The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-11-22
POINTS FOR GOLFERS
Tips Of the Game Which the Begin
ners Will Appreciate.
400 YEARS OF EXPERIMENTING
Bushels OF Clubs and All Manner
OF Balls Included In the Golf
er's Outfit-Some Advice In
Regard to the Sport

baseball, an odd feature of golf Is that
there Is no regular size or weight for
the clubs or balls. says the New York
Sun. For a novice. the clubs absolute
ly necessary are a driver, for starting
OF the tees; a braSsy and cleek. for
playing through the greens: a mashbe.
or else a concave lofter. to play out OF
bunkers with or when up against
stone wall; hotter. for approaching.
and a putter. TO hole out with. The
clubs come IN all sorts of lengths and
weights. to suit long men. short men.
boys. girls and women, and they are
made to suit both. right-handed and
left-handed players. One may use as
many styles OF clubs. moreover. az
seems fitting. Some players possess
enough sticks and irons TO stock a shop.
for they buy everything that seems
new. In the way that the students In
| Germany collect pipes and beer mugs
The same go-as-you-please rule applies
to the balls. For a great many years
| they were made of feathers. wrapped
| about with Irvine. but now they are OF
gutta percha, and may weigh 2e. 81 y.
q, 27h or IS pennywelghts. The balls
are usually 81 inches in circumference.
whether heavy or hight. Heavy balls
are best IN strong winds. but player
can use the weight he prefers, ana, In
fact. can take a new ball ON each tee.
~ he pleases. In match games proIes,
sionals usually stipulate that a 27iz ball
shall be used. But there Ii no exact
standard for balls or clubs. Golfers
say that the game has been played for
so many years thai the present styles
must be about the acme OF perfectbon.
A well-known Scotch player was ask
ed what would happen II some Ameri-
can inventor should bring out new
club and a new ball. so superior In AL
points that II would outplay everybody
else.
HE must needs be a canny chtei to
do that. after 400 years Of experiments
ing In the aud country. was the re-
ply "I'1i ma say q canra be done, but
/ yon will be a true genius. an he II have
bonny time winning matches tn we
Most beginners have seen the game
played many tfmes-posssbly they have
/ witnessed a match between two crack
players-and n all locks so easy that
thoir inner consciousness whispers that
\ ffey can do as-wel<-eeeRfselves.
an driving You tee the bali on a ift-
tie cone OF sand. or on q bit OF high
/ grass and, after taking aim carefully,
| you swing and strike at u. II you smut
your eyes as you swing u will be case
OF never touched III III the toe on rne
/ driver hits the bali. ~ VIII slide on 70
the right: IL the strike Is on the heel.
/ the ball goes TO the left; IN either case
the drive Is q foozie. II the ball runs
/ straight, but along the ground. mas
been topped. The next stroke VIII Dc
-
4 lies ON the turf. II you strike turf ana
/ ball together, 80 that the ball only
/ moves a few yards. u Is a dun play
short for duffer. and you feel Ike one.
Should you swing vtciously ana nat
4 the turf a few inches short OF the bah,
/ tearing up the gross, roots and all. II
IN a sclaffed stroke. but the BEGINNER -
most apt TO top ". or else miss eipo-
gether. $3.50.
A sciaffed ball will often rise little.
and II Is an Improvement. so the ex-
| perts say, over a topped stroke. Tor IL
will have roll enough TO bound over a
bunker or ditch. while topped ball Is
more TO be entrapped. To get out
bunker you must get the face OF the
mashie well under the ball. with all the
force possible.
green you try a lofting shot. so as TO
get near enough 10 the hole 10 use the
putter. The face OF this iron Is hollow
and laid well back. TO put doss on the
ball or what billiard players would call
a reverse twist. so that II win fall dead
on the green and not run. III all IS well
Won will then take the putter and try
10 send the ball in a straight line along
I the turf and into the hole. 1t Is mar
yelous how often the ball will go close
TO the cup without falling into it. IL Is
full of tricks. like the last ball in
game OF pool. when you must get II or
be the victim"
BEFORE the novice can learn 10 drive
far and sure, like the experts. he must
| learn how TO use his feet as well as his
hands professional VIII face the
ball with legs outstretched Ike the
Colossus OF Rhodes. move the club 70
and fro over the ball many times. like
a magician working a spell. and then
bringing the club back slowly and for
| ward with a whizzing swirl. he VIII hit
the ball and send IL soaring In mid-air.
| His every act looks careless ana I'M
studied. but there Is reason for
every motion. which only experience
will teach TO the novice. While learning
In this hard school the beginner viii
find that his ball will act more like q
mole than a bird. for instead OF soar
ing II will show an inclination TO bur-
row under the turf. and 10 sink shafts
into the depths OF the bunkers-
When a novice walks out on the
links for the first time. he Is usually
intent. In his innocence. on paying at
least IS holes. But by the time the
ninth hole Is gained. the home hole on
the first round. he Is apt 10 feel "grog-
gy on his pins" as the boxers say.
Sharp and strange pains will dart
through his arms and back. and his
feet will seem TO crackle at every step.
as though all the small bones were
broken This latter trouble will surely
be In evidence II the beginner does not
wear the thick spiked, heavy SHOES Pc
culiar 10 golfers. They viii anchor the
feet 10 the turf. affording a leverage
for the most powerful body swing.
Wearing the ordinary shoes. no matter
how thickly laced. the footing Is not
secure. and the powerful swaying OF
the body and arms brings severe
strain on the muscles OF the foot. After
day OF golfing in thin shoes the now
ice feels as though he had an ancestral
case Of aouf for a thousand pains are
shooting through his feet and rasplng
his great toes. But no matter how the
novice suffers from his first attempt.
he Is sure 10 try again; once enmshed