The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-06-04
CURING A SLICE

Probably the one thing that inter- feres most often with the golfer, the factor that sends the players tem- perament good many degrees above profanity level, is the slice.
 The slice is such d persistent ene- my, upsetting as 1t does the good players along with the bad and the indifferent, that q whole system of how to play golf could almost be ex pressed in a treatise on how not to slice. l know d secret or two about the slice and perhaps I can help some of my readers in their effort to shake off this score wrecker.
 One of the very surprising things about the slice is that practically all average players aseribe the golf slice to one or more of any number of reasons without in reality ever learning the one fault of play that most frequently is at the bottom of things when the ball is persistently doing a horse shoe curve.
 My observations of average play CTS have shown me that the slice does not result from the grip being at fault, nor does it come. either from wrongly hitting the ball-that
  across the ball as the clubhead goes through on the driving swing.
 Source of Trouble
 The source of trouble in the slice is nearly always where you would least expect to find it.
 It is in the left knee.
 Moreover, when your left knee goes bad and begins to shoot slices you have to look very closely at this joint to see just what is happen ing. Now that we know where the underlying cause of the slice is to be located, suppose we look a little more into this subject, and determine just what are the symptoms of a slicing left knee. Here they are:
 You have often looked at pictures posed pictures-of different golf CTS in action. Nearly always the picture shows the player at the fin- ish of his driving swing. You see him, with body erect. club well back over the left shoulder, arm in per- feet position for the finish of the swing. That's in the posed photo- graph.
 Left Knee Slips
 Actualities are different. Any play ser knows that when his club is at the top of his upward swing. at the instant when he is ready to swish down onto the ball, the body is stopped and the left shoulder is low CT than the upraised right one. Down goes the club from this point-and precisely at this point is where the left knee slips in and hands you q slice if you don't watch out to keep it where it belongs. Right at this ha a pa r,1a forgets about his left knee. Doing so, he lets his body get into his swing down onto the bali He also let's the slice slip in and because the trouble is from an unsuspected quarter, his every effort to cure 1t Is fruitless.
 The finish of good golf swing. actually--not in a posed picture would show the body to be in exact ly the reverse bf the position the player has when his club is at the top of the upward stroke. When You have the club up, the right leg is stiff, the left shoulder is down. At the finish, the left knee should be stiff. the right shoulder down and on an exact line with the spot where the ball was before it was hit. The stiffening of the left knee, which will keep the right shoulder in line with tho aim at the ball. will enable the player to shoot his club head straight through after the ball when he hits. Watch this one point. always remembering the left knee as the source of the slice making fault, will find your game practically free of this troublemaker.
 uruNev A HmndrRd
 My morning mail contains the fol- lowing letter the answer to which 1 believe will be interesting to most golfers:
 Dear MT. Evans.
 .T have about 10 different things to try to remember before each shot l have been told to look at the ground behind the ball for topping. to keep the head still, left arm horizontal at top of swing and right the same at end of swing: to hold club tight with left hand and only guide 1t with the right. etc.
 'All this and more makes golf hard work Don't you think 1t would be much better to just be natural and try to hit the ball hard every time. leaving good form for the fellows who are not satisfied with anything over so? would like to have more dope on how to shoot under 100?
 e. H. R."
 I have listened to golf instruction by the hour and watched the poor pupil working away and trying with