Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-10-07

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Shawnee the shots she had been missing,
taking the pro with her on the diff
ficult holes. Nothing bothered her, even
though she had been sadly off on her
iron shots up to the last round of the
tourney.
She went in and danced Mt night and
went upstairs when she was sleepy.
No Worry
81 don't believe in making lot of
fuss over n match" she said 81 know
if i am right that | will win, and |
don't .st'v awake figuring whether l
will be- ing right or whether l am
kgoing to be- beaten. At home l have my
Violin e. ':cCD me busy. Sometimes !
almost think | would like to give up golf
for music, but the lure of the links is
too strong
Mrs. Gavin is different. Her hus-
band, an ardent boxing fan and sports
man, acts very much in the capacity of
trainer. He follows every match of
hers from beginning to end. lie slips
her the chocolate at the ninth tee. He
analyses her game and plays her shots
from the gallery always as hard as she
does.
My wife before match" he says,
has most remarkable indifference.
Her state of mind is dormant. She is
incapable of getting excited, keyed up
or anything else. She simply registers
no emotions whatsoever concerning the
match of the morrow. 1t is most re
markable, you know"
30, Cos hot ho co;1 hnt sl,
gets aroused
''It takes few lost holes. or some
rotten shots" he said, before she
realizes that she is in golf game and
seldom gets going in the early part of
q match.
In very ungolfy evening attire, Mrs.
Gavin was always to be seen at Shaw
nee in the evening social functions there,
chatting away and mingling with evi
dent oblivion to the work at hand OF
the next day. She, too, is always con
fdcnt that she can win.
The one exception was against Miss
Stirling. She feared the little cham
pion. Mrs. Gavin is one of the cooI
golfers who appear just at the SET
time on the tee, and seems far more
WIFI HOW tIt olltI
are coming along OH the first few holes
than how her own is going to come out
Some of them can do that.
1t is the way Bill johnson arrived
at Forrest Hills to play Tildcn for the
tennis title. Tilden, it was said, was
at the clubhouse, all dressed with q
flock of tennis rackets in his hand ant
stalking up and down nervously like a
Gagged tiger, hours before the match was
due TO be played.
All Winter Long
To 60 back to Mrs. Gavin the one
over ruling passion the Gavin family
has is to cop the championship. Hei
husband had her in California practic
ing shots daily all last winter. Wher
asked why she didn't play in more
tournaments, her husband said there
! was only one thing he wanted her tC
: win, and that was the national.
"We are going after it next veal
, Just the same,' he said.
Until there comes the stoncy nervet
golfer, incapable of flights of fancy OF
, of being nicked by the shots and cali.
Der of the other fellows golr, psychol.
ogy Will always enter into the game o.
. golf, more so in women's than IN men $
, 1t explains why golfer is punk will
his wood and fine with his irons on
| week and vice versa the next. Th'
scientists say it is mental attitude
Thinking is doing, n:ne. times out o
ten, in the books of learning.
Gil Nichols, going badly in a biz
| bnIn1 n,,t IHn- ropI irnt
shot. After that they couldn't stop hin
in this event. Harry Warden once hat
to change his brand of ball. Puttini
the same stroke as always, he couldn
: sink 'em. He figured something wa
wrong with his stroke and had TIN
devils own time ever to be a putte
. after that. Every course is full .
hazards but the greatest Of these i
: the mental.