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WAR AND GOLF By H. B. MARTIN

The Passing of the Cleek By P. A. VAILE

Harry Vardon and "Chick" Evans on the Push Shot

The Romance of Golf

The Mystery of Golf

The Ouimet Outrage And Other Special Ftaturet and Editorial Comment

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CONTENTS FOR MARCH, 1917

PAUL: Frontispiece—Interesting Event of the Past Winter 18fi The Passing of the (leek—Hy P. A. Vaile. Illustration from Photograph ...... 137 War and Golf—Hy H. B. Martin, lllu.itrations from Sice tchcs by the Author ...... in The Romance of Golf—Hy Our Own Kxpert. Illustrations from Photographs ...... I 1.5 Caddy—A Poem ...... 152 The Thought Machine—A Story . . . . . 158 Harry Vardon on the Push Stroke . . . . . 155 "Chick" Evans on the Push Shot ..... 159 "He Was a Sterling Golfer"—An Appreciation of the I .ate Charles B. Macfarlane ...... Mil One-Armed Players ...... Hi I Edward Ray on Putting ...... 162 Jerome D. Travers and One-Club Golf .... 108 Through the Green ...... 165 "The Mystery of Golf" ...... Hi!) Periscopic Peeps ...... "The Fundamental Shot" ...... 178 Editorials: "The Ouimet Outrage" -Golfers' Misdirected /< Power of Public Opinion ...... 175

Golfers' Calendar ...... 1U0 Golfers' Hotel Directory ......

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VOLUME POHTV MAIU'H, 1911 NVMBKB TIIREK

THE PASSING OF THE CLEEK BY P. A. VAI1.F,

Author of "Modern Golf," "The Soul of Golf," "The New Golf," Etc.

HAD thought of calling this article duranoe of this fetich that nobody I "The Fetich of the Cleek," but it recognized as a fetich. What was could not properly be done because the that reason or reasons? There is cleek had ceased to be a fetich, at least here plenty of field for speculation. I in America, before 1 had realized that have given it some thought since I be- it was so. came aware that the obsession of the It is, indeed, curious, when we con- cleek to a certain extent had "got me sider the history of golf, to see what a down." unique position the cleek has occupied I say "to a certain extent" because and to some extent in 1909, in "Modern still occupies. There Golf," I clearly con- is not in golf a holier demned the shallow- word than "cleek." faeed club and adum- No weaker adjective brated the coming of t b a n "holier" will the Ted Ray i r o n- serve. The cleek un- faced driver and the questionably has been deep-faced club gen- I he most blindly ven- erally, as will be seen erated club ever used, from the extract at and the remarkable till' end of this ar thing about it is that tide. nobody lias realized What, then, are the that the word "cleek" r e a s o n s that have was lo a golfer al made the cleek a club most more to be ven- s o blindly worship- erated than the word ped as it has been for "golf." There must a g e s of gel f, by be some reason for scores of thousands this blind supersti- of unreasoning play- Iilion ; for the en- ers and would-be p A VAII.E Copyrighted, 18%, byGOLF, INCOKPOKATED. All Rights Reserved. 138 THE PASSING OF THE CLEEK

players to whom it was only a tor- any other club; for let it be .stated now men t. that nothing can be done with a clock Firstly, it .seems that it has been due with its too narrow blade that could mainly to the fact that the professionals not be done equally well, if not better, have got excellent results with it. To if the. face of the club were half as wide play well with a clcek one requires to again as it now is. live with it by day and to sleep with it The curious thing about this defect at night; in fact, it requires to be part in the eleek thnt i.s causing it to pass of one if one is to do any good with it. out of practical golf •••--namely, its nar- So, in many cases, it has been with the row face-- i.s that it militates seriously professional player, and the history of against the successful playing of the golf shows a long line of great play- greatest shot that ever conies off a deck, ers that have accomplished wonderful which is tile push-stroke. things with the historic eleek, not on As i.s well known now, Hii.s stroke i.s account of any intrinsic; merits of the played by a descending blow that hits club itself, but owing to their greatness the ball before the club gets to the bot- at the game. tom of its swing. It follows naturally So it naturally came to pass that the that the ball must travel or roll up- cleek grew in reputation and its fame wards on the face of the club. It fol- became exceedingly great, and golfers, lows just as naturally (.hat the nar- who could not use it, called themselves rower the face of the club the less mar- hard names because they saw men who gin for error i.s there in the stroke, This had lived with this club all their lives is the .simple, explanation of the success doing great things with iL, and they of the professional with the push stroke could not understand why they should and the failure of the amateur, not do likewise. And so it was and has In any case the push-stroke calls for been for many years. The poor golfer a great mnoitut of accuracy. This the lias plodded his way around the links professional from long acquaintance in many cases under the obsession of with the club has been able to acquire, the cleek, suffering from the tyranny of but when the amateur, who has bad tradition, using his treacherous assist- nothing like the practical acquaintance, ant where, any one of several other clubs with the cleek that has fallen to Hie lot would have done better work for him of the professional, fries to use his nar- if he had dared to carry them and use row-faced implement he falls down. them—as lie now does in nanny eases. Few people know that IIwry Vur- There are many golfers that have for don, one of the greatest stroke-players years bowed to the fetich to the extent in the world, if not, indeed, the great- of carrying a deck but praelicalli/ est, uses for the push-stroke, a deeper- navei' using it, and now scores of thou- faced (dub than his ordinary eleek and. sands of others are going to put it out one that has more loft and a more up- of the bag and up over the mantel-piece right lie. or in some other convenient place in This i.s now the tendency in many the study, to be looked at and talked iron clubs that arc encroaching on the over in a few years as the hoary old province, of the eleek, but so tremen- rascal who "put it over" golfers longer dous is the hold of the hoary old im- and in a more inexplicable manner than postor that to a great extent they are THE PASSING OF THE CLEEK 139 doing it surreptitiously, if we may so tiches of golf this most ancient fetich express it. They travel in the same bag should have escaped recognition as be- with the exploded old fetich, they say ing in truth another of the unsound tra- no word of disrespect to him, but they ditions of golf. But, like all unsound are ready and waiting for many a shot traditions, it was bound to have its day. that, but a very short time ago, was It has been found out. We can write nothing but a cleek-shot; and they do with conviction now of "The Passing not wait in vain. of the Cleek." It is a big title. It is The cleek is a pensioner to-day in more than episodal. It is epochal. nineteen of twenty bags. It is there "The Passing of the Cleek" is, indeed, because it is, and still will be for some a sonorous phrase, that will echo in the little time, an obsession. But its day history of golf; it is actually the begin- is over, for its narrow face lias killed it. ning of an era in golf. It must have greater depth of face and Methinks the subject calls for an then it ceases to be the cleek, the most elegy. I can almost hear some Ameri- historic club in golf, a club that ex- can golf poet breaking into verse. For presses golf more than the names of all me, I have tolled the knell of the pass- the other golf clubs together, for the ing cleek, as I foretold it in 1909; but cleek is "the cleek" and as sue]] must now it is more than half accomplished, live or die. We can hardly imagine for the practical American golfer will any one having the moral courage to have none of it. produce a club and call it the deep- As I said before, there is no holier faced cleek. word in golf than cleek. It will hold No, the cleek stands out as the club the club to the game in England, and that has preserved its individuality even more so in Scotland, longer than more than any other club in golf. Your it will here, but the, day of the deep- baffles and your spoons may come and faced club has dawned and the passing go and vary; your driving irons may of the cleek is not a dream, but an grow and develop in various ways; but actuality. when all is said and done a cleek is a Following is the extract from "Mod- cleeh: and so it comes to pass that the ern Golf" to which I have referred. cleek, the father of shallow-faced irons, "It is a mistake in the driver or the most venerated club in golf, has to brassie to have the face too shallow. go the way of all things that stand The tendency with such a club is al- athwart the best development of the ways to lift the ball, and this, of course, game; and thus it makes room for a means sacrificing distance. This re- whole array of deep-faced irons that mark applies generally to shallow-faced cluster thickly round it in lie and loft, clubs. The reason is simple and may in weight and depth. best be shown by illustration (as in the It is passing strange that of the fe- accompanying diagram). 110 THE PASSING OF THE CLEEK

"litre the brassie, A, lias cut into tile "I think players are much inclined to grass, which is holding the hall away err on the side of lightness with their from the earth a little. ft, therefore, iron clubs. We are so addicted to doing gets a little below the hall. This, exactly what others do that we seldom added to the shallowness of the face, make any experiment to see if we could causes the hall, on impact, to bend over improve on the existing clubs. the top of the club, as shown at the "A short time ago I had a cleek of n point ('. (For the purpose of illustra- new pattern made for experimental tion the condition is exaggerated in the purposes. The moment I looked at it hall, H.) This is very marked in shal- I knew it was useless for a cleek. The low-faced irons, and in playing off the lie was wrong. It was practically an heel of the tnashie. The greater por- 'iron driver,' not a driving iron; but tion of the force is applied in the line even as that it was useless, for it was shown by the arrow. There is a con- socket-heavy, and there was no metal in siderable amount of inertia at the top the head. I told the maker to solder of the ball, as there is no direct power another ounce of iron behind the point behind it. The tendency, however, is of impact, to carve the face into squares naturally for it to rise instead of to fly, by lines and to cover it with a film of as it would do were the face of the solder. I then used the club as a driver driver of proper height. and found that it drove almost as well "It is a mistake to imagine, as some as a driver. We are too much afraid of writers assert, that the shallow face an ounce of metal." will give more 'under-spin,' as they call [ Those who are familiar with the it. Under-spin is practically a misno- construction of the Ted Ray iron- mer for any spin that a driver can com- faced driver, with its central bolt of municate to the ball. Back-spin is a iron, will see clearly in it the prin- more correct term, for any spin of this ciple of Mr. Vaile's "iron driver," nature is obtained, not by hitting under while his teaching with regard to the the ball, but by hitting it behind, as the fallacy of the shallow-faced irons is club is descending. This will be fully becoming better recognized every dealt with later. day.—EDITOR. JAND

H. B. MARTIN

N time of peace prepare for war." requested to devote a small part of his I In time of war prepare for more time each week to raising vegetables. war, or peace—which will you have it? The Dunwoodie Club put this sugges- Every golfer would prefer the quiet of tion up to the United States Golf Asso- a golf links to the excitement of war. ciation. The U. S. G. A. thought so Not that he is afraid to fight when the well of it that they ask the cooperation occasion demands, but war at its very of all clubs in their jurisdiction. The best hardly equals the fascination of clubs were only too glad of a chance to golf. help in this way, and the, result has (iolfers will not shirk their duty to been that all the spare ground around their country, and in the enlistments the various links is being put, or is to that have been made so far golfers were be put, to a practical use. Hereafter, among the first to offer their services. when you slice or pull, the chances are But as the great majority of men who that you will find your ball over in the support the golf dubs are not available vegetable garden among the cabbages for the trenches or the ships, on account and peas instead of in the long, rough of their age, they are willing to do their grass. bit, just the same, of whatever it niav The Dunwoodie plan was to have consist. each member spend at least two hours Just as .soon as it was definitely set- a week in actual work. There was n tled that we were to have war many golf small chance for escape, however, in the clubs offered their courses to the gov- proviso that if he found that he was not ernment for training purposes. Some suited for the job he could hire a boy were even willing that their courses to do his .share. should be put under the plough. These Here is where the weakness of the were generous offers, but in neither whole plan comes in. There are few ease lias it been necessary. What was golfers who would prefer weeding a asked of the golfers was that they culti- garden to playing around the links, es- vate a part of the links not needed for pecially when they can hire a caddy to golfing purposes, and each member was do this work for them for no more than 112 IV.Hi .IXD GOLF

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he would charge for making a trip The problem seems to solve itself rather around the links. There .arc few cad- easily. The boy is happy because of a dies who would prefer carrying ;i large chance to make more monev in liis odd golf bag full of clubs to devoting the moments. Tile clubs are pleased over same amount of time hoeing vegetables. the amount of vegetables they are going to get for nothing, and the member is pleased over the fact that he will al ways be able to Hud a caddy on I he links when he want.s one, whether he is hoeing potatoes or waiting for a job to carry clubs. The situation is not without ils humor, after all, if you can imagine lin- ing up a lot of duffers and sending them out to the cabbage patch. To begin ' with, most of them know as little about gardening or farming as they know about golf. Therefore it would be necessary to have a professional gardener on hand to teach them the proper stance and the proper grip on the hoe or spade. Some of them are no doubt qualified for digging, as this has been their principal pursuit for years. Digging up the soil is nothing new to the rank and file of duffers. If they are as expert at this sort of work as they are when there are no divots to replace some of them will (it in very nicely. The betting features of golf might easily enough be transferred to the po- tato field. For instance, a ball mighi In- wagered on each lull or row hoed. Or a box of balls might be wagered on (he most work done during the Iwo hours. I'll venture to say that Ihe ir.il,' .1X1) GOLF 1 !••( golfer will get liis fun nut of il somehow.

A great array of youthful golfing talent lias broken loose. Last fall we were looking forward to another year on the links when we could sec little Bobby Jones in action again in an amnleur championship. But events have changed since then. Bobby is just as good as ever. No doubt lie is a wee bit better, with an additional year on his shoulders, but along comes Ferry Adair, who proved in the recent Druid Hills tournament that he had more class than we gave him credit for and, if anything, was as good as his fellow townsman, .Jones. Then comes Tom Preseott to the front. He is another Atlanta youth with considerable talent for playing the game and seems to be about on a pur with Jones and Adair. Louis Jacoby, turned out lo lie the sensation of the of Texas, although not so youthful as year. Then there is Ned Beall, an- the others, has demonstrated his ability other Pennsylvania boy who lias shown during the winter season in the South 71 lot of good golf. and will be heard from in future tournaments. We are going to do mighty little predicting in amateur championships Norman Maxwell, who won the hereafter. North and South championship by de- feating VV. ('. Townes, Jr., an experi- enced veteran, is not yet twenty. By Last month our term expired as winning three tournaments in a row, President of the Newspaper Golf Club, two last fall and one this spring, he lias and in one of the pictures that accom-

THE LOCAL RULE \ IS ABOUT YOUR 6ALL rai-LtKd \ TH E" / / WAR AM) GOLF pany this article you will see us' con- courses. Recently he returned from gratulating Grantland Rice on having the West, where he added a dozen new succeeded us in office. courses to his list. If all goes well this Rice is just the man for the job. He year—that is, if the vaudeville business is a big, rangy fellow and a tough man doesn't take too much of his precious from whom to win an argument. R. F. time from the links—Fletcher expects Foster was retained as Vice-President. to play his two hundredth course. From Somehow this seems to be a perpetual June to August, during the heated job with him; due, no doubt, to the fact term, he confines his playing to At- that he spends all of his summers out lantic City, where he has a summer of town and is with us only in the early home. .spring and the fall. Fletcher has practically golfed around the world. He has played the Charles Leonard Fletcher, actor and royal and ancient pastime in eighteen golfer, is with us again. For the past different countries. If he ever has a twenty years Fletcher has trod the links of his own Fletcher says hi- is boards, playing vaudeville in every city going to have the flag of one of these of any importance in the country. countries at each hole. The last time About ten years ago he took up golf, we interviewed Charles Leonard the and during this time he has never vis- official count was 172 courses ployed. ited any part of the country without Recently he broke all records by play- having played one or more of its golf ing twenty courses in ten days.

IF You MIND SIR, I'D RATHER DO VOUP. SHARE IN THE GAR.- DEN FofZSoU. THE ROMANCE OF GOLF And a Few Glaring Fallacies About the Arms and Wrists, the Grips, "Slow Back," Balls and Clubs

BY OUE OWN EXPERT

HERE is no game so full of ro- It has been said that golf i.s an ex- mance as golf. In itself it is an tremely simple game. It would per- Textremely simple pastime, capable of haps be. more correct to say it tcia.i an being conducted decently without out- extremely simple game until the ro- raging any of the rudimentary laws of mance of golf came to be published, mechanics or unduly distorting one's chiefly in volumes inscribed by enter- face or figure. prising, though colossally ignorant, Performed according to the direc- journalists for enterprising publishers tions in most of the books which profess who put forward the production under to explain it, the game becomes some- the aegis of some famous name. tiling which calls for an organization Then golf became a very complicated above anything possessed by ordinary matter, and from a grand, simple, so- mankind. It then requires a clever con- ciable game, played sensibly and de- tortionist with an elastic mind and an cently, it quickly developed into a na- extremely simple soul—and even lie tional obsession bristling with enough soon finds himself in difficulties. technicalities to worry a Chicago law- Dealing with a subject so grave, yer into a lunatic asylum and involved so momentous as golf, this savors of in a maze of ridiculous and contradic- ribaldry, until one remembers that in tory falseness which lias wrought incal- at least one of the volumes which culable injury to the game and the furnish the whole romance of golf souls of many of the nnf ortunntc people the unfortunate golfer, or would-be who could not distinguish romance from golfer, is solemnly assured that if he reality. moves his head "even an inch" his Golf has been with us for hundreds drive, must be irretrievably ruined and of years. It is amazing, when, we con- is told in almost the next sentence to sider how very simple the game is, what get his weight on to his right foot at the a cloud of misleading and untrue doc- top of his swing. As he is commanded trine envelops it and encompasses it to start with his weight equally distrib- round about. In England golf is uted between his feet, one may be par- played well in spite of false, teaching, doned for conjuring up a vision of the for the men of the present generation distortion required to transfer it to his of golfers are prosaic; persons who right leg without moving his head. learnt the game before the romance of In England today men play golf golf was written. They did not think probably better, on the average, than do about the game. To this day many men in any other part of the world. golfers do not think of their game. There are reasons for this. They have Some of them cannot. These are not been doing it for a much longer time to be blamed. Those who can, and do than the other people, and they spend not, are, however, blameworthy, in that much more time at it than do other they refuse to render to the game a nations. You will notice that I say service which is due to it, so that those "men" play better golf. The rising who are now growing up in the perni- generation in this country promises to cious influence of the romance of golf change matters. may not be led from the good old r 146 THE ROMANCE OF GOLF

straight and simple path which made tion of these people that in cricket or in golf the grand game it is, the grand hockey, in handling an axe, cracking a game it will remain if golfers •will seek bullock-whip, wielding a slash-hook or the truth instead of blindly worship- a scjrthe, tossing stooks onto a stack ping false gods, which are not even the with a pitch-fork, in digging with a gods in whose names they are Libelled. spade, handling a rake, or in any one. of Golf would probably be played bet- half a hundred other simple occupa- ter than it is if there were no books, for tions, the right hand and arm were the most books contain much false doctrine. servants and the left the masters, he This sounds like a grave and sweeping would run, serious risk of impairing his charge, so I must endeavor to fortify it. reputation for sanity. Let us consider for a moment the all- This is where the romance and the important matter of the distribution of wonder of golf become evident. From weight in that most complex of strokes, time immemorial, until it was rudely the golf drive. There is probably no shattered, this insolent little one-eyed book with a great golfer's name at- idol, the fetich of the left, was worship- tached to ib which doe.s not explicitly ped by his blind followers as a great lay down the instruction that at the top and sacred thing, and the mischievous of the swing the golfer's weight should little villain took his toll of his victims be on the right foot, but none of these in thousands of fearful slices and great men in practice carries out this crooked drives, for by his evil machina- teaching. tions he put the mind of the golfer Each of them, at the top of his where it had no right to be—in his left swing, clearly and most unmistakably arm and hand. puts his weight, or rather most of it, on So also it is with another persistent his left foot, and most of them drive error of the golfer, the "flick" of the passing well; but the eye of the ordi- wrist, whereas in truth there is in golf nary man is nob keen enough to detect no "flicking" of the wrist. It is no un- the difference between the alleged common thing to have it said, or sec it teaching in some great one's book and written, that someone was getting every the practice of the great one himself, so ounce out of his wrists at the moment lie follows the words of his oracle, and of impact, whereas at the moment of thus the drive, of thousands of the aspir- impact the wrists are in a singularly in- ing golfers of today is, if not entirely effective position for the production of ruined, at least produced in exceedingly power, the left particularly being at bad form, for. it is impossible to pre- this precise moment in a very weak serve the rhythm of a perfect swing if position. a man is heaving his body from foot to foot before he hits the ball. The simple truth about the power of the wrists is that what there is of it Then, too, for time whereof the mem- comes in at and immediately after the ory of man runneth not to the contrary, beginning of the downward swing of the and for generations before that, the club, and that what is. most commonly doctrine of the left arm's superiority mistaken for wrist work at the moment was blindly worshipped by golfers. of impact is the natural roll of the fore- Many of the golf romancers boldly pro- arms. Any attempt to introduce the claimed the fact that the left was king; slightest wrist work at the moment of some did not declare so absolutely for impact would undoubtedly be fatal to him, but contented themselves with im- the stroke. plying that his was the power, the The wrists perform their most impor- place and the precedence and that the right was an adjunct. tant work early in the swing in assisting to develop the 'tremendous speed nb Naturally the time came when this which the golf club is travelling when ib false doctrine was challenged. There strikes the ball. The duration of impact are many sensible men amongst golfers. in the golf drive is about one ten thou- If anyone were to write for the edifica- sandth of a second. Nothing that the

111 ,, THE ROMANCE OF GOLF 14.7 human mind can conceive and the or lessen, the loft of his eleek. It fol- human frame can. have time to execute lows that the flight of the ball during within bliis period can have any effect its earlier stages is very low, and it has on the ball. a heavy back-spin. Pace in a ball We frequently read in the books of whicli is spinning generally dominates those who write of things they know the spin till well after half the carry not of, that at the moment of impact in has been, travelled. So it is with this a slice the hands are drawn in, but it is stroke. The ball skims along close to not so. Nobody could time such an ac- the earth until the pace begins to dimin- tion. The hands seem to be drawn in ish. Then the friction on the forward during impact because they are travel- and lower part of the ball gets to work, ling inwards, but their line of travel is and it rises in a beautiful and gradual continuous, and the slice produced be- curve until the force of the back-spin is cause incidentally the ball is in the exhausted, when it falls, in many cases path of the. club-head while it is pass- almost stone dead. ing at an oblique angle across the. in- This is beyond question one of the tended line of the ball's flight. most beautiful and important strokes in This delusion about wrist work at the •-.the game, for it includes in its method moment of impact is very injurious and oil production the wind cheater, and all follows in a measure on the more an- those strokes which are produced by a cient delusion that the golf stroke is a downward blow and a short, straight sweep, whereas, well and truly played, follow through, which leaves one, at the golf drive is indeed a hit, a very the finish of the stroke, pointing to- palpable hit, without any tiling of the wards the hole with the club head and sweep about it. The golf drive is just with the. hands so turned that the back ••is much a hit as is driving a nail with of the right hand is uppermost. These a hammer, chopping wood with an axe, are in many cases the longest and or caning a boy. In each case the straightost strokes in golf, for they are .strain of producing the stroke falls produced with back-spin, the secret of across the wrists in the direction in distance—and accuracy. which they bend least. This is most Jfc is almost impossible to exaggerate marked in the production of the blow the beauty and utility of this stroke. with an axe. One who has this shot can afford to for- There is in golf a singularly beauti- get all about fulls and slices, for this ful stroke, mis-called the push .shot. in very truth is the master stroke of Harry Vardon plays this stroke, as in- golf. This being recognized, it is indeed lie does all golf strokes, very deed marvellous to find., in this golfing beautifully. Well and truly played year of grace. 1917, people who can se- this stroke has in it the poetry of golf riously assert that Harry Vardon, the and, whicli is more prized by most golf- prince of stroke players, produces this ers, the essence of practical golf, the stroke by hitting his ball onto the secret of the golf of the future. earth; in fact, that "they go hard to Vardon plays down onto his ball, earth together." This is false doctrine using a eleek shorter than usual and of the most pernicious kind,, for any at- with more loft, but although he plays tempt to produce this (inc. stroke in this downwards at the ball, and at the mo- manner must inevitably lead to disaster. ment of impact has his hands well for- No golf stroke could possibly be con- ward of the ball, he hits it well sistently produced with the accuracy below the middle so that the. loft can and delicacy shown by Vardon in mak- perform its function of raising the ball ing this stroke if the ball were bumped and assisting in the production of on the earth. There is in this delusion back-spin. at least something liorribly unromantic. Vardon's hands, being forward of the There is in this mistaken notion the ball when he hits it, naturally minimize, explanation of the misnomer, the push. 148 THE ROMANCE OF GOLF come by the return or downward swi?ig. "Slow back" simply means "don't set up too great a fight between these two forces." Several years ago most of these fallacies were so blindly worshipped that it would have been considered rank heresy and revolu- tionary doctrine to promulgate them. Now many of them are recognized by scientific golfers as things of a by-gone, age, but there is yet much to do. The fetich of the left lias been badly damaged. In all countries it has been shaken, if not broken, to the betterment of golf, and this leaves us face to face with the consideration of that which may be another, and the greatest, fallacy of modern golf. We know that in golf men accept dogmas and do things absolutely contrary to reason and natural laws. Nowhere else do we find such an unnatural ami, when it is considered, such an apparently imperfect grip of an plement as that advocated for us on a golf club. This wonderful unreasoning following of THE VARDON CRIP. the funny things written and ad- Those who do not understand the vocated by men who really do not stroke maintain that it is pushed down know the game, in the names of men onto the earth by the cleek because the who play the game remarkably well, blow is downward, quite oblivious of the for men who neither know it nor play it fact that although the blow is down- very well, does indeed lead to much ward it cannot pass fur below the ball, confusion of thought. It is this which for it would be, arrested by the earth to 11 great extent causes the golfer to be and that the general direction of the the greatest talker about his game ex- club at and about the moment of impact cept perhaps the bowler on the earth. is much more forward than downward. When one has the truth clearly and effi- There is another hoary old maxim ciently laid before him it cannot pro- which has almost earned its right to duce the same amount of controversy as come into our band of fallacies, and does the mass of false and injurious that is "slow back." To tell the truth matter which innocent and unsuspecting "slow back" has been done to death, golfers endeavor to digest. and in consequence thereof one sees This consideration leads us naturally many fearful and wonderful sights on to ask if it is certain that the present the links. There is no need for anyone remarkable hold, which practically to go hack more slowly than is sufficient keeps the right hand oil' the shaft to enable him to recover well at the top of the club, is the best and most sew of the swing. Tt is undoubted that there ieeable grip which can be used in must, at the top of the swing, be a mo- golf. ment wherein the upward force is over- Before this grip, which is commonly THE ROMANCE OP GOLF 149

called the overlapping grip, was intro- mendous ball, and this puzzled the golf- duced, the right had its proper place ing scribes extremely. on the club and was undoubtedly in There probably is a reason for command, although in those days this Grant's increased length, and the rea- was not recognized. When the over- son is just as probably associated with lapping grip became popular because the loss of this thumb. It is almost cer- Vardou used it, players found that it tain that the loss of the thumb has given brought their wrists more together, thus the right band more of its proper and giving to a considerable extent the ef- natural position on the shaft than it fect of a single joint and setting up less could obtain when the left thumb was conflict than in the old grip where both inserted between the shaft and its hands were apart. palm. This seems a very feasible ex- There is no standing still even in planation of the golfer's improvement golf. We must go forward or back- as regards distance. ward. Therefore we must now con- We are naturally led to inquire if he sider whether, if the overlapping grip would not have a more perfect grip if, is an improvement on the old grip be- being without his left thumb, lie were cause it brings the wrist more to- to give his right hand the full grip of gether, makes them, in fact, more like the shaft and then to overlap with his one joint, we have not, in adopting a left. In .tills case he probably would new grip wlievein the left overlaps the have, a perfect hold of the golf club. riijliif a still more solid, serviceable and This, however, is one of those matters united hold than with the ordinary which we must be content to leave to overlap. the future. This surely is a question With the suggested bold the right for research, experiment, argument, gets well on to the shaft of the club. practice, and not till the new grip has All the lingers and the thumb get a been thoroughly tried and proved dare good grip. The thumb of the. left hand we include, the time honored and almost is, of course, inside the palm of the universally adopted overlapping grip in right, but the right is undoubtedly in the list of golfing fallacies. full command. In the present over- Perhaps the strangest fallacy from lapping grip the hold of the right hand which golfers have suffered has been on the shaft is reduced to the first, the fallacy of the golf ball, for even the .second and. third fingers mid the thumb, implements of the. game, the clubs and which really is not enough. The sug- the balls, are in themselves the concrete gested grip, already of proved value, embodiment of fallacious thought. will probably be the most important In the ball this fallacy exists in the change in golf in the next few years. idea that a sphere whose surface is clot- There are many golfers who worship ted over with excrescences relatively to fallacies so sincerely that they resent the ball of considerable size will prog- all new ideas. The present golf grip ress farther through the air and better has not yet been proved to be fallacious, on the green than one which is well and so there are many who will be up in truly made, and which preserves as arms against the mere idea of any much as conveniently may be the per- change. For the consideration of such fetion of its spherical contour. as these, we may relate a somewhat This great fallacy was pointed out curious ocurrence. Several years ago some years ago. Needless to say it was a young Dornoch golfer, T. E. Grant, resented, not only by those wonderful sprang into prominence by beating John people who revere fallacies, especially Hall in the amateur championship. old fallacies, or, as they arc called in Grant, it appears, lost the. thumb of his England, "traditions", but also by the left hand at the second joint. Some manufacturers of golf balls, There time after this he began to drive a tre- was at that time much sound sense in the opposition! of the tradesmen. They 150 THE ROMANCE OF GOLF had millions of unscientifically made beyond question that it does. The golf golf balls in their possesicm. These club is a crooked stick. Golf would be were all. sold long ago, and now the ex- ' played better with a straight club. erescences on the golf ball are much Originally, every ball striking imple- smaller, the ball, itself is smaller and ment was crooked. The cricket bat, the heavier, and naturally it both carries lawn tennis racket, lacrosse, and even and runs better-—but still it is a fallacy. the billiard cue, were originally curved. Golf is not, cannot be, a whole set of Science taught us how faulty they were. mechanical laws unto itself. No other These we have reformed. The point of ball in the realm of sport is made on impact on the hockey stick is creeping such stupid lines as the brambly or in towards the handle. The real tennis pimply golf ball. racket has already been made straight, In our humble opinion the golf ball although it has not yet been ado|)ted should be marked by indentation and generally, and the gulf club has fol- never b}' excrescence. This will be ap- lowed suit in a measure, for its head parent if we take as an example a bil- has been much shortened so as to bring liard ball and a billiard table. It the point of impact as near the shaft as would be possible to take a billiard ball possible, wliile no less an authority than and mark it much as an old guttie was Harry Vardon has declared that this marked, by sunken lines, without mak- tendency is justified. It is merely the ing it run "foul", If, however, instead natural tendency to get into the straight of sinking these lines they were placed line, which is essential in order to get on the ball in the form of a raised se- the best results in any game. ries of squares, the ball would be im- A quaint instance of the golfer's fol- possible. Its contour would be inter- lowing the fallacy in theory, while de- fered with too much. Very simple ex- nying it in practice, is furnished by the periments with golf balls on a billiard old St. Andrew's putter, one of the table prove ineontrovertibly the sound- most revered of golf clubs, hoary with ness of the contention. antiquity in the game, and festooned On «i true surface in a very short run with the, cobwebs of tradition. This of, say, twelve feet, many golf balls club was a long headed wooden putter, will deviate from the straight line as but its handle was so curved from about much as three feet. The simple expla- the middle of the shaft downwards that nation is that the golf ball marked by tile production of the straight portion excrescences must come to rest on three in ft line would have run fairly on to or more pimples, and it is constantly the point of impact. Tin's in effect gave striving to do so, whereas in the old gut- the golfer a centre shafted putter, a tie marking the indentation was easily straight instead of, as he now has, a bridged over by the turf, and so natu- crooked club. To this day most well rally the ball could run more truly. made wooden putters in England have The golf ball of the future will be this curve. marked by indentation. The old guttie A golfer, who was not a slave to tra- marking or some similar pattern on the dition, caught the spirit of golf which rubber-cored ball will give the best was sprawling untidily over the shaft results. of this club and pinned him down at a Golf ball makers have gradually been point just above the face of the club; coming to see the soundness of these in other words, he concentrated the ideas, and now the. old bramble, or pim- curve at the neck of the club. Then ple, marking is getting rarer and rarer, the Royal & Ancient Golf Club of St. hut it is dying hard, and a few more Andrews, which did not recognize the kicks are needed to put it in its proper elusive little elf in his new garments, place—the golf museum. met and passed a. resolution forbidding It sounds very bold to Hay that the him to appear on their premises in his golf club embodies a fallacy, but it is new apparel, neither him nor any of his THE ROMANCE OF GOLF 151

relations, and thus, because they knew whom those things are ascribed, one has not the spirit of golf when they saw the right to express his contempt at him, did the great golf club prolong for such a pitiful slate of affairs in so great a further short season one of the great- a game. est of golfing fallacies, that of the When one sees a great Club and men crooked club. with great names stultifying themselves (ireat is the truth, and in the end it by interfering with the true develop- must prevail, (iolf is a great game, ment of a game which has been well worthy of the thought and service of able to fight its own way from the he- those who truly love it. To many it is ginning on account of its intrinsic merely a matter of dollars and cents, of merit, one has a right to feel sorry that pounds, shillings and pence, of so much in the mass of falseness and pernicious per column, or of the chance of an teaching which now clusters round Un- order, or of a little extra social consid- royal and ancient game, that Club and eration. From these we do not expect those men were not able to see more much. They go their way, and in the clearly and to distinguish the true from end they do not count for much, the false, the straight from the for they know not what they write. crooked; were not able to see that in Lightly their words fall and lightly go, these, golf clubs, as indeed throughout find when it is so, all is well; hut when .•ill golf, all games, and even in all one sees great names attached to utter things of life, the one great, grand nonsense, which one knows well would secret is to seek the straight line and not be upheld in any way by those to to keep it. CADDY Air: "Daddy" (with apologies to A. H. Behrend).

AKE m}' bag on your shoulder, caddy, The wind, I think, is west. T So make a tee that is rather low. For now I must drive my best. I could not do without you, caddy; The ball would not get away Unless you were there to watch it, caddy, And help me then to say. I'll keep my eye right on the ball, For you will watch its flight; I'll go slow back and follow through. Dear caddy, that's right; dear caddy, that's right; Dear caddy, dear caddy, that's right not quite.

And now I have lost the ball, caddy; That's three I have lost to-day. If you can't mark the spot, caddy, I will stop half of your pay. What club now for the green, caddy? The cleek? If I hit it true; Tliere. I have foozled again, caddy; The fault is, of course, with you. You winked just as I hit the ball; I hit with all ray might; The ball but went a dozen feet. Dear caddy, that's right; dear caddy, that's right; Dear caddy, just one dozen feet—not quite.

I sometimes start, to think, caddy, If I were young like you. With all my life before me, caddy, What then I would not do; I'd not lose my chance of heaven By cursing and struggling here To beat that rubber-cored devil's imp, Who lives in this dimpled sphere. For year by year there is no change; , I work from morn till night; Try bow I will, it always seems I'm never quite right, dear caddj'; not quite, Dear caddy, dear caddy; not quite quite right. —Golfing. THE THOUGHT MACHINE A Terror to Some Golfers

ALDON is an inventor. Last the communication of thought from one Wednesday, soon after dinner, person to another without speech or ac- Was I sat at peace with all men and my tion, is a recognized fact. Well, there first cigar, dreaming over the glowing is no movement of any kind without vi- embers, lie burst in upon my solitude,, bration. The brain moves in the proc- filling the ruddy gloom with the force ess of thinking. Do you think that the of his intense personality. vibration set up by the process is con- Away with dreams. Waldon had an- tained in and restricted by the thinker's other invention. head? Certainty not. It leaves him "Well, you are a stranger, old chap! and spreads out through the ether until What have you been doing?" it meets another instrument, a receiver "Well, old man," said Waldon, with attuned to receive it, a kindred brain." almost tragic solemnity, and ruthlessly "Then it speaks its message?" crushing his cigar in his hand, "I have "Passing through the atmosphere it made the discovery of my life," and he marks its way as infallibly as do .sound paused. waves or electric currents. When I I did not speak. I knew it was un- was satisfied of this I knew that it was necessary. Many times had Walton only a matter of finding a diaphragm made the discovery of his life, and little sufficiently sensitive, and I had the key good had it done him; but he was a to any man's brain. There would be strong man and a perennial font of no fooling about any one's .score then." hope, and he really was clever, so I al- He had risen in growing excitement ways listened to him with interest. I as his gathering enthusiasm carried him was generally well repaid, for he was along on its boundless tide. full of originality. "And," lie added dramatically, as he "Yes," he said, coming back from raised his clenched hand aloft, "I've got dreamland witli a start, "let me tell you it, Hilton, my lad." about it. I have made a thought ma- There was a soft rustle of protest. chine. It is a wonderful tiling. I can He opened his hand and looked at the catch your thoughts as they go flying bruised and broken leaves, half an through space, just as easily as other hour's sweet solace irretrievably gone, men catch wireless telegrams. I know then at me. it sounds wild, but realty it's very "I'm so sorry," lie said. "I hate to simple." do a thing like that." "It will be deuccdly inconvenient for He tossed the wreck lightly on to the golfers, to say the least of it," I said. glowing coals and, as the flames leapt "No, no," he answered, laughing, up and flickered over his strongly "you are looking too far ahead. It marked face, went on more quietly. won't be so bad as you think. That can "Yes, I have it, Hilton. I can ar- be guarded against." rest your thoughts before they vanish By this time I was quite interested. into space, before they spread circling "Get along then," I said, as I sat up. as they'- do like the ripples of a stone "Well," he went on, "I have been ex- thrown into a pond, away into the in- perimenting for some time, and not long finite; for you must know the. power of ago the idea came to me that it would thought is but dimly understood. It is be possible to intercept thought waves. one of the mysteries of the universe, and You know, of course, that telepathy, there is no one who knows the 154 THE THOUGHT MACHINE

strength of an evil thought set free, nor dumb people can sit and talk to each the might of a noble one. other. "This invention of mine will teach us "And do not think that this is the much that we do not now know, for by end of it," he went on, "for in my study means of my mysteriously delicate dia- of this fascinating subject I have found phragm I am enabled to arrest the vi- that human thought has the power to brations caused by the thought waves affect or impregnate inanimate matter, and to reproduce them on a cylinder as and that matter then becomes emissive, unerringly as you can now take a rec- or capable of transmission, in so far at ord on your 25honograph. I had always least as regards that thought. It is a suspected that we think in speech. wonderful thing, but I have had some Many deep students think that thought striking examples of it recently, and I is a preparative process which enables am recording them for the purposes of us to form speech. I discovered that further investigation. It is a wonder- we think in speech, or at least that the ful, wonderful subject. I stood aghast vibrations of our thought waves are al- at the tilings old Colonel Grabem's most identical with those produced by cleek told me last night." the sound waves of the human voice in He paused, and pondered deeply for ordinary speech. a little while. I pushed the cigar-box "The rest was easy, my dear fellow/' towards him. He was calmer now. he went on again., becoming more and Gently, with tender fingers, he lifted more intense. "I caught the thought one, punched it, breathed through it waves on the recorder, and I repro- from point to butt to clear the dust, duced them on a specially arranged in- carefully took a glowing coal in the strument, very similar to a phono- tongs and, holding it quite half an inch graph. The first record I listened to away, pulled steadily until the heat had struck me with amazement. It was the lit the cigar without contact. human voice, yet not the human voice Then he lay back in the firelight's as we know it. Clear as a bell, sweet flickering rays. The dull red light of as a flute, ringing like a trumpet with the hidden lamp fell softly on his great sometimes a weird note of melancholy head. The smoke of two cigars arose in it, yet conveying to the mind a de- and met above in a bond—as light and lightful impression of strength, of pur- almost as sweet as that other gossamer- ity, of rest. Now it is that I know why steel link that bound us together, the thought is so delightful. fellowship of the cleek. "I put it on to poor old Meldrum, who Then there was silence. has been dumb all his life, as you know, "Thought is so delightful." and I told him all he was thinking of, * # * # and his thoughts came surging over the Since then Wai don has made the dis- wires like the tumultous rej oicing of an covery of his life several times, and organ, for it was the first time he had now I think quite freely, even when he ever spoken. Aye, old fellow, and be- is present, for he has not yet perfected fo"re long I shall have it so that two his diaphragm. HARRY VARDON ON THE PUSH STROKE

N 1909 I said that if I had to name He will place a ball on the turf and I a stroke in golf as the master show you the spot in front of the ball stroke, other than the simple putt, I where he will cut the turf after he has should name the "wind-cheater," or the sent the ball on its way, and will do class of strokes that now come in under this with mathematical accuracy, but lie the misnomer of "push." I am, and does this by nature and not by his pub- have been for years, of opinion that the lished theory of the stroke, which is not most valuable spin in golf is back-spin. practical golf, which is in fact impos- For one most important reason I put sible of accomplishment by any one— strokes of this class ahead of the pull even a Vardon. and the slice. They are infinitely more I may explain in the first place how reliable. The spin does not affect their Vardon plays the shot in so far as re- direction. It merely affects the trajec- gards those portions of it that are not tory, and on that it has a very benefi- the subject of controversy. According cial effect. to one of his regular chroniclers he In Harry Vardon's latest book, "How uses a cleek that is somewhat shorter to Play Golf," lie comes round entirely than Ins ordinary club and with a more to my point of view and declares out- upright lie and greater loft. It is also right and without any qualification that somewhat deeper in the face. The up- in his opinion the push stroke is the mas- right lie naturally brings him in more ter stroke in golf. He also explains how over the ball. He addresses the ball so it is played, or rather, perhaps I should that his hands are several inches in say, how he think.s it is played. I put it front of it. At the top of the swing- his this way, for I think that his explana- weight is well forward. Then lie comes tion of the stroke is one of the most down on the ball and hits it very hard marvellous mistakes that has ever been so that it bounces off the ground! associated with the name of a famous I am not responsible for any of this player. description, but it is practically correct Vardon says that the stroke is played until we come to the last statement— by coming down on the ball with the which we may kindly forget. face of the club overhanging it and The storm of controversy centered then, just at the moment of impact, about what happened at the moment of twisting the club vigorously round the impact. I must try to explain that us ball so as to produce the necessary simply and shortly as possible and then amount of back-spin. show the result of the stroke. The proper method of playing' this The master stroke in golf, which is beautiful and useful stroke provided willed the "push," when played with a one of the most remarkable controver- cleek, and a "wind-cheater," or some- sies in the history of English golf. thing else, when played with a wooden Some of the explanations that were club, although it is essentially the same given were simply amazing, while some stroke, is simply a descending blow. were also extremely amusing. The fact The ball is struck by the club before it that Vardon now considers this stroke has readied the lowest point in its the master stroke in golf warrants our swing. That really covers the. whole giving it the closest analysis and atten- ground, and had it not been for the tion. Whatever one thinks of Vardon's wonderful statements that have been explanation one can have nothing but been made about the stroke it would admiration for his execution of this hardly be necessary to amplify it. beautiful stroke, Although the stroke is a descending 156 HARRY VARDON ON THE PUSH STROKE

blow the club must reach the ball in ence. In this case the lower portion of such a manner that the loft can act on the ball is naturally the forward-spin- the ball by hitting it beneatli the center ning part. Therefore most of the fric- of its mass and with the fiice of the tion is underneath. This friction now club inclined backward. It is obvious begins to force the ball gradually up- that unless this were done the ball would ward in a beautiful curve. Soon the not rise. power of the spin is diminished, and as The loft of the club is lessened by the force of the blow is also dying aw, the fact that one addresses the ball with the ball, still with some back-spin on it, tlie hands forward of the club by about begins to fall. The friction on the un- two or three niches. The object of this derside of the ball is now, if anything, is to regulate the swing of tlie club so shifted a little farther backward on the that it reaches its lowest point about ball on account of the change of direc- where one usually addresses the ball. tion. This tends to keep the bull edg- This means that it passes across tlie hack ing onward. of the ball on its way down to the low- Now the back-spin is almost ex- est point in the swing and cuts or should hausted and when the ball finally cut or graze the turf an inch or so in pitches all that remains of it is prob- front of where the ball hay before it ably instantaneously killed, for the tra- was struck. The finish of this stroke is jectory of the ball, notwithstanding its low, and the head of the club should rise toward the end of the carry, is al- follow out down the line to the hole as ways low. There is nothing therefore much as possible. The stroke is in fact in this ball, notwithstanding its back- a chop. It is if possible more of a hit spin, to prevent its being a good run- than other iron strokes. ner, which is frequently is. A player might get a better idea of An analysis of the beneficial qualities it if he were told to "rap" it. I heard of the back-spin and its application in that somewhere once, and the underly- this stroke will, I think, be found to ing idea seemed good to me. There justify my old-standing claim on its be- probably is no stroke in golf where one half. Firstly, its low carry is always a seems to finish on tlie ball more. This great point in its favor even in calm is no doubt on account of the force weather. Against the wind it requires which goes into the downward hit. One no recommendation. It was its great must hit this ball for all one is worth abilit3r to face a wind that got this and leave the earth or anjrthing else stroke, off the wood, its old name of that comes in the way to absorb all the "wind-cheater." Now one hears ad shock that is not taken up hj the ball. nauseam of this stroke as "the push," The flight of this ball and the run but one may search any book on ad- thereof are truly remarkable. When vanced golf for an explanation of this one realizes what there is in them for great drive or brassy shot and get but the ardent golfer, if one is an ardent little for one's pains. golfer, one is indeed stupid not to try to Off the tee it is a splendid stroke, and cultivate the. stroke. it may with advantage be played from The ball goes away from the club, a high tee. This was regarded some when the stroke has been properly years ago as a fanciful notion. A high played, with a lot of back-spin. On ac- tee for a low ball! Whoever heard of count of the forward position of the such an idea? Now one of the most hands and the consequent reduction of famous of the continental golfers gets the loft of the club the first part of the a consistently low ball from a high tee. flight is very low. It is obvious that if one tees high for It maintains this low path for a con- this stroke one lias a greater distance siderable distance, rising very gradually wherein to pass down across the ball. until the pace begins to decrease. Then It is this passing down that gives the the back-spin begins to exert its influ- beneficial back-spin of golf, so those HARRY VARDON ON THE PUSH STROKE 157

who want extra distance and a low ball that Braid is the greatest master, from the tee may take a little more amongst professional golfers, of the sand. This is merely another case of push stroke, he must recognize at once loft. If the face of the club is right at the hopelessness of his explanation of the moment of impact it will not matter how to play the push, for Braid, in if the ball is a quarter of an inch off "Advanced Golf," explicitly tells us the ground or half an inch. that trying to do anything during im- After the low flight has served its pact such as that suggested by Vardon purpose we see the back-spin getting to is quite futile. work and assisting to raise the ball to Vardon's description in "How to the top of what one might almost call Play Golf" of the manner in which the its secondary trajectory, and when the push shot is played is so remarkable force of the blow and the spin together that I take the liberty of reproducing are no longer enough to keep the ball it here. He says: up we see it, still with a low flight at "While it is a shot for any club, the the end of its carry, approaching the cleek is perhaps the best implement ground at an angle that will surely, on with which to begin practising it. Be- its striking the fairway, be sufficient to fore proceeding to describe how it is kill the remains of the back-spin and done, let me explain in a few words the ensure a good run. idea of the stroke. What happens (at If anyone can show me a ball that least, so I feel convinced, although no- possesses the same ideal qualities for body sees it happen) is that the ball is golf as this I shall have to readjust my made to spin slightly up the face of the ideas, but until then. I shall remain club at the instant of impact. The loyal to this stroke and indeed to this golfer has no need to worry about pro- class of strokes as the master strokes ducing this effect; it will come if he ac- of golf, and this I believe is true of the complish the shot property. That is strokes be they of iron or of wood, half, the essence of the shot; it produces the three-quarter or full, for when we get back-spin while the power of the blow into the restricted shot we find the in- naturally sends the ball forward. Now fluence of the back-spin asserting itself as to the way to obtain the effect; a. on the ball's pitching, and thus giving way that must be precise, although it is the skilful jjlayer an amazing control not nearly so difficult a problem as it of his approach shots. may look on paper. It do not think that it is necessary "The swing must be distinctly more for me to add anything to my explana- upright than for the ordinary cleek tion of the push shot. I have referred shot. The club must go up stvaightei' to Vardon's explanation of it in "How than for any other stroke in the game, to Play Golf." I speak now from mem- and, that being so, nothing more than a ory, but there was something in that three-quarter swing should be permit- book that has always been a puzzle to ted. The. uprightness of the swing will me. Vardon refers.to James Braid as demand a closer stance than for the or- being the greatest master of the push dinary cleek shot. The player should stroke. He may be. I never saw be several inches nearer to the ball be- Braid get his low ball except with a cause, instead of swinging the club slight pull. I have never seen him play round to it with a purely propelling ac- a genuine push stroke, I never heard tion, he is going to endeavor to come that he does, nor have I ever read of down on to the side of the ball, if I his doing so, and in "Advanced Golf," may so explain it. where one might reasonably expect to "This sounds, I know, only about find this stroke explained, he does not one degree removed from

"CHICK" EVANS ON THE PUSH SHOT

N interesting comparison with "When I was in England and Scot- Harry Vardon's idea of playing land a few years ago I heard little Athe push shot is that of Chick Evans, about the push shot, although I believe who is popularly supposed to be able to one writer said I played it as well as play it very well. any amateur. Then when George Dun- We quote from that interesting book, can was here he told me that I was the "Pro and Con of Golf/' by Alexander only amateur on this side of the water H. Itevcll, as follows: who could play the push shot and 160 'CHICK" EVANS ON THE PUSH SHOT that I played it remarkably well. No photograph can register quickly Being deeply flattered by praise from enough the parts of the movement that such an expert, I refrained from telling simply glide into each other. I should him that I did not know the shot when judge it necessary to take up turf. In I saw it. At that time 1 happened to my opinion the blow should be a sharp, be getting exceptionally good results quick snap struck boldly and confi- with my irons. I remember particularly dently, and the follow through is very that there was practically no run at the short because the club head is stubbed end of my flight. I may have been when it goes into the ground. playing a push shot at the time without "Of course Mr. Yaile, the Knglish knowing it. critic, is right when he says the ball "I glean from the British journals will not rise unless struck from below that the shot is characterized by a low, the center of the mass, hut I lie profes- long flight on the same plane and drop- sionals are also right in not consciously ping dead at the end. Now, I have striving to do tin's. In nine times out ideas in the way this sort of a shot of ten that would result in the old-fash- should be played, and it seems to me ioned lofted shot. The subconscious that both the professionals and the mind, or the slight loft of the club-bend critic are right even when they appear itself, does the little lifting necessary to contradict each other. to send the ball on its low flight." "It must be remembered that with all Is it any wonder that the poor golfer iron clubs, even the straight-faced long is completely befogged? In our next irons, one must come down hard and issue we intend to show by diagram speedily upon the back of the ball and the actual mechanics of the stroks. the lowest part of the blade strikes it These arc now beyond controversy, but above the center of the mass, where it there is still published a great dial ot remains for an infinitesimal portion of useless and misleading stuff about this time and acquires back-spin—then the important stroke, a stroke that will be- edge of the club slides under the center come more and more important as the of the mass and the lofted edge does value of the short swing conns to be the work and the ball begins to rise. realized. "HE WAS A STERLING GOLFER" Death of Mr. Charles B. Macfarlane, the Noted British Golfer

BY ONE WHO KNEW HIM

T was with great regret that I heard Macf'arlant! met Evans. The Ameri- of the death of Mr. Charles B. can went out in 3(5 and found himself f> MacfarlaneI , "somewhere in 1'Yance." down, Maef'arlane "went erassy" that He was a sterling golfer and a most un- day. His figures for this score, were assuming man; and it would be hard to 8 4. 8 (i •!' 2 3 a 3—31, which was find anything better to sny of anybody enough to take the heart out of a more who is either with us now, or numbered determined fighter than Evans. with the legions that have laid down Maei'arlane was beaten, if I re- their lives so gallantly in Europe, in member, in the next round by J. the service of mankind generally, L. C. Jenkins (now Lieutenant Jen- Maefarlanc, when I knew him, wan kins), who also is ".somewhere in not very prominent in the giunc, for he France," and was, I believe, the (ir.st had not won any of the big events. This British golfer to volunteer. was not on account of anything- that If Macfarlanc had had the time to was wrong with his game. The simple play golf as much as he would have, liked and sad truth was that ho could not to there can be no doubt that he would spare the time for golf that he would have ranked with the best in the world, have delighted in devoting to it. for his combination of technical knowl- He was one of those rave characters edge, line execution and sunny tempera- in golf who loved the game well enough ment i.s met with but seldom. to want to know why he did things. He These are the sad days when one has, was indeed no blind ball-smiter, and far too often, to record the passing of many a pleasant argument we had men associated with the game, who are about various points in connection witli either personally known to one or whose the game. names are bound up with the history of Macfarlane could play every shot the sport. .In this cast' it is both, for that any other golfer could make, and Maefnrlano's defeat of "Chick" Evans in the rare cases where we differed he was probably the most .sensational game was ever ready to show on the links in the history of the, championship. how he got his results. It is with a .sad heart that I write his His putting was nearly always epitaph. I cannot think of one that is deadly) and this it was, in the main, better, it says all that one golfer may that accounted for his putting "Chick" say for another at any time, and t Evans out of the British Amateur doubt if Maefarlane himself would have Championship. desired anything other than "He was a It was in the. 1911< championship that sterling golfer."

ONE-ARMED PLAYERS

That golf is not the only game man, B. W. St. John, who i.s not only wherein one-armed players excel may the best lawn tennis player in Queens- be seen by the following extract from land but the most versatile sportsman A nwrican Lawn Tennis: as well. "In the Sydney Referee, of a recent "For a one-armed man to play tennis date "Austral" tells of a one-armed well i.s iio mean achievement. A. W. 162 EDWARD RAY ON PUTTING Howard of Washing-ton, D. C, presi- years ago, but his game is still sound, dent of the Dumbarton Club of that strong and well judged. At Newport city, was champion of the District last summer Ralph Baggs just man- four or five years ago. He attended aged to nose him out in a 'i<-set match. the dinner of the Washing-ton T. A. Burden has his ball boy collect the in November, and the Editor had the balls for him and place them behind pleasure of meeting him then and the base line just out of danger of be- chatting interestingly with him. ing stepped on; when serving. Burden "Winifred P. Burden of New York is rolls one ball on his racket, tosses it another player who has acquired skill carefully in the air with the racket and despite the handicap of having to pla}r hits it as it stops ascending. So well with one arm. He has not been play- does he accomplish all this that he ing as much of late as he did a few very seldom faults the first time."

EDWARD RAY ON PUTTING

(Extract from "Inland Golf," published by J. Pott <§• Co., with Comment)

"A vTANY fine putters—Jack White worst of them, as for instance the half- JLVJ|_ is a notable example—like to trimmed patches of the fairway hon- putt with as much 'drag' or spin-back ored with the courtesy title of 'winter as they can manage, The ball starts greens' on citjr courses can be very bad off from the face of their club as if it indeed. And even on well kept greens were skimming along the ground, slid- we have often a great deal to contend ing rather than rolling. And no doubt against. this style lias its advantages. "The turf is seldom so fine as by the "But for my own part I prefer at all sea, and, unless the subsoil be sandy, times to see the ball rolling along the we have always the worm that dieth not ground from the instant that it leaves the putting in overtime on the night shift. club-face. I admit that on hard, bare, Therefore the inland golfer must be true greens, such as are to be found at preijiired to putt on a surf/ice which is St. Andrew's and North Berwick, there very far short of being perfectly true; is much to be said in favor of the con- and on such a surface it is infinitely trary method,.and I have no quarrel with easier to judge the length of a rolling anyone who thinks differently from my- putt than of a 'cut-back' one. self. But I am writing for inland golf- "For, to begin with, a rolling ball is ers, and I would urge them either to not nearly so much affected by the na- make themselves master of both meth- ture of the surface over which it passes ods or adopt a simple, natural style of as is a ball which is only partly rolling stroke without any attempt at artificial and partly sliding. Now the real diffi- spin, for by so doing they will obtain culty of many inland greens is that they the rolling ball which I conceive to be are by no means equally stiff at differ- best suited to city greens. ent parts. Commonly they are much "I have nothing to say against the less heavy immediately around the hole putting greens of our inland courses. than further out from it. But this The best of them are as good as the variability of texture is a factor of best on any seaside links; not seldom much less importance in judging the indeed they are the redeeming feature strength of a rolling putt than it is in of otherwise quite undistinguished the ease of a putt played with drag. courses. But, on the other hand, the "On a rough and bumpy green, also, JEROME D. TRAVERS AND ONE-CLUB GOLF 163 the advantage is all with the running by the nature of the surface over which ball. A putt that is played with more it passes as is a ball which is only or less back-spin is completely at the partly rolling and partly sliding." mercy of obstacles it encounters in its This is sound golf, but very bad me- journey, and is more easily turned off chanics. A ball is never "partly rolling the line or brought to a stand-still than and partly sliding." It is doing one the rolling ball, which, however it may thing or the other. It slides whilst it is be bumped about, does not easily lose carrying back-spin. Directly back- the forward spin of its rolling motion; spin ceases it starts to roll. and that forward spin is always tend- It is a mistake to speak of "forward ing to take it onward again in its orig- spin" in a putt. It does not exist. Any inal direction." "forward spin" that might have come There are here two statements that if the green had not been there is eon- are worthy of attention, namely, "a roll- verted into run when it attempts to ing ball is not nearly as much affected show itself on the green.

JEROME D. TRAVERS AND ONE-CLUB GOLF E have been treating ourselves there are some holes where a long player to a re-reading of "Travers' is heavily punished by a full tee shot. WGolf Book" and have found it very en- During the Championship of 1908 I tertaining. We take the liberty of quot- used my driving iron from several of ing from it the following interesting the tees with good effect where I matter: wanted a drive of slightly over 200 "In my own game the. driving-iron, or yards, but where one of 240 would have deck, plays a very important part, and landed me in a bunker or a stretch of I play it with full confidence regarding long grass, and perhaps penalized me a direction, which frequently enables me stroke. to lay a ball close up to the pin on a "In the championship at Wheaton, in very long approach to a green. I get 1912, I was' decidedly off my game so a ball almost as long as with a brassie, far as the wooden clubs were concerned. but more uniformly straight on the line, The course was narrow, and in the with a fine roll. finals against Charles Evans, Jr., I "This shot is not a veiy difficult one, practically used my driving-iron from but few players nowadays make it, and the tees. Both rounds on the tenth in consequence it has won many a hole hole, which is 240 yards, I reached the for me. I have devoted much practice green with my driving-iron." to the stroke, and as a demonstration of It is hard to tell why Mr, Travers its all around ability I may state that I says "driving-iron or cleek," as from played the entire links of the Mont- the description it is evident that he elair Golf Club in 77 strokes, using my means driving-iron. driving iron alone for every shot from George Duncan sometimes went round the tee, through the green, for ap- Hunger Hill with one club just to show proaches, out of bunkers and for what he could do. He did it once in 69 putting. with a cleek, which raises a strong pre- "On many courses there are many sumption that thirteen clubs—or more holes where it is absolutely dangerous •—arc not absolutely necessary. With to use a driver from the tec, where the all his clubs Duncan got a 08 once, and player gets into trouble if his ball go he may have beaten that. Both of these too far. For instance, at Garden City performances arc interesting. Kit CIUHTIXG THE GOLF SWING CHARTING THE GOLF SWING

Ff Frank B. CJilbreth, the great effi- lu's hands further forward with the per- ciency engineer and chartographer of fectly reasonable corollary that the human motions, cannot show any more downward are is nearer to the hole than practical results in his business that of the upward swing. "stunts" than he does in "charting the The only point of interest that we golf swing" we shall not have him in can see in these curious things is that our factory, they demonstrate how absurd it is to go lie has done a series of weird-look- on calling the golf swing a circle. It, ing things supposed to represent the as we have often said, bears no resem- golf swing, and Walter Camp lias set blance to that figure. That was certain them to music I mean printing and before these funny photo-diagrams were Max Hchr has published them in his made, but we can accept them as in magazine. some measure corroborative evidence, Neither Mr. Cam]) nor Mr. Helir lias although no practical golfer is going to so far shown us one single useful point try to persuade himself lh.it a man is that these weird things illustrate. In going to play his ordinary golf stroke one place we read the following com- in a pitch dark chamber with an electric ment by the Editor: bulb on the head of his club, wired "Half way down, about, Harness down the handle and, I presume, coiled right elbow, the clubhead passes inside somewhere on the unfortunate golfer, the art1 of the. backswing which demon- who is then supposed to do something strates flic fact that wrist action is con- like he actually does at golf. centrated within a smaller arc than in Mr. Gilbreth may be the one and only the backsxtnng." efficiency expert at finding out how peo- We hate to seem captious, but it does ple work in daylight, but we arc not get- not demonstrate anything of the kind. ting excited about anything he has dis- It just shows, as we already knew, that covered about the ways of the golfer in in the. downward swing the player gen- Cimmerian gloom when dividing his at- erally moves his body forward. This tention between electric bulbs, wire and has the not unnatural result of bringing the elusive midget. fT^HK perennial question of how bil- ment, not to decrease it. Also that, ac- liards assists tlic golfer lias recording to many authorities, the men cently been started by a daily paper who do best at the front are those who which says that the news that J. are in full athletic training. They are Graham Symes lias won the amateur said not. only to stand the trench life billiard championship of Great Britain, better, but to recover from wounds and brings up again the question of the re- sickness much more speedily than those lation between skill at golf and at who have not had the advantage of billiards. physical training in athletics. It seems that Symes is a keen bil- Dr. Sargent calls attention to the fact liardist and that tile defending cham- that athletic sports were originally in- pion was Sidney Fry, the well-known troduced to prepare soldiers for war. Knglish amateur and one-time finalist in He makes the point that the students in the amateur golf championship. Canada and England are keeping up Fry was runner-up in 1902 at Hoy- their athletic sports, that the student lake, when Charles Hutchings won. soldiers of Germany back of the lines This discussion is a hardy annual, or and in the prison camps of Russia keep quarterly, whenever things are slow in up their gymnastic exercises and asks, golf. very pertinently, why at this time, and There is about as mueh connection with these examples before us, the between billiards and golf us there is be- American youth is precipitately drop- tween ping -pong and lacrosse. I long ping his athletic exercises. ago gave: up being angry with people I think that Dr. Sargent has made for writing imbecility about golf and out a very strong ease. If instead of trying to make out that it is the .same in dropping all .sport the leading athletes principle as other games. If I had not of the colleges and universities would done so I should have something scath- hold out an encouraging hand to those ing to say about this. younger and inferior in these mutters Let me give these scribes a new idea. they would indeed be doing a great What is wrong with vigorously promul- service to the nation. As it is, there is gating the doctrine that putting and loo much jumping to conclusions, too bowls have a common origin and that much individual action. In war every- the man to whom "strikes" bring no thing should be coordination and eon- thrill is almost sure to be a deadly put- cord. Irresponsible and busty action is ter, (io to it, ye ingenious and ingenu- to be deprecated. ous knights of the pencil. 1 am glad to see that the suggestion I was very glad to see Dr. Dudley oi! interfering with golf links in the in- A. Sargent, of Harvard, famous as an terest of potatoes and cabbages i.s not authority on athletics, come out strongly meeting with approval. When one is in- in favor of going on with all kinds of formed by a responsible Government of- sport despite the war. ficial that there are 240,000,000 acres Dr. Sargent says that Harvard, Yale of good land available for this kind of and other colleges are making a mistake thing one can readily see that the idea in banning college athletics. of interfering with our golf links is He says, and rightly too, that now is somewhat premature while there is so the time Io increase athletic develop- much land awaiting cultivation. 166 THROUGH THE GREEN

Thus A. C. M. Croome in "The New in this book. His practical and lucid Book of Golf/' and I am asked to give golf does much to counteract nonsense my opinion of his teaching: such as that written by Croome and "Having arrived at a definition of 'hit' Bernard Darwin. we may with propriety try to discover the exact meaning of the term 'swing'. Once upon a time, as the fairy story In the last paragraph it was said that, goes, there was a man who entered for so far as either hand produces swing,the an amateur championship who had his left does the work. As a matter of fact, own views of the special grades in golf, it is the turn of the body which swings says an exchange. It was the day be- the club. We may conveniently visual- fore the championship proper, and the ize the path of the club-head through overstrained service in the club dining the air as the arc of a perfect circle, al- room was very bad. To make matters though it is really an ellipse. The cen- worse a group of six stars entered, and ter of that circle is the player's back- the waiters fell over themselves to take bone, and the length of its are is prop- care of such distinguished visitors. erly estimated by the amount of body- After standing the pangs of hunger for turn, not the extent of the club-head's twenty minutes or so, the visitor was backward journey." suddenly heard to say in a plaintive, This is mainly nonsense. "The left penetrating voice: "Please, waiter, can does the work"! This notion was ex- I have some lunch ? My handicap is ploded so long ago that it would simply onl}r 4i." bore the readers of GOLF to hear it ar- The price of hickory for golf club gued. The power of the right is well shafts is constantly advancing, due not understood now. only to the scarcity of the wood, but "As a matter of fact it is the turn of also to the care necessary in the .selec- the body which swings the club." If tion, says a manufacturer. Only a anyone is inclined to believe this amaz- small portion of the tree is usable in a ing nonsense let him fix: the joints of golf club shaft, and from the tree, to the his arms and play his stroke by "the club requires about thirty months and turn of his body". Any words that approximately one hundred handlings would pass the Editor of GOLF are infor sorting etc. adequate to, express my contempt for such futile piffle. The path of the club-head is neither At a meeting of the St. Louis District an ellipse nor a circle. "Chartographs" Golf Association held recently a com- of the swing show that. These funny mittee, was appointed to confer with the things have not much real value from officials of the Missouri Golf Associa- a golf point of view, for a man can not tion to make plans for an open tourna- be very natural with an arc lamp ca- ment big enough to attract the leading vorting about on top of the head of his amateur and professionals of the coun- driver, but thej' can no doubt be relied try. It is proposed to donate prizes of upon to indicate roughly the path of $250, $150, $100, $75, $50 and $215 and the club-head in the drive, and we are hold a seventy-two holes; event. It is. shown that it is neither a circle nor an planned to play thirty-six holes at the ellipse. It might be if it were not for Westwood Club and the same number the forward movement of the body in at Algonquin. A St. Louis newspaper the downward swing. says the time most likely to be selected "The center of that circle is the play- is the earl}' part of June. er's backbone." Oil, wonderful Mr. Croome! What a center—about two Forty-two of the forty-four national feet long! amateur and national open golf cham- It is fortunate that James Sherlock's pions of the United States, who won contribution to golf literature appears their titles since these tournaments were THROUGH THE GREEN 167 started in 1895, are still hale, whole courage the highest science of golf. and hearty. Every player who loves the game Willie Smith, national open champion should try to learn and, on occasion, to in 1899, when he won his title at the use these strokes, but, as a matter of Baltimore Country Club, died in Mex- fact and practical golf, the influence of ico Cit)r recently from an attack of the wind, even when it is right athwart ' pneumonia. Willie Anderson, four the course, has been very much exag- times national open champion, died six gerated. On a truly hit ball without years ago in Pittsburgh. Aside from any spin or with back-spin, it is not these two players the other winners of likely to be nearly so dangerous as will national golf honors are enj oying as be any attempt to play any stroke in- good health at present as they did in volving any cross-spin such as slice or the days when they led the field at the pull. respective golf championships. And it is a fact that every one of them is still Another inquirer writes: "I have an active golfer. read a great many books on golf, and Surely this is proof of the healthful- I cannot find anything that gives me ness of the game. much information about hunker play." I think the answer to this correspondent might quite well be that he has From the number of questions that been unfortunate in not reading the are coming to me almost daily I am right books. I have repeatedly pointed convinced that the interest of the golfer out that many of the books associated in the technique of the game is increas- with the nnmes of the greatest players ing in a remarkable manner. Many of were written for them by journalists, these raise, most interesting questions; hired by publishers, and that the fam- for instance, I am asked how to use ous golfers themselves probably never slice and pull to counteract prevailing even saw the proofs. This accounts winds. I could write a chapter in an- for the shocking sins of omission and swer to such a question, but the practi- commission in these alleged golf books. cal golf in answer to such a query is to The two principal things about forget all about slice and pull in a wind bunker play that one must remember; and smite the ball straight down the Firstly, that it is utterly unnecessary middle of the course, and, when the na- to try to hit the. ball upwards, in fact ture of the hole permits of your doing one must resolutely' school oneself not so, straight at the pin, using, if you only to hit downward but to go on must have any spin, and provided you downward after one has hit the ball know how to get .it, hack-spin, the and to finish downward. Secondly, King-spin of golf. that one must hit the sand or earth a little behind the ball. This must not Pulling and slicing to counteract, or bo overdone. Many players fail by ex- to take advantage of, wind is very ad- aggerating this important point. It is vanced golf, that not one player in a very often quite unnecessary to hit hundred, if so many, knows how to more than an inch, if so far, behind the play. Before a man can hope to use ball. Wherever it can be hit cleanly such strokes scientifically he must it should be so played. know exactly what spin he is putting Sometimes where a very sudden rise on his ball and lie must know very ac- and an equally sudden stop on a green curately from what quarter of the com- is required one hits much farther back, pass the wind is coming. Unless he is but, in this case particularly, the finish well informed in this manner it is al- must be strong and downward. There most a certainty that intentional slicing must be no attempt whatever to loft the and pulling will bring him more trouble ball with the club. That must be left than profit. to the loft, whose exclusive function I do not for a moment desire to dis- it is, acting in this case on the sand, 168 THROUGH THE GREEN

Another question that has been asked extremely bad golf, unless the green is of me is, "Do either Taylor or Braid so bad that one desires to clear some play the push stroke?" portion of it. After one has reached My answer is that so far as I am the green one should never, unless it is aware neither of them does. I certainly absolutely necessary, lift the ball from never saw either of them do anything the turf. If the green is good enough remotely resembling it, nor, from their for golf the putt should always be style of play, shoiild I expect them to rolled up- Starting it by pitching in- use it; but in "How to Play Golf" troduces an element of uncertainty that Harry Vardon says, or is made to say does not enter into the properly rolled by the egregious journalist, R. E. up putt. There is one putt in which Howard, who made the letters of the back-spin may perhaps be used with book—I cannot say wrote it—that advantage and that is in bolting short James Braid is, amongst professionals, putts on a fieiy green. the greatest master of the push. Braid At about two feet from the hole it is gets his low ball by a slight pull. I often good business, on a fiery green, am practically certain that he does not to putt fairly fast for the hole, or, as play the push stroke. Looking in the it is called, to bolt your putt. The ball index of his book, "Advanced Golf," I will carry its back-spin for this short do not find the word "push", and I am distance; and if one is a little off the practically certain that Braid does not, line, which at this distance one should in that book, describe the stroke nor not be and often is, the back-spin will speak of playing1 it himself. catch the rim of the hole and put the I think, therefore, we may take it ball in when a putt played in the ordi- for granted, until we have proof to the nary way or with top would "rim" or contrary, that Vardon is in error in "lip" the hole, in other words, run, saying that Braid plays this shot ex- half round the edge of the hole and ceptionally well. It is a most amazing come onto the green instead of falling error to be associated with Vardon's it. The short putt with back-spin will name, and I have no doubt that it is not do this. .This is, so far as I can just another of those journalistic im- say without much reflection, the only becilities that have been grafted onto case in which back-spin is useful on the the leading golfers of the world by green. ______those who exploit them in the interests I am asked if one can get too much of enterprising publishers. "back-spin" in the drive. My corre- We may, I think, take it as certain spondent points out ii phrase in one of that neither Braid nor Taylor does play the leading golf books that seems to in- the push shot. Braid, as I have said, dicate that one can regulate the amount gets his low ball with a slight pull, of back-spin one gets in the drive, for while Taylor's specialty, notwithstand- it speaks of getting "the right amount ing his flat swing, is hitting them of back-spin." That is pure moon- straight down the middle of the course shine. It is a physical impossibility for with a wonderful right-handed punch any golfer, in a drive, to put too much that comes away from a most remark- back-spin on his ball. Nobody need able forearm. ever have any fear of that. One is Here is another question that keeps much more likely to get none than to coming to me: "Do you advise putting get too much; and unless one has come with drag?" and my answer is, "Most by the stroke by accident, as some have, certainly I do not. Drag1 in putting is or knows thoroughly what it is one, is a delusion and a snare." This is espe- trying to do, one is not very likely to cially so in long1 j>utts and when put- get the stroke let alone too much spin. ting with any club that has more than the least degree of loft, for then one A correspondent sends all the way starts one's putt with a pitch, which is (Continued on page 186) "THE MYSTERY OF GOLF" How It Is Made by Arnold Haultain

BY 110MAIN

PRESENT licrc some extracts from Is it indeed so? Then, by .simple me- "Tlie Mystery of Golf/' by Arnold chanics it seems that one must be in IHaultain (Macmillan & Co., 50c). I the air at the moment of assaulting the have previously referred to this remark- ball, must, in fact, attack it in one's able book, remarkable in that it simply •spring "so to speak, as it were, in a creates in the minds of ignorant people manner of saying", as golf cranks gen- what it pretends to dispel—mystery erally put it when they are writing ma- and confusion. terial similar to this. Let me quote from page (52: "The Considering that at the moment of thousand and one tilings that we should impact one is firmly based on the sale not do in golf are evidence of the diffi- of the left foot it seems rather hard to culties of the game. In no other game understand how one is going to get the must immense strength go hand in hand weight of the sole of the left foot, how- with extreme delicacy." ever much that may amount to, not to Well, if immense strength must go mention the foot itself, and even the leg-, hand in hand with extreme delicacy to and mayhap also the portion of the body make a golfer, Mr. Haultain certainly to which it is attached! has discovered something. I remember, There is more enjoyment for the however, a fine golfer who got a very golfer the further we go. "So with the long ball with only one lung and, there- putt. Not even an expert dare be care- fore, a very deficient breathing ap- less of his stance or his stroke even for paratus and very little strength. the shortest of putts. And as to that Let us quote again: mashie shot, where you loft high over "If a fraction of a square inch of an abominable bunker and fall dead wood or steel does not come in contact with a hack-npiu and a cut to the right with a fraction of a cubic inch of gutta- on a keen and declivitous green—is percha exactly so, and not otherwise, there any stroke in any game quite .so you are landed in a bunker, or you fly delightfully difficult an "that?" off to one .side, or you overrun the hole. The mashie shot with "back-spin and And in every stroke in golf this nicety a cut to the. right" is something like that of accuracy is necessary. If in the wonderful shot made, b}' Francis Oui- drive the whole weight and strength of met on the authority of "Bunker Bean," the body, from the nape of the neck to the hooked push. There ain't no sieh the soles of the. feet, are not transferred stroke. from body to ball, through the minute If Mr. Haultain really knows the. and momentary contact of club with first tiling about the mystery of golf ball, absolutely surely yet swiftly, you surely he. knows that back-spin is baek- top, or you pull, or you selaff, or you spin and cut to the right is cut to the slice, or yon swear (let us hope episeo- right. As well might he call the push pally: which, lieing interpreted accord- a slice as to write such utter nonsense ing to the anecdote, signineth silently). as this. "The whole weight of the body, from But now we come to something, that the nape of the neck to the soles of the must be quite seriously considered. feet"! ! ! "Not only is the stroke in golf an ox- 170 'THE MYSTERY OF GOLF" tremely difficult one, it is also an ex- about the os sacrum, has no volition of tremely complicated one, more espe- its own. We know that it is not an os- cially the drive, in -which its principles seous acrobat, and we also know that are accentuated. It is, in fact, a subtle one must not have one's mind in the re- combination of a swing and a hit, *tlie gion of one's buttocks contemplating 'hit' portion being1 deftly incorporated bony impossiblities when it is urgently into the 'swing' portion just as the head required in front to deal with concrete of the club reaches the ball, yet without realities in the shape of the ball. disturbing the regular rhythm of the I must give one more quotation be- motion." fore I leave the author of this funny You see, you put in ten and three- book of alleged golf to my readers' ten- quarters of an inch of hit somewhere in der mercies: "Take, for example, that the district of the ball and the arc of simple rule 'Keep your eye on the ball.' the sweep and yet you preserve the It is unheard of in tennis; it is needless rhythm of the swing. Why, surely, it in cricket; in golf it is iterated and re- seems easy. Anybody should be able iterated times without number—and in- to do it—anyhody that does not want to fringed as often as repeated." play golf. Well, if "Keep your eye on the ball" But now we come to the crowning is unheard of in cricket and tennis it is quip of golf writing, the greatest a certainty that whatever Mr. Hanltain "spoof" that was ever worked on un- knows of golf he knows more about suspecting people who have parted with cricket and tennis than those who piny good money for this j oke-book, the • it. As a matter of simple fact, most unprincipled and heartless piece "Keep your eye on the ball" is the fun- of thoughtlessness or the greatest bit of damental rule of all games wherein one imbecility ever printed by reputable plays a moving ball. It stands to rea- publishers in the guise of golf. son that this must be so. Hark to it: "The whole body must I have often wondered where Mr. turn on the pivot of the head of the Haultain got his extraordinary ideas of right thigh-bone working in the coty- golf and anatomy, and I am living1 in loidal cavity of the os innominatum or hope that some day he will explain how pelvic bone, the head, right knee, the one cultivates the saltatory spine and right foot remaining fixed, with the eyes how one gets the rotary effect on it riveted on. the ball. In the upward while it is in the. act of saltation. It swing the vertebral column rotates upon will give me much joy if cither he or the head of the right femur, the right Max Behi1, who immensely admires, ax knee being fixed; and as the club-head golf, this collection of merry quips nears the ball, the fulcrum is rapidly ycleped "The Mystery of Golf," will changed from the right to the left hip, tell how the thing happens, for mayhap the spine now rotating on the left thigh- the defect is with me in having a re- bone, the left knee being fixed; and the fractory os cocvygis and a too immobile. velocity is accelerated by the arms and os sacrum. wrists, in order to add the force of the Maybe! Who can tell? I think Mr. muscles to the weight of the body, thus Haultain should try to do so. gaining the greatest impetus possible. It must not lie thought that I entirely Not every professional instructor has despise, this book. Indeed, in many succeeded in putting before his pupil ways I have much admiration for its au- the correct stroke in golf in this ana- thor. A note inside the book says: "Set tomical exposition." up and electrotyped—Published De- Now, will some kind person tell us if cember, 1910 — Reprinted January, this is really meant for either golf or March, 1912; July, 19Vk" So, one anatomy. Of course we know that it is sees that he has "got away with it," and neither, for in our rudimentary knowl- I am content to hand him credit for edge of the human skeleton we know roping me in as one of bis humble adver- that the root of the spine, somewhere (Cantinued on page. I8'l<) I PERISCORICPEEPS

BY AN INSIDER

T the American Luncheon Club in farms, and there ;ire thousands of them London Lloyd George fell into -are what the Government ought to golAf metaphor as follows: get after at once. Is it any wonder that "In three years we tried every kind farms go to ruin when private people of blunder. We got into every bunker, are allowed to swindle the farmer in but now we have got a good niblick getting his produce to market where it .stroke and we /ire right out onto the is met by other swindlers, all acting course." together? I do not like that idea "we have got Now is the time that the Govern- a good niblick stroke." What Lloyd ment must break into the organized (ieorge really meant was, "Thank God, conspiracy of food-thieves or see the we have done with the niblick now. We nation pay dearly for the neglect. are out on the fairway, and our drive is There are quite a few bits of land to in fine working order." till before it comes to the golf links. I Considering recent events, it should quote the following from .Mr. Madden'.s not be too much for him to claim and letter: probably General Haig would agree I see tlmt the boxers arc writing in, with him, while there can be no doubt of saying tlmt they are willing to help out the fine form of the Canadians. Any- their country. I'm witli them. T want body that can do that Vimy hole under to lite a good tip with you for the bene- par, as they did, deserves all the credit fit of the people. I think it will help that anyone can give them. They were to save food riots, which are sure to occur inside of a year to (urn things "on the flag" all the way, too, for a upside down. I owned n farm seven young Texan, yet unnamed, carried years in Greene County, so I know "Old Glory" into the rough tied to his what I am talking about. Many of the bayonet. best farms are going to seed and brush because they have not been worked properly through lack of funds, l'resi- I am glad to see that the idea of dent Wilson mid the Governor of each messing up golf links with spuds and State should rent out all the unworked tomatoes has not so far found favor. farms, hire the fanners, furnish the When that has to be done it should he seed, tools ami fertilizer. The thing ought to lie done right now, and there done by the proper authorities in one should be us much energy shown in this fell swoop, and not by individuals who direction as is being displayed in get- look on it as a kind of skylarking ex- ting our army and navy in trim. When periment. One gay bird, who hails the crops are grown the Government should see to it that they are shipped from Montelair, N. J., is reported to to the cities where people can buy them. have said that they "would get nearly It is just us Important as gelling Uir as much fun out of it as from golf." annv and nnvv ready. Let me toll him that when it becomes necessary to plant the golf links of "Is a woman golfer graceful?" Such America with potatoes and cabbages is the heading to a paragraph in (lolf there will he no fun in it at all for Illustrated mid Outdoor America, anybody. which, I see, has now cut off its tail be- I have seen a sensible letter from tween covers and refers to itself as Golf Billy Madden, the ex-pugilist. These Illustrated. places lie refers to—namely, unworked Certainly "a" woman golfer is grace- 172 PERISCOPIC PEEPS

fulj but just as certainly not all women balls lie would not on this count come golfers are graceful any more than are within the scope of the law, as the eon- the men, but it passes my comprehen- junction ["and"] is copulative and not sion how an American editor can call disjunctive, as it should be. Neither of woman, as does the Editor of Golf Il- the offences mentioned is by itself suf- lustrated, "A tiling of beauty and a joy ficient, according to Mr. Behr's draft- forever." ing. It would require both of them to Fie, fie I And you a married man, convict a man on this count. too! It should be a very serious offense against the proprieties of Amateur If there is any one thing of interest Sport thai, robs our tournaments and to the golfer that is proved by those championship meeting's of the presence weird "eyclographs" that a contempo- of Francis (hiimet. lie is really in it wny our National golf hero. The rary has recently published it is the young- David who in our extremity falseness of the silly old saying, "As saved us from defeat, by slaying' not you go up so you go down." This was one but two Goliutlis. We can ill af- .strongly attacked seven or eight years ford to miss the fine, courage and skill with which he struggles to victory. We ago by one. of the most trenchant writ- can ill afford to miss that cheerful ers on golf. The eyclographs prove his smile that won't wear off. contention to have been correct. In no ease do the paths of the upward and "Proprieties!" Is it possible that downward swings coincide. Devereux Emmet, author of the above, was in that sodden atmosphere that 1 cnmiot see why Max Behr wants to spread its loathsomeness to Ouimei and drag in Immanuel Kant on the amateur yet uses the word "proprieties" in this question. Kant was not considered of connection? much account in such matters as these, And let me add that we can ill afford and moreover when he tried to reason to miss that cheerful smile that won't he always presupposed a certain come on Walter J. Travis. amount of reasoning power and will to With all his idiosj'ncrasics Travis is reason in those he was addressing. just as much a part of American golf Now, if there is absolutely no reason- as is Ouimet, the one young, cheerful ing capacity, merely a vacuum, and su- and brilliant, the other grim, old and perimposed on the vacuum a kind of mechanical, but two great golfers. Un- thermos, don't you know, there is abso- questionably if two bad to he chosen lutely no tcill to reason, but in fact a to go into the history of American golf will to cheat, what practical purpose is these are they, and it is they who are served by hauling in the shade of a per- chosen for the insults and oppression of fectly respectable German philosopher the personal-boost-mongers. and associating his name with the Golf We think that it will not be long' Outrage Corporation ? before the outrage corporation, begins It seems to me very much like talcing to get a glimmering of the idea advantage of Immanuel Kant when he that it does not now own golf in is unable to express his resentment at the United. States of America, Their having his valuable cerebration re- treatment of Travis and Ouimet is duced to such levels as this, an outrage, the action of cads and While I am speaking of reasoning I men without an idea of the first prin- may perhaps remind Mr. Behr that his ciples of sportsmanship, for neither of suggested rule about professionals in- these men was given an opportunity to cluded, an my memory serve me, those speak for himself. They were stabbed who made or repaired dubs and golf in the back—in the dark. Those who balls. Mr. Behr, with Immanuel Kant's do this kind of thing are called "assas- help, will no doubt perceive that so long sins" in the dictionaries. Shall we as a man did not "make or repair" golf honor them less? "THE FUNDAMENTAL SHOT

A. C. M. Croome's Idea as Expounded in "The New Book of Golf" (Long- mans Green fy Co.)

"T71OR a couple of days he confined inal position. If these motions are cor- X^ himself to practising this Fun- rectly executed the face of the club will damental Shot, using different clubs, be presented fair and square to the ball, bub never attempting a full stroke with as it was when it 'addressed' it. any of them. It was a week before he "It is of the first importance that at played a round, though lie watched a the moment when the club-head im- certain number of matches being con- pinges on the ball the left wrist should tested. In considerably less than a year be taut almost to rigidity. The club- his handicap was below ten, and I hold head will then be dragged through the that his rapid progress in proficiency ball by the triceps muscle of the left was due to the excellence of his starb. arm, the right assisting by the thrust "It will, I hope, be already apparent of its underhand throw, and will follow what this Fundamental Shot is. It on smoothly until its momentum has ex- might be called a Half shot, seeing that hausted itself. It is impossible to say it is played almost entirely with the where it will finish, for Finish is a. arms; body turn hardly enters into it thing entirely different from follow- at all. It constitutes the whole of a through. Follow-through is the natural short pitch-and-run approach and consequence of a correctly executed forms the essential beginning of every stroke; Finish is the device adopted by longer stroke. Let us suppose that it the individual player to relieve the mus- is desired to play a ball by the Funda- cles of hand and arm at the end of his mental Shot to a point due north. First follow-through. Vardon seems to re- the left hand and wrist turn the club- lax his grip ab this moment and to let head in a south-westerly direction, at his club drop gracefully, onto his left the same time gradually lifting it until shoulder. Taylor pulls bis hand back it is a little higher than the player's to his left thigh. Mr. John Ball's wiry knee. The toe of the club is then wrists sometimes make his club describe pointing straight up to the sky. a "pigtail" in the air when a specially "The back lift is completed not by vigorous drive has caused a more than bending wrist or elbow, but by allowing usually forceful follow-through. the left arm to pass in front of the "Even the follow-through itself can chest, until a feeling of strain on the be curtailed by circumstances. When left shoulder-joint gives warning that Vardon executes the so-called 'push the limit of south-westerly movement shot' with cleek or iron, his club-head has been reached. The player's hands often stops within two or three feet of will now be about on a level with his the spot from which it has removed the waist, his club-head with his rig-lit ear. ball. This is because after striking the I have a strong belief, amounting al- ball it went on into the ground, which most to conviction, that the triceps mus- acts as a shock absorber, and immedi- cle of the left arm does most of the ately relieves his wrists of strain. The work during the second half of the back follow-through is complete, but finish is lift. It also starts the downward mo- lacking because there is no need of it. tion of the club by pulling it back to- "Here I permit myself to digress, be- wards the ball. This downward motion cause the ludicrously wrong ideas about is continued by the re-turn of the 'Vardon's Push Shot' held by many •wrists, especially the left, to their orig- persons aptly illustrate an important 174. 'THE FUNDAMENTAL SHOT"

point in this chapter, •videlicet that the violent exertion prevents the iustru- general acceptance of inaccurate termi- sion of errors in hitting, which are dif- nology handicaps educationalists terri- ficult of detection by teacher or pupil; bly in the discharge of their duties. that it leads to a grasp of the essentials This particular stroke has no share in of method, which will be most valuable the nature of a push, and it was used to the young player when he has devel- for the treatment of bad-lying balls by oped a recognizable and appraisablc many players before Vardon appeared 'game' but finds himself temporarily to impress the imagination of the. golf- 'off it': he can put himself on the road ing world. When he lays a ball dead to recovery by beginning again at the with his cleek from a distance slightly beginning, and he has a definite begin- less than two hundred yards, incident- ning to begin with. Finally, it is Uni- ally cutting a big fid of turf from the versal ; everybody who is anybody at ground just in front of where his ball golf plays the half shot witli an iron lay, and stands there poised in an atti- club in practically the same way, and tude of easy grace, liis club checked the half shot differs only in a degree maybe a yard in front of him, he from longer and more forceful shots." pulled rather than pushed the cleek- It is interesting to note here how head down on to the ball. It was the the writers are coming into line with left triceps not the right biceps which regard to our persistent and consistent did the trick, and at the moment of im- teaching of the short swing. pact his hands were in front of the ball Croome speaks very clearly of what rather than behind it. He has himself he calls the "Fundamental Shot." told us that lie keeps his hands in ad- Strictly speaking there is no doubt vance of the ball, and the camera shows whatever that the fundamental shot in tbab he speaks the truth. golf is the putt, that is only just so far "Now, nobody can push an object removed from the hole as to present n forward unless he gets behind it. But possibility of the hole being missed. • some of Vardon's would-be imitators We must forget this for a moment, make a sad mess of their long iron- however, for the fascination of some of shots, bccau.se they have an idea that Croome's instruction. Beginners should they must in some way 'push' the reluc- be careful to note that, "First the left tant ball towards the hole. They will hand and wrist turn the club-head in a very probably find illumination in the south-westerly direction." statement that the club-head must be Most of the authorities will be found pulled on to the ball with the left arm, against Mr. Croome in this matter. the underhand throw of the right com- Nor'-nor'-east by south, three points on ing in at the last moment to supple- the larboard bow, in the most approved ment, but not to supersede the pace im- method in up-to-date golf circles. parted to it by the left. This seems to Truly, this is sad stuff to be handed me to be merely another way of Var- round as golf. don's printed explanation of his We m/iy just as well admit that our method. "joints" are not well educated enough "To return for a moment to the 'Fun- in the points of the compass to "give damental Shot,' I claim for it as a me- warning that the limit of the south- dium of education that, as compared westerly movement has been reached." with the Full Drive, which most com- We should have to be in such a con- monly forms the subject of the earliest dition that it would be neccessary for a lessons given to a beginner, it is easy cop to give us warning that the limit of to explain and easy to demonstrate; rotatory motion had been reached be- that a persistent and prolonged at- fore we could produce anything that for tempt to master it makes a man de- sheer futility could, compare with this. tect unity in the manner of mak- But Croome is a genius, and nobody ing all strokes from short approach ever took any notice of it before. We to full drive; that the absence, of (Continued on p'i(/e 1H2) THE OUIMKT OUTRAGE self into the National Golf Association of the United States of America. Then K are indeed pleased to see how we shall begin to have something like W cordially our vigorous stand representation of the golf and golfers against the corporation called the of this country on the board of the gov- United States Golf Association, which erning body, instead of having to stand represents only about five per cent, of for the nonsense and chicanery of men the golf clubs of the United States of who unfortunately have given the ad- America, is being taken up by the other ministration of golf in America the magazines devoted to Golf. worst black eye that it has ever We confess that we were astonished received. nt the lenient manner in which our con- We know that many people in for- temporaries treated the five per-centers eign countries were under the impres- following the more than farcical annual sion that golf here was managed with meeting of the Association. dignity and fairness, by men and sports- We took their measure exactly, and men in that game. They never for a we sensed perfectly what they had done moment believed that it could be man- .•it that infamous meeting; also we aged under the presidency of a man warned them of what would happen if who could so far forget himself as to they tried to "put one over" on Ouimet write: "It would be hard to imagine a find his fellow-players who had been meeting that was more open and where barred from participation in amateur less of anything bordering on ring rule events. or log rolling was noticeable." They were not clever enough to rec- This statement' shows a most remark- ognize the solid worldly wisdom of our able, an almost unbelievable, condition warning because it was based on some- of mind. It simply raises a. most un- thing apparently foreign to their in- pleasant presumption against the body stincts, namely, good sportsmanship. of which Woodward was the presiding To speak truth, we were afraid that officer. It will be read in foreign coun- they would not know enough to take our tries with amused disgust, partly for its warning; also we were practically sure ludicrous naivete and partly in wonder that they would not understand our ar- that any lawyer could so "give himself ticle on the meeting, entitled "Suicide," and his colleagues away." which appeared in the January GOLF, Woodward, we opine, will never hear but they are beginning to do so now. the last of the letter wherein he dis- We warned them of the fact that they claimed trickery and meanness so ef- were a disintegrating force in golf and fectually that he was told in answer by not a constructive element. the editor of the perfectly reputable There is only one answer to that. magazine to which he was addressing They must go, and at last they see the himself in the same vein of impudent writing on the wall. patronage that lie assumed in his mo- The timely action of the Western ments of elevation at the annual meet- Golf Association must come as a shock ing of the Outrage Corporation, that he lo them. We certainly hope to sec the and liis colleagues "did everything pos- Western Golf Association take the posi sible to prevent the question coming to lion to which il is entitled, lo which ref- a vote, which they succeeded in doing erence elsewhere is made, and form il by resorting to sharp practice." 176 EDITORIAL

We suppose Woodward; Perrin, Whit- Fancy such a body confirming the ney & Co. know what men call people Ouimet outrage and perpetrating the who work the polities of a game "by Walter J. Travis abomination by chi- resorting to sharp practice." If they canery. Golf in this country can never do not we shall be happy further to en- be golf until it is purged of such impos- lighten them. We may say, however, sible people as these and is run by men that in our opinion it is rather a shame who are golfers in the true sense of the to accuse President Perrin of "sharp term. We shall not use the word gen- practice." Certainly he was "in the tlemen. It has been used by various swim" at the annual meeting and there- members of the five-per-eenters so much fore cannot escape his share of the that in this connection its aroma would blame, but his exhibition on that occa- bury all the "ammunition" that Pluck sion was of crass incapacity rather than Finn's nose told him about the third of the crafty and unsportsmanlike tac- night the King was supposed to be on tics that dominated the meeting. show. We sincerely hope that Francis Oui- Said Huck, something on these lines: met and the Woodland Club will under- "And if I know the smell of a dead cut, stand their duty not only to themselves, and I bet I do, there was forty-seven but to every decent amateur and Coun- of them went in there that night." try Club in the United States, and reso- What Huck Finn went through that lutely refuse to consider any negotia- night is nothing to what we suffer on tions for the reinstatement of Ouimet in account of this unsavory business, for if a status that he has never forfeited. ever the actions of any body of men of- Ouimet has never forfeited his .status as fended the nostrils of those they ave an amateur, and if he and the Woodland supposed to represent it was the actions Club accept anything less than annul- of these American "sportsmen" who ment of the insult handed out to them by condemned great players and good clubs the five per cent, nonentities of golf poli- without allowing them a hearing. ties they will have shown a lack of moral As we have told the ringleaders of courage that cannot be in Ouimet's the Association, the "executive clique," make-up,, else he would not be Ouimet. they have practically committed sui- There are in the tJnited States four cide. But if they can only realize that prominent Golf magazines which are. their place in to serve the game, and will supposed to reflect the thought of the act accordingly, they may still have a golfers of this great country. Not one few gasps of life and get quite a lot of of these publications has a good word cheap publicity, which would be impos- to say for this corporation's Action, sible, for them otherwise; but if they though some have come around to it persist in running counter to the wishes tardily. of the golfers of the United States there, It would indeed be hard to add any- is only one thing to do-—they must be thing to what we told the four corners brushed aside. And, judging by whut of the earth about the Association's is going on, that is exactly what is being scandalous action at the annual meet- done. ing, but we are indeed glad to see that the other magazines are beginning to THE VOICE OF PUBLIC OPINION peel off the gloves, to give them a trifle; Notice to the corporation called the of the bare knuckles, and we take pleas- United States Golf Association that ure in saying "Amen" to the verdict of represents about five per cent, of tJio one contemporary to the effect that the golf clubs in the United States: five per cent, corporation called the Charles F. Thompson, President of United States Golf Association (which the Western Golf Association, has an it is not) got its way at the annual meet- article, entitled "The Power of Publie ing on January 18th only "by resorting Opinion," in the Golfers' Magazine, to sharp practice." He saj's inter alia: EDITORIAL 177

The public mind is educated quickly liv events—slowly by argument. There is no use in induing with those who hold the constitution of the United States Golf Association to he perfect, who will not harken to the voice of progress. The time Ims come for the procession to move on ami leave all these, who, although powerful, fortu- nately arc Imt few in number. The outstanding and apparent fact is that the days of the U. S. G. A. to be considered the national association arc numbered, unless itx cnntroll- inji powers fuirken to the nitre of public opinion. Individuals may plan and direct and for the nonce imagine they are masters of the situation. But this is not so. Public opinion is the greatest force in this country. At times this The Coldwell Walk public opinion seems apathetic and In- Type Motor Mower different anil (it such times the individuals control and thus eventually pet cuts the grass and rolls the to assume they arc the masters. But lawn. presently sentiment becomes aggressive and sweeps away the barriers, carrying Rapid, thorough, tireless— with it these self-appointed rulers. it consumes little fuel, cuts This seems the ultimate outcome with the U. S. G. A. an acre an hour. Does all the work of cutting We wonder if the Golf Outrage Cor- and rolling tlie lawn, requir- poration can see the writing on the wall ing nothing but guidance. now. Do they now begin to understand A sturdy little Motor Mower that they did commit hara-kiri at the of the •wtilk-li/pn will negotiate Astor that eventful morning at the fin- any grade up to 25°fa. Two ish of the annual meeting? sizes, 30n and 85n cutters. We like to hear a man speak as Mr. The Coldwell Ride-Type Model Thompson has done. It would for- Jistlie •'clip|K-r-l)iiilt," long-dis- tify us—if we really needed it—in tance machine. It is equipped our task of dealing with those who with latest improved four-cylin- have nothing better to do than to try to der Continental motor. Mayo ra- diator, etc. Will cut and roll two drag in the mud the best expression of to two mid one-half acres per American golf merely to enhance their hour. Ther«a2miicliiiiu for mak- own self-importance, for which we have ing and keeping a licnltliy, no time to spare. smooth, beautiful fair green. We suggest to the Western Golf As- 1917 Model Coldwell Threesome with one man and one horse will sociation that they change their name di> the work ofany three individ- and title at once to the National Golf ual horse mowers) cuts a swath Association of the United States. They H? inches wide. would then be the National Golf Asso- Write far catalogue describing ciation, and they would naturally take the whole fitlfhrtll line, including single Jlnr»e Mowers and Putting in all the little things on either side of Green Mowers {Three /Styles). 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Jackson Boulevard, Chicago. 178 EDITORIAL them and have an association worthy of Perrin practically promised the sup- the name, but they must be quick about port of the golf corporation, which, it, if they intend to do it, or the lawyer- of course, does not mean very much be- politicians of the golf outrage corpo- cause the United States Golf Associa- ration will put in an ai^plication anf^ tion really represents only about five get the name allotted to them. per cent, of the golf clubs in the United We hope that Mr. Thompson and his States. association will get to work at once so Frankly, we look upon this as a case that we may have an association worthy of misdirected zeal and wish to voice of the name and of the golf and golfers our protest against it because many of of the United States of America. No- the golf clubs in the country that are body accuses the existing organization not affiliated with the United States Golf Corporation might, in their patri- GOLFERS' MISDIRECTED ZEAL otic fervor, be carried away with this suggestion and begin undoing the work In times of war many suggestions for of building beautiful golf courses which the aid of our country are made, but it have cost many millions of dollars. probably will have been noticed that There is a thousand times more nine out of ten of them are the fruit of waste land, absolutely uncultivated misdirected zeal. Frederick Upham acres, in the country than is represented Adams recently made a suggestion by all the broad acres of all the golf which sounded so patriotic that the very courses combined. Let us see to it that estimable Dunwoodie Country Club this waste land is cultivated before the swallowed it whole, and the United property which has cost millions of dol- States Golf Association took a very lars, and would cost almost as many strong nibble at the bait. millions to replace, shall be destroyed His suggestion was that the golf for the raising of food products. clubs of the United States turn farmers We should be the last to throw cold and till the soil on the hundreds of water on any practical proposal that acres of land owned by them, and raise would tend to shorten the war, but we crops of potatoes and other vegetables, cannot look on this idea as being of that devoting the money received to the pur- nature. chase of ambulance trucks and other The war concerns England more vi- implements of national defense. tally than it docs us, although it is seri- Carried away by first impulses fol- ous enough for us, yet in England they lowing this suggestion, members of the have not, after nearly three years of Dunwoodie Golf Club pledged them- war, started to plough up their golf selves to work on -the soil of their club courses, although some of them, we be- two hours a week during twenty weeks lieve, have yielded, hay crops. of the coming summer. The point that we would impress on The Golf Corporation, without all those who at present lire wildly talk- thinking of the tremendous eco- ing about giving up athletics generally nomic loss that the demolition of our and so on, is that war nowadays is a golf courses would mean if ploughed matter of machinery. War is made by and turned into agricultural land, in- the machine. It is the machinery of dorsed the suggestion. The newspapers the war office that has to wage war of New York and other cities published when it is started. It will not be waged the news, giving as their authority a by a few men doing stunts of two hours letter received by the Dunwoodie Golf per week. Club signed by Howard Perrin, presi- Perrin ought to know enough of the dent of the United States Golf Associa- working of the machine, after Ins ex- tion, and also by Austin B. 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III aiwwt'i'iiifi nttvi'rlwrittentn mnilioii (101,F I7it ISO EDITORIAL untary and disjointed work. The spec- sary, what is the best way in which to tacle of some of the Dunwoodie golfers do it as a part of the deadly serious and each sparing two hours a week to this tragic business of war, and not as a important task savors of the humorous. series of adventitious personal stunts by If it has to be done we think that it is irresponsible people. worth at least as much time as they These only serve to clutter the way would have spent playing over the links of the real war machine, which, above if they had not been ploughed up. all, must be coordinated in all its parts. Before we. proceed to destroy thou- Each and every cog must fit into its sands of acres of beautiful country, de- place and work in harmony with the voted to a health-giving and recreating whole of the ponderous and mighty ma- pastime, we should know definitely from chinery. Then it is doing its hit prop- those in charge of the rear that it is nec- erly and not as an extraneous stunt. essary. Then it should not be a ques- Unless we are vastly mistaken there tion of any one club taking up this tiling are many things to be done before it is and wasting time and effort organizing necessary to think of stirring a sod on it, but in that event the links of the a golf course. country should he commandeered. Canada is not doing so badly in this Before this takes place, however, it war, and she has not yet started de- would be best to consider the millions stroying the golf links of that country. of acres of land not now being used for To add point to what we have said, any purpose wasted acres- which are we notice that Major-General Leonard much more suitable for growing po- Wood has thrown tl)c first ball of I he tatoes and cabbages. Also consider the baseball season. This does not look as important fact that intensive cultivation though he wanted to discourage athletic has not yet been practiced, in fact not sports. As a matter of simple fact and much more than thought of, in this good business the nation should try to country. go about its affairs much as usual until The Dunwoodie Club's idea should it is called upon by those whose dutv it have one good result. We hope the is to do so, to proceed in some other members of this very worthy, very pro- way. Above everything, the watch-word gressive organization will not be of- must be union and coherent action, not fended if we point out what it will, or spasmodic individual effort. at least should, be. When anyone, or Cultivate intensively all waste soil any body of people, thinks of doing belonging to golf and country clubs— anything to aid in waging war the first the fence corners, etc.—but do not de- thing to be done should be to approach stroy a single golf course unless it be- the head of the great war machine and comes absolutely an economic necessity to ask if it is necessary, and, if neces- to do so—which it will not. Grass Seed 1917-Reach Golf Balls-1917 There lias been hut one consideration in the conception of Reach Golf Balls and for Every that is quality, they represent the best in golf-ball manufacture. T|]c followinK Purpose numbers show DREER'S DEPENDABLE GRASS our complete SEEDS arc the result of seventy-nine line: years experimenting to obtain the best. Paramount A Dreer's Special Brands of Grass Seed Paramount B grow the kind of turf you want. When Paramount C you sow Dreer's Seed, you sow carefully Paramount F blended, rc-cleaned, high-grade seed. We have a variety suited to every dif- $9.00 Dozen ferent condition. Whippet line: Orange Spot For Country Clubs Green Spot Golf Greens, Polo Grounds, Lawns and Black Spot Shady Places. Maroon Spot We will be glad to answer any ques- Purple Spot tions you ask. Our "Special Grass Seed Circular" gives explicit directions. Free. $7.50 Dozen New Scotty Dreer's Garden Book for 1917 The Meteor is reaily. full of helpful Information and sug- $6.00 Dozen gestions on lawns, ornamental planting flower and vegetable gardens. Se Whiz mentioning this publication. $4.00 Dozen HENRY A. DREER Send for Special Golf Booklet 714-716 Chotnut Street Philadelphia, Pa. A. J. REACH CO., Philadelphia, Pa.

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