SATURDAY, AUGUST 16, 1930.
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EASIER GOLF
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000000020000300$090600000000000 HOW WELL PLACED TEE SHOTS INFLUENCE APPROACHES.
ADJUSTING THE STANCE.
Where the first-class golfer-shows his most marked superiority over the player of somewhat less skill is In the placing of his drives and long approaches.
In recent years it has so often been said that accuracy in the short garfe is the match-winning quality in golf that many enthusiasts have been tempted to forget the fact that accuracy must begin from the tee, A well-placed first shot simplifies the second, and an accurate second makes the putt posier.
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Very often the placing of the tee shot to within a yard or so deter mines whether a hole is played in three shots or four.
Play for Safety.
A tee shot straight down the middle is good enough for most golfers, but though it may be a fault in design not all courses, have every approach to the pin-made to reward the straight driver. A tee shot a little to the left, though still on the fairway, may give op- portunity to play an iron shot with a clear run up to the pis; a shot more nearly in the middle, or slightly to the right may compel the golfer to play for safety in order to avoid a hazard guarding the green.
To place a tee shot slightly to the right or to the left, or into the wind, or across the corner of a dog-leg hole la always a test of golfing skill.
The Value of the Stance. Straight driving, after all, is a habit albeit one for which for tunes would be paid if it could be bought the placing of the bail to within a yard or so of the marked spot calls for adjustment of touch,
Moat adjustments in golf are determined by the stance.
It is a peculiar fact that few players are able to adjust the stance with success. They form a habit of, say, placing the club behind the ball, then placing the right foot in rela- tion to it, and then bringing the, left foot in place. That is a thoroughly good habit, for it is quite certain that a player who cannot depend on taking up the same stance and same-grip for every shot will never be a consistent golfer.
Accurate Hitting Essential. But sometimes a small adjustment is necessary and this is where the golfer is apt to fail.
For example, he finds a strong wind blowing over his left shoulder. He reekens, correctly, that if he hits
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a straight ball it will be carried to the right; he decides, correctly, to hit the ball fair and true, but slightly into the wind to the left.
There is only one good way for most players to do this, and that is, to adjust the stance.
The golfer therefore turns slight- ly to the left or imagines that he does. What he actually does is to move the left foot back a bit, with the result that he cuts the club- head across the face of the ball, and sends it spinning to the right. When the wind takes it, the spin is exaggerated and the shot becomes a downright, and usually costly, allee.
Opening the stance, so far from helping to send the bail to the left, tends to deflect it to the right
A point the golfer has to remem her is that the more accurately the ball is struck, the less effect will any wind that is blowing have on it. When a player laments the wind,
and its playful habit of carrying his ball off the fairway, that is a good indication that he is cutting the bal in some way, or hooking it.
Aiming for the right side of the fairway is usually easier than aim ing for the left.
Play Straight for Objective. Deliberate slicing is so much more easy than deliberate hooking that a player who cannot depend on his ability to place the ball straight out to right can always hit straight down the middle with a certain cut to produce a curl at the end of the flight of the ball. A player who wishes to play the ball to the left- hand edge of the fairway, however, will nearly always be better advised to play straight for his objective. And in doing this, he must not over. shoot the mark. The majority of: golf courses are made to trap the hooker, and to aim straight out on to the left and go too far is equival- ent to a hook.
The Knack of Placing the Ball, Above the ranks of golfers who do not do anything consistently at all, I classify three grades of players.
First, there are those who hit a short ball but keep their shots down the middle; secondly there are thoga who hit a long ball and still keep down the middle; thirdly there are the masters who hit a long ball and hit it exactly where they want to place it.
These are the players who poach a corner at dog-leg holes, who give themseives repeated opportunities for twas at short holes, and who are handsomely repaid for thinking about the shot ahead, because when they do see a way to make it easter for themselves they are able to take advantage of their foresight.
Normally, the last thing a golfer
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BASEBALL.
THE
RESULTS OF LEAGUE GAMES IN AMERICA...
New York, Yesterday.
The following are the result of games played in the National Baseball League to-day:-. Pittsburgh
5 Philadelphia
Pittsburgh-8.Philadelphia
Cincinnati St. Louis Chicago
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7
2
0 New York
5
4
.8 Boston
4 Brooklyn'
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No games were played to-day in the American League. Reuter's Amerlean Service.
Our Sports Diary
"LOCAL
Water Polo-Monday-Divi- sion I-Kowloon, v, V.R.C.
Lawn Bowls-To-day- Division I-Civil Service v. Kowloon Dock R.C.; Club de Recreio v. Craigengewer C.C.; Kowloon C.C. v. Police R. C.; K.B.G.C. v. Talkoo R.C.; Divi- Rion II-Craigengower C.C. v. Club de Recrefo; Electric R.C. C.S.C.C.; Yacht Club T. K.C.C.; Taikoo R.C. v. K.B.G.C. Golf-To-day and to-morrow Bogey Pool, Fanling. Baseball-To-day- South China v. Japanese.
To-morrow Kloria v.
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Texaco.
August 23-Filipinos V. Japanese.
August 24-South China v Kiora.
Racing-September, 27- Seventh Extra Race Meeting October 10 and 11-Eighth Extra Race Meeting.
Football-October 1-En- tries close for Challenge Shield.
Aquatica-August 81-En- tries close for V.R.C. Night Fete, 6 p.m.
September 6-Entries close for Police Reserve Race at Police and Prison Departments aquatic sports: V.R.C. Night Fete.
September 18- Police and Prison Departments Aquatic Sports, V.R.C.
Polo-September 20-Gymk- hana, Polo Grpund.
HOME
Cricket
-To-day - Fifth Test Match. The Oval London.
Racing-September 10-St. Leger, Doncaster.
September 12- Doncaster Cup.
RIDER'S DISCRETION.
BACKERS COMPLAIN ABOUT
"NOT TRYING."
several complaints from readers who The Sporting Life has received believe that they do not always "get
le recommended to experiment with " for their money in the sense is his stance.
that horses are not always ridden out to occupy a place when their Jockeys realise that all hope of winning has gone.
In aiming to the right or to the left, however, you do not change the stance you change its angle. A player who can get a leftward angle, an his stance without falling into the error of opening it is halfway towards mastery of the knack of placing the ball. (China Mail Copyright).
with the Machine Gun Company of the H.K.V.D.C.. the programme of which will include two events for the Machine Gunners and six for members of the Polo Club, and probably a few ladies' races will In order to get some pracalso be included, as well as an tice prior to the competition for open event. the K.O.Y.L.L Cup, which is to start next month, an American tournament. is now being run by
the Hong Kong Polo Club. Four
the American tournament:
The following are the teams in
Mould, Capt. Herbage and Mr. Gunners: Major Hewson, Mr.
Schriber.
Hurricanes: Col. Savile, Col. Maclaine, Mr. Johnson and Mr. Wolfe-Barry,
teams have been entered for, the tournament the Gunners, the Hurricanes, the Typhoons and El Gordo. One game has already been played, resulting in the Gunners being defeated by the Typhoons: Major Campbell, Typhoons,
Mr. Heard, Mr. Gordon and Mr. Stanton
El Gordo: Capt. Carmichael, Mr. Glegg, Mr. Bramwell and Mr.
The K.O.Y.L.I. Gap competition is scheduled to finish on Septém- ber 20, when the Polo Club will hold a gymkhana in conjunction Worrall.
Now that
we have Totalisator wagerlog it is suggested that some now rule might be introduced to oblige jockeys to ride for places even when they cannot win. Pro- tected by such a rule, more people, it is thought, would make place bets with the "Tote."
CHINA MAIL.
LONDON'S "LIDO" NEW YORK'S MORALS
OPENED.
Rails Round Serpentine Broken by Crowd.
London has at last followed in the wake of Continental cities, where mixed bathing has been the general practice for years..
No longer heed, we shrug our shoulders when foreign visitors ask us where they can bathe, writes a representative of the Morning Post The Serpentine "Lido" is our trium- phant answer.
Crowds gathered for the official opening, and so great was the ex- citement that the iron railings were broken down and people rushed through the gap to the water's edge in their eagerness to see the first girl swimmer. The crowd also broke through the police cordon round the cubicles.
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New York, June 6. Excitement has been caused by the action of the women's court Itong Kung Bank in New York City in finding Mrs. charge of immorality. She is ac Oscar Hammerstein guilty on a
cused of entertaining ber hotel apartment and accepting 26 from him. She is the widow
a man at
of an opera impresarlo who was well known on both sides of the Atlantic.
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Shipping.
Mrs. Hammerstein and numbers of her friends and other who have interested themselves in the case assort that she is innocent. They say she was the victim of a "frame up", by the police agent Douglases provocateur.
It is notoriously true that in nearly all cases of morals in the women's courts the verdict is "guilty," and the verdict is usual- based on the uncorroborated testimony of the officer who made the arrest. condition assert that the Commit
Those opposing this
tee of Fourteen, a private body injustices to women. of citizens, is responsible for gresa
This committee
obtained the
Every available boat had been taken out before 4.30 p.m., the opening hour, and punctually to the second an Irish girl, Misa Katherine Murphy, of Pinner, who had waited since dawn, ran brisk-passage of the present law, and ly down the diving board-a flash have supplied funds under which of white and crimson-and plung conducted what is called an anti- a special group of policemen have ed in to the accompaniment of vice crusade. hearty cheera.
In a sense, she can be said to prospect to obtain equal treat- A determined fight is now in have made a little bit of England's ment for men and women under history, and for doing so she was given a bronze medal, specially ed in morals cases almost always the law. At present men invalv atruck for the occasion, by Mr. Alfred Rowley (president), on be-caped without their identity half of the Serpentine Swimming overwhelming majority of women ever being disclosed, whereas the
ed or imprisoned or both. arrested are found guilty and An-
Club.
The ice having been broken, so to speak, scores of young women played "follow-my-leader" down
usually to face the publicity which Even innocent women hesitate
the diving boards, and the water the effort to fight the policeman's was soon dotted with brightly-testimony involves. coloured bathing caps..
Many Too Early.
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Young and old, men, women, and children, soon east off restraint, and, when the sun smiled after six o'clock the London "Lido" had become a European institution. Apparently there had been some misapprehension regarding the opening koor, as many young women turned up before the morn ing miats had lifted, and, throw-Bank, wire,...... 1/3 9/16 Ing off innocent-looking raincoats, Bank, on demand... 1/3 9/16. were in the water before the Bank. 4 months' sight 1/3 11/16 policeman on duty at the pavilion Credito, knew what was happening..
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1/4 1⁄4 In view of this attempt to flout Documentary, 4 the regulations, the authorities months' aight took stringent precautione,
**** 1/4 % The Un Paris gate leading to the Pavilion was On demand roped across and policemen were Credits, on duty throughout the morning aight and early afternoon at the railings Un New York- on the banks.
On demand
The Key in the Shoe. At least one London thief was quick to take a chance at the "Lido"..."
privilege of hathing in the Serpen- One of the first girls to enjoy the tine carefully put the key of her cubicle in one of her shoes, drew a stocking over the shoes, and left it outside her cubicle.
Someone discovered her secret, and while she was bathing her cubicle was opened and all the money she had brought with her about £1-was taken from her hand-bag.
DATE IN THREE STYLES,
Writing to the The Sporting Life "A Punter" (Hyde Park) says: The Palcetine. Bulletin the only "Now that the "Tote is firmly dally newspaper, in Palestine pub established in this country, and in liahod in English, now makes it view of late statistics showing that easy for all who run to read the the promoters are not getting the day's date in the three official amount of money expected, are their calendars of Palestine. All news- hopes of success increased by the papers, in whatever language they Jockey being allowed to use his dis- are written, ara obliged to print. place his horse or not when he finds list, and also the date acording cretion as to whether he should on each issue the name in Eng
he cannot win?. to the Western calendar. The The public Invested heavily for Palestine Bulletin introduced on and it was apparent to everyone fug as well Adar 18, the Jewisu. a place on a horse at Newmarket, March 18 an innovation by print
been third.
Most of the people of Palestine thare this horse could easily have and Chawal 17, the Arab date live in watertight compartments. and the press, especially the Eug fish daily, is one of the few links between the different sections of the population.
"I think the subject should be taken up and some ruling made on the matter..The takings of the "Tote will certainly suffer under present, circumstances."
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