The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1896-03-22

ore else, to copy Il.
pressure should be used u roughout. / fail t.
see how one gould come gently TO within one
m loS1 ana nut q h IN t If the nec sail pHd at the last mo mo
mediately at the descent OF the club pressur,
should be put on. adding to It's velocity until
In this case should neither be so strained moi
likely to, render the aim ineffective. as II II
ball. In playing full shots. either with The
driver. brassie. cleek, or driving iron, 1 stand
In exactly the same position, and swing in the
same manner. OF course, i have to get nearer
to the ball with the brassic than with the
driver. and, with the cleck than with the
corresponding shortness OF the shafts"
For approaching 1t will be remembered Dunn
tine %lofter's longer and broad er blade promising
greater surety for the stroke in his opinion.
Dunn il e1Heelient in his aPprosch play. but II
thus considers the mashie:
For approaching I do not think anything
more laid back and has a larger face. but one
can get on all the loft necessary with n nashie
As to It's having q larger face. one would scarce
Y care TO admit that To be an advantage In
these days. when long faces have become al,
ture about lofters generally IL that they are so
light and 50 much laid back that it takes, a
tsncc.. and consequently, unless one gets i'm
m!edlately under the ball. Il will travel about
three times as far as was intended"
MIG. blA'hW Ella
sniMdr' ' ErDl0y Blackwell a leading amateur
When Dunn fGys that the weight should re-
m h soIidiy on TIE left Leg, do not think
v",r e On "a T pivo t,Rbr hut th hne do SSa not t praHcn e he It
iE vs. on e esaE equally +a. t GistFi@ps ssi1l M n it E fSalEy
Well that il isHa small Matter f"i a. to whether ns1Ge
the right foot is two or three inches to tho rear
The distance in dispute is so small that II Is
hardly worth talking about. l myself prefer
t. stand with the right foot an inch or SO in
what sort, of stroke one wishes to make, and
YOU viii find almost every PLAYER take a DIFF;
nIre correct N their theory OF the swing. When
'Bndminton' says the club ought to sweep back
along the ground. away from rather than
back along the ground is simply given 70 ore.
vent thG club being brought up too straight.
ball. Dunn saws this Is wrong and advises
players 70 keep their eye about a quarter OF an
fact, both these theories are right. II sou ask
any sort of II golfer what is meant by Keeping
that II means keep your eve on that mart Of tho
ball which you are going % strike, and this Is
Just what uunn'S advice amounts to-"
he had suffered at all from golf elbow.
No" he said: =" In fact do not remember
player getting a rick /! his arm and have ex'
perlenced this myself but the name you now
give Is new TO mo-"
WILLIE PARK. JR.
Willie PAX, Jr. champion golfer In 1887 and
1889, said
"RegArding tho question OF allowing two or
three inches OF tho club handle TO project be-
y0nd tho grasp. | can only say that personally
Ryip the extreme end Of the club in playing
the long game.
II do not consider that the illustration OF the
top OF the swing In the B1dmintOn book shows
. good style, the chief fault being ~ that the
right arm Is raised above the shoulder, whereas
II should rather be held In to the side as much
as possible; and t) that the right leg Is bent
too much at the knee. The club should he
swung round the neck or top OF the shoulders,
"The club should not turn In the hands.
!" do not believe In slow back No profess
sionSl player, so far ~ am aware, ever had .