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EASIER
GOLF
by
H.STUART HOBSON ·
SET THE LEFT HIP
AND MAKE SURE OF YOUR SHOT.
KNEE ACTION.
When a golfer finds that his game lacka sting-when TO particular shot is failing, but when no club is giving the effects that it should-he la apt to say that he isn't "connect lng with the ball,”
This is a malady often more easily remedied than at first scema pos- sible.
A golfer whose skill with his mashia has deserted him, or whose iron shots lack direction, or who is hooking his drives—a golfer, in fact, whose game is suffering in one marked direction-may have to look into a dozen details of grip, stance, wrist movement and pivot, to and out why one shot should be failing him while the others are up to par.
Hitting Too Soon. When the failures are evenly distributed over every club in the bag, there is usually only one an swer-hitting too soon.
A tip I have given to golfers, and one that has produced imme- diate effect, is to set the left hip in position and keep it there. Sliced shots, and shots that are pushed out, are caused by at tempting to bring in the body too soon, or, in the modern phrase, by falling to hit against the resist unce of the left hip.
ABORIGINE FAST BOWLER.
Seven Years' Practice, to Dismiss Bradman.
MAY TOUR ENGLAND.
A dark-skinned bowler, whose magic with the ball sprang from his skill as a child with a boom- erang, achieved the feat of get. ting Don Bradman out for a duck, caught at the wicket, in the Sheffield Shield match be- tween New South Wales and Queensland,
.The bowler was the much- discussed Australian aboriginal, Eddie Gilbert, who bowls "kicker" with such venom in them that some players have re- fused to play against him.
Allegations as to the legality of his action have been made, but slow-motion pictures, spe cially taken to disprove these ni- legations show that, except for a very slight bend of the elbow, his delivery is unquestionably orthodox.
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Observers have marvelled the tremendous pace of the pitch that this aboriginal gets from an action which is no more violent than that of a slow bowler,
It has been said that a ball bowled by him cannot be seen from the stands after it leaves the pitch. Yet he walks only a few steps to make his delivery.
Gilbert, a pure-blooded abori ginal, was born in 1908, but did not start cricket until he was fifteen.
He then found that his skill in throwing the boomerang and in killing birda and rabbits with missiles at long range could be turned to good account with the cricket ball. So he practised quietly, and it has taken him seven years to bring his bowling to the pitch he has attained to day,
"Topped" shots are seldom, as In the general. bellef,, caused by brushing the club over the top of the ball.
More often the club head gets well down below the ball and brushes up behind it, resulting in
half-hit shot to which tremend- ons forward spip has been added, forcing the ball down.
"Head Up."
directly out to the left a fault very, different from the hook of the advanced golfer, which is usually Caused by "hitting from the insido out."
The Left Hip.
Most of the faults of pivoting, and of "aloppiness" in the shof, aro remedied by setting the loft hip in position,
.:
I bare given it as my opinion before, and I will repeat it now, that the first movement of the awing is not with the hands or the clubhood, but with the left knee.) And the first movement of the loft knee is not in the direction of the right knee, but 'in the direction of the ball. The player, to begin his swing, should bend his knee almost forward, as though he intended to lean over the ball.
While he is addressing the ball, his weight, though distributed. will be felt by a pressure on the right heel.
The movement of the left knee, shifting the weight forward a little, gives the left hip a.natural start to its pivoting movement.
As the hip comes further round, the left knee takes its usual course towards the right knee.
This is caused by pulling up away from the ball, or falling back for which the movement of the left hip may be primarily respon
The Weight Behind. sible, since if your left knee and' At the top of the swing, the left hip are set in hitting position. weight is not nearly so completo. you, can hardly draw your handsly back on the right foot as many fin or fall away from the ball.
"Head up" is given as the cause of many golfing errors.
So it is, but if the pivot is wrong the golfer's head will be forced up by the faulty action
of his shoulder. "Head-up," so far from being the cause of a duffed shot, may be just as much a symptom of some other fault as the miss ed shot itself.
Hitting the ground, behind the ball may be caused by dropping the shoulder.
Occasionally a player may sc- tually swing round as he comes down on the ball, and so hit it
Our Sports Diary.
LOCAL
Club
HUNTING Today Fanling Hunt Meet (Anandale). at 2.46, P.M.
GOLF-To-day and To-morrow R.K.K.G.C. Christmas Meeting, To-morrow Competition of Round
of Kowloon Golf Junior Championship.
FOOTBALL Today-Sunday Harald Gup-Wales, v. Portugal on Club ground; Chinese League -Chinese Athletic "B" Y. Yee Woo; South China "A" y. South China "B": Chinese Athletic "A". v. Sung Ching.
CRICKET Today - Kowloon C.C. v. Navy (F) at 11 a.m.; University v. Indian R.C. (F.) at 11 a.m; Hong Kong C.C. v. Army (F.) at 11a.m.; Cralgengewer C.C-Married v. Single; Indian R.C. II. v. University II, (F.) at 11
SPORTS-To-morrow-Craigen- gower C.C. Children's Sports,
SCOTLAND DEFEAT ENGLAND.
Sunday Herald Cup.
The first match in the Sunday Herald Charity Cup competition yesterday resulted:--
England Scotland,
2.
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players believe that it should be and many professionals have taught. If anything, the weight is evenly distributed, but the best effect is that of having the weight on the right foot whilst leaning against the firm left side of the body.
The firm left side of the body, with the left hip set in position, is real base of the swing.
It is your guard against getting the body in too soon, against fall- ing back, against awaying, "hend up" and many of the other com- man faults that may mar the shot. -(China Mail Copyright.)
R.M.N. TISDALL BOUND FOR INDIA.
Appointed A.D.C. to a Maharajah.
INDIAN HOPES.
It is Interesting to note that R. M. N. Tisdall, the ex-C.U.A.C. President, and probably the Anest athlete Oxford or Cambridge has; yet produced, has been appointed a special A.D.C. to the Maharajah of Baroda, with whom he will, probably leave shortly, for India.
The Indian Empire is taking n keen Interest in athletica generally and in the Olympic Games in par- ticular, and Tiadall's realdence in India may well have much to do with the fortunes of India's Olym-j pie team at Los Angeles.
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Mr. R. C. Sherist, in an address tó L.G.C. teachers at Birkbeck College revealed the fact that his profits from "Journey's End”: had been about £3 per word writ- ten in the play.
On the other hand, "Badger's Green" had only been worth £1 a week to him. Yet the latter play had been written especially to please the public and the form-i er without any such intention.
He was of the opinion, he said, that there should be no such
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There is a possibility of G. D. Kemp-Welch, the Cambridge double Blue and Corinthian foot baller, being offered the cap- taincy of the Warwickshire county cricket team next BCE- sion, in succession to R. E. S. Wyatt. Kemp-Welch, who cap tained Cambridge University last acason,
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Australians are wondering whether this great natural England, cricketer will reach the climax of:
wright. The amateur who had another occupation was far more in touch with character material on which to base his plays and, far more likely to make a success.
MAN WITHOUT NATIVE COUNTRY.
Najib Saub Aboud, whose native country has gone out of official exlatence, was released by the American Immigration authorities! because they could find no place to which he might be deported.
Aboud was born in that part of Syria which became non-existent under the Lausanne Treaty and is now a French dependency. Natives 'of the region were given two years) tu swear allegiance to France, He is one of the most brilliant Aboud never took the oath, having. his career by bowling for them of England's younger cricketers, been a resident of the United against England on the historic He played for the Gentlemen States since 1911. turf of Lord's. He would not be against the Players this year
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