El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-12-05

GOOD PUTTERs MUST
LEARN To BE PATIENT
By "StraiGht Drive" q

CCT HAVE been spending two solid
hours trying to learn to putt"
Il writes Harry FuIfOrd in London
Golfing. MY reason for thus wasting
time was that I suddenly remembered
having read somewhere that MAYO
practices one hour per day Surely"
1 thought. IF Charles is so gifted with
pauence, / also can summon I'D a
trifle." Again, had just lost a game
to one whom I had fOolishly looked
upon as a rabbit, and who, rabbit-like.
mad a gift of holding out from most
places. Everything that have read in
the correct method of putting I re-
membered, the stance of every good
putter 1 had seen I could Visualize.
and the first person whose style
adopted was McDermott. Now, he can
putt, so kept my heels together,
stood up to the ball and swung the
club with pendulum-like movement
AFTER ten minutes of McDermOttism 7
came to the conclusion that without
chewing gum this style was a failure.
for the result was not better than
usual.
Next I esslyed the vardor methods.
say Methods for poor Harry once
informed me that he is the possessor
Of Sc different methods of missing a
yarder." Well, 7 can beat that for
I've 81; however. I soon found out that
NardoniStic putting is a dead sure
optic nerve originator, for I got pains
IN both knees, 1umbagO (due to crouch
ing), and very nearly brain fever
(bIood rushing to head owing to bend
lnS)- At this stage I changed the
club. a new broom 7 told myself,
sweepeth clean in fact, it bristles
with promise. It did, for I endeav-
ored to copy the stance of a friend of
NINE who certainly puts well, but
must be possessed of an eye that defies
direction, for found that 7 could hook
'em yard in three Reversing this
stance pushed 'em and had to aim
for a slice Up to now the only ball
that had disappeared was one that I
Knocked careleSsly back across the
green It caught in the hole and
stopped there. However, had still a
uozen methods to adopt Ray. when
on his putting, is very good. 7 know
now he does it, but he doesn't and
Kay system was at once commenced.
Left elbow out, eye on ball (hOle quite
lgnOred), knees Wabbly, and, what 7
consider more important still, a short
speech to the effect that if it doesn't
go down purple comets and dynamite
will be its lot.
! have often heard Edward promise
il this, with wonderful effect All
this, then, was carried out faithfully.
Dut either my promise was not Suffi-
GENTLY awful or I stiffened up a car
tllage or burst a brace or something:
Whatever 1t was, know not. but
something was wrong, for no result
was forthcoming. certainly laid it
dead, but as it was a yard putt that
/ was trying I derived little satisfac-
ton. Bear in mind that my Patience
was by no means exhausted. Great
results are not obtained in a couple
OF hours, and although 7 hope to live
to the age of so I'm betting on being
a good putter at 70
Then followed a bout of long puts,
say from Is yards. How beautifully
the ball ran up to the hole: how easily
the putter swung to and fro. what a
simple matter it was to lay EN- dead
for I did so repeatedly This fact
wanted reasoning out. The explanation
Is undoubtedly this: That in a long