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YORK JANUARY 1911 t. II.. • Florida East Coast Winter Golf on the American Riviera ST. AUGUSTINE: Feb. 13th —So. Florida Championship. Feb. 21st —Women's Championship of Hotel Alcazar. Florida. Hotel Ponce de Leon. March 7th —Florida Open Championship — Professional and Amateur. St. Augustine Golf Club. March 13th — Florida St3te Champion- ship. ORMOND: Booklet of Palm Beach Golf and Ten- nis Events. 1911. will be sent on appli- Hotel Ormond-on-the-Halifax. cation to 243 Fifth Avenue, New York. Ormond Beach Golf Club— MIAMI: Geo. Merritt, Professional. This new playground was constructed Hotel Royal Palm. during the past year. The nine-hole Miami Golf Club —Charlie course is on the rolling sand dunes close along the ocean directly east of Thorn, Professional. Hotel Ormond. Sand soil with good The new nine-hole course, two years grass cover. old, ten minutes from the Royal Palm The Club House and bath pavilion on by new electric busses. the ocean beach conveniently located for golfers. 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Vaile (Author of "Modern Golf") In my last article, speaking of some eminent scientist, a distinguished rather unintelligent criticism in Eng- mathematician, and a man who is well land, I said that thev really are not a accustomed to use words to express little bit scientific in their considera- accurately what he means. tion of the game here. ] am afraid What do we find ? that I must admit that they play it 1 am almost afraid to answer this very well, so well, in tact, that 1 al- question plainly, although, when writ- most shudder when I think what they ing for American readers, 1 have no might do if they knew as much of haunting fear of libel actions, and I the higher science of it as they should, am more inclined to express myself considering the fact that many of unreservedly than in some other cases. them live at it. and for it. and not a 1 may, however, say that the paper few, including amateurs, by it. is singularly full of errors from a golf- That, however, is another story. ing point of view, and it seems to me Since I made this apparently sweep- that in some cases the dynamical prob- ing statement 1 have received from lems, simple as they are in the main. Professor Sir J. J. Thomson. M.A., have been too much for the eminent L.L.D., D.S.C.." F'R.S.. M.R.I.. Pro- mathematician. fessor of Natural Philosophy, Royal Sir I. I. Thomson at the outset Institution of Great Britain, and win- says: "I shall not attempt to deal ner in 1906 of the Xobel Prize for with the man}' important questions Physics, a copy of his paper on "The which arise when we consider the im- Dynamics of a Colt Hall." The pact of the club with the ball, but learned professor read this paper at (shall) confine myself to the consid- a meeting of the Royal Institution of eration of the flight of the ball after Great Britain. it has left the dub;" but, unfortu- In this case, at least, we were en- nately for him, be does not carry out titled to hope for absolutely scientific bis expressed intention, with the re- and accurate treatment of this subject. sult that in attempting to explain how for Sir I. T. Thomson really is an backspin is obtained, be falls into a Copyright, lull, by ARTHUR POTTOW. All rights reserved. THE DYNAMICS OF GOLF woeful, and from a golfing point of dition," for he tells us that "a lawn- view, ludicrous error; but of that tennis player avails himself of the more hereafter. effect of spin when he puts "top-spin'' Me continues: "This problem is in on his drives, i. e., hits the ball on the any case a very interesting one; it top so as to make it spin about a hori- would be even more interesting if we zontal axis. could accept the explanations of the This statement is more wonderful behavior of the ball given by many than the statement in "The Complete contributors to the very voluminous Lawn Tennis Player," "that top-spin literature which has collected round is got by hitting the ball at the bot- the game. I f these were correct, 1 tom," for we do expect Sir J. J. r should have to bring before you this Thomson to know something of the evening a new dynamics, and announce law of gravitation. Hitting a ball on that matter, when made up into golf the to]> at lawn tennis would be sheer balls, obeys laws of an entirely differ- idiocy, for the only result would be ent character from those governing its to make it fly off the racket towards action when in any other condition." the base line of the player hitting it; Now, this cannot be held to be very in other words, it would go away from complimentary to the "main- contribu- the net, not towards it, as Sir J. J. tors" who have dmie their little bit to Thomson fondly imagines. This cer- spread the knowledge of the higher tainly is "a new dynamics." development of the game; but it is at As a matter of practical lawn least typically English in its marvel- tennis and simple dynamics, "top- lous assumption of superior knowledge spin" on a lawn-tennis ball is obtained —an assumption which 1 am afraid by hitting the ball an upward glancing the matter of the lecture does not blow on that part of it which is far- warrant. thest from the net, commonly called The quaintest feature about it is, "behind" from the striker's side. however, that after this opening state- Sometimes it is hit a little lower than ment, the learned lecturer proceeds by the centre, and sometimes, in a very laborious and complicated experi- high-bounding ball near the net, a lit- ments to demonstrate those matters tle higher than the centre, but never set out by me in 11)04 H1 m>' book, "on the top." That is quite absurd, "Swerve, or the Flight of the Ball." and is repugnant to common sense and which is, so far as I am aware, the the simplest laws of the "old dynam- ics." only book on the subject, and which has not yet been shown to be wrong Sir J.