The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-04-09

air to height of perhaps 50 or SO feet, then fall with a plunk as if it were made of lead. This is a thrill ing shot and if you could see Ar mour put his ball on the green with 1t. as I have seen him do, you would see the sport played by 6 master. Ar mour puts great power into his blow. He scoops up a divot foot long and with the crack of his iron against the ball there follows q yer itable explosion of grass. ruts, weeds. acorns. dirt and dust that shoots out some 12 to 15 feet ahead of him ball wings forth on its way in true arrowy flight.
 The push shot is the golfers OK ford diploma.
 ' The Golf Urge
 A friend walked into my office yesterday and looking at mag nifioent photograph showing sunlit. green-clad fairway with players dim ly silhouetted on a distant putting green, he began humming; T hear you calling me"
 And the same spring urge; this same longing for the links, is pos sessing all of us. Right now is the time to take an inventory of your golf bag. Inspect your clubs Ex- anime every shaft and If there is one with even suggestion of crooked ness in 1t have it replaced with a shaft that is absolutely straight The best time to make a change like this is now. Later when you begin to he on friendly terms with your clubs you will be reluctant to perform so radical an operation as a new shaft on an old and friendly club. You will have adjusted yourself to the deficiencies of the club. instead of having the club adjusted to you, and that's not wise golf
 Don't Change Length
 To the seasoned golfer who has worked out through trial and expert mont the proper length for his par ticular physique I want to give this caution: Be sure that the now shafts are the exact length of the old ones. It took me years to de- termine precisely what lengths were easiest for me to play and at the same time get the greatest distance.
 Spring is the time to make any needed change in clubs for when the season advances and you become en- play there will be just a little psy-
 
 you hesitate to change the club. And despite the finest craftsmanship in ub-makins there is always a tran sition period which a player must pass through with a new club before the man and club get on a thorough ly familiar basis. Something like the change from bacheiorhood to the serene and adjusted understanding of married life. I imagine. If you wait until midseason to remedy weak nesses in your clubs you won't do it at all because you will have a feel ing that having a match tomorrow with John Smith and handicapped by an unfamiliar club you will lose, and there are always tomorrows on which somebody has to be beaten
 Development Thorough
 I should be the very last to offer any unnecessary obstacles to inven- tors or other ambitious persons who would better the royal and ancient game. but nevertheless, have a feeling that golf has now approached a pretty definitely organized condi- tion so that there is little radical to be looked for in the development of the accessories of the game that will be of distinct value. And so I feel that unless something very unex- pected happens in the way of a very marvellous club invention or ball betl torment, my game. as I now have it standardized, will contain nothing new in the way of accessories. Golf Is game of which 1t may we'll be said in speaking of clubs, accessories. etc, that enough Is too much.' Strive rather for simplification in your play and your bag
 Copyright. John F. Dille Cos)