Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-11-07

<fOFy CCHHeClSu Win eii~
Z iug by leaps and bounds. writes John u.
Anderson in the New York Sun. The
reason is the demand, of course al
!. though in many communities even yet
.>s bere is a great Discrimination to cater
to the wants of the golf players surely
II ought to be apparent to every iocai
nublisber that the time is come when
the ,rintins of real golf news ana COM
Z nent awakens those feelings OF satis-
faction which will give popularity anu
credit where they rightfuly beiohg.
Golf fiction viii he more than ever
popular among all classes ana greater
attention viii be paid 10 the hits OF
Verse written as merry conce''s' pS
some talented newspaper poets Oh 'ne
day.
~ Rut il, all the writing this year thefe
has been a superb bundance or aoVice as
to how TO play the game ana GU,
fa,Ite. Syndicate articles have oeeh
written which have covered a iafse
6eld do not doubt that some no
been helped by the advice as sho"e, GU
st ,aers Is a wonderful room for I'M
nrovenent. We are still on the NUM-
for a safe, sane and conservative ss,as ss
at articles which will help the ousih sa7',
man of today who plays put 80
,;mas a week. perhaps only once or at
I tbe most twice and who can spend oiiis
an hour q week in readins nv"
should play the game Al Ia re- eS
feen written up to date with Few
centions has needed a brain OF an "a
nert 10 ,nrayel The man VINO mas VI
dinary Intelligence can unoers. nv
the English of the case, u Is u W. 80
z there is ha rdly q golfer in the ldnu' -
,,inIv not over one in a thousand, "uo
Vii care to take a book out ana iash,
ton his strokes from the readlng any
the pictures thereof 1t is oone RI;
Know Know, ,bine hut neither will ever get
hsrdicao below fifteen. Wherein hes
the trouble?
Pictures Not True.
Let us take first of all the pic.ui
phicb are taken to show the soliefS
s,bo represert the stroke action Nine
.W,v-nine out of a hundred are poseo
5oictures and represent in no true fasn-
ion what the reading or captioh uhoe
meath tells. There never mas oeen
posed picture which represents IS " 7, IS
form, what the stroke calls lot u -
much like putting .I"o IN the haho
Of beginner and havlte MIN sW NJ
it in easy fashion. The g.fer IS SUI
= prised many times at the ere 49,
rhich he fiicks off the dandelit1 head
md ships the grass just at the pei
not. Then a ball is put on the zee
che man can't even hit 1t. he Is lsis.,
ened out of his senses, 1t seems by Inc
harmless pellet. When he does man
age to send the ball it is in all Sorts
of directions and with no distance. ~
Is the same way with the taking OF
posed pictures. Unless 1t is a picture
I Of a golf shot which was perfect when
made, that is. which was taken When
the shot was made and the result OF
the shot was what might be expected,
IL is well nigh worthless and ought not
to be used as description 10 othsls
After the pictures, which are SHOWN
SO as to make 1t possible to have the
reading matter vfsualized, SO TO speak,
comes the reading matter Ever SINCE
the game began We have had mocn aoo
about something in this line. Horace
Hutchinson was the best of the first
we'll known writer's, and he wrote stun
which was accorded the finest of praise
I'm those days. because he cleverly ana
lived the system of the best players of
that time, and being one of those play
ers and having the then orthodox
style it was an easy matter for HIM to
do SO. But now not single goI1er IN
the land would come forward ana
stand for all the methods which he
/preached, particularly the right elbow
being raised away up even above the
head in the stroke, either with the iron
or the wooden clubs.
Style of Play Obsolete.
ted to rest on the shoulder, first on
zine right on the back swing and then
on the left on the follow through. This
style of play has gone out of fashion
because it did not produce players who
could cope successfully with those who
had taken up a seemingly sounder and
better system.
Z. Since that time We have had books
supporting 10 be written by James
- Ta r raa
and many lessons from George Duncan.
Jack White and many others of the
foreign golfers Braid and Vardon in
their later works either contradict or
take back what they have said in many
portions of their former volumes. show
ing that even the greatest of them ALL
so far as links excellence rs concerned,
can change their minds with the great
est of ease and in a short time about
how the game should be played. We
should be wary, therefore. about swal-
lowing all that Is written as being the
5ast word in instruction. AS long as
there are so many ways of getting
the strokes made in the wrong way
there will be no such thing.
- For teaching everybody how to play
the game there is. I should venture,
10 ore right way which can be put on
the printed page. Personally, l always
enjoy reading the articles which are
printed on how to play the game when
the writer is modest enough to say that
he believes that he has found help
10 the game which will aid many, but
most assuredly not all golfers; that
what is written down IS the result If
the study of certain men whose play
may be copied by others if already their
own style has embryonic symptoms
near the style of the given example.
Not Set Rules.
] have little patience with any one
who dares TO tell all. the golfers Of
this and other lands that he has found
the medium whereby all may enter
into the land of the golf blessed
through conformity to the rules which
he lays down for them. 1t is absolutely
impossible for any man to put into the
English or any other or all languages
com bined d statement which will mold
style for all And il is even sillier
TO say that men shall play with fiat,
upright or tn-between swing The
writers cannot take you and build you;
man who has never played the game
VIII start in with no other swing
than that which will come to him with
nsturalness.
:. Up to a few years ago It was be-
hsVed. and still is. by many men that
the fat men always raGst take a fat
swing, that th-y must wind we club
about their bodies, SO to speak / be-
lteyed II myself for a time and was
hnally cured of this in the course of d
round last month at the Merton Cricket
Club In practiciRx for the Lesley cup
matches. In our four-ban match was