Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-02

Where your present golf ball
will bore through the wind and
only at the tail end of it's
flight will respond to the spin
ming impulse which it receives
from your driver or iron club, the
bigger and lighter ball will start
off with the slice or hook, and
will respond quickly to the spin
ming impulse, ending far off in
the high and uncut, where the
daisies grow-or will grow if the
snow ever clears away.
Which is all by way of pointing
out that the new standard ball, which
will be the only ball sold after January
/, 1881, must be hit truer and straight
er, or it will cause all manner of trouble.
Most of the golfers of the present day
started the game too late to have had
the pleasure Of playing with the old
Glory Dimple or the Black Domino
which were the best known balls along
about 1912 or 1913. These were the
trade names for a product put out by
one of the well known golf manufac-
turers.
Both of them behaved like a piece of
paper in a wind, if they were hit with a
suggestion of cross spin, and it became
quite trick to keep them on the line If
there was a wind of any severity blow
ing across the course. But they we're
like the new standard ballS-fine per-
formers when it came to pitch shots or
chip shots around the green's. They sat
down like a portly gent on an ice-cov-
cred sidewalk, and they were a joy to
putt. For some reason they didn't jump
of the line as the present ball does on
striking an uneven spot in the green.
Bootleg" Ball Unlikely.
The day of ball of the same type
will be here on January /, 1881. There
have been suggestions that the gents
who want to boast of their extreme dis
lance from the tee may attempt to
bootleg the ball now in use and sur
reptitiously use it after the new larger
and lighter ball becomes standard for
play That may be put down as so
much bunk" for golfers are not given
to subterfuges Of that sort and in addi-
ton, being human beings, they want
and will have-the same ball that Bobby
Jones and Leo Diegel knock so far. And
no one would suspect these lads of using
any but the Endorsed and approved bali.
However, the bootleg" idea has pos
sibiltties, at least in private play.
This new ball Is a very fine product
1t has been used sparingly by many
golfers around Washington, who have
1ound that 1t acts admirably except as
TO control In wind, and that it is a
much easier ball to control around the
putting green than the present small
and heavy pellet. That is, it does not
have the run and carry of the present
pail But the rub comes from the tee.
II Is an established fact that the new
standard ball will shorten the tee shot
OF Johnny Average Golfer, and it NAV
be that some of the para holes whose
greens ne just managed to reach in two
| shotS will find him with a short mitch
or chip shot left for his par in the
Gays after the new ball becomes the
standard for play.
Must Be Hit Carefully.
And bigger rub comes if he Is a
SINGER or . hooker. He will have to be
the down swing SO that he does not
cut across the ball from one side or
another, or his wonted accuracy will
vanish as we would like the snow tn
vanish, and he will find himself in
me rough grass good deal more often
ILlan formerly. For the new ball EN-
p,laSzes ana eXaggerateS a hook or
slice 10 degree that is not possible
WIN the small, heavy pill.
A man like Harry Pitt who nIays
most of his long shots with a null is
mucn more apt to have trouble with the
Dig, light ball than one who does not
MT the pail so hard. Soaring also must
pe guarded against with the new ball,
ior IL goes up in the air-and high in
vent it. W PAe
Bob Jones and Leo Diegel are the
foremost opponents in modern golf of
Cne deep-faced wooden clubs, designed
especially to stop hitting a soaring bail
from the tee. With the new bali thev
VIII nave 10 deepen the faces of wooden
CUBS or change the angle at which
they hit the ball if thew are To sion
| air. "P ~ VIC
One result of the new ball probably
VIII be that the bulger-faced club will
De more popula- and that club faces
Wlll be appreciably deeper next year
Ihan this year. The bulger face actual
~ neutralizeS, to some degree. a hook
or slice, while the deeo-faced cluh oh
ylously tends to knock the ball down
Such stars as Diegel and Jones have
little trouble with slicing or hooking
even though Jones hits most of his
long shots with slight pull or draw"
out then these men are masters of the
SWING. To the average duffer this new
oalI VIII contain considerable mystery
No Loose Swing.
Two factors will enter into PLAYING
OF the new ball. In the first place the
swing cannot be as loose as it has been
with the present ball. 1t must be
grooved little better in order that the
pail may be struck from the inside out
to stop the clubface cutting across the
ball.
And in the second place the swing
must be smoother and slower. The
present type of ball goes away SO fast
that a quick cut at the bail, which
probably lacks snoothness, gets results
Just the same. But the new ball, IL
struck in the same way, will be ant to
veer off into the tall and uncut or
soar high in the air to lose distance.