The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-04-26
sLICING THE BALL
A Few Happy and Helpful Hints fol
Gloomy Golfers

A large percentage of golf gloom
arises from slieing. A golfer s idea of
hades is to stand on hot tree for
million years and slice balls out of
bounds. The chronic slieer is wretch
ed figure, and he falls as low as he
can when, giving up hope of ever hit
ting straight ball. he aims a quarter
of mile to the left of the flag.
There are at least seven causes of
slicing. The eommonest is the vicious
practice of bringing the club head down
outside the line of the balls flight.
This imparts rotary motion TO the
crescent. You do this nine times out
of ten. But do not despair. We can
help you. We can teach you to hit in
side the line.
Buy from commission merchant
basket of very, very bad eggs and
give these to the caddie to carry. When
you tee your ball or come up to it on
the fair green, place an egg about three
inches away from the ball. and an
inch or so back of it. Now swing,
being careful to keep the club head
from straying beyond the line; other
wise YOU will smash the egg and scat
ter the malodorous contents. Before a
dozen eggs are broken you will quit
slicing or be asked to resign from the
club.
If the egg remedy fails, procure a
piece of dynamite and use that in
stead. This will effect a permanent
cure.-B. L. I. in Chicago Tribune.
Knew When to Disobey
What Joffre's feeling were when, at
the end of this eight hundred miles
arduous march, ne found his comrades
dead can be better imagined than de-
scribed. What was more CALLING still,
he found Instructions at Timbuctoo tell
ing him to return Immediately and
leave a junior officer in charge, "pre-
paratory to evacuation With the in
stinet of genius, Joffre knew when to
disobey. He stayed, and by doing so
ultimately earned the gratitude of the
French government. For not only did
he administer a crushing blow to the
Tuaregs, clearing the district round
about for two hundred and fifty miles,
and. in four separate expeditions, de
feating the most dangerous of the
neighboring tribes, but while carrying
on this terrific guerrilla warfare he in
troduced many reforms in Timbuetoo it.
self which ultimately transformed a
ruined and desolate town into one
which could look forward into period
of security and prosperity.
Luck was on my side, Joffre said
modestly, when he was afterwards con-
graduated on his brilliant achievement
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valuable work. 81 might he said,
''have met with the fate of BONNER
and 'Boiteux had the Goddess of Good
Fortune not attended me, refusing to
acknowledge that it was really his eau
tion. foresight, military genius and in
defatigableness which enabled him TO |
bring his column through so success
fully.
At the same time little incident oc- |
CURED on this expedition which might |
have brought about quite a different re- |
suit. While still some distance from |
Timbuctoo Joffre IS left eye was attack
ed by a poisonous insect. The doctor |
feared that the commander might lose |
his eyesight, and advised bandage. |
But the patient refused, saying, "I
could not command my troops if / were |
"Then you must wear
blue speetateles, said the doctor. But |
the desert is not the place to find blue
spectacles, and General Joffre's eye be-
came worse. The doctor foretold blind
ness, but Joffre merely smiled. His luck |
would hold good, he said. Sure enough
one day the mail brought a package /
to a soldier who had been sent
to the rear, from General Loyre, the
g uncle. General Loyre being
friend of Joffre, the latter took
upon himself to open the package. and |
the first thing he found was pair of |
blue sPectacles.
You see, I was right in having
faith in my luck, Joffre is reported as
having explained, and in this way his
sight was saved, although his eye has
ever since been elouded over with a
thin veil.-Strand Magazine.