Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1922-08-05

10 proncicncy is literally 5trcwn with
their wreckage. and there is little
doubt that much OF this experiment
ing Is due to ignorance OF what is
pest Tor ones style OF play.
select Clubs Carefully.
As steel shnftcd clubs ard their
advantages become more and mor.
appreciated there is certain To h..
less experimenting. pisCardinC this
or that club because Of ills, real or
Imaginary. Will bc practically un-
heard Of. II for no other reason
the saving certain to result over
a period of years. should appeal 10
IN" average player. though IT has
ever been a fac, that a golfer Will
part With his money with less gr,!mb-
ing wh"n = comes TO the purchase
of clubs, tnan in any other de-
partmcnt of the game.
For many years. in fact ever since
the ancient sport attained "a foot
hoId in this country II has been
customary for q player To buy club
with little or no idea as L. whether
or not II would rcmaln long in
use. II II fails to come IN TO cx-
pectations. immediately Ec dlscards
II without further ado In favor of
II new purchase
Furthermore, when "A favorlte inn
PIGMENT Is broken il rarely matters
how exact the duplicate may be tho
now member nf the kit never .per-
forms it's work quite SO satisfactor-
lily as the old one though possibly
II given sufficient time, 1t might be-
como an equally willing servant.
The golfer when sclrting a club
should he careful to get on that
SUITS MS STYLE. for he. best Of all
persons is the one 10 know what
amount uf ir"l' he requires In the
SHAFT. If his swing bc Of the slow
deliberate kind. then a stir shoft
VIII obviously rot get the best ~
suits. II is not sheer weigh, ma,
produces the long ball rather nc-
curafe timing, ana 10 bring that about
the player should use a club TIM, he
can swing without effort.
as far as the number OF Implc
mcn's carried in The bag uocs, the
FEWER the better. y too extensive
variety To select from has its dis
advantages. If there are two irons
or TWO mashics OF equal mower IL is
sure that which ever II taken Is the
wrong one. There should he one set
and mat set the one to he used. Ey
ira clubs of course, may he taken
a'"HS as suo.UItutcS In case Of break
ing.
Evans Tries Many Clubs.
Apropos Of getting clubs' entirely
I" ones liking, Those who despair
might DO worse than take pattcrn
AFTER Charles Evans. Jr.. the former
national amateur and open champion
thick says that after something
ike hfteen years OF picking and
choosing he has accumulated what he
peiieVes Is as near 10 perfection as
can be found. Probably no one will
ever know. not even Chick" him
SELF. now many and varied types Of
putter he has tried out.
with the craze for length more or
less In everyonc's system golfers
surely think OF the occasions where
too much distance In driving 4,
worse than too little. In fourbal
exhibition match for the Red Cross
at Ar'wamis several years ago Jim
fnrnes had more length to his drives
than he needed. Faired with Gil
Nichols he played against Walter
Hagen and Tom McNamara.
At the seventh hole Barnes hi, n
bah nearly 900 yards from ahc Ice
and brought up In the rough. while
from the tenth tee rs ball rolled into
the pond |; was at the seventeenth.