Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1912-03-31
PROPOSE CHANGES In LINKS
Conditions Must Be Net to Satisfy
Young and Old.
STANDARD BALL Is IN VIEW
Before Uniformity Can BE Obtained
II Is Thought Alterations In
Links should De
Made.

NEW YORK, March 3.-Although the
ardizing the golf ball has thus far been
claiming more attention In Great Britain
than In this country, II is still fact
that the time is rapidly approaching
when the matter win have to be given
careful consideration.
Leighton Caikins believes. as do many
others who have given the matter much
thought that before the final step Is
taken toward a standard ball deter
mined effort should be made to cope with
the situation through alterations In the
links. Suppose a new ball, capable of
being driven 800 yards or more by the
average player, should be placed on the
market. Calkin's idea would be to meet
the changed condition by having three
or four extremely long holes. say. from
go to 40 yards In length, a..#
This could be done by combining GER
tain holes and cutting up or adding to
other shorter ones. which would OBJ
viate the necessity for stretching the
total distance to more than the present
popular distances. which are anywhere
between 600 and 500 yards, The
greater Number Of short Jholes, caused
BY the addition Of the 600 yarders, would
not necessarily denote weak spot in the
proposed remedy. for a short hole may
always be a good hole, provided IT Is
properly constructed.
While golfers in looking for the ideal
may find their search as phantom-like
as the experience which befen the child
that tried to overtake the rainbow, II Is
also a fact that their happiness or sor-
row depends 10 a. greater extent upon
themselves. This applies more partic-
ularly to those who make q habit Of
spending their vacatioa at distant re-
sortS In other words, there are courses
better adapted for some players than
others. ~
II is no uncommon thing. for the average
golfer TO rush into. his holiday without
much reflection. spd In many cases the
selection Of a course Is poorly made. That
recalls the experience OF certain mis-
guided Individual on the other side. This
near-golfer weighed something more than
800 pounds and one boiling August day
went to Deal, only 10 have a sad time
Of Il among sand hills. The following
season he went to the Channel Islands.
and did his best to play over course
where the sand hills were even more
mountainous and fatiguing than at Deal.
The next season the fat man spent his
summer holidays In being hauled up and
down the sea front at Bouremouth In a
donkey-drawn chair.
Another case Of injudicious selection
was that of a nervous person who went
to North Berwick at the height Of the
summer season. After breakfast on the
first day Of his vacation he waited and
fused for three hours at the tee. watch
ing crowd Of players slowly start ahead
Of him. and when his turn came to drive
off he was so unstrung that he fooled
nearly every shot the entire way around.
Furthermore, he never got accustomed to
what in his opinion were horribly dis
concerning conditions. and It was net until
he returned to his own clay course that
he found Il possible TO hit the ball with
anything approaching confidence.
These examples are given TO show why
II might be well for the intending holiday
maker to exercise a little care before
be embarks on his annual southern in
vasion with driver and iron Indeed. such
a precaution Is even more necessary now
than a decade ago for ever since the
introduction OF the rubber-cored bali the
tendency has been TO make the courses