The New York herald., 1922-04-09

At the start OF the golfing season
there come TO mind many ideas which
We believe will aid the playing and the
development OF the game and the golfer
If more and more license Is taken each
year in the departure from accustomed
methods there surely will be sad ac-
counting some day when golf has swept
the country more thoroughly than 1t has
to-day.
For instance. the speed of play. 1t is
not necessary to dawdle along as so
many thousands do. Golf is more or
less OF businesslike game and the
player will get more enjoyment II he
plays fast and walks round the course
In some other than snails pace. Not
a single champion has ever been accused
of holding up field. There Is reason
to believe that such men as Ray, var
don, Hagen. Barnes. Duncan. Mitchell,
Herd, Taylor, Braid, Ball, Hilton and
dozens OF others would not have played
so well If they had hatched their puts
or visualized their drives.
The player who is considered one OF
the greatest amateurs of all time. Jack
Graham OF Hoylake, was fully as fast a
hitter as Duncan. while the renowned
Johnny Ball just stepped up to the ball
and gave 1t a crack. Speed may not
help, but 1t does not hurt. Some golfers
have thought that Sandy Herd. with his
seven waggles for each shot Of length, is
sloy player. Herd will go around any
ordinary course in two>hours. His mind
Is made up as to what club to use long
before he steps up to the ball, and the
waggling of a club. say four extra times
in thirty-six to forty shots per round
Quits don't COUNT won't consume more
than an extra five minutes.
Duncan and Taylor Fast.
Duncan and Taylor are extremely
fast players, and Mitchell Is little be-
hind in that respect. So too Ray. We
are reminded of his first round at Si-
wanoy after his first drive. The ball
lay behind tree. and there was but
one thing to do, play out to the side and
lose a stroke. Without the siightes.
hesitation, Ray took his nibliclS and
popped the ball to one side. We re-
marked upon 1t at the time. because on
strange course. 1t would have been
usual for players to see il second
angle was laid open, or at least to let
the gallery see that he was in a bad
fix. anyhow. .
Contrast this with the play OF Cyril
Walker on the thirteenth hole at In
wood last fall. when he was playing
Emil Loeffier in the p. G. A. tourney.
walkers ball from the drive was also
back of a tree, and to the casual OBJ
server there was only one way TO play
the ball. which was out to the right.
Loeffler, on the way to Pinehurst last
week, told us that he timed Cyril and
that II was eleven minutes before he
PLAYED the shot. We were there at the
time and hardly felt that 1t was as long
as this, but we knew that one pair went
through Then Walker played the pan
to the side and lost stroke, as 'ex-
pected.
To the onlookers this delay in play
did not appear as professional but as
amateurish. Many of us who know the
Englewood pro intimately believe tha'
II he played faster in competition he
would win more championships, for
none deny the caliber of his game
There is one thing certain; any member
of a club who took as long to play the
shots would find 1t hard to secure part
ners.
Greenkeepers Careless.
While at Pinehurst we heard a rea
grievance against some greenkeepes'
uttered by Donald Ross. the pioneer o
| golf architects in the land. Here g
and build two or three tees for severa
Of the holes. notably the long ones" sac
Donald. land leave written instruc
ticns that when the wind blows IRON
/ thu east such and suchStees are to o.