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.. XXXVI. NO. S i into its he same • .» . s June Price 25 c. A Year The Golf Museum United States Golf Association Donated through the kindness of OLD Sherrill Sherman elusive use use the Coldwel Utica, N.Y. Coldwel made in "Dn (Ri 500-pour mow, «.*» 6IV.I.IIJ 111 pv.ni.1.1 HJHUlllUU. Write for 1915 catalogue and complete description of the Coldwell line—including the new Cold- well Putting Green Mower. COLDWELL LAWN MOWER COMPANY Manufacturers of Hand, Horse and Motor Power Lawn Mowers Offices and Factory at Warehouses at NEWBURGH, N. Y. PHILADELPHIA and CHICAGO In ansiCcrini/ advertisement* plou**/ tiuuluiu HULL'' DON'T MISS IT A Most Charming Moving Picture Production for Young and Old Before you here, in shadow.land, You'll meet with gentle Alice, Quaint creatures that you've known for long. So lay aside all malice All thought of trouble, strife and wars; Drink joy from Memory's chalice ! The Charming Young Actress MISS VIOLA SAVOY as "ALICE " and inimitable MR. HERBERT RICE as "WHITE RABBIT" WATCH YOUR THEATRE •as ALICE IN WONDERLAND A HIT OF THE SEASON • The whimsical text of LOUIS CARROLL! Delightful drawings of SIR JOHN TENNIEL! • IT IS SIMPLY IRRESISTIBLE The White Rabbit The Cheshire Cat The Blue Caterpillar The March Hare The Mad Hatter The Sleepy Dormouse The Gryphon, The Mock Turtle, The Lobsters, and many others Photography and Camera Work by DeWITT C. WHEELER Scenario by W. W. YOUNG and C. R. MACAULEY Wonderful Animal Costumes by H. L. MESSMORE PRESENTED BY The Nonpareil Feature Film Corporation /// answering advertisements please /million GOLF r,.;,, , ' . GOLF WTTH WIIK'll IS INCORPORATED "GOIJFING," KHTA MI.ISI 1101 • 1894 VOL. XXXVI JUNE, 1915 No. 6 JOSIAH NEWMAN, OUR FOREIGN REPRESENTATIVE BY C. GODWIN TURNER T is an honor to have associated with don that have yet to take place—but us the stamp of man such as Mr. that things have been said that were IJosiah Newman. He is still hard at better left unsaid by all of us. that ter- work with the City of London National rible crimes against humanity are being Guard, now over three thousand, of perpetrated, and that the very air we which nearly two thousand are golfers. breathe is full of bitter hatred none Amongst these you can find many well- can deny. known names connected (many offi- "After living for nearly nine cially) with the best London golf clubs months in an atmosphere heavily waiting their call to the front. Mr. charged with all the excitement of a Newman laid down his pen for the ruthless war, it is by no means easy to sword, for duty's sake, and we look detach oneself from the great burly forward to his early return, for we burly and look out on the distracted with our many readers miss his foreign h'eld of operations and point out the letters, always written in that strain things that really matter. But let us which interests all Americans. look! In looking back and reading his last "There is Sir John Jellicoe, cool, November foreign letter, his opening calm and collected, with his fleet phrases are certainly appropriate to stronger than ever, owing to recent ad- refer to at this time. He writes: ditions, in complete command of the "The motto on my desk calendar for North Sea. He is thus able to protect to-day is from Thomas Carlyle, and it the transport of troops from the utter- sounds rather apt for the war corre- most ends of the earth, and still they spondent : come pouring into France, keen, eager, " 'Speak not at all in any wise till determined, impatient, to fall fighting you have somewhat to speak; care not for freedom." for the reward of your speaking, but We most sincerely hope that the end simply and with undivided mind for is not far distant, and that before the the truth of your speaking.' golfing season is much further ad- "You may have read long speeches vanced we may quote Thomas Carlyle by Mr. John Burns and other of our to Mr. Newman and say that he has public men which have never been de- now "somewhat to speak," for we sadly livered; of atrocities reported by miss his monthly addition to our special correspondents that have never magazine. been committed; of air raids on Lon- At present the golf now played in Copyright, 1915, by CLIFFORD I.. Ti BNKB. ill •*/// Is VCSi tliil M It. JOSIAH NEWMAN. spondent, who put aside his FornicU ,f GOLI Magazine, ami our Special London corre for tlic sword. JOSIAIl NEWMAN 325 old England is really what we do not is for the benefit of the various war like to read about, as it is so closely funds, the shilling or two shilling dovetailed with the awful strife, only a "sweep" being the most "popular," if few hours' ride away. such a word may be used.'' "That Mr. Newman's articles for GOLF One of the new war ideas may be Magazine," says Golfing, of London, considered the girl caddies, which must "are so good and contain tlie real news surelv make a pretty innovation. Hut is evidenced by the fact that they are as is very natural, the game has lost frequently copied hack into the Eng- that beautiful charm of recreation lish papers months after New York and cannot rise while so many brave (through GOLF .Magazine) has ob- golfers are at the front, and no golf tained the benefit." club can possibly resume its ordinary Early last month Mr. Newman pre- restful recreation until peace proclaims sented the "Spalding Record Cricket its victory! Then, and not till then, Bat" for a Red Cross sale at Christies", will the awful reckoning be made, and which brought the tremendous price of sad havoc will be found in many or all •f3()7.50 at public auction, certainly a of our best golf clubs throughout world's record ! the United Kingdom, and the whole What little golf is going on in Eng- English-speaking world will mourn land merely covers the week ends and their loss. GOLFER'S MOTHER GOOSE Ride a cock-horse through bunkers and gorse, To see an old golfer get horribly cross; Warmth in his diction and wrath in his pose, There shall be humor wherever he goes Wait a bit. bailie, upon the tee top. If I don't hit you there you will stop. If I should duff you. what will befall? OH' will go bailee, turf, tee top and all. GOLF SCHOOL HINTS BY JOHN 1). DUNN I IF. best liint I can give any will never be able to bat left hand. T golfer is to go to Short Hills Since a left-hand batter has a great ad- and follow round the leading profes- vantage over one who bats right hand, sionals. They will be playing at the it would be far better for the boy who Open Championship from June 15th to is just starting out to learn to bat left IStli. Check ii]) what you have learnt. hand. It is almost sure to be un- I find it makes it very much easier for natural to him at first and so on, but the American to understand the golf this last sentence explains the whole swing when it is compared with base- thing and answers the oft-asked ques- hall. Most American men have played tion, why a right-handed golfer has an baseball as boys, and even girls have advantage over the left-handed one, watched baseball so much that they are unless, as I said in a previous article, he also influenced from that point of view. had predisposed himself to playing golf Moreover, baseball has at least one ad- left-handed by having played some vantage, and that is that all baseball other ball game left-handed. I notice players commence young and their another very good remark: "The swings are natural. I have Spalding's player must have confidence in him- baseball guide on "Mow to Hat" before self." That is good enough to put in me, and I see no mention of method, italics. "You will find that you cannot but the hints are very similar to golf. hit the ball satisfactorily when you For example, one reads: "Just as sure swing at it hard, but that you have as you swing with all of your might little trouble in hitting it when you at the ball you are apt to miss it." make an easy swing. Therefore, do Then "Watch the ball most carefully. not attempt to knock the cover off the "Hit with a wrist combined with a body ball. You might just as well shut your and arm movement." On page 15 it eves and swing blindly, for the chances says that a right-hand batter advances are that you could do just as much his left foot so that he can put the execution.' Another good tip: "The whole weight of his body into the swing batter who persists in adhering to a of the club—open stancers please note. naturally awkward swing will never be J now observe for the first time why likely to make much headway in the so many baseball players bat left- national game." Don't forget that noth- handed. On page 16 we read: "If all ing worth while doing is easily done in right-hand batters could hit as well this world. The things accomplished from a left-hand position, they would that seemed at the start almost im- gain greatly by giving up their right- possible ; the things that cost hours of hand attitude." Why? Because they patient, steady work; the things that have a start of from three to six feet if called to the front all the will power, they bat from the first base side of the all the endurance and all the brains in plate, and it requires much faster field- you; tlie things that made you feel ing to catch a left-hand batter at first many and many a time like quitting, but than to get a right-hand batter.