Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-09-28
GOLF BALL FuED IS ON
ATTEMPTS TO REGULATE
SPHERE CREATE TROUBLE
Any Change In Size or Weight Would
Affect Game I'm Instruc-
ton md Play.

The old feud between those who urge
t ina tn the long flight golf ball is ruin
ing the game. and Those who maintain
mat this is the very thing that has
MAGE mage the great progress OF the last de-
I T,.e' is still carried on with fervor.
inc Royal and Ancient Club in Scot
lana, the court of last resort for con-
serfative Solf definitions, has the mat
lei Ter Under under consideration. and though
no oenHlte decision has yet been hand
ed down, 1t is whispered that the sares
nave decided that the attempt to limit
ana dehne types of golf balls suitable
i LOT championship play would drag be-
hina IL Il most of inSupcrablc difficult
ties in the enforcement Of any such
regulation.
In the first place. the reformcrs. as
those are called who insist that some
unit he set on the distance which a
soit ball can carry demand that ali
Soli oalls used in championship
, .a,,,Sin Or any other contests under
regularly organized golf association
be made OF the floating variety. 4
pau OF this type could be played from
narrow water hazards, such as bitches
one famous match on the links of
England and Scotland has seen some
uoushtH champion wading knee deep
INTO in III, me water With heavy mashio
would not so often be buried in soft
ground as the small, hard, far-nyinc
pail now used by the majority Of low,
Useless on Windy Day.
On the other hand. consider the
windy day! solf ball light enough
10 hoat in water is about as much use
driving into the wind as an ice box
in Labrador Down the wind a golfer
would be hitting the shoes over 800
yards, and against the wind this same
Go ore would be struggling to get $50
would receive rude treatment on such
day. and old Colonel Bogev wouId
probably retire permanently from the
More than this. It Is a we'll known
article of faith among players that
every man cannot play every ball. nor
can an men play one ball. That ac-
Dalls manufactured BY the same firms
The strength of the hitter, the stvic
OF MS sweep. and other manner!sms
'nec. tne type OF ball with which a
seasons ago a leading firm put out
small. heavy bail with which long hard
alters got beautiful results in clear
heavy going. and the average duffer
could hardly get it two inches of the
ground with a mashieniblick
One golf ball expert explains the
bad choice OF ball. He says that
when the national amateur or national
open championship is won with a GER
tain hall these buffers straightway
imagine that what is good for Walter
Hagen and 5. Davidson Heron is good
enough 10 reduce their records from
l32 TO l2o strokes for the round. puts
included.
Urge Many Types.
Some moderate reformers have urged
the adoption not OF one type Of ball
but OF several fixed types, 'oater
for instance; a medium ball and "A
heavy ball. This seems 10 be beating
the devil around the bush" and things
might as we'll be left as they arc as
to adopt this compromise.
When al! is said and done the fact
remains that the presenlt-day game
and the present-day course are dev-
clopments OF the small. heavy. long
flight ball Any change in the ball