Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-07-14

LUCK, ne answered SuCClfCllS.
1.-THE biggest piece of golfing luck I
ever had was when the Atlanta Ath.
sletic Club got Stewart Maiden for its
professional. / was years old then
and lived opposite the gate of the East
Lake golf course. Next year dad
moved our family into little cot
tage on the club property. alongside
what now is the first fairway. / had
taken up golf in q small way with a
gawed-off cleek one of the East Lake
players had given me.
Stewart never gave me any lessons
just followed him around and
watched him / wanted to play golf,
and he was the best player about the
club, and initiated his style-like
a monkey, suppose. The luck was
in the fact that Stewart had the
finest and soundest style ever have
seen. Naturally, / did not know this
at the time. But grew up swinging
like him. In the last 10 years I've
changed good deal in some ways.
My build is not like Stewards, you
know"
You're fatter. suggested Bobby's
ears Redeemed.
Lost 12 Pounds In Days.
Never mind that. I'm not as fat
az I was when got of the Aqui-
tania ten days ago. lost
twelve pounds those three days at
Scioto, and I'm not fat anyhow. As
was saying, don't swing just like
Stewart today, but that was the
foundation, and can so out on q
golf course any time and swing ex-
actly like him. He has q sound and
orthodox style"
asked what he meant by ortho-
dox.
I'm golf I should say it was a style
player unless he was anatomically
frealxish There is nothing odd or
unusual about Stewards methods
"And yours?"
We'll. at times my methods seem
unusually hard to get along with.
Maybe haven't helped the original
style by changing 1t. Anyway.1 cant
help believing that Is the best way
to acquire q sound standardization Of
q good player in childhood! If you
don't get started in childhood, take
some lessons. A good professional can
work out style that will suit you. IL
you will do what he says
Jones Discusses His Style.
The subject of style characteristics
came up, Bobby now being universally
regarded as the glass OF fashion and
the mold Of fern in golf. Bobby did
not want to talk about this phase. !
insisted.
'..well, judging by the pictures I
zee of myself" he admitted, IT keep
my feet closer together In the fun
shots than almost anybody else in the
world. and keep my hands lower and
close to my knickers in addressing the
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away from my body in the back swing
and ] suppose this is what they mean
in saying my style Is compact. Ny
stance is very slightly open for all
shots except the putt, that is the left
foot Is a bit farther back from the
line of shot than the right.
81 do not regard this as important.
Sometimes play shots with my toes
level and / know fine players who
employ very open stance and others
with a square stance--the toes level
and stilI others with a closed stance.
the right foot being drawn back.
The main point in my stance, as /
understand it, is to play the ball OPP
posite the left heel in all normal full
wood shots and in most normal full
iron shots for distance. Two or three
years ago was getting into q lot of
trouble, pulling and smothering, by
carelessly letting the bali start back
toward the line of the right heel.
Pitch Shots and Irons.
play many pitch shots and irons,
when a low flight with much back
spin Is needed about between my
feet or even toward the line of the
right heel. But to get normal. well
behaved shot with a full swing, II
. hayA found that the rlaea far the
ball. for me, 10 opposite the left heel.
Mind you, don't say that is right
for everybody. But IL certainly is
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