Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1914-04-21
GOLF GOSSIP
By SIEVE ARMSTRONG.

l am going to give you something
! to think about in regard to the well
! fare Of caddies. This is the time of
I year when club committees can quite
we'll spare the time to stop and think
over many matters for the general
! good of their clubs and all those in
| connection with it. One so often
I hears complaints about the poor cad
dies one gets at such-and-such a club.
How they know practically nothing of
| their duties, for beyond settling the
| tariff for their services, the commit
! tee has not troubled itself to consider
the question. There Is no excuse for
member who pays good round fee
to the club not being abe to get a
caddie who will be more use than a
! sort of human packhorse to carry
ones bag around the links.
! OF course the caddie of the olden
times is seldom found nowadays,
though a few are still to be seen at
| St. Andrews and some of the old clubs
abroad. There are even some who
make a practice of going from tour
nament to tournament during the sea-
| son, making enough to pay their ex-
| penseS, and quite a bit over. Also so
many eventually become profession
ais assistants, graduating at last into
| full-fIedged teachers of the game But
in this country this is very much the
exception. Most of our caddies for
sake the links just when they are be-
ginning to be of some real use to the
people for whom they carry clubs. At
the moment | am not going into the
question of the work of the Caddies
Aid Association does in educating the
boys for after life, but into that Of
making them efficient caddies while
they are occupied with that calling.
Post Rules in Cadde House.
There is really no reason why
simple set Of rules may not be tackled
up on the walls of every caddie house,
printed clearly, and placed where the
boys can see it easily. Let some IN.
|terprsing member Of the club donate
a couple Of prizes, or even let the COM
mittee Civ" small reward every
month to the hoy who knows the rules
thoroughly, and carries them out in
his daily work. better than the others.
This will spur them on to a useful
rivalry to learn their duties, and at
the same time insure thu club men,
berS Of satisfactory service from their
Caddies.
Some such rules as these would be
extremely helpful:
|. The caduie should give his whole
.attentiOn and interest to the person
for whom he IS caddying. helping the
player in every way permitted by the
rules of golf
. Should he be asked to make the
tees. he must Try to get them tn?
height the player wishes. and place
the tee on the exact spot bOinted out
TO him.
.. He must not speak unless spo-
ken to. and noither move nor make a
sound while stroke is being played
BY any one.
He should stand at one side of
tire player. and never make the mis-
take Of standing directly behind the
ball.
Watch Flights Of the Ball.
:. H should watch the flight of
the ball carefully. marking where it
.stops ny some object, or the line to
some point. He should be standing
near the ball by the time the player
reaches il, but not within a clubs
length of it.
6. H must know all the clubs by
sight, and be ready to hand out the
one asked for.
8. He must not move. bend or break
anything fixed or growing. Must not
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