Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-08-07

amateurs of promise adopt this method
! OF holding the club; but, in spite OF its
| indisputable advantages, Il is not largely
| praeuced among the rank and file of
| club members
| Most Of them declare that their hands
| are too small for It or that they do not
hnd 1t comfortable; golf Is so essentially.
| recreation TO them that they win not
| suffer weeks tribulation In order tn
learn principle which, In the end. would
benefit them considerably. The over
tapping grip Is seen extensively in the
states, and the only weakness in the
| situation is that many players do NOT
| appear TO realize the main points of This
method. Some of them may be CARRYING
| out experiments OF their own but Ger.
tainly others think that they are em-
! p'oylng what we may term the orthodox
FORM of overlapping, when in truth they
are doing nothing of the kind
an interesting feature of golf on the
Continent Is the employment of girl cad
! dies. I nave never seen them in Amer
lea' and they are TO be found on very few
courses In Britain-Aberdovey Luton and
81. Annc's-on-Sea are the only places that
l can recall at the moment. Caddying
| seems to me to be admirably suited to
girls; 1t is not much use as an occupation
for boy, seeing that, unless he happens
to become a good player Cand only about
S''N III iiAAe uOtS llldllt IL .OlIeIS no Iuture
worth having. Taken all round, too girl
caddles are more attentive, polite and
keen on the game than their brothers who
carry clubs.
AT lie Touquct they are study for
philosopher or painter. Most of them are
the daughters of local fishermen; sooner
or later they marry the sons Of fishermen
and disappear from the links. But until
they are about 20 caddying is their voca-
tion, and right strong and healthy they
grow unoer its influence.
One who carried for me last year--a tall
dark girl whom any artis. might gladly
have selected to sit for the picture of n
gipsy-never seemed to grow tired and
never lost her zest for the game. She used
to tramp 10 miles over the sands from
and to her home beyond Etaples. One
day she carried four rounds. walked in
an interval to Paris-Plage and back "a
distance of four miles) in order to accom-
pany a girl friend, and informed me at
the finish that she was just off to attend
dance to which she and other caddies
went every week and which would finish
at o'clock in the morning. l calculated
that before she started dancing she
would have walked 26 miles during the
day.
In Switzerland women act as caddles,
asd In Germany a good many girls used
TO be employed on the links. GOLF was
rapidly becoming popular in Germany
when the war broke out, and this in spite
of the fact that nothing like a decent
course had been laid out in the country.
A German once told me that I could
make a huge fortune in five years by go
ing out and designing courses and in
augurating clubs on the lines that OBJ
tained in America and Britain; perhaps
1t was Just as well that declined to be
tempted.
Some of the greens on which I have
played in Germany have been truly de-
plorable, At Baden-Baden, where we COM
peted for the championship, the place
was such a quagmire after heavy rain
that every one Of us lost a lot of balls
in the fairway; n ball would simply pitch
into the mud and disappear in it. 1 lost
six in this way, and ultimately sent my
caddie forward at each hole to mark the
spot where the ball dropped.
believe that a good course was being
laid out close to the Royal estate at Pots
dam when the war began. Report says
that the money for it has since been COM
mandeered by the German Government,
so presumably that scheme has sue
cumbed
Copyright 1918, by the wheeler syndi-
cate, Inc.)
This Is the ninth Of "a series of articles ON
golf that Mr.. Vardon, the British
champion, Is writing especially
for the Evening Ledger. The
tenth article will appear
next Saturday