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Evening star., 1924-07-06

anywhere from one to ten lessons.
With an apparent confidence in him.
self that is often laughable. the golfer
Of lamentable scores will engage the
pro for one lesson. and perhaps dur
Ing the season he comes back for two
or three more lessons. The cruel.
hard fact is that no one has ever yet
learned to play golf with half
dozen ora dozen lessons. and no one
Of any advanced age is ever going to.
because 1t would take that many half
hour lessons to learn how to put
rhythm alone into the stroke.
Golf Is our greatest sport. 1t yields
more good solid enjoyment than any
Is worth ten times the time involved
for a course of instruction that would
make fairly good golfer. Any man
who cares at all for golf is justified,
ious consideration to enable some golf
teacher to make good player Of him,
Any golfer who has ever hit one
good ball has good golf within him,
and has proved 1T to himself The good
ball-or the occasional good shots
result from an accidental combina tion
of good swing, mechanics and rythm
and IL the thing can be done accident
ally it can assurdedly be done reg
ularly.
Six Months or Year.
How long 1t would take to bring
about a rather machine like regular
ity of good golf shots depends some
what on the player, but IEshould say
that q lesson a week for a year, or two
lessons weekly for six months would
do 1t. Some practicing would be re-
quired in between the lessons, and ar
rangements should be made to have
this practice supervised by the teach
er. The muscles train with practice.
and 1t is trained muscles that do the
trick. That is why no one can take
half "A dozen golf lessons, or a les
son now and then, and ever get any
where. 1t simply isn't done.
Meantime, If you prefer to hit 'em
your own way and blazes take the
result-"I only play this game for
the exercise anyway and just as an
excuse to walk around in the grass
why get right down to the old base
ball swing and go to it, Draw your
club back exactly as you would draw
back the baseball bat. Shift over
your weight exactly as you would
shift back In swinging in the base
ball bat-or even to throw a ball.
Take time enough to complete the
swing, waiting with the clubhead
exactly as you would wait for the
thrown ball to get to you so you
haps the golf swing Will begin to re-
veal itself in its simple natural form.
The golf swing is a simple, natural
exertion. 1t Is as easy as swinging q
baseball bat, and the two have a
lot in common.
Copyright. 1924)
Evening star., 1924-07-06

worked them up to such pitch of
hitting It" that they resembled more
than anything else the base ball
player of my native land ION his
toes" to hit. out a long screamer.
That was exactly the attitude Ray
got them into and he had seldom. II
ever. seen a base ball player. Ger
tainly he knew nothing Of that sport
Over here. where everv opportunity
should be taken advantage of to urge
the golfer to avail himself Of the in
stincts of base ball swinging, the
golfer is veered directly away from
the things that would be most nat
ural for him and into things that
plunge him into confusion worse con-
founded.
Babe Ruth, to cite him again. is a
good golfer. and / dare say he is one
of the very few golfers who has put
his base ball practices to work on
the golf course. 1t didn't take him
long. understand. to master a good
game of golf. Now. l suspect that he
has doubled up the process and has
put golfing ideas to work in his bat
ting. What could be more natural
than a full upright swing. with base
ball bat. for high ball well up to
float with the wind. or a fiat swing
with the bat for a low screecher that
had to fight its way against the wind?
Rhythm Most Important.
The great fault Of golf teaching in
this country is that the player Is
seldom taught anything about the
most important factor of the swing
rhythm. Instruction has to do entire
ly with the mechanics of the thing.
Thus every now and then you see
Evening star., 1924-07-06

some golfer who, with no semblance
Of good golflng form, manages to
send the ball straight and fairly far.
You see him drive-and the ball of
his club gives rise to the self query:
why bother with form and style
when he can do 1t the way he does?"
The answer to this IL that such
player has rhythm. His swing is ter
rible, 1t is true. judged by standards
Of good golf form, but his ball Is
not so bad. It is true he will never
improve much. but he is spared at
least the annoyance of 80 much rough,
and he always hits his ball. His
cards OF 80 are rather satisfying, too,
against your 120's.
The correct combination of course,
is good golf form with rhythm. The
fact that q few players who have
rhythm and no form. can get a good
ball is no argument against good
form. Good form means only cor
rect understanding and application of
the right mechanics of the swing, 1t
having been proved and demonstrated
tained with fundamentally correct
mechanics.
But the point is that golf instruct
ing which begins And ends with the
mechanics OF the swing never will
get the player very far
Who is responsible for this, golf
pro or player? Both, to a degree
and perhaps the major blame lies
with the golfer. II is his fault
mostly, because he will not give the
teacher sufficient time to launch him
forth into good golf.
The golfer, ] have observed, wants
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paradoxtcal? Is it due, as some Of
lclai apologists suggest, to the al
iesed sup1neness of public school
heads in not admitting lawn tennis
games! The castigated headmasters
might reply that none of the British
champions before 1910 cultivated
lawn tennis at a public school Is
1T due to the much-abused British
climate, certainly in one of its worst
moods this year? The answer might
De that such jeopardy to continuous
and staple-conditioned play has al
ways existed in this country and
that the measures to check its handi-
cap, in the shape of non-turf and
covered courts, have enormously. in
creased in recent years"
The Field then lays the blame for
the declineJ of English lawn tennis
on the policy of the Lawn Tennis
Association. initiated before the war.
in which local pride and ambition
were the ruling spirits. The result
or this happy policy is now
VISIBLE, concludes the Field. "By
virtue of surviving a test which was
not adequately searching, players as
sumed local, and even a county.
prestige that proved Elusive when it
was exposed to d serious challenge
outside. Our International players
discovered. slowly but surely. that.
dS d result OF contact
with inferior opponents, they were
hitting the ball more slowly and
moving less rapidly over the court
than players abroad who had not
been depressed and kept back by the
same conditions.
I'VE had measured our progress by
the number and size teven by the
congeStion) of our tournaments:
other countries. like England twenty
years ago, had judged their position
by the standard of skill exhibited by
their champions. The association
may argue, quite leg1timately, that
the interests of the greatest number
have been served by their actions.
But in the long run a pastime de-
Gays if the attainment of a high
standard of play is not encouraged
by organized effort and if the
younger generation cannot have their
ideals stimulated by champions who
dwell in their midst. Moreover, il is
foreign to our traditions as a tena-
cious race not to recover a. place in
the international scale which has
been sacrificed"
Evening star., 1924-07-06
eaonaI Year Golf B1iton Depo1es Loss Of Tennis PRESTIGE
Vice Versa. .6
~ ABE RUTH knows the golf
n swing and applies il to his

~ ABE RUTH knows the golf
n swing and applies il to his
home-run swats.
If you are struggling golfer you
undoubtedly know the way. you
would swing base ball bat. Apply
that swing to your golf.
The trouble with golfers in the
main is that they get altogether
too much theory and form mixed
up with the swing. They are think
ing too much, at the moment of the
swing, OF how they must do this
and they mustn't do that. No one
man can swing a golf club and at
the same time think of all the de-
tails.
There are some sixty different
major things to be done or be left
undone during a correct golf swing,
and 1t Is not possible to rehearse
them in the mind during the three
or four seconds the swing requires.
You might rehearse them, but | SUBJ
i
hearse them In the proper order Of
their relation to the swing.
You could take base ball. bat and,
If boy tossed you ball. you could
smash it for a good solid hit. You
could do. the same thing with the
golf ball il, you went about doing
1t in the same way
The point of difference lies in the
fact that you know you can hit the
base ball, and you arc so confused
that you are never sure about hitting
the golf ball as you wish to hit 1t.
know what I risk in telling yolfers
to swing their clubs as naturally as
they would swing a base ball bat
but that old chestnut that the golf
swing is so different" from the base
ball swing of boyhood days has done
enough damage to golfers and 1 lift
my voice here and now to contradict
it, I played lots of base ball-r
played 1t as professional, too-and 1
know whereof l speak. The correct
golf swing has no nearer living rel
ative in the world of sport than the
natural, instructive swing of your
youth with a base ball bat. The
grip Of the club changes slightly,
but beyond that the bodily exertion
Is almost identieally the same.
.Hit It," In Keynote.
Over in England when / was there
watched Ted Ray giving lessons.
The paramount note of his work was
his never-ceasing command to the
pupil to hit it," They could never
hit hard enough to suit him. He
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Earle. said, "is to communicate With
the fish pathologist of the United
States bureau of fisheries, and to ask
him what steps the department can
In his report Mr.. Schaetzle said
several fishermen whom he inter-
viewed reported that during the fall,
Of 1928 they caught several tons of
fish in Back River at the end of the
works. sThis fact" Mr. Schaetzie
said, "would tend to show that the
outflow from the works Is beneficial
rather than detrimental to fish life.
| was told shatSthe present high NOR.
similar occurrence several years
It was suggested that perhaps the
name given the parasite by the
the cause of the high mortality and
that 1t either scared or frightened
the fish to death. The name is
'Ichthyophthirius multtfiliis."
A belated report from the Potomac
River around the Steel Plant il that
Mack Sparrough caught some forty
odd rockfish last week at this "a,
of fish This column has not been
able to verify this report because It
could not get in touch with the
lucky man, but the information was
ropolitaf1 police force who Is himself
fisherman. He said he saw them
and that they were beauties.
District anglers who look in The
Star for the tides must not expect to
60 to other places and find the tides
the same as reported here, Notice
OF, this was brought to the attention
Of this column the past week, wheh
one angler said he went to Benedict
and found the tides all different, Is
reported by The Star. The tide tables
AZ reported here are compiled by the
coast and geodetic survey and gife
the time OF high and low tides 81
the 7th street wharf The only Why
IN which these local tides can asA ST
the salt water angler is to approkl-
mate the difference in mileage les
tween washington and the place THY
intend visiting For example, Be]e-
dict being nearer the bay than r Jck
Point. the tides at the former rlace
VIII change much quicker thah 1t
the latter. II takes about sfx hours
FOR the tide to run In ana abo1t the
eaMf len1ths Of time for II to e1bb. Is
Evening star., 1924-07-06

The jubilee of lawn tennis also is
associated with a record entry for the
having this year challenged for the
International championship When
PRESIDENT Coolidge conducted the
Davis cup draw at the White House,
Washington, in the presence of the
tion. he emphasized the peace-pro-
noting spirit Of the competition. de-
claring that the high standard of sport
established by the Davis cup through :
out the world could not fail to be be-
communal life.
Pays Tribute to Game.
The important international events
this year and the extension of what
may be called the lawn tennis cult
among all grades of society testify
alike to the virtues and permanence Of
a popular pastime. At the same time
the worldwide development of the
game increased the labors as well as
the responsibilities of it's organizers.
forcing into prominence questions which
involve not only the ideals and aspira-
tions Of individual countries, but those
which concern their racial and political
prejudices. 1t is a great tribute to ex-
ecutive tact and diplomacy that at the
end of fifty years players throughout
the world should be using one and the
same code of rules and that a spirit of
disinterested cooperation should pre-
vail over the deliberations of officials
wherever they foregather to discuss a
common policy.
Every lover Of lawn tennis will re-
joice at this half century Of progress
The early British pioneers. Of whom the
first editor Of the Field was one, have
had their faith vindicated and their
efforts rewarded. Yet it is significant
and disquieting fact that the standard
of play in this country today should be
appreciably lower than it has been for
the past twenty-five years. The inter-
national championship has not been
won by Great Britain for fourteen
years. There has been no British sin
giles champion at Wimbledon for fifteen
years and no British lady champion
since 1914.
Quality would seem to have re-
ceded in this country in inverse pro-
portion to the multiplication of
courts and competitions, just as in
countries abroad the opposite effect
has been produced. What is the
cause of this development, seemingly
Evening star., 1924-07-06
DICK WALSH TELLS:
Broken Mashie That Won for Sweetser

IN winning the national public link
/ of very fine golfers. From wha,
convinced that the time is not
will be very hard contenders for the
At the present time it cannot b.
offers opportunities for the training
dangerous contestant in the national
ships. But as public interest in the
golf offers boom that should be av;
as well as to the wealthy, this condit
Golfers of means who are altru-
:stfcally inclined can help the thing
along. Let them take hand in
public links development in their
communities, and not leave the mater
solely in the hands of city officials.
slow in prosecuting the good work. :
Give the public links players a real
chance and we soon will find young
fellows of moderate means contest
they do in England, where school
teachers, clerks and grocery boys get
the practice that enables them to
compete with the best.
tional public links tournaments. my
match with Jess Sweetser in the
victory cup tournament at Grassy
Sprain in> 1922 was the most inter
eSt1ng event In my career. SWeetSer
was just back from Brookline, where
he had won the national amateur
title. \
We were having a nip and tuck
race of it. At the fourteenth hole
1 was one up. Then, at the fifteenth
bit of tough luck put the skids
under me.
The fifteenth at Grassy Sprain is
a 4e0-yard hole. Both Jess, and 1 got
good drives,% but when l. swung my
mashie iron, taking a bit of turf, the
ed dead against aistone wall. 1t was
necessary for me to play left-handed
and chop out, taking third shot
for the green.
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and another one Sunday at Indian
Spring.
Manor Club. ON the Norbeck Rock
Vile pike, expects to open it's new
nine holes to round out the full
eighteen within short time. The
greens on the new nine are along
mittee and special treatment is being
given the iairways. The club will
have twenty-seven-h hole layout
when the entire proposition is COM
pleted.
A new golf exhibitfon -combinat tidn
has appeared and Is well on the way
to taking the place of the famous
Hutchison- Barnes and Hagen-K
wood duos. The new combination is
Cyril Walker, open champion Of the
United States. and Bob Crufckshank.
runner-up to Bob Jones for the title
last year. Just now they are cam
paigning in these parts. Friday they
played at Sherwood Forests yesterday
Road, near Baltimore, and today they
are playing at .the Suburban Club
of Baltimore. Cyril and his Jersey
partner are. making hay while the
championship sun shines.
WasAlnEtea's. profe~sionaI and anna
teur stars will play in the first
amateur-pro event of the season at
Columbia & week from tomorrow, be-
ginning again for this year the pleas
ant events which proved such q fea-
ture of last seasons golf. The first
event of the year was purely pro-
fessional affair in which team led
by Leo Diegel defeated q one led by
Fred Mcleod. &
yiegi4ia golfers are gathered at
Hot Springs for the next few days
to ecompete for the state amateur
eh> npiohsh3p, now held by II. Grim
Peck Of Lexington. The field includes
several former champions. all well
known in Washington, among them
81 n. Newton, ]. s. Barron, James
McMenamin and II. Hume.
Lee D4egePs new Peeora of SIS for
the course of the Chevy Chase Club
is quite the finest bit Of golf that
has been seen about. Washington for
many years. Washington courses
Just now are In prime condition for
scoring and probably there will be
several other how ntnrks made before
the crab grass makes its appearance
late In July. Diesel broke BY -four
strokes the previous record Of the
course with fouRkeen pars and fo6r
tANtSts 5s s Fsstsik ssef {
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championship last year 1 met a lot
| saw during the tournament / am
lr off when the. public links golfers
highest honors the country affords.
said that the average public course
that is essential to make a player
or national open champion
game grows, and it is realized that
liable to persons of moderate means,
on will be remedied
Jess won the hole, squaring the
match. He also took the sixteenth,
but / captured the seventeenth.
Then, on the last hole. he eliminated
me from the tournament.
For the honor and credit of public
links players / wish that / might
have beaten Sweetser. Possibly the
broken club was all that prevented
my doing so. At any rate, / hope
that / demonstrated the possibility
of developing public link players able
to do creditable battle against the
recognized stars of the game
Evening star., 1924-07-06

player beginning to 'work" with the
clubbcad with his left wrist In
stead Of holding Lis left wrist In line
with the shaft. (FOr q nat swing
the forearm nust roll this way, and
thus II In = GOOD practice for some
elderly men and for all very fat
mcnD. Another thing the golfer who
has this foPeerG roll In his swing
must watch out for it's thias when he
removes the forearm roll from the
start Of his hack svvinE 1t will hob
mp eEain near the top OF the back
swing In all likelihood.
(Copyrght, John Y. Ollie COL
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oMShO0fy
Answered by
GROVER CLEVELAND
ALEXANDER
Pitcher. Chicago Cubs: A major
league leader for II years. Greatest
pitcher I'm the National League.
- *s*
Grasp the ball with the two
fingers and support it with the
thumb, as shown in the illustration
Catch it along the seams as this
will give it a more decided break.
Use a straight over-arm delivery,
getting the full sweep of the arm
and shoulder muscles into the ball
Just as the bali leaves the hand it
should be given little snap of the
wrist and arm. If you are right
handed pitcher, this snap means
that the back of the hand turns so
that it is facing the ground. Having
once attained a curve the next thing
is to get it under control and make
it break" fast.
Copyright. 1924. Associated Editors)
Evening star., 1924-07-06

1.-THE other courses are those of the
Beaver Dam Club and the Manor
Club, the former out near Landover.
Nd, and the latter on the Rockville
NHrbeck pike. Neither of these has
Iet.reached the development that has
characterized the rapid rise of Burn
Ing Tree, but both will some day
soon be leading factors in the game
sBeaver Dam. through an affiliation
Nigh the City Club of Washington
Has gained large and ever fncress-
inE membership and has a good nine
hole course which will be extended
toieighteen.
iManor now with nine holes has nine
more nearly ready with a third nine
contemplated.
nThese three clubs, comparatively
new to golf about Washington, with
the Congressional Country Club,
winch was really opened for play last
xeAr, already are big factors and will
Rs6ome stronger.
iE.eorse p. Lynde and W. r. Mccall.
Iqin are the finalistss in the June
t6tirnament of the Washington Golf
akA Country Club. They will play
tHHtr match this week. In the mean
Sne contestants are turning in scores
f&hithe July tournament, with Charles
HHDoing. jr., leading the field with a
d4Fd OF 7s
NuX4e0fRe f|IH0tt nOicO d bunker SnOt
His6m heelprint at the fifth hole Of
{ie, Washington Golf and Country
club yesterday afternoon, winning
thk hole with birdie three from
three others who were on the green
M!ftwo.
ilI'i
sIs4aye Thomson. professional at the
Washington Golf and Country Club.
kAd another ~ over his home
{pnrse notwithstanding the record
hAi made three weeks ago over the
&ifncult Virginia layout. Thomson
MAs out in 81 and back In 50. No
Amateur has ever done better than
5Hat Washington, this mark having
6aAn made by Walter r. Tuckerman
&As.year and half ago lin team
@gtch.
siIEair sex golfers Of washington
&jSbs will play tomorrow in the
Ruth OF the series of home and home
&Hsnts held under the auspices, Of the
Mnmen's District Golf Association.
89ie event will be held at the CoIum-
kHG Country Club and will be under
NHs direction Of a women's commit
6SS headed by Mrs. H. King Cornwell.
i.NVashingtoa II. Golf and Co 1ntry Clubs
&di1f team will have busy time this
!Txek, playing match with Chevy
sg5 ;
Evening star., 1924-07-06

This column has just received from
the Maryland Conservation Commits
sion the laws of that state relating
to game and fish, effective June l.,
1924, to June 1, 1927.
Last Sunday it printed a paragraph
relating to fishing in the Potomac
River above the Little Falls for bass.
the Little Falls being the dividing
line between Maryland and the Dis
trict of Columbia. No license is re-
uuired TO fish in the Potomac River
for bass in Maryland Washington
County. under chapter 6S3, section i.
provides that 1t shall be unlawful for
any person not resident of that
county to fish in any waters of said
sountys including the Potomac River
without first having obtained a
license to.,do SO from the clerk of the
court of Washington County. Former
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u AnOwH
exactly what he
is about. Is .
fnult that nlany
golfers persist In
for years with
O.lt knowing they
are doing sO.
r Ms forearm
roll results two
w q ys-it starts
the club around
for a nat syv ing
and IL causes the
left arm to push
q u I W a rd from
the body. This
SeRdx the club
head outside the
straiGht line back
from the hail and
may result In per-
y is ten I slicin4.
The roll usually
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PLAY Is GETTING WORSE. fIH
NOT BETTER, SAYS CRITIC
Writer in London Field Blames Officials. HoId;na
That They Sanction Too Many Tournaments
That Have No Real Significance.

NIFTY YEARS OF LAWN the subject of an editorial
IN tine London Field which the reviewed from
the time that Maj. Wngfed outa patent for bour
glass shaped court from which the ,runo
great tribute executive diplomacy that at the end
nifty years players throughout the world
same code rules and should
prevail the deliberations they gather to discuss
common policy - ~ =
dhe origin OF lawn tennis back implies further
o4 YET exactly nifty that Maj Wghed took out
shaped
says the Field therefore
on tn OF
should make year Apart from Vim
ooon attended
new lady champion of the the Ovmnc
ment IN
cosmopolitan - "H " ".N Voltny OF d
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DRESSER STOPPED ONE
HIT SHY OF new MARK

ST. PAUL Mimi, July 5.-Charlie
Dresser, third baseman for the st.
Paul American Association club,
failed yesterday to set a new world
record for consecutive hitting. Dres-
sen had hit safely eleven times
in succession, tying the world record
held by iris Speaker and Lyman
Lamb. His first appearance at the
plate yesterday with Minneapolis. he
reached base on an error. The next
time he hit home run and later he
got two singles.