TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 10. 1931.
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PLAYING PAR INSTEAD BILLIARDS TOPICS. but a lot more points would have
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OF OPPONENT
It is a significant thing that the only country to systematically and
pre-eminent in golf to-day, although
the game has not been played seriously there for much more than 80 years,
While many English and Austra lian players regard the system with scorn, the Americans have for years been practising it in all grades, from the tyre to the star.
matches
Will the Anchor Stroke Be Revived?
By SPOT BALL.
Tom Reece once
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to, stick out before Inman played to acore. Rather would ha profer to close up the game by a safety
WEDDING,
Rugby Interport Player
Married.
LECKIE THOMSON.
GOLF
Old Methods and My Way.
STANCES
human opponent. For the moment only has this wretched stroke | miss, so did Recce. Inman gave beth Macdonald Thomson, only so that the body is not turned in
at worst,
and wrote
that day at Soho
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was
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driving.
behind the left.
they are in the majority), I am con- vinced that the open stance is un-- equalled Nor haa it any dis advantages for other people.
A fow
A.
move such as a double baulk or a miss under the side cushion. Reece with wonderful : confidence It has become, the fashion in cer- ↑ may be so bad that he will presently
in himself would battle openly tain circles to refer with contempt | pick up and surrender the hole. In
made a break against this and go out for weird W. F. Lockle, second son of the
By HARRY VARDON to what is called the "card and these circumstances the other player of nearly half a million by a and wonderful strokes. The result late Mr. W. F. Leckie and Mrs.
Everybody knows that its main pencil" method of playing golf. In is content to win the hole. Instead stroke known as the "Anchor," a was that the master manoeuvro Lackie, of Greenock, Scotland, und
feature is that the left foot. is. a few years the probability is that of exercising the whole of his skill series of cannons
During rocont years there has placed a little in the with the balls for years held the upper hand, a popular Hong Kong Rugby In-been a rapidly Increasing tendency right, which naturally results in rear of tho form of circumstances, and the and resource in the effort to beat almost jammed in the jaws of a Upon one memorable occasion terport player, was married yester among golfers to adopt what is the body being turned slightly to- relentless logic of facts, will oblige par. he will pursue the stodgy corner pocket. It may surprise Recce did try to play Inman
at day
afternoon in the Union Inman gave a Church, Kennedy Read, to Elisa consists of placing the foot in ling maturements will help to explaiu
known as the aquare stance, which wards the line of play, those who perlodically exercise policy, and be satisfied to beat his many people to know that not his own game. their wit in devising scornful phrases for this system, to re- he has gone slack, and going slack ever been barred, but that there another miss-ao did Reece, and daughter of Mr. Archibald Thom-
the position. adjust their views-unless they are in golf is likely to engender bad is a possibility of Ita being ex-so they went on for half an hour, son,
of Greenlaw, Fort Glasgow, even the slightest dègres towards
I am not proposing that they hopelessly conservative.
habits. He would have derived ploited again this season by one something like 40 misses being Scotland. The Rev. E. G. Powell the hole. It is the principle of thould be adopted strictly in every
many of the leading American play instance. more pleasure, and satisfaction from of the great cannon players. A given by each player. One of the oficiated at the ceremony.
Truth to tell, I have ex- the game if he had disregarded the stopper, so it, appeared, was put spectators
The bride, who was given away place the left foot a trife in front titudo of addreasing the ball a
Some of them, indeed, ovon pertented. by taking up the at- ⠀ thoroughly practise the "card and dieulties of his opponent and had on perpetual cannons during the Square happened to be R. H. by Mr. A. R. H. Phillips, word of the right, which means that the dozen times on a surface of aarid, pencil" aystem is the 'one that is concentrated on beating par, instead past few years by the rule which Rimington-Wilson, a great amateur long dress of blue satin beaute bedy. is turned in a small measured discovered that no two of my
of being satisfied to win the hole says that after 35 consecutive ball player of his day and a record with hat to match. Misa Audrey with an indifferent score.
to ball or direct cannons have game shot. He went direct to the Steel, as bridesmaid, was dressed away from the ball.
stances are precisely, alike, al This is a very old Idea, served up 1f intelligently used the card and been made, the run can only be Army and Navy Club in London in pastel yellow printed ninon, and under a variety of new names. In thengh they to do not differ much. pencil system should enable players continued by an indirect cannon.
a letter of expostula- wore a pitcuresque black hat. The
Still,easurements will convey The official definition of an "in-tion to the editor of the Sports-bride carried sheaf of pink the Badminton book of golf, pub anklen of the principle.. The toes to improve their game оп the
direct" cannon is that after the man. This led up to the Riming- gladioli, whilst the bridesmaid's me as I write, it is proclaimed and outwards. That assists the turn- lished in 1890, which lies before of both feet must be turned woll greens. The putting green is the agent that is most destructive of ball has hit the first object ton-Wilson rulen, the game being bouquet WAJ of pala yellow; good scores. The majority of golf ball, it has to then strike a played without misses being per- gindicli.. The matron of honour, pictured as the proper stance for ing of the body at the hips.
cushion before connecting with mitted. era can consistently reach even long the second ball and thus complete
Mrs. A. R. H. Phillips, was attir-
The right foot, we are good many players have tried to In Australia it has been the holes in two
It was, of course, only the led ahots, or
in a dress of nigger brown told, must be two, or three inches emulate the Bobby Jones system of fashion to regard the player who three. At many holes, from 130 to cannonball cushion to ball. It standing in the billiards world of charmeuse, and wore a hat to
placing the feet close together. goes forth armed with a card and 250 yards, they will reach the green to ball cannon runs, whether by this to be done, plus the fact that
was by this means that long ball | Mr. Rimington-Wilson that enabled match.
I mention this to indicate that Hig of unusual power and pencli in friendly
The best man Mr. E. R. the countless disciples of present pliability are necessary with their tee-shots. Commonly, the GB
to mako "fussy," or as one whose newness is advantage thus gained is frittered the "Jamb," "Anchor," or "Pen- he was a very wealthy man who West, of the Mercantile Bank of Cay American systems are simply this a success.
dulum" methods · were so obvious as to be scarcely worthy away on the greens by taking two without being actually barred. aums in prize-money to the profes- Mr. B. P. Massey and Mr. G. A. L
stopped could afford to give substantial India, whilst the groomsmen were reverting to fairly ancient British
I have nothing to say so that the ball is nearly opposite For myself, I place the left foot theories. of a smile. Americans on the other and even three patts. The average Now agenfus has come along who sionals to play under these condi- Plummer, all of whom are also against any stance so long as the to the heel-say, an inch Inside the hand, atttribute much of their golf-golfer has no idea of the disastrous ing success to this method of scor-effect his green play has on his score chor stroke is being played, the
Įhas discovered that when the An- tions.
Rugby Interport players.
player obtaine good results from heel, The toes of that foot, turned In those days, and I am not so ing. In England one of the first unless he records the whole of his
The service waa choral, the it.
outwards, are about 34 Inches from he gets the certain that there has been much hymna "The Voice that Breathed
The positions described may be the line which the ball is to take, outstanding players to perceive the strokes from start to finish. If he striker, as seen as merit of the American method was does this and checke the number of warning from the referee 30 can change in this respect, the "pros." o'er Eden" and "Oh Perfect Love" made highly effective if practised which the experimentalist can es Misa Cecil Leitch. She is said to putts, as compared with the number tiens, and then by a masse ball-hard-boiled egga if the financial
nons," slightly loosena the post-would play on tea-trays with being aung,
in youth and perfected through the tallish with the help of a little
That is what the Ameri-chulk or white-wash. have used it for some years, with of strokes taken to reach the green, cushion-to-ball stroke just shaving inducement was strong enough was later held in the Hong Kong cans have done. Youth can adapt
A largely attended reception years. the probability. Is that he will be the second object, he can continue The Rimington-Wilson craze was Hotel, the customary toasts being itself to anything.
If he extends this line on ofther It should be quite obvious to any startled by the sheer waste of
vide of the ball, he van indefinitely.
not confined to the "pros." how honoured with full enthusiasm. was a classic example of this type fix the place one that it is infinitely better prac strokes in putting.
for the right' tice to play against par, or against It is a rare thing to find an Amer- that Tom Reece would be the biggest billiards handicap ever hai where their honeymoon is to young players devote themselves to from
There was an idea prevalent ever, as what was perhaps the The happy couple left for hang- of golfer in Britain, and if our fool, with the toss 27 inches one's previous scores for the round can golfer without a card and pen- pioneer in this movement, but the known, the London Press Handi be spent. Mre. Leckle's travelling it, I daresay they will be as pro-10 inches on the right of the ball, the line, and the hoel than to merely concentrate on play-cil, whether he is a back-marker or and truth has to be told that not cap was played under these hybrid dress was of emerald green wool ficient as the Americans at it. ing against an opponent. This lat- a long-marker, it makes no differ-i
Thus the right foot is well-forward, He goes forth to the fray in-only has the "Anchor" stroke fail-rules. For this, I was responsible georgette, with hat and shoes to But I do protest that there is no and, after a ter system makes for loose habits.ence.
lot of trials, 'I have ed him, but it has failed him be. as chairman of the committee, the match.
particular advantage to be obtained found that this stance makes golf It does not impose any necessity bent on knowing just where and upon the player of doing his best how he stands in the matter of has never been near enough to the "Pony" given me by Mr., Wilson the staff of the Union Insurance a few yards in length, others who strips, the swing of many of those cause at the time of writing, he Inducément being a cheque for a The bridegroom is a member of from it; that while some may gain ensier that any other, because It nt every hole, regardless of what his golfing merit. But this means he is: apponent may be doing. This is the able to keep a close watch on his cushion to make any cannons to go to the Newspaper Press Society of Canton, Ltd.
cannot hit the ball with that ex complications which other atances By comparing his "Ancher" or "Pendulum" position.
ut all to speak of, let alone get Fund. keynote of the system so generally green play.
actitude which the stance neces- entail, and facilitates the follow- This handicap had 600 entries in
sitates (for figures he quickly finds out just Inman, on the other hand, has as-1914, but the war stopped it all,
is it adopted in America,
designed through, for the reason that the It seems to me to be a flaw in the to make the too of the club left side of the body is partially out In the United States a player, where his greatest weakness tonished students of the game by and since then we have not been argument of those who advocate turn slightly on to the ball and so of the way. does not concentrate on opposing an lles. If It is on the greens then he opponent. Ills object is to equal or can at once apply himself to the Playing quite a lot at the top of able to get a room in London as the square stance, or the loft-foot-in promote "draw") will lose a lot in
the table. This is a most unusual we did then, free, gratis, and for front-of-right stance, that they have accuracy. surpass that par score of any hole. task of strengthening his play in method of scoring for him, as his nothing. I am afraid I have gone His partner, or his opponent, as the that particular department. Most fame came by his profi ency
to abandon it when they come to
Many will produce a disastrous a long way round to explain how the shorter shots. not con players are weak on the greens, but the baulk end of the table; going billiards history might have been ably they have to open the stance there will be no favourable balance Almost invari-proportion of ugly hooks a that He they do not realise how great their in off, or making wide and all altered. It is simply that Reece and turn the body a trifle towards in playing strength. It will simply out to get the best possible weakness is in putting unless they round the table, cannons.. results he is capable of achieving, | keep a check on the number of
is now playing the Inman game of the hole writes Harry Vardon in the have been proved that some are tying up and Inman is going out Evening Standard. If they find it sulted by one stance and others by anong golfers is to becoms taut no matter what the other fellow may strokes dropped at the business There' is another striking for things. Had Recce done this essential then, when accuracy of another stance--which
that he is end of the job. be doing. This means
change that may have al-twenty-five years ago obliged to keep himself keyed up for
Putting is the bugbear of 90 per tered billiards history had
he would direction is obviously the first con-knew, There is no benefit in directly they begin to address the the whole of the round.
cent, of the golfers of all classes. happened years
It probably have won at least one sideration since they are aiming at slavishly copying the Americans, ball, and more and more taut as they ago, Gen- championship. aort of test with The card and pencil system will help erally regarded then as the better Compare this
the hole, I do not see what can be whose true recommendation of their that which in practice rounds, or them to discover and to overcome player by the public, Recce got all
wrong with it in the longer shots, present stance is that they cultivat friendly games, is in vogue in their weakness on the greens. No the sympathy owing to his rival's
(certainly more than twenty yards reason that it happened to bo when accuracy still means a loted it, when they were young for the England and In Australia. In such golfer worthy of the name will implacable methods. It had to be
in length), even though they can- fashion in their country. games as these very few players
of bad or not only an odds un scoring chance
not reach the hole.. here or in the old country bother about beating par. They play the man. If they have him in trouble at a particular hole they are content to observe the "safety firet" rule, That is to say, they are satisfied to win the hole from their opponent. It may be a bogey 5. The opponent may be taking 6 or, 7, or his score
the most satisfactory · results.
Cove may
be,
toey cern him in the least. is
Reece and Inman,
at
Control Council Officials.
Hards Association were the occa The general meetings of the Bil- stons years age of almost free- Aghts. They are very tame affairs
now that the Control Council· run game, and the "meeting
feebly accept the role. indifferent putter. If he finds he is much below, par in that respect he
in England which enables all players the will fight the harder to overcome his weakness. The trouble with so to clearly realise how many strokes was confined to scratching each many players is that they do not they waste on clearly realise the stroke waste that goes on when the greens are reach ed.
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the greens.
(Continued from last Celumn.)
James Braid
Opening Up.
Wa
all
A Nesesalty of Straightness, It is proper to point out the de- trability of standing in a com out any exaggerated stooping or fortable, unconstrained way, with-
any degree of stiffness..
One of the most common faults
waggle the club: This may not be detail directly concerned with the stance, but it can reduce any atance and any swing to ineffectuality, A sense of relaxation is desirable in all the muscles as you stand pre-
For an fron shot, the toes of my) For the people who take up golfaring for the shot. left foot are 20 inches and of myjin something like middle-age (and (Continued in Column 5.) right foot 18 inches from the line
At other's backs. It was certain-drawn through the ball, which is
the end of the round he is thus inly an awkward time for a meeting position to tell at a glance just which if not held in the close where he lost an excessive number season was usually fixed for the of strokes. If he has been taking forenoon,
o'clock, the
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still just inside the left heel.
Thus I have closed in on the ball, and the process is continued with the mashie, for now the left toes twa and three at some of the greens time set. for the meeting, are 19 inches from the line and the cruel fact will hit him in the finds the professionals at. play and the right only 11. Moreover, eye the moment he studies his card. the most enthusiastic supporters with the ball dead opposite the left Knowing his weakness he will then of the game, and billiarde Press heel and the right foot square to the (aasuming that he is a worth-while men watching them."
line of play instead of turned out- golfer) apply himself to the task of The most noteworthy happening wards, I have opened the body per correcting his weakness on the was the re-election of that very ceptibly towards 'the hole. Many greens. When a player has done good veteran sportsman, Lord years of first-class golf have left, this he has won more than 75 per Lonsdale 45 president. J. C.me in no doubt as to the worth of cent of the battles against that im- Bissett, a very well-known London the open stance. placable and inexorable enemy, the Caledonian, Was once against
ancient but always young and elected chairman of the council, last year, Captain A. Croncen re- vigorous and brutally consistent, and the one-time amateur chamtained his place on the Council.--
1914 being his Sports Dispatch..
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1931
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