Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-02-17
Sporting Gossip of the Week

is completed the gymnasium will be thrown
Omaha are anxious for the completion of
the Young Mems Christian association
gymnasium. for at present there is no
suitable place for playing basket ball
games. and should the gymnasium soon
be completed a series OF games would be
arranged.
The balmy spring days of the last week
has set the Omaha golfers 70 chafng at
the bit. as wen as the base ball players,
and many golfer was seen TO quietly seek
out his clubs and fondIy embrace them
and muse Of the time. a short distance
hence, when he and they would again be
companions on the links The announce
ment that Bob Simpson the crack profess
sional. had been secured as instructor at
the Country club set a lot Of golf gossip
afioat. Arguments are heard pro and con
as to which Is the most important stick
of the golfers collection. Omaha has
some golfers who make the rounds with
only an iron, but this is not taking ad-
vantage Of the chances OF the game. The
niblick is the One that furnishes the ex-
ercise, and can be put 70 many excellent
uses In deep grasses nothing but the
mblick Is Of any use. for a club must be
heavy in head and strong OF shaft to sur
vive' Long grass is one Of the chief ter
rors to the player who is wont to deviate
from the straight and narrow path. In
speaking OF the use Of the niblick, a writer
for golfers magazine has said:
So say you have sliced your ball thirty yards
into me rough grass from the tee at a long
lsh mole Three men out of four even
thhonsh they recognize that the niblick is
t tnSa 9h,{ salvation VIII play straight on
1hH remove the ball from one position IN
me long grass 10 another, twenty or thirty
are in trouble and play to get cut Of n
Play TO get back on the fair way. MOI neces-
sarily to get near the hole at all and then
possibly long brassey may vet take Won
home, whereas forty yards nearer the hole
Out with your ball still in the rough yoiIr
etS1nees OF recovery are vastly inferior
under a wall or hedge, but on the same 3D.
OF II as the hole. the niblick again will
prove IN, 6ne friend IN need To all appear
play any kind Of shot: but If you stand
facing the wall. with your back to the hole.
ana NOW At II with the niblick. ta<ins
quite full shot, with the face OF the eiub
turned wei over, but never allowing the
sweep OF the club 10 go higher than vour
often be attained, and a shot 81 tbis LiS3
properly executed, may be safely rsliei
upon 70 have such an effect on your on
ponent that he certainly will take three an
the green at that hole. VI
water too is no hopeless difhculty with
bil5 fkis you 90 not mind a splashing;
ice, ana there are not many who will
practice playing shots out OF water B1t
with you TO your dip before re-. 9 LON,
40 me necessary skill ts soon acquired 10
prove. perhaps. Of the greatest value 10
M ana lose one would be fatal
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Billiardists are wondering Uha,her 4,
Schaefer should defeat sutton I'm tbsir IA,
balkhne contest for the worlds champion
ship in Chicago. March II. the next holder
OF the emblem will consent 70 a change in
the governing rules whereby future con-
tests viii be Of $500 instead OF 500 points.
Wise people say no. Ignorance Of the rules
governing the trophy has caused much
These rules give the
holder OF the emblem the privilege
OF naming any place in the country. where
he has legal residence as the battle
ground when challenged To change the
rule governing the number Of points. which
simply reads. "AI contests shan be OF $40
points up" II would he necessary for the
holder Of the emblem to surrender IL TO the
donors. Then a conference would be called
or all players eligible for characteristic
honors. ana they would decide upon the
change proposed Il Is the PLAYERS who
decide these matters. not the donors OF the
emblem In discussing this matter Maurice
DAILY said; There Is no doubt that in a
aooo-point match. better cpportunity l.
afforded 70 test individual merit than in a
one nights game o. so points A PLAYER
may b on. one night but come back the
next. which may be aiSo the reverse Of the
opppnent- So YOU see you come hack again
10 the one niEht proposition after an
Again player may be 50 badly out
CHASED that interest IN the match
Il lost after ore night Ives insisted on
three nights, but at that time schaefer
was In favor o. short games Not a room
keeper in America would favor long games
OF serial contests, which I believe injure
bliiandE"