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AN ESSENTIAL OF GOLF
SUCCESSFUL MASHIE -
NIBLICK
PLAY WHICH COUNTS.
[By Harry Vardon.]
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thirty yards ahead.
CLUB "A" DEFEAT GERMAN CLUB.
at King's Park.
With the exception of the rubber ly in my path to the green, about S. MacNider's Hat Trick cored ball, no innovation of modern golf has served so much to simplify the game as the mashie-niblick. It has become Indispensable to every class of player. A person may be able to drive effectively with brassfe and accomplish his long shots through the green as satisfac ¦teriky with a spoon us with an iron club; but he can And no complete subelitute for a mashie-ntblick when club for such an effort. To make a
In the first half, Wade and Hill the conventrated approaching begins | ball rise almost perpendicularly with any more than he can select a ball it is not particularly difficult. It is interval Wade added two further [netted for the Club, and before the
equivalent to one with an interior lopped for the purpose. The carry goals. In
forward endeavour came to fruition MacNider performed the
the second half, S. of tightly wound rubber thread.
"hat- These two implements of the game by the application of top spin to the trick," whilst Hill and Foley also mast forceful upward blow that scored, bringing the Club's total to could make. The ball finished o' yard from the hole.
The obvious course was to play sidewaya, but as the clubhouse
NINE GOALS SCORED. verandah was protested by wire net- ting, I decided to attempt the task
Playing in a friendly hockey of making the ball rise almost match on the home ground at straight into the air for 30 or 40 King's Park yesterday afternoon fact, and then carry forward over the Hong Kong Hockey Club "A" the building to the green.
A niblick was obviously the only defeated the German Club by nine
goals to 'nil in a one-sided game.
nine.
For the Club, Hill and Foley ex-
have done more than a combination of all the other latter-day circum stanzes to revolutionise it. When the ground is hard In Summer-time Still, the niblick designed for celled in the forward line, whilst and the ball is running far the long-bunkers was not a good club for the Balman, Date and Rees worked hitting golfer needs little beyond his week-end player of average ability, weil in the defence, repelling every driver and his mashie-niblick save to take for his ordinary approach attack by the opponents. that he cannot very well do without shots. The sharp edge of its sole, German Club played very well, and a putter for that ritual, which Iso essential for digging into a bad showed great progress in, their once heard a contemptuous cham-place behind the ball, was apt to dig forward line combination, but pion, describe as "felding about into the fairway; and then the ad-their defence needs polishing. round the hole.” But putting is a venture was ruined. thing apart; a game within a game.. Gradually came the evolution to
Result:- Club
German Club
9
0
The
In a large degree the mashie- the sleek, smooth-soled niblick with; niblick has supplanted the thorough-just the same loft of face as the bred mashie, which-itself in its in-niblick meant for navvies' work (Rees, Dr. K. H. Uttley; J. Balman, Club "4":-R. W. Sapsed; G. F. fancy when I first used it was a considerably greater loft than that E. G. Dale, E. MacNider; Rev. A. club that called for some of the most of the mushie) which has won re-
Foley, R.N., S. O. Hill, R. H. D.
scientific and fascinating shots in golf. There was a supreme joy in playing a cut-spin shot with 3 mashie by drawing the face of the
cognition as a sheet-anchor of the Wade, and S. MacNider.
golfer's equipment.
Think of Your Knees, I would say that the mashie- club across the ball at the Impact | niblick shot, when it is played under and making the ball break from left į that perfect control which begets to right as it pitched, clawing at the accuracy, depends largely upon the tarf from the intensity of its side-action of the knees. spin, and running.only a yard or two-a joy which its successor, can- not give in the same fullness.
Still, it is conceivable that the plain mashie would not have been suficiently potent in some condi- tions with the resilient ballyhich is now in use ball so lively that it has to be made to drop almost vertically on to a hard green if it is to stop reasonably near to its place of alightment. It is a coarse shot compared with the old one, but It is an essential of the age, I know
MAMAK TOURNEY MATCH.
St. Andrew's Held to a Draw.
St. Andrew's Club drew with the To be sure, many people make al- Police, on the Training School most a full swipe of it; but that is!
ground yesterday in a Mamak not the way to secure dependable Shield Competition game. A fast effects from it. The greater the encounter concluded without either foot action, a certain degree of side having scored. which has to enter into long shots. Tournament Table to date. the less controlled will be the
P. W. L. D. F. A. Pts. mashie-niblick shot. The more de Radio
5 3 0 2 7 2 the body Incognitos 6.3 1 2 17 finitely the pivoting of
4 3 1 0 14 0 begins, and ends at the knees, the C.B.A......
St. Andrew's 5 2 1 2 ธ better will be the results.
R. Signals 5 2 3.0 Police R.A.S.C.
In the stance, the body should be turned well towards the hole, with the ball almost opposite the left
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* Forfeit 2 points to R.A.S.C. for
I would not he without my mashie-heel, the left foot pointing outwards, breach of rule 7.
niblick, and if there is any golfer who dispenses with one, he ought to remedy the deficiency quickly.
Pioneers.
Some years bafore the present type ni approaching club was de- visad, there were first-class players who usualy selected the full-blooded nibliek (intended primarily for use In bunkers and other places of punishment where a kind of blud- geon was needed) for their short pitches from fairway to hole-side.
These were the pioneers, and I think that the leader of them, was
and the right foot well in front of the left.
That right foot should be nearer to the ball than it has been for any other shot, and parallel with the sole of the club. That is to say, they are both at right angles to the intended line of play.
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Defence
Orders by Lisut-Colonel L. G. With the feet thus sufficiently Bird, D.S.O., O.B.E., commanding close together to rermit of a com- Hong Kong Volunteer fortable bending of the knees, the Corps, are issued as under:- body turned towards the hole, the head still, and the feet planted securely on the ground, begin by stiffening the right knce.
That promotes the pivot of the
the right leg to the left.
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utmost to attend as many parades as possible for the remainder of The Band will parade as detailed the Training Season. in last week's Corpa Orders.
Battery.
The Peak Range will be allotted to the Company on Sunday, January J. R. Gairdner, Д well-known' hips. The left knee bends slightly
There will be a parade on Tues-31 and not Sunday, January 24 as amateur of his day. Edward Ray in response. In the process, most chose it for a good deal more than of the weight is transferred from day, January 19 at Headquarters stated in last week's Corps Orders.
at 5.30 p.m.
Lecture on "Buffer
AALA. Company. short approaches when he won his
The A.P.C. Section will parade and Recuperator." Open Championship at Muirfield in When the right knee is stiff, the 1912. He played all-carry shots of upswing is finished. The down
Parade on Thursday, January 21 at 5.30 p.m. at North Point on 100 yards or more with it.
swing consists of returning the
at 5.30 p.m. gun drill and signal- Thursday, 21st Snatant... ling.
The Portuguese Section will Personally, I often had recourse right knee to its bent position, and
Engineer Company.
parade at 5.30 p.m. at Headquar- to it, and made the best shot of my stiffening the left so as to brace up whole life with such a club in a the left side of the body for a firm Monday, January 18, Miniatureters on Friday, 22nd instant. tournament at Northwood, Middle
Range Shoot. sex. The ball lay about four feet from the clubhouse-a building of the bungalow type which was direct
SPIES.
blow. And do not forget that neither foot should leave the ground for a shot worth attempting with| the mashie-niblick.
Armoured Car Company,
M.C., M.A., to be Lieutenant./ Henry Pooley, Esq.,, to Lieutenant.
Authority--C, S. 0. 2
198/1931.
Strength. The following have been taken on the Strength:---
No. 1770 Pte. W. D. Follen No. 4 Platoon, 11.1.82,
No. 1771 Pte. F. H. Neale, Car Company (Motor Cycle Sep tion), 11.1.32..
No. 1772 Pte. R. P. Edwards The Officers Commanding the A. Car Company (Car Section) undermentioned Units will issue 11.1.82.
No. 1778 Pte. C. R. Wilson, HE Car Section Machine Gunners their Orders separately to their
A.A.LA. Company, 8:1.82. will parade on Monday, January 18 Commands:- and Friday, January 22 at Head-) quarters at 5,80 p.m.
Drivers will parádé for a lecture}
1.-Corps Signals, 2.-÷Machine Gun Troop. 3. Machine Gun Company.
Transfer.
1 Machine Gun Competition.
On Sunday next members of th Machine Gun Company Teams will take out their own haversad
The Canteen will be in atte
(Sgd.) W. H. G. GOATER, Capt
No. 658 Pte. A. J. Allison, Re-rations. serve Company, is transferred to
GHOST TRAINS AND tors of these train-wrecking aton Car Mechanism at the P.W.D. tempts baffled the police, and Garage on Friday, January 22 at several engines hit the obstruc 5.30 p.m. tions without being derailed. A Motor Cycle Section-Special Army Service Corps Cadre with dance. chance remark by a boy in the parades will be held at Headquar-effect from 1.1.32. street led to the capture of the ters on Monday, 18th and Wednes. No. 1360 Pte. R. A. Bates, No. 5 offenders, who were small boys.day, 20th instant at 5.30 p.m. for Platoon, in transferred to Armour "The Southend district, because Machine Gun, Instruction. Ted Car Company, Motor Cycle Sec-
A Stationmaster Tells of 50 Years' Adventures.
Yeargr
First-class passengers on the L.M.S. Southend line toasted "a first-class stationmaster" when they entertained Mr. G. A. Chap man, who has retired from the charge of Leigh-on-Sea Station after nearly 50 service with the railway.
Interviewed, he told of adven tures with youthful train wreck ere, of "ghost trains," which ran during the war without any lights in the carriages, and of a time when he acted as an ama teur detective and tackled man who was a suspected, spy
Le ~{_____ Almber on Rails,
"During one alarming period said Mr. Chapman, blecer
timber and inverted from "were placed across the rail
fight for a week, The
Leave,
of Shoebury military station, a Members are requested to make tion with effect from 16.1:82. big munitions factory and the a special note of these dates, mouth of the Thames, was of
Scottish Company.
2/Lt. D. L Strellett, No. 8 great interest to foreign investi
Monday, January 18, No. 7 Pintoon, returned from leave or gators before and during the Platoon will parade at Headquar- 31.12.81 war.
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Adjutant, H.K.V.DO
EASTERN PORTS.
Details of Epidemic Diseases.
The health bulletin of East tera at 5.30 p.m. under 2/1t. A. W. No. 1086 Sgt E. L Groome, In the war I sometimes never Brown for M.G. instruction. Sec Armoured Car Company, Motor ports for the week ended Jan had my clothes off for a week at tion Commanders will: do their Cycle Section, sick leave extended ary 9, issued by the Director a time. One day the police utmost to ensure a full turn out. from 10.1.32 to 10.2.824 wanted to discover, in a hurry, Thursday, January 21, No. 6 No. 988 L/Cpl. J. K. Bousfield, the precise identity of a suspect Platoon at Kowloon Dock under M.C., Army Service Corps Cadre, ed man who was on the platform 2/1 T. P. Saunderson. No. 7 granted 6 months' leave from 1.1.32 waiting for the train. At the Platoon at Headquarters under to 30.6.82. police request I went up to him, 2/Lt. A. W. Brown for M.G. talked casually, and asked to see Instruction..
No. 1686 Gar. C. L. Read, Battery, granted 6 months' leave from 1.1:82 his season ticket on some preachine Gun Competition A11 to 30.6.82. text. I found that he was really ranks are reminded that this com
Appointments. well-established business ma petition takes place on Sunday, His Excellency the Governor has and certainly not a 'spy' after alt but a naturalised allen.
24th instant
been pleased, to make the follow
Lights out, was the rule in Corps Sports Intending coming appointments in the Army Sur- railway carriages during war Petitors who have not yet, entered vice Corps Cadre of the Hong Kong nights when Zeppelins might be are requested to notify /LATP. Volunteer Defence Corps; with overhead, and if a man even lit a Saunderson or L/Cpl. T. Cranston effect from December 22, 1981 ofore Saturday 18th Instant match er cigarette it was regard
ompany most essential for the or and in- do their
Fas: treason: ) by hiara ell
y) through a pitali dirk
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Charles Manners Manners, — Esq., O.B.E, to be Major.2)
Eric Paul Fletcher, Esq., to be
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