Evening star., 1923-11-25
BY GEORGE n. DACY.

IF you are an expert, amateur or
professional golfer and aspire to
championship honors Of your
4 club or district, submit all the
golf balls that you expect to use In
tournament play to accurate x-ray
examination in order to know their
secrets and to protect
yourself against the unavoidable in
accuracies that obtain on the putting
green when balls that are not per-
fectly balanced and proportioned are
used. IL you would benefit by the sci
entific search and research of DR..
Bruce L. Taylor. a popular Washing
ton golfer. who latterly has been
studying the defects Of modern golf
balls
DR.. Taylor, one Of the expert play
ers of the Congressional Country
Club. has recruited his x-ray machine
for the efficient diagnosis of golf ball
ailments. and the golf ball secrets
which the curious machine has di-
vulged are the most extraordinary
ever disclosed since science and the
ancient and honorable greensward
game initially were introduced.
Abundant ammunition to keep the
freside league of ardent golfers in
all parts of the world keyed up to
peach -ripening temperature during
the era when Jack Frost reigns over
green and fairway Is provided in the
irrefutable evidence. resulting from
DR.. Taylor's scientific tests, that most
of the modern golf balls are as ram
bling and inaccurate as an idiots
logic when they are putted toward
the cup over a fast and perfect green
by a master stroke.
The multiplicity OF missed puts
those bugaboos of the game of golf
which demoralize the champion and
take the heart out Of the dub--now
has a cannon proof explanation. The
fault is not with the player. 1t Is
due to the uneven balance Of the ball.
which may go through antics like an
animated contortionist just as 1t rolls
abreast Of the pin. and instead of
sinking into the cup may run far
astray from its straight course.
Alibis for missed putts-the short
two. three and four footers - have
previously been as numerous as the
birds Of the field and quite as varie-
gated
1t may be that the Ananiases Of the
golf course will pounce on the results
Of DR.. Taylor's Investigations as new
and novel reasons why they never
grow out Of the century score class
Notwithstanding the undesirability Of
adding to the category OF alibis which
the duffer golfer of voluminous vo-
. &c, nl1
tant that the golfng fraternity in
general be completely advised about
the vagaries Of popular golf balls.
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DR. TAYLOR has been playing golf
~ for ten years in the District Of
Columbia, having been a member of
the Bannockburn and Indian Spring
country clubs previous to his afnlia-
tion with the new Congressional
Country Club. He has played over
more than 100 courses in the United
States and Canada and today ranks
as one Of the outstanding amateurs
of Washington. From his earliest
intimacy with the complexities of
modern science. gained in the lab
orartories of his alma mater. DR.. Tay-
lor has been keenly interested In the
study and solution of difacult techni-
cal problems. Thus 1t was that he
mobilized scientific facilities to aid
him in mastering the puzzling Sc
crets Of golf actions when he ran
to earth number of golfing riddles
which never previously had been
solved.
In addition to participating in
many tournaments, DR.. Taylor has
been a scientifically interested spec
tator at many other important COM
petitions where the best Of the interna-
tional golfing celebrities crossed clubs
For several years now he has been a
student OF missed puts. Time and
time again he has watched the little
gutta percha balls stroked adeptly
by master hands run straight for the
cup, and then as they lost momentum
curve away from the hole in most
unorthodox fashion. He has seen
notables from this country and
abroad lose titular honors and great
ly coveted championships because Of
short puts, ranging from eighteen
inches to three or four feet in length,
which were not holed out, due to per-
versity Of the puzzlesome balls.
which, Just when they were due to
continue In straight line to the hole,
would roll astray.
Finally. the Washington golfer
came to the conclusion that the error
of the missed putt rested not always
with the player. but sometimes with
the ball. That is the "how come" OF
his unusual use OF the X-ray machine
to aid him in the determination OF
what was the matter with the golf
balls.
He selected ten specimens Of the
leading makes of golf balls used COM
monty in the United States. England,
Canada and every other place where
golf Is a popular sport. He made two
pictures Of each Of these balls. The
first view showed the ball lying with
it's trademark brand directly in
front Of the X-ray tube. Then the
ball was shifted at right angles to
the original position and another
negative was exposed. The twenty
pictures which resulted tell one of
the most interesting tales that Wash
ington golfers have ever had an op-
portunity to listen to.
The pictures show that only one OF