Evening star., 1907-11-18
NOTES OF THE GOLFERS:

A golfer who spent a good deal of his
time fishing for lost balls once found an
old Guilty in gorse bush. The Guilty.
with tears rolling down his face, begged
to be put back. II am very old and very
hacked about he said, land, above all,
am only a Guilty. If you look carefully
you will find one or two brand-new Rub
Der Balls hidden in the gorse." But the
fisherman, putting him in his pocket,
laughed. and said: mo, no, my friend;
a ball in the hand is worth two in the
bush.'-The Golfers Aesop.
The proper shape for a bunker, says Mr..
W. Herbert Fowler, is the old hip bath,
with the highest side nearest to the hole
The great object should be that the ball.
no matter how it goes into the bunker
should get as near the center as possible
The player can then play toward the
hole, always supposing he has learned the
art of getting out of a sand bunker.
Golf is the latest panaoea of Trainer
Moakley Of Cornell for rundown foot ball
players. This treatment is what he has
prescribed for the star halfbacks, Nc
Callie and Earle, and for End Van Orman.
The trio spent part of Wednesday and
Yesterday afternoon on the Cayuga
Heights links, chasing the festive gutta
percha pellet far above Caynga's waters.
The treatment seems to work to restore
tired muscles and ragged nerves and JUS
tifies Monkeys absolute control over the
conditioning.
Moving pictures of golf matches have
caught on in the London music halls. The
putting is much quicker than in real life
and the ball looks more like a white mouse
as it runs on the green than golf ball
In driving the club seems to come down
very slowly on the ball, much more slowly
than it goes up. Should instantaneous
photographs of the sort be made in this
country the study of the two speeds of the
club in driving may create as great a
variation from preconceived types as those
that show a running horse or trotter in
motion. SLOW back is the advice of all
eolfing teachers, yet to the naked eye
many of the best players appear to go
back as fast as they come down. 1t would
be curious if the down stroke is proved
after all to be the slowest movement.
western writer suggests that golf
makes round shoulders. i cannot say tnat
L have noticed that 1t does. Many golf
ers stoop little, but PROBABLY they would
stoop still more if they -haa not played
golf. There is nothing in the nature OF
the golf stroke to induce stoop, though
1t must be confessel ii that modern put
ting attitudes, and The time which many
golfers spend in them, can hardly tend
to the preservation of an erect carriage.
A deformity which used to be common
enough was a depression of the left shoul-
der, or it may have been elevation Of
the right one. This was due to the posi-
tion assumed in the address, in which
the left shoulder was purposely and ha-
bitually depressed l am not sure that
traces of it are not still sometimes seen
on the figures of well-khown golfers who
remain faithful to The old models.
Jerome TraVerS, the amateur golf cham
pion, said that the letter of Walter ].
Travis stated correctly the facts of the
incident at the eleventh hole in the Olym-
pic cup match. He also believes that
the decision of the st Andrews commit
tee has been made without full informa-
tion
1T would have been impossible to have
found a place where | could have teed
swing within 100 yards of where the ball
lay was Travers' comment. Il there
fore teed up on the nearest point of the
course. but not nearer the hole. l am
glad that Travis. as captain of the Metro
politan team, has made a statement that
ndorses my action
AS the Western Golf Association made
no protest at the time, the Metropolitan
players do not see the virtue In even an
academic discussion now of the occur
renee. Some of the differences in the
viewpoint may be 'Iue to the contrast be
tween the present and the old rule. The
rule of 1891 was:
A ball may, under the penalty of two
strokes, be lifted out of a difficulty or
any description and be teed behind the
same.
The present rule as adopted in 1904
states:
A ball may be lifted from any place
under penalty of two strokes. ball so
lifted shall be teed, if possible, behind
the place where 1t lay; if it be impossi-
BILE to tee the ball behind the place where
it lay it shall be teed near as possible
thereto, but not nearer the hole. The
penalty for a breach of this rule shall
be disqualification
1.-The value of the ST Andrews ruling
depends on a question of facts was the
comment of Leighton Calkins of the L. S.
G. A. executive committee. LAS no pro-
test was made. 1 no use of discus
sion now, and Travis letter is a very
good one. Regarding rule IL. l think
practicable should have been used in