient money to provide necesneces- ic sitieiti e s and comforts tor self ana d loveed ones. It shows how to becomb e richeh r quicklil y and honestlyl . "Investing for ProfitPfi " GOLF is the only progressive financial journal and has the largest circulation in America. It shows how $100 tc grows to #2,200; write now and I'll send it six months free, 286 Fifth Avenue, New York City 11. I.. BARBER, ftoo-20 W. Jackson Iimilevard, Chicago.

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stand and tell them without any idiotic seen any of the greatest golfers play. pretence of mystery that, in the golf- He said he "just knew it/1 that he swing, the speed and the power come, played such an easy, natural game that out of the unflexing of the elbow-joints he knew his form must be good and that of both arms and the natural roll or "everybody" said that it was. turn of the forearms. The wrists do I could not resist the temptation to get in a hit of good work at the begin- make him show me two positions that ning of the swing and when they are will always give the dub away, namely, underneath the shaft. That's where the position of the hands at the top of they do their bit; and there is a whole the swing and the distribution of heap more in it than most of the author- weight. He did so. His wrists did not ities have ever said about it. In fact, turn at all. At the top of his half- off-hand I cannot remember that any of swing the back of his left hand was the great players have ever given this towards the hole. He stood with his particular portion of the start of the feet close together, flat-footed, and downward swing, when the weight of swayed from his left foot to his right. the club falls across 'the wrist joint, I did not say much to him, but when when the left hand and arm are in the I read Mr. Weir's wonderful golf dis- position for the back-hand stroke in coveries I cannot avoid speculating as tennis or the jiu jit.su blow at the neck, to whether he "just knows" these re- any particular mention. Yet it deserves markable things are so because he does it, for it is one of the strongest and them, or if he by any chance ever did most natural blows that is in the power read any work or magazine of author- of the human being to deliver. ity in golf. Here is another quotation from Mr. Here is a final quotation from Mr. Burnham's book: "This scarcely per- Burnham's book as rendered by a Weird ceptible turning of the right hand is due creation: "He seems to say, however, to the tightening up of the grip at the that if the hands go back more rapidly moment the ball is Htrunk * * *." than the shoulders turn, you get a flat If there is any one thing more utterly swing, if more slowly an upright damaging to the golf drive than an- swing." other it is this stupid idea of trying to Can any practical golfer imagine the do anything at the moment of impact hands going back more slowly than the that is timed so to be done. It is n shoulders ? The hub of the wheel gen- matte)4 of utter impassibility. All that erally goes a trifle more slowly than then happens is an incident in the the tire, and I may remark that the travel of the club-head. Its pnec is too plane of Hie swine/, flat or upright, does incredibly rapid to permit of anyone not in. any teaij depend on the relative monkeying about doing tilings like pace of hands and shoulders. tightening up tin; wrists, drawing the Really this kind of imaginative junk club inward across the ball and so forth. is what does golf a great deal of harm These tilings cannot successfully be and prevents people reading real golf. done and. if anyone has any lingering This is neither good golf nor good fic- doubts on this subject let him consult tion. It is simply nonsense. some authoritative work on advanced golf. Speaking of the Ouimet matter, the Kditor of Golf Illustrated and Outdoor Mr. Weir reminds me of a UHIII I was America- siiyn: "We know our readers talking to recently. He told me that must by now be bored to death with the his form at golf was practically perfect, subject." and then went on to say Hull he had If he thought that, it was surely bad never had a lesson from a professional joui'iuiliHin to give his readers three or read a book ou golf. I asked him pages of I'\ L. Woodward's specious how he had found it out u« he had not piffle and two pages of editorial com- The Greatest Grass- Townsendfs cutter on Earth. Cuts a Swath 86 Triplex Inches Wide.

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ment. He said wrong and did right. believe in top-spin, that she did not The decent sportsmen amongst his read- know how to play it, and did not want ers will not be bored by following the to learn. Not only does Miss Bjur- outrageous treatment of Ouimet until stedt know it, but she uses it very well. the national affront is annulled by the She may not know that she knows it, Golf Outrage Corporation. but she does. The control of her fine forehand stroke comes, in a great meas- ure, from the excellently regulated Thus Woodward in the letter refer- amount of top-spin that Miss Bjurstedt red to: uses. There are many players in Amer- Is it possible Hint the change is advo- ica who would be quite as good as Miss cated for this very reason so that just Bjurstedt if they could only realize u few skilful players may slip liy with what a wonderful difference a little top- tlirir money-getting enterprises and have nothing more serious happen to spin makes. Anyone who condemns them 111,111 id be "considered persona top-spin in tennis, simply says, "I am non grata/" not up-to-date." As well might one I have heard that Woodward is a condemn back-spin in golf. Yale man. Evidently they were not Mrs. Thomas Bundy at her best very strong on Latin in his time. Play- would always beat Miss Bjurstedt ers persona non grata! mainly on account of her stronger fore- I give him two guesses: "personae hand with better top-spin, and her im- non gratae" or "persona* non r/ratas." measurably sounder backhand. There The latter, one would never see; but are players in New York who could give why not? Is it not the accusative Miss Bjurstedt all she wonts and a plural? little more if they would learn that, of And while on the subject of Latin, in which she speaks so slightingly, which B. L. T.'s contribution we read "Quad is nevertheless the backbone of her erat demo nit trtuidum." game, top-spin on the forehand. Miss If Mr. Taylor gives the long-suffer- Wagner, Mrs. McLean, Mrs. S. F. ing public much of this kind of Latin Weaver, Miss Sears and possibly Miss he has an excellent chance of landing Taylor are some names that occur to in "quad" himself. In childhood's me, and there are many others, espe- early days this was "quod" and we have cially amongst the younger players. not heard of any authority for the radi- Let no one run away with the idea that cal change that Mr. Taylor tries to put Miss Bjurstedt is in a class by herself. over. That would be a totally erroneous idea, as will be clearly proved in due course. Most of the other players arc suffering I read a funny thing by Miss Molla too much from "moral effect" at. present. Bjurstedt the other day. She was re- When they take notice of what I say it ported as having said that she did not will be another thing altogether. o c • c 3D 1ARE YOUR CIRCULARS AND BUSINESS LETTERS GETTING RESUL TS?

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