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In playing long putts more free-interfere with the swing across dam is required, and to obtain this should the ball come on to the fore- the stance should be widened, That | hand; and it lends a certain steadi- is to say the feet ought to be
on to the backhand. Betty moved a Bitle farther apart, The Nuthall. extra length required should not be obtained by harder hitting alone.
The swing of the club must be in
creased.Charles A. Whitcombe.
The outside half and centre three
quarters must always run holding the ball in both hands and holding it far out and away from the body It is a very useful tip to carry-never must they put it under the your racket with the splice on the arm, because it would be impossible left hand-that is almost right for i to pass it from there.-I. M. B. a backhand stroke. This will not Stuart.
THE CHINA MAIL.
ROYAL GOLFERS
A Famous Title Maintained.
By HARRY VARDON
an appearance at the Tower of Lon- don centuries ago as an individual .who, oven in that case, just as in this, had to keep his head still In order to avoid making a mess of it. It la so much in the nature of a:
The Duke of York is, I think, a commonplace to see and hear golf-handicap player, and he would be described as "the royal and ancient appreciably better if he had greater game" that the people of to-day are the born swing and body-poise for opportunity for practice. He has
apt to attach vory little significance
the game. to the phrase. They have come to regard it as a kind of honorary title handed down from a glorious
and misty ancestry. Nevertheless. I vonture to declare that It Is as applicable now as at any time in the long history of the pastime..
Our Sports Diary.
LOCAL
CRICKET-To-morrow~~Inter- port Trial at H.K.C.C.; 1st Division
Civil Service C.C. v. Kowloon C.C.: Royal Navy v. Royal Artil
lery: Second Division Indian
R.C. v. Police R.C. (L.); Kowloon C.C. v. Civil Service C.C.; Univer sity v. University II.
HOCKEY-To-day-Radio Sports Club v Police R.C.; Hong Kong Hockey Club "A" v. Argylls at & p.m.
There can be no blinking the fact that golf stands pre-eminent as the outdoor recreation of kings and princes, just as it did centuries ago. Considering that these august per- sonages are rare in the world, the number who play golf is rather re- markable. King George, 1 fear, has forgotten all about his set of clubs. But he certainly used to be a golfer, and that in the days of thỏ
To-morrow-K.B.S.F.P.A. Ladies' guitapercha ball, which made the
v. Hong Kong Ladies'; Y.M.C.A. game a virile purault of hard, hit-
"A" V
"H.M.S. Berwick; Y.M.C.A. ting. He was in the Navy whon "A" v. Hong Kong Ladies'. he played golf, and he spent a day
FOOTBALL-To-morrow- First Division-Club v. Border- on shore whenever he could with
Kowloon Police: Re- other officers of his ship in pursuit crclo V. St Joseph's Second of the game.
Division-Univeralty It is unique in the
Argylis; history of any pastime that his four
Navy v. R.A.0.C.; Club v, 12th Batt; Kowloon 1 Borderera; sons all keen golfers,
Third Division Borderers V. R.A.F.; Radlo v. Recreio; RE. v. St. Joseph's.
The Duke of York is, I under stund, the best. Whenever he has had to undergo a golfing ordeal in public, he has risen astonishingly well to the occasion. He drove himself into the captaincy of the Royal and Ancient Club at St. An drews last year; and when he was leas practised, he struck the shot which opened the second public course at Richmond Park.
At each attempt he hit a clean, straight drive of over 200 yards. That wants doing with a large crowd locking on in grim ox-
horn of the dread thought, which pectancy-much of the expectancy the performer must feel more than anybody else, that perhaps the effort will result in a terrible foozle. mony quite equal to this.
There is no other opening cere
It must be the nearest approach that polite modern civilisation can provide to
RUGBY FOOTBALL--To-mor raw-Army v. Club at Sookunpoo. GOLF-Sunday-Entries close for G. M. Young Cup and Gov- ernor's Shield.
An Example in Trying. The Prince of Wales has reduced his handicap, I believe, to 9, and, for sheer enthusiasm, he is a model to the legions who, always wanting to improve, never take very great pains to do It.
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matter what their standing in the game,
The Prince practises other shots with a diligence which only the most Spartan of tonchers would dare to recommend to anybody. An hour of it, or even two hours of it, is a commonplace to him.
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It is indicative of his progress that he has been round the old course at Sunningdale in-80 strokes. That may be better than his normal form; but he nometimes risen #
Harry Vardon in good deal above the normal, writes Sports Dispatch.
The
A match worth a king's ransom to see would be one between the Prince of Wales and the Crown
Prince of the Belgians.
-I am told that the Belglan Prince is just as keen as our own.
One of his friends declared that the staff of the palace at Brussels lived in trepidation of his enthusiasm, for he insisted on practising the art of driving over the roof of the palace--- which he could usually do-and they foared that a ball might hurtle through the window occupied by King Albert. One did go through another window.
There is a private course in the palace grounds, and the Queen has long been a regular player. The Prince drives his car to courses in various parts of Belgium, talding the professional from the Brussels Club with him.. These two are the only members of such expeditions. I gather that he is rated as a 6- handicap player.
Regal Restraint.
The late King of Spain took up the game
many years ago, and poignant evidence that he had not forsaken it when he left his country was afforded by a friend who visited Santander, the great yachting re- sort in Spain, where a new golf course has lately been inaugurated.
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had been reserved for the exclusive handers advance the more rapidly, good a private course thật it is used use of royalty. The course is close at golf if they persevere at the as one of the three greens on which to one of King Alfonso's former beginning with the process of stand-the open championship of his coun- residences, and he has played on it ing "the right way round." The try is decided. So that golf has several times.
| most heated exclamation that King lost none of its claim to be regarded. He had his early lessons as a 'Alfonso was heard to utter, when he as the royal as well as ancient golfer in the Isle of Wight, and was missed a shot badly was "Hit hip"
game. that he has rot the same natural good humour in even the most ex-another ardent golfer.
Students of royal styles consider. noted for two qualilles-his great The Crown Prince of Japan is
swing as the Duke of York, but by asperating of circumstances, and He has played in a good many sheer diligence be may prove to be the fact that nobody could induce parts of the world, and his example the more effective player in the end. him to hold the club other than left-doubtless accounts for the strides He has confessed that he finds, it handed, a method which nearly all which the game is making among very boring to practise putting. instructors discourage, because it is the Japanese. The King of Slam is Nearly all British golfers do, no considered that even natural left not only a zealous playor; he has so
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I have often noticed, when I have seen amateur matches, the tremend ous amount of shouting that takes place during the course of the game., To my mind, this proves a lack of understanding, and illustrates weak- ness-Alec James,
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