Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-07-05
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JAPANESE PLAYERS
IN GAME Of GOLF
Excel on Putting Green, but
Stature Makes Long Drives
Very Difficult.
By JAMES ].


Nature opposes efforts of the jap
anese to achieve any real greatness in
the golfing world.
Haiime Kamaski a y so-and Ha-
jime ought to know something about it.
He's the amateur golf person Of Nip
pon-the ranking club swinger Of the
entire empire.
IF golf were a game played only
on the putting green's, it is likely that
Japan would soon annex all the cham
pionships." he declared. Japanese are
truly wonderful in their short work,
which requires technique and infinite
skill. l have seen japanese OF but
little real golfing experience putt with
far greater accuracy than some of the
best known stars in America.
But in driving and approach work
Japanese players are woefully poor.
That is due, in the main, to the fact
that Japanese. small by nature. have
very small wrists and forearms and.
therefore, cannot get any power into
their drives.
'Where the ordinary American golf
er will get 200 or more yards from the
tee. the good Japanese player must be
content with 125 or $50 at the OUT
side. In the rough, a japanese player
again is handicapped by lack of great
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carry that Americans do.
Japan now has seven standardized
links and the building of more is con-
templated. The game is growing in
popularity there by leaps, according to
Kamasaki.
Chinese Linkists Here, Too
Charlie Chung, like Kamasaki. has
come to these shores to put on his
golfing act, alice samee Hkee Kama
saki.
But Chung is a Chinese.
He Is only 10. has been playing but
q short time, yet, in tournament play,
in Honolulu. was runner-up in the Ha-
waiian championship there. He was
beaten by Francis Brown, a wealthy
American sugar planter.
Chung is no whale in the matter OF
size, but he has extremely powerful
forearms and wrists for a man of his
race and can drive with much fervor
and distance.
Steel clubs are barred by the golf
ing powers-but the linkists are ex-
perimenting with them just the same,
They have in mind the day when al
golf links probably will be equipped
with steel shafts.
Second growth hickory now is used.
It requires about 100000 feet Of i,
annually to keep up with the golf clur
demand. And, as matters stand now
it'll be only a few years before the
hickory growth Is so reduced that not
enough can be secured for golf pur'
poses.
Those who have tried the steel shaft
ed clubs claim they do not differ radi-
cally from the hickory ones and that
if the shift has to be made, it will not
harm the standard of golfing play.
Radio Golf Course
Every tee on the Winged Foot Coli
club now building in Mamaroneck
n. T.. is to be equipped with a radio
receiving station. with the clubhouse
serving as the sending point.
Golfers who have joined the club
have often been inconvenience by the
fact that urgent phone calls came for
them while they were out on the links
and they couldn't be reached.
Under the new system. all that will
be necessary for the clubhouse at.
taches to do when a man is wanted
is to page each tee.
The club officials also can see an
other use for the radio. And that is
to send along a message, whenever
the occasion necessitates, which will
say to guilty players:
please replace the divet.'