The Oldest Golf Publication in America NO. FOUR 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? Portraits of Investment Bankers at Play And Other Feature* year Born 1820 —still going strong. r I Johnnie Walker: "' ALL IS NOT OOT.D THAT GLITTERS.'" Wise Man : YF.S BI'T THERE 1^ MORK THAN GOLDEN GLITTER ABOUT 'JOHNNIE WAIKKK KI:U LABEL IT IS GENUINE' Every drop of Red Label is over 10 years old before released from bond. GUARANTEED SAME QUAUTY THROUGHOUT THE WORLD. I i Agents: WILLIAMS & HUMBERT, 1158 Broadway, NEW YORK. JOHN WAI K R * =ONS I.TTV. WlllKirv DlKTILLRRS, KILM A KNOCK. SCOTLAND. THE OLDEST GOLF PUBLICATION IN AMERICA^ Vo.40 | QOJjP ' *-« ESTABLISHED IN 1894- W. W. YOUNO, Editor CONTENTS FOR APRIL, 1917 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 Golfers' Hotel Directory 2.56 Entered as second-class mutter September 14, 1897, at the post office at New York. N. Y., under the Act of March 3, 1897, > AKAX AAAA J*. Ai. t/x A\AXAXXy GOLF is published monthly at 286 Filth Avenue, New York, N. 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