SATURDAY, MAY 24, 1930.
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'THE IMPORTANCE OF MASTERING THE MASHIE.
A Utility Club.
"Take your mashie, air!" is Camiliar advice, from the caddy.
Golfers who will take anything but a mashie for what are clearly mashie shots are not new in golf.
If some golfers to-day favour the mashie-nibliek, an older generation had at least an equal liking for the ligger. And a run-up shot with the no more ac jigger was probably carate than the over-lofted shot with a mashie-niblick. A pitch with the mashic has every chance of being better than either.
There are good, players to-day who use the mashiu for everything from a chip to the pin to an approach from 120 yards range.
Bobby Jones.
In the luncheon interval of one championship a year or two ago Bobby Jones took out u mashle and practised shots with it steadily for a quarter of an hour. He went out for his afternoon round with con- fidence restored.
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That is why I have recommended novices to master the mashie from the beginning.
before been squeezed out and sent upwards by the lofted face of the club. Scooping at the ball is the fatal fault in mashio play. The hit must be downwards.
In shots around 50 yards, there is no pivot-an almost unnoticeable bending of the kners is all.
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EDUCATION.
Notes on the Salaries Commission.
TEACHERS AND INSPECTORS.
The following is the second article contributed by "Lux" on Educa- tion:
at
we recommend a scale of
salary,We recommend $,000 per annum, rising by $200 annually to $500 for those who perform part time duty only in the mornings, we consider the present scale $2,400 rising by $240 annually to $9,600 to be adequate."
Note.Full time salaries need not bo more than $3,000 rising to $4,000 per annum.
The Boxing Instructor, Carpon. try Instructor, Pianist and Teacher of Singing are presumably in part time employment only; we have no recommendations to make regarding thair salaries."
Note. Again, these are unnecen- aarilly high.
4. "Non British Staff. For
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For locally trained Mistresses we 1. The scale for European Mas-recommend a scale of $2,400 to ters-"We recommend that their $3,600 by $200 annually. scale should be £500, rising to £950 per annum by 6 annual increments of £30, 2 of £60, and 5 further increments of £30. There is present one
post only of Senior Master, though the Staff has expend- ed greatly since that post was made. 8. Water Polo.
We consider that there should be Entrance fees-Events 3 and three posts of Senior Masters on a 50 cents.
Event, 7-$2.50 per fixed salary of £1,060 per annum. Anglo-Chinese and Vernacular Mas- team. The eye must be on the ball the
There remain above these posts theters we recommend a scale of $900, Entries close whole time, with the gaze concen-
at 6 pm, on May two Hend Masters of Queen's and rising to $6,000, by annual incre- 81. Entrance fees must accom- King's Colleges and the two Insperments of $150, 2 of 8300, 5 of $150 trated on a spot in front of the ball,
tors of English Schools. For these and 15 of $200 and for University Douglass .......... rather than behind it. The heels pany entries.
All competitors for handicap posts
Trained Graduate Teachers $1,800 remain firmly on the ground.
As always, the left hand domin-events must attend at the V.R.C. £1,100 per annum, rising by £60 to $6,000 by 8 annual increments of
previous to race to be timed. ates the shot.
manually to £1,300.". Any competitor beating his time
Note. The starting salaries and over four seconds will be dis-the maximum salaries are unnecer qualified,
sarily high if the whole of the salary la to be paid at the rate of exchange now prevailing. At any rate of ex- change the
suggested sterling salaries would easily bear a little reduction. The Colony cannot afford to pay such salaries when its return In fees in Government Schools and its taxation is so small. Further is it necessary to pay such large salaries to men who often do very elementary work. Why not employ more local staff; this applies also to English Lady Teachers.
Keep the Body Limp. Take the club back with the left hand, and keep the arm straight.
If the shoulders are open and easy, the firm left arm will not hamper your swing through the ball. It is when you hit with tense shoulder muscles, as well as with a firm left arm, that you are inclined to force the club-head on to the ground be- hind the ball. Keep the body limp, except the left arm, which should be firm: The wrists come into ac- tlon at impart, but they should not
If you can play mashie shots golf | bend back at the top of the swing.
become easier. Better ap- does
proaching simplifies putting, the rough loses some of its terrors, and the novice should be able to hold his. own at the short holes with any handicap player-If he can play, mushic shots. And there is no reason why he should not be able to play mashie shots. The club, is simple to handle.
The First Mashie,
A mashic is easier to use than a mashie-niblick-the less the loft on e club, the easter is it to hit a clean shot.
But you must have a club with some loft for approaching by the "all-air route," for taking the ball from difficult Hes, and for playing stymies. Hence the mashle. The first mashie
at North was used Berwick half-a-century ago. The best modern mashies are little differ- ent from the original club. Other clubs-variations on the mashie have enjoyed their brief hour of popularity, but the mashle con- tinues.
Good Mashie Play. - It is the club that scratch golfers would miss most if they were com- pelled to leave one club out of their bags.
That is why I recommend every player to master the mashfe, and why I urge the novice to devote him- self absolutely to it during the first weeks of his career.
Good mashie play is the soundest which to possible foundation on build up a style.
With the mashie, as with other clubs, the way to get the ball up into the air is to drive down at it.
Hi Downwards.
In hitting 100 yard shots, do not make the mistake of taking the club back too far. It is an error to assume that the farther back you take a club, the greater distance you will achieve.
Bring the Club Head Through.
Distance is achieved by awing and follow-through and by "anap" at impact. The snap is Imparted by bringing in the right hand at the vital moment. The correct follow- through is a matter of keeping the head down until the club-head is pointing in the direction in which the ball has been despatched.
A good way to practise mushie shots at first is to put two balls on the ground, one several inches in front of the other, and hit them both into the air with one swing of the club.
Even better practice for letting the club-hend do the work is to play stymies. Place a ball down on the green, and by putting the club. head amoothly at it along the turf, notice how you can make the ball jump.
Mashie play is definitely a matter of providing a firm base, watching the ball, and bringing the club-hend through. That is the foundation of Your direction is as if to drive most good golf, and it explains why into the ground, but you take a the mashle provides the key to the divot in front of where the ballgolfing awing-(China Mail Copy- was the ball having the instant right),
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Mining. 5. "For the Mistresses teaching English we suggest a scale of $720 rising to $3,000 by $120 annually; for Vernacular Mistresses $480 to $2,400 by $120 annually and for the Senior Vernacular Mistress $2,000 rising to $3,000 by $200 annually."
maximum salaries, appear to be Note The Vernacular Mistresses high. I wonder what they got in Canton; about half these maxima, I should think.
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(new).Th. a scale of 83,200 rising by $200 as a suitable scale. The Master annually
(Art Master) should receive, as to $3,600, would be adequate.
before, $480 per annum and the Part Zoong Sings.....Th Note. If these Senior Inspectors the scale for the English Teacher
time Lecturer $1,920. We consider Lande, Hotels & are Chinese there is no need to give, (part time only) namely $2,400 to
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do business men mum of £950 is far too high. What
Chinese Estates aậ think of these Vernacular salaries, that is salaries for Chinese Teachers. Non-Govern- ment Schools could never afford to pay these salaries unless their Grants are increased to about four or five times their present figures,
Conclusion. In the whole matfer the Government should prepare a rough budget showing (1) What the M Education Department will cost in Sandakan Lights ... 01 ten years time when the increased H.K. Telephones ... 182. pensions begin. (2) How these Clica Buses. The 193. new scales are likely to affect Non-SporeTractions(Urd.p/ Government Schools and how much
3. "The European Mistresses are on one scale commenting os £300 and ending after 25 year's service, at £600. There are at present no senior poata and ne posts of Head Mistresses to which they can aspire. Wo consider that in this respect the position of the Mistresses compares unfavourably with that of the Masters and that provision, should now be made for Senior posts and for a post of Head Mistress of Baillos Public School, position of considerable respon sibility. For the Junior Mistresses we can consider a suitable scale would be £360 per annum rising by £20 annually to $700; we recommend
that there should be four posta en the Government may be justly ex-
a fixed salary of £750, and that the pected to pay in increased Grants
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Head Mistress of Belilies Publie to such Schools. (3) How the China Sugan ................ School should be on a scale of £800 Department hopes to extend Educa Malaban Sugars $ per annum, rlaing by £30 annually tion in the Colony, if it is going to
to '2950."
Note (1) The Colony cannot afford such salaries and could get teachers for less...
(2) Government schools should not employ highly paid Lady Teachers in its lower Classes to teach vary elementary work. The Staff of about aixty British Lady Teachers could and should be re- duced. In their stead local Eura- sian and Anglo-Chinese Teachers should be employed at Balaries of about thirty to sixty per cent., of these salaries,
3B The Mistresses on dollar salaries, who are locally engaged, ́have made representations to us to the effect that as they are trained and qualified teachers they should be placed on the saine scale of salary. as the Mistresses recruited fn Bri- tain: These ladies, we submit, osve Washington, Yesterday, At Washington to-day in the their appointment solely to the second round of the American fortuitous circumstance of their zone, Allison defeated Tapin: 6-3, presence in the Colony and not to 3-6, 6-8, 6-2, 7-5 and in the any desire on their part to purate doubles, Van Ryn and Wilmen a career of teaching in Hong Kong Allison defeated Alfonso Unda While recognising that these ladies and Manuell · Lano 6-0, 6-1, 6-8.j ́are often as well qualified as those This victory places the United appointed from home" we consider States Into the final of the Inter- they should remain on the tem- Zone-Reuter's American. Servico porary, staff with a special scale of
cost so much to educate such small
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