SATURDAY, JULY 12, 1930.
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EASIER GOLF
by
H. STUART Hosson,
GETTING MORE FROM THE MID-IRON.
A VERSATILE CLUB,
If you had to play a round of golf with a single club only, which would you choose?
A few
There can only be one unawer to this question-a mid-iron. players might have something to say for a mashie, and I know more than one who would do remarkably well in such a match with a spoon, but most golfers would stand by the iron.
Yet, in the everyday round of golf, there are players who will take anything but an iron when an iron should be taken.
Restoring Accuracy.
A spared shot with a spoon, or forcing shot with a mashle, may seem to them preferable to an iron shot, although this club should be the easiest in the bag to handle. You can get distance with the mid- fron plus accuracy to within a few inches of the objective. More than one player, of class takes an iron from the tee when the wooden clubs fail him. I am not aux gesting that this is good golf, but it has the effect of restoring ac- curacy and so bringing back con- fidence.
The mid-iron is a club that goes best for the golfer who starts with
a prejudice in favour of it.
I recently asked a very gond iron- club player what was the secret of his success with this club. He vonfessed that as he studied the lic
of the ball, he asked himself not "What club shall I take?" but, "Can I take an iron?"
Extra Distance From Bunkers. Unfavourable lies in the fairway that might mean a risky shot with a spoon come easily to the iron, It is club that gives valuable extra distance out of a bunker, the ball is not too near the face of the. sand, and it will prove its worth in many lies in grass where 3 mashle seems at first to be indicat ed.
Footwork sometimes seems to me to be more important with the iron than with any other club.
The reason for this may be the variety of lies for which it is used.
The Stance. Normally, the stance with the iron is a little more open than with wooden clubs, and the ball is op- posite the right heel. Standing behind the ball is to be avoided. unless the shot is uphill, in which event you avoid cutting the turf in front of the ball by standing back for the shot.
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THE
VOLUNTEER CORPS
ORDERS FOR THE COMING WEEK.
AQUATIC SPORTS DATE.
CHINA
MAIL.
to
gineer Company and reverts the ranks as from July 11, 1930.
(Sgd.) W. H. G. GOATER.
Captain, Adjutant, I.K.V.D.C.
A-
ANNUAL AQUATIC SPORTS.
The Annual Aquatic Sports will be held at the Victoria Recrea tion Club on Saturday, July 26, at
p.m.
Orders by Major H. B. L. Dow- biggin, commanding Hong Kong Volunteer Defence Corps, state:-be obtained
Parades.
(a) Corps Band. Until fur- ther orders the Corps Band will parade twice a week at Head quatters, namely on Mondays and Thursdays at 6 p.m.
Admission tickets $1 each can
at Volunteer Hend quarters and Victoria Recreation Club.
Entrance fee 50 cents per man per event whether team or indivi- dual entries. Corps are asked to submit names Members of the for the lady competition (no en- trance fee) to C.S.M. Padgett.
Entries to be made in writing. necessary fees to C.S.M. Fudgett at Volun- teer Headquarters, not later than noon. on Tuesday, July 22.
(b) Battery. A lecture will be given by Major C. T. Baynham, D.S.O.. R.A., at 5.30, p.m. on Thurs-accompanied by the day, at Headquarters.
(e) Corps. Signala. Signal Class will parade at Corps Head- quarters at 5.30 p.m.
on Thurs day.
(d) Machine Gun Troop. Parade at Causeway Bay Stables at 5.30 p.m. on Thursday.
(e) Armoured Car Company Car Section. The following will parade at Kowloon Railway Sta tion at 5.30 p.m. driving instruction
on Friday for Armoured Car.
No. 2
Sergt. E. D. Labrousse L/Cpl. J. S. Flegg Pte. E. J. J. Spradbury Pte. A. G. Clarke
All other ranks will parade at Headquarters at 5.15 p.m. for ir struction on No. 1 Car under Cpl. A. Nissim.
Motor Cycle Section. Parade at Headquarters at 5.30 p.m. on Fri day for instructional ride and dis mounted action en route,
Full particulars have been issu- ed to all ranks of the Corps by circular latter.
RIFLE SHOOTING,
are the scores
Engineer Company. The following obtained by the members of the Engineer Company team which competed against á team from the Royal Engineers at the Miniature Range on Monday, July 7:
Company.ed
Spr. Smith
Engineer Company scores:
Cpl. Salter
22
L/Cpl. Hooper
21
18
25
18
7
83
21
Spr. Mundy
Spr. Ross
Spr. Purves
Spr. Strange Spr. Armstrong The team is to be songratulat on their shouting and turn out At the Machine Gun Company Rifle Club shoot. held at the Peak Range on Sunday. July 6, L/Crl. N. A. E. Mackay won the month-
y spoon shoot.
(f) Machine Gun N.C.O. Classes will be held on Tuesday and Friday at 5.30 p.m. in mufti. All N.C.O.'s and others as recommended by Platoon Com manders are expected to attend. If the ball is in correct relation-
(g) Scottish Company. There ship to the right heel, and the left will be no further parades, unless ed as follows:- arm is straight, the possibility of specially ordered,
until the end Instruction will br error seems smaller than it can be of August. with any other club, except a put-available for N.C.O.'s and others every Thursday evening during above period.
The face of the mid-iron is lofted amply to raise the ball, but not suf ficiently to introduce much risk of
Corps Flashes. The new flashes for the Corps
More Confidence. This attitude may be accounted Iter. for by the fact that he played his iron cluba extremely well always. More probably, however, his con- fidence in the iron is the direct re- not getting the full face to it un-topees are now ready. Officers sult of using this club when it less the shot is perfectly timed. should be used-which is more The depth of the face should add frequently than most players use
it
at any.
confidence to the effort.
The Grooved Swing, When the need for accuracy to within a few inches arises, the up- right swinger has a marked ad- vantage with iron clubs.
I am all in favour of a "grooved"
A mhl-iron is supreme thing from 120 to 170 yards.
Frequently, too, it can be used at shorter distances, and there are times when, with the, wind behind the ball and the essential need ac-awing, rather than one that varies curacy, it should be taken for in detail with each club, but it is greater distances.
certain that an upright swing, with a certain amount of hit in it, makes the best way of getting direction with an iron.
Even if the use of the iron is con- aned to the very average distances for which it is recommended, how ever, it will come into play frequent- ly enough during any round. Se- cond shots accurate enough to make three putts extremely unlikely, and one putt easily possible, must take atrokes off
round, while accuracy with the iron at short holes gives the player
A point that many players do not realise is that, though the mid-iron is made for complete accuracy, as well as for distance, it is extremely easy to be over-optimistic about the possibility of combining these two qualities in one shot.
There are times when the ball is a chance to snatch a shot from lying well enough to be dealt with bogey.
by a mid-iron, but not so well that A golfer who starts with a pre-It can be forced the maximum dis- judice in favour of the iron; and tance. the confidence that prejudice gives. finds many opportunities for using the club that might easily be over- looked.
Forcing anots with Iron clubs demand perfect. Ites-the smallest deflection of the club-head may mar the shot(China Mail copyright),
STOLE ARMY BADGE Mr.
UNUSUAL CASE IN SHANGMAI.
EXTRADITION REFUSED.
Mah San-kwel, recruiting officer of the new first regiment of the Fukien division, the atolen badge wan issued by him to one Fang Wen-sz, who had been com- missioned to asslat Mah here. This man Fang stayed in a lodging badge wEN house at Nanyangchiao, where the stolen.
alleged to have been
and other ranks will hand their topees Into the Store as soon as possible for the purposes of hav ing the flashes properly sewn on. O.C. Units will please pedite the sending in of the topees of the Members of their
com- mands.
Corps Stores,
.OX-
be open during the following In future the Corps Store will hours:-
Mondays and Wednesdays:- 9 a.m. to 12.30 p.m.
Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fri- days: a.m. to 12.30 p.m., 2 p.m. to 4 p.m., 5 p.m. to 6.30
p.m.
It is
The Inter-Section shoot result-
"C" Section (1st) "G" Section (2nd) "Section (3rd)
points.
279
252 245
The following represented "C" Section:-2/Lieut. D. M. Richards, L/Cpl. N. A. E. Mackay and Pte. T. 8. D. Whitley.
MUSIC FACULTY.
PALMA'S PLAN MAY STIR NEW TROUBLE IN P.I.
Manila, July 4. President Palma's insistence on the appointment of thres foreign Instructora to reinforce the faculty of the conservatory of music although there is no vacancy in the school is bound to cause a stir in university circles, it was indieat- ed this morning.
Saturdays:-9 a.m. to 1' p.m.
Corps Notice Boards.
notified for information
In spite of Secretary Estella's an. that a central Corps Notice Board ouncement that there is no va- has been placed outside the Lec- cancy. President Palma has an. ture Room Coor, on which willnounced that he, will work hard. be placed notices affecting all in his capacity as acting director Companies, etc. will be placed on this Board only foreign instructors for the conser- Corps Orders of the school, to Import three
in future.
vatory. It is believed that the appointment of three musicians more is imperative if the standard of the school is to be kept at its present level.
placed on the left of the above A 'What's On board has been
on which will be posted brief notifications of current events tak ing place in the Corps such ・ kifle Shoots, Field Firing Exer- cises. Concerts, etc.
A spectal Board has been plac- ed in the Miniature Range for notices and extracts from Smail Arms Training, etc..
Range at Kennedy Road. The Range at Kennedy Road is allotted to the Engineer Company on Monday,
Strength. No. 1574 Pte. T. L. Paget.
on the
The most probable next director of the conservatory, to succeed Dr. Lippay, is Raymond Forman Carr, president of the McPhial School of Music of Illinois. In a cable received by President Palma, Mr. Carr has Judicated his inten-i tion to accept the offer of the University of the Philippines for a period of from five to 10 years.
Mr. Carr is a noted orchestra conductor and has had extensive experience as leader of community singing. He was formerly a mem-
College choral society.
He is expected here next October to assume his new post-Phillp pines Herald.
Teang Sai-wa, a Peking man of 26, was recently arraigned before Judge Hyui in the Shanghai Spe- cial District Court on the charge of arrested at 184 Foochow Road. Ho Platoon. has been taken
The accused was subsequently Machine Gun Company, No. aber of the Iowa State Teachers stealing and using for his own bene- had apparantly got into fit a badge belonging to an army there in the Taing Lien Koh ten is from July 8..
trouble strength and posted to the Unit officer from Fukien. An applica- house with some men.and there was tion for extradition was made by a scuffle before the police arrived the Chinese military authorities on the scene. on the ground that Tsang had an army uniform which had been from July 5, 1930.
He was nusqueraded. as an
army officer badly torn, but na badge could be and behaved generally to the dia- located. The accused was fined $20
Phil Scott has never impressed credit of the army.
me to the extent that Joe Beckett No. 1198 Cpl. J. W. Beattie, did when he was strutting his hour According to the testimony of Shanghai Times.
and the application was refused. Machine Gun Company, No. 3 as the British champion-John
Platoon, is transferred to En- Fearless."
Struck Off the Strength.. Left the Colony:-No. 1261 Gnr. found in H. F. Sullivan, The Battery, as
Transfer.
to
AERODROMES FOR BURMA.
Plans for Series of Landing Grounds.
"Every day is bringing us nearer the time when Burma will be connected up with the air mall service between Europe and India."
a
This was the opinion expressed to representative of Rangoon tached to the Royal Air Force at Gazette by Mr. J. A. B. Grylls, at
connection with the construction Simla, who arrived in Rangoon in of aerodromes in Burma,
Landing grounds for the future air mail service, he said, were Bassein, Moulmein, Tavoy, Mergui, being made at Sandoway, Akyab, Victoria Point and Mingaladon. The one at Akyab has been already completed and it is expected that within six weeks' time the aero- drome at Mingaladon will be ready for use.
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AMY IN AUSSIE.
STEALTHY DEEDS BY NIGHT.
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MOVING THE "JASON".
Douglas South waxes lyrical in the Sydney Sun:-
One night last week-about midnight, be it known-I was wandering near Hyde Park, when I witnessed a stealthy deed which pirates burying their treasure. made me think of the old-time In the midnight dark when
there ain't no moon
And the stars is hid in a
cloud,
Tip-toe we goes, an' nobody
knows
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