Evening star., 1930-12-16
BY WALTER R. McCALLUM.

THE boys are playing the new ball,
and howl Realizing that they
win have to play the 1853 pellet
after January /, the local anna
teurs have gone 10 the new ball like q
duck to water and only rarely now
adays viii @ f1rst-claSs player be seen
using the old ball. Sometimes he can
not get the small bali, but more often
than not, he plays the big ball as a
measure of getting used to the pill he
will have to use next year. A week ago
the distributors for the largest selling
golf ball in this territory advised the
professionals that the entire supply OF
small balls was exhausted at the factory,
which meant that the only pellets COM
ing through for distribution would be
the big ones.
So the boys have been stepping out
with the new ball and from their ex-
perience over the past month they have
come to realize that If this big, light
ball is hit fairly it will go just as far
as the small ball, even against the WIND.
Let us cite few examples, to show how
true this is, after the yarns we have
heard Of the lack of length Of the pill
into the wind.
Mcleod Has the Floor.
Freddie Mcleod, keen observer of the
game, a man who has as great
knowledge of shots and conditions as
any man living, was the speaker.
'I was playing with Harry Pitt and
j. B. Murphy at Columbia" Freddie
said. "And we agreed to play the new
ball You know what a cut Harry
takes at the ball and how it goes If he
hits it right. Well, he finally got one
right on the nose, at the ninth hole
where the wind came across from the
northwest and the tee shot was played
almost into the teeth of the wind. You
know that bunker at the left. Well,
Harry's ball bored right through the
breeze and wound up in the fairWay up
to that bunker, and that is a good shot
in calm weather with hard ground. He
knocked the ball so far that he reached
the green with an iron club, and hit
two of my best wooden club shots and
couldn't get home"
Then Murphy spoke up and told Of
another whack with the new ball, made
far on the sixteenth hole at Manor
that his second shot was chip shot
to the green" Murphy said. THAT
ball must have travelled $40 yards and
the fairway was not hard"
Freddie then related how lucky he
was on the putting green the other
day, and said the new all puts better
for him than the ol. ball. 81 was
holing them and played ne back nine
at Columbia in 33 strokes" Freddie
said. "I was lucky enough to have a
putt for 80 on the eighteenth, with
TIE aid of a few brides. But that big
ball goes in the hole well and If it is
hit from the tee I don't think anyone
Will notice any difference. For myself
I find the ball fine to play and I
sincerely think it viii improve the game
Of the average golfer, particularly
around the green's"
New Clubs Solve Problem.
The biggest handicap the bali viii
to soar high in the air from q hard-hit
tee shot. But the golf club manu-
facturers have attempted to solve this
problem by sending through their
wooden clubs with deep faces without
great deal of loft on them. All the
wooden clubs that come through from
the factory nowadays have deep faces,
designed to correct that soaring
tendency. Similarly the iron club
makers are making iron heads with
deeper faces to compensate for the
larger size Of the bali and the fact that
it will sit up higher on the grass.
The new ball also has q very impor-
tant quality on the putting green.
Every one recalls many puts that hit
almost SQuarely In the back of the cup,