Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-07-24
FEnLE FACTOR
Condition of Golfer Counts More in
the Game Than Is Realized
by Many.

Inc physical makeup OF the player,
although its Importance is deprecated.
counts more in golf than one realizes.
Particularly is this true in the matter OF
strong forearms and wrists. Tho man
who has extremely muscular arms plays
different sort Of game from the man
who does not possess them. and each
style has a great deal to back It up.
The strong man usually obtains his dis
lance by using his strength to good ad-
vantage while the weaker player has to
regulate his stroke so that the timing
| will be very near perfect. With the big.
strong man the shoulders have a great
deal to do with the distance obtained,
| while with the smaller person 1t is the
twist of the body as the ball Is struck
| which gets the extra thirty yards. The
powerful man has the advantage on his
| weaker brother in that his muscles are
built for heavy work. and this Is particu-
| larry useful in getting out OF the high
grass where the timing Of the stroke does
not mean so much Another peculiar thing
| about this most peculiar game Is that in
| a hard match 1t is usually the wtry,
| light man who is the least tired after
the contest. Not having SO much weight
| to carry. he does not become SO tired as
| the larger man.
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| in the list OF great golfers are gem
orally noticed to be of generous size.
The inference is natural. for the great
player. in order to become great. has
| to play good deal, and the feet are,
of course, liable to spread in the
| course of numerous journeys around
the links. The feet of the leading
pros of this country are quite large:
Gil Nichols. the tremendous driver OF
tho Great Neck Club. wears big shoes,
and the feet of Jack McDermott. for
| mer open champion, are outAof pro-
portion to his size. for he is very
| short man to be one of the great ones.
The small men are by no means. how
| in golf, for it is one of the few games
| where the size of the contestant Is
| balanced by his skill. Right here In
| Washington an example of the small
| Fred Mcleod, who has won the ma
tional championship and has been in
the money on many other occasions
| Mcleod wears large shoes. larger thar
| golfer needs comfort above all things.
| Mcleod is a good example of the
small mans who obtains fully the dis
| lance of the larger men without their
| physical strength: AS opposed to Tea
mighty swat. McLeods game is char
| acterized by an even. firm swing, while
| Rays game is pure brute strength
tempered naturally by the skill &C
quired through long years Of play.
| Vardon, the paragon of golfing vir-
| tues for the past twenty years, 10 not
a strong man physically, although the
development of his wrists Is abnormal
| for a man of his size.
He is a believer in heavy shoes with
thick soles, although he advises against
the use of the same on American
courses in summer when the fafrways
are baked hard and dry, the spikes
toy h,rrf ir,O No
Vardon claims that rubber-soled shoes
are more fitted to American golf courses
| than the footgear advocated in Britain,
but If the player is caught in rain
soled articles are worse than useless,
for the shoes slip around to great ex-
tent.
Jim Barnes, the winner of the recent
pro tourney played at Van Cortland
Park, is playing as fine golf as any pro
in the country. Yesterday he lowered
the course record of the Sleepy Hollow
links. getting around the long course In
| II, lowering par by two strokes. He
was playing with A. ]. Sanderson, the
Sleepy Hollow pro, against Bob 'McDon-
aid of Buffalo and the metropolitan
| champion. Walter Hagen, and his team
defeated the opposing pair by up and
l to play.
Regular matches are being played
nearly every Monday afternoon at the
Columbia Country Club between Jack
Burgess of the Chevy Chase Club and
Fred Mcleod. the pro at Columbia. In
these contests an amateur is paired
with one of the pros and some good
golf always is forthcoming. Charles H.
Orme, one of the leading players of
Columbia. has participated in a good
many of the matches and always has
held up his end. He is a very long
driver and does not find himself very
often behind the tee shots of the pros:
he plays right handed, but when he
reaches the green his caddie hands him
left-handed putter, with which he
does fine work on the greens. He has
his work cut out to beat the pros on
the greens, as Burgess is one of the
greatest putters in the country, and
Mcleod is not far behind. In match
PLAYED at Chevy Chase recently between
the paid players of Chevy Chase and
Columbia Mcleod had on two occa-
sions to hole ten-foot n'-ttr 70 fH''-a
the hole, which he did without a tren-
BILE.
Howard Beckett of the Washington
Golf and Country Club journeyed over
to the Bannockburn course at Cabin
John yesterday afternoon and played
in a match with the pro of the local
club and two of the amateurs. Richard
Beattie the club champion of Ban
nockburn, was teamed with Burgess,