The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1921-04-02
George Ormiston PracticinG.

| George Ormiston must have been read
ing the account of how ]. H Eggers last
Saturday tied his neutrality-suspicious.
record BY holing the seventeenth at
Baltusrol in q In any event the Pitts
burgher has gone into serious training.
and what is even more ominous he is
not playing around much but just blaz-
ing away with his mldirons and other
clubs, shot after shot, until he has them
working like the trained seals at the
circus.
And by all accounts George Is get
ting to be as good as a circus and quite
as much of magnet for the crowd. He
had a gallery watching him the other
day while he was brushing UP on his
midiron play. Just to show that he had
the club down pat he hit twelve shots
and put ten OF them in a circle not
more than three feet apart Georges
play was declared to be uncanny. Not
alone - he getting direction, 1t is said.
but he is getting distance and he is
hitting a longer ball than he did last
year.
Omission has discarded his old iron
clubs altogether and has bought a COM
plete new set, with which he appears to
be getting much better results. He at
tributes his success to the fact that the
new clubs are much better balanced and
more of a uniform weight than were his
old set.
1t is said that Ormiston will retire
from the presidency of the Western
Pennsylvania Golf Association this year
and play more of his golf on the course.
Drive a Mile I'm California.
The bare idea OF listing DR.. Paul
Hunters 60 at Pasadena in the category
- ha n
pronounced note of protest from William
Everett Hicks of the Brooklyn Eagle
who lost all respect for California scores
and California drives while visiting out
there three or four years ago.
II don't suppose you give two whoops
for my state of mind. but IL you do you'll
quit about the sensational this and that
out on the California links" he says.
"Sixty-three's out there don't amount TO
much on account of the roll the ball
gets. / drove there clear over the green
of 470-yard hole from the tee. The
hole was level. too. When / was duly
exhlarated Git was in ApriD the club
pro said. Huh. that's nothing. In July
we drive over 500 yards
STANDING on the home tee at the
Preside course one day In May I looked
at the distance on the tee box, $50
yards. A lone player came along. It's
where all the officers Of the Preside fort
play He looked like a Brigadier-Gen-
eral, but l wasn't afraid. The hole
slightly slopes down toward the green.
Pretty long hole you have here to finish
WITH / remarked. oh, In summer it's
only a drive and putt. was his an
swer. Enough said"
Another horrible example Of Call
fornia golf Is also set forth, this being
taken from a match played on the same
course and on a hole 476 yards and
slightly uphill
Jones topped his second" relates Mr..
Hicks. 1T rolled over the ridge and
on down almost to the green. He Clipped
on and got his 5. AS he walked off the
green he said: Got the par anyway.
Not so bad. eh?' And they call that
golf!'
According to this 1t looks as IL each
month in California adds a hundred
yards TO the drive. At that rate Paul
Hunters $50 yard drive In March would
still run second TO Mr.. Hicks's 470 yard
smash in April. but on the other hand
he would be about one hundred yards
ahead of the July distance, or in other
words he would in that proportion be
playing a July game in June. Still they
declare Hunters drive was the longest
ever made at Pasadena But perhaps
Mr.. Hicks omitted Pasadena from his
Itinerary