Omaha daily bee., 1899-12-24
GOLFERS MAKE THEIR ROUNDS
Enthusiastic Take of the
Mild weather to Improve
Their Gnmc.

The continued mild weather has enabled
tho Kountze Place Golf club to secure al
most daily practice on its links on the
Kountze reserve. The women are taking an
active part in the play and are acquiring
a strength OF arm and dexterity Of wrist
which renders them formidable opponents
TO their masculine associates. The boys
club is also making good progress, the youth
and initiative faculty of the youngsters Civ
ing them an excellent style in an uncom-
monty short space of time While it is not
expected that play can be continued much
longer this winter plans are being made for
q series OF games as soon as spring opens.
Regarding the first principles of the game
Horace G.. Hutchinson writes in an enter
tanning way as follows:
Begin with a short, wooden club. My
advice as to the length of the club you
should afterward adopt | offer with all con-
fdence as being of a kind that the young
golfer will be disposed to follow, viz, to
suit your own fancy. Extremes should
doubtless be avoided; but when we see little
men with long clubs and big men with
short clubs, both playing a irst-class game,
it is clearly useless to attempt to dictate.
The same remarks may hold as to the weight
of tho heads; it is a matter of opinion.
WV q i NNui' lSNNiN AS
in favor of light clubs
Regarding the notorious "waggle,' which
characterizes a golfers play, Mr.. Hutchin-
son says in the same treatise c'Hints on
the Game of Golf'):
9TH preliminary 'waggle,' quite impos-
sible to describe, with which golfers pre-
face the stroke proper, is not like the -four
ishes of a clerkly pen. for purposes of or
namentation merely, but is necessary for
measuring the strikers distance from the
ball and acquiring the requisite freedom
and play of wrist. 1t is better, however,
to err on the side of doing too little of this
rather than too much. Continued steadfast
looking at the ball is likely to weary the
eye, while exuberance of 'waggle' tends
either to the swinging OF the club like a
pendulum, or to slashing, as of one prac-
ticing with the Observation-Disclosures eff
~fective. doubtless, to the spectator, but not
conducive to the effective striking of the
ball.
After the 'waggle' let the club-head rest
for a moment on the ground just behind
the ~ball-unless in sand, when you had bet
ter not. The makers name gives you a
fine guide to the center of the face, which
is the intended point of impact. All pre-
liminary adjustments being thus completed,
we come to the 'magnum opus the swing
proper. Slow back is a valuable axiom
to observe, and some players hang it in
their dressing rooms and read it every
morning when they shave. The downward
swing must above all be even and free
from jerk-for facilitating which the keep
ing of the right foot slightly in rear of the
left is most important"
Mr.. Hutchinson also INDUCES in a num-
Der Of excellent axioms, among which are
the following:
you should bear in mind how, once, the
devil did grin, for his darling sin is the
pride which apes humility and that it Is
not altogether a wise thing to ostentatiously
underestimate your game"
"Do not insist on its being admitted
without dispute that the club-maker whom
you honor with your patronage is the only
man in the world who can make a decent
club. 1t is quite possible that there are
many golfers who consider themselves, pos
sibly with reason, as competent as yourself
both to select a club and to use it,"
TRY to remember that a person may be
a most indifferent golfer and yet be a
Christian gentleman and in some respects
worthy of your esteem