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SCIENTIST'S GOLF STUDY..
PROF. ROBERTSON COLLATES THE VIEWS OF
SHANGHAI PLAYERS.
GRIPS AND STROKES ANALYSED,
Some time ago, Prof. C. H. Robertson gave a series of lectures at the Shanghai Foreign V.M.C.A., during which he asked for the opinions of certain well-known players who were present, on the theory and practise of gols. He has since compiled a very com plete summary of this study, which he has made from the replica he received, and believes it would be of general interest tó rendera to have this information: Following is a copy of hig naulysis;— .
This summary discloses.amazingly Varied points of view about golf strokes. Out of a total of 117 items, there were but 28 cases in which two suggestors agreed or coincided. In no case did three make the summe suggestion, though some were nearly the same and still more implied the sume. It should be remembered that players attempting to apply these points of view may interpret them differently from the Rugges- tor's original meaning.
The writer proposes, to discuLS and anake available his own antling in some detail soon. He will count it a privilege discuss these points further with individuals or groups, as time and opportunity aerniit. The writer believes he will be sup ported by various golfers who at tended the lectures at the Foreign Y.M.C.A., in again expressing their appreciation of the trouble to which these particular golf leaders went in thinking through and recording the many interesting points brought -forward.
The list should be regarded not as, a system, but as a colletion of rather loosely classified suggestiona on, important details of the stroke.
The suggestors, their designtion letters (placed before itens, they have suggested) and their, handicaps follow:-
L
4 Body and shoulders lined
up with hole
L6
H 7
T 9
Feet and shoulders watch.
ed very closely 1st joint of right, thumb
rest nu shaft (n)Open stance for dri
ver; (b) square
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, MAY 22, 1931.
Lawn Bowls.
TO-MORROW'S GAMES, IN THE LEAGUE.
PROSPECTS DISCUSSED,
[ØY "GREEN"]
The following is the programme in tho Lawn Bowls League to-
morrow:-
Division 1.
BRITISH AMATEUR
GOLF.
MORRISON BEATEN BY TULLOCH.
It
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
LONDON, May 21, Sixth Round Romits. Tulloch beat Morrison......8 and 1 De Porast boat Roper.....2 and 1 MacCormack beat Tippett 2 and 1 Martin Smith beat Millar...3 and 1
Roper's Win,
Roper's great win over Voigt was an astonishing example of tenacity. He was never in the lead until he holed out on the last green to secure the victory, Voigt, playing his bost golf, turned 2 up and seemed well -set for victory, but Roper won the 10th and 11th to square the match, then doggedly hung on till the eighteenth, where Voigt duffed his approach into a ditch.
CHICAGO BANS EDGAR WALLACE.'
"i
PLAYS INJURIOUS TO CITY'S
REPUTATION,
Chicago-Edgar Wallace will be amused to hear that Mr. Anton Cermak, Chicago's new Mayor, has given warning that if he considers Mr. Wallace's play "On the Spot " is injurious to Chicago's reputation ho will not allow it to continue.
Mr. Cermak has served notico on
Tulloch's Sporting Action. Tulloch, with machine-like excel. lence, registered twelve fours and the theatre that he will attend the won the first three holes, eventual-fret performannce and. if the play ly becoming one up at the turn. shows the city in an unfavourable On the Spot" denis with Chi nga gangsters and it ran for a long time in New York, where it was enthusiastically received.
(on with not a single British inter- Tulloch then went on to win the light it will have to be taken off.
Kowloon Dock . Civil Service. Craigengover v. Club de Recreio. Police Kowloon C.C. Taikoo
Bowling Green Club. Division II. Club de Recreio v. Craigengower. Civil Service . Electric R.C. Kowloon C.C. . Yacht Club. Bowling Green Club. Taikoo. It will be seen that while Kow- luon C.C. have a fairly easy task in maintaining their sequence of brassie; (c) more square victorien, a defeat is in store for one of the other two senior teams who have so far been immune from defont I refer to Club de Recreio
for
for spoon Take comfortable natural
stance
tion till finish stroke
national among them the last eight went out in the biting wind, which played havoc with their hopes and aspirations:
10th, 11th and 12th to bo 4 up. Wethered rallied and won the 13th and 14th. A remarkable incident accurred at the sixteenth, where Tulloch had an easy pait for a half, loose pioce of grass causing his The dour Scottish giant killer ball to move. Tulloch picked up bis Tulloch eliminated the burly exhall and in a sporting like manner Cambridge triple blue Morrison, conceded the hole to Wethered. who frittered away puttu...
The wealthy John de Forest, a pupil of Horton Smith and who trains on milk, had to fight grimly'
Tolley's tale hnd a tragic touch, against the Notts clark and ex-Tippett, who is a plus two man, has miner Roper whom he could not played a lot of golf in America, is shake off until he began a most now secretary to the Royal Wimble
The seventeenth- was halved.. Tul loch being dormy one, and a half at the eighteenth gave him the Tragle Touch. match.
TD Keep comfortable posi and Craigengower, who aro to moet Jeliberate series of putts, lying dom Golf Club, reached the Insti
I 10 Arnis well into body
ly on both feet
The Drive,
nt the Valley. Recreio entored the First Division in 1020 after a DI 11. Weight distributed even- creditable performance by one of the two teams which they entered in the lower section the previous year. So far the King's Park bow. DI Start club back, left handlers have played Craigengower four
controlling
times in the League, but on each D 2 Right foot flat ou ground occasion the decision was gained by D 3 Left knee turns inward, makes body start pivot at hiss Right arm, elbow on hipi
use to lever up
4
D5 Do not bend left elbow
At top awing weight should be ovenly dis tributed
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D
7 Pull club down with left
hand Push out with right are
at impact D9 Direction first, then dis-
tance
N 10 Do not look up IT 11. Back slowly and quickly
Sugges Lion coin- ciding Title H'cap with
others
T 19
R. T. Dennisone
4 D
0
T 13
FG Harrison H
5
8
N. E, Lurton
L
8
3
Norris
(professional)
N
0
7
T. . . Terrace
T
$
4
J
Total 25
General Points.
N1 Relax muscles
T 2 Stance comfortable
Da Firmly on both, fent DN 4 L, eye on back part of
Inil
Do not press
Do Deliberately survey plug- ing conditions
D7 Be decisive Da
Pructivo
D10 Elminate carelessness
IN 11 Body balance essential
down Swing it do not snap Do not bring club head tou far around at top of back swing
T14 Braes left leg at
ment of impart
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13 Open staned, bail on line line of right angle flight
L. 10 1st
movement, slightly movelady forward on right leg
L 17 Lateral movement to- ward right with hips L 18 Move hands ahead of
stub
L 19 Commence pivot, weight
shifted to right, side
L 20 Do not break wrists at commencement of down swing L1 Left arm remain straight
until after inact Weight shifted to left
leg before impact Ball opposite left toe Teo np fairly high down
wind
DN iz Firmness not stiftnesa
L
13 Body in centralized position
N 14 Swing.club by arina
H 23
N 15 Body for pivoting
II 24
N 10 Co-ordinate pivot
awing
and
T 17 Confidence, not tear T18 Should not appëår, too
difficult
T 10 Begin study with putter
practice
DH 20 Impnet from the inside
out
D21 Divot points away
H In back swing' pivot well in rear and avoid later. al hip shift
H 23 In practice swing easily
H24 Keep hand closed on back
swillg
H.23 Keep elbow, close under
shaft
The Grip.
Left hand grips shaft.
with 1, 2, 3, 4 fingera
D2 Left thumb points down
shaft
༣.
D3 Back of left hand toward
line of play
D4 Right hand grip shaft 2, 3 fingers D5 Right Bland 4th finger overlaps let of left hand
D G V form point to right
shoulder
D7 Firm grip
D 8 Don't strangle club L9 1st joint of right thumb
rest on shaft
N 10 Two hands grip club
evenly and firmly
N11 Thumb and finger engh
hand supply pressure
N1 Left hand turned over on
cli
N 13 Narrow part forearm a
ward hold
N11 Right hand palni flat against club, right angle to line of flight
N 15. Overlapping · grip
hands close together
N 10 Adopt grip to fit player's
hands
LII 17 Usual Vardon overlap.
.
ping
The Stance,
D: 1 Foot comfortable distance
Apart body
HD 2 elbow on hip close to
D
a. Hands well down toward
luft knos
The Apposch.
D I Helcot club which will easily carry without pressing ID 2 Aim for definite spot In a Straight left arm
Accuracy most important Fret fairly close
NT NT
6 Club head closed at finish
of stroke
7 Kners slightly bent
D Make shot decisive
Mark spot for ball to
land
T 10 Take.club back with both
hands
T1
Bring club down through
ball
T 19 Bail starts low but rises by slope of club hend 118cd
T13
Ball need not be lifted
up
T1 Head down till ball is
away
N 15 Shorten follow through N 10 Grip club lower
N 17 Stance narrow, body easy N 16 Body action minimized
in short approaches
N 19 Un the run-up shot
L20 Running-up shot, weight
1. 21. Shoulders
kept on left leg
firm and braced
12 Grip more with fingers L23. No pivoting
1. 24 Feat close together
The Putt.
NH 1 Weight on left leg
H2 Ball opposite left toe NH 3 Very slow back swing H4 Good follow through
T 500 per cent. mental
ET No definite rules
T 8 Avoid internal strain
prone on the green to study the line and holing out long unes he became 1 up at the thirteenth and retained his lead to the seventeenth where he won,
MacCormick upheld the Irish re
career. At the third Tippett was eight for the first time in his 2 up, Tolley squared at the seventh, where Tippott stymied himself. eighth in two and turned one up, Tippest then went on to win the his figures for the first nine holes being 37 The 10th, 11th, 12th and ing three putts on the 14th, became recovery. He was a down at the down. A missed put for a birdie turn but squared at the fourteenth. three at the fifteenth, shart with He led for the first time at. the six-his tee shot at the sixteenth, where Tippett, putting for a two, won teenth, and won the seventeenth in the hole in three for the match,
proved to be Tolley's downfall. ave for the match.
Delenda est Chicago "is really Ia pun on Cnto's famous messago, Delenda est. Carthago" (" Cár. thage must be destroyed ").
Battles and Bottles..
Mr. F. E. Jones (Gonville and Caius) said Chiongo was governed by Mars and Bacchus; Mars the god of balties, and Bacchus the god of bottle.
'
Mr. Edgar Wallace had a great reception. Ho opposed the resolu tionDelenda est Chiesgo."
"I like Americans," he said.
Thay are the most unselfish people in their relations with visitors that I have ever met. I like them. I like Chiengo. It is the clean, wholesome city of the Middle West,
It was written by Edgar Wallace Your people have got too high a following the visit he paid to Chi- regard for the sanctity of human eago, and the landing character | life" (Laughter.) hears a certain resemblance to Al- Capone.
Mr., Cermak anid that he would suppress all plays and pictures which showed Chicago na a crime- ridden city.
This threat is lightly more ab- surd than anything ever done hy Big Bill" whose attempts at censorship were confined to school histories.
EDGAR WALLACE ON CHICAGO"
WOULD NOT DESTROY IT FOR WORLDS.
When Mr. Edgar Wallace, visited
He attributed most of the ovils of local government in Chicago to political jobbery, which, he said, was now being realised by the mass. of the people.
No Fear of Death, The result of studying crime "at first-hand in America had lessened his belief in capital punishment.. The fact that these men saw their friends being killed of had not the slightest effect upon on.
When one met a gangster the first thing he tried to do was to persuade you that he was not a gangster at all."
the Valley team. While the vis presentation hy staging a splendid 13th wers halved, but Tolley, tak Cambridge the debating hall at the altruistic and may do a little try
tors on the team which appears elsewhere may be said to possess a fine aggregate of bowlers, I still think that Craigangower, who have in by no
dopreciated strength ar keenness, will triumph in their fifth moeting.
means
Kowloon C.C. seniors, as I have said, are on what I believe to be a winning outing-to the Police Apart from the fact R.C. that Kowloon show promise of go- ing far on their recent perform onces, the Police have been trying unsuccessfully for more
than a year to secure a victory. They have quite a number of comparatively new players in their ranks and I hope to see them win a few mat ches as they gain more experienca- with the advance of the season. Calis of Duty, I am told, inter Fere to some extent, in keeping their team together, and this would appear to be a great handicap,
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Kowloon Dock, after two unsuc- cessful efforts, remain at home to meet the Civil Service. Last year, while admitting defent at home, the Dock pinyora livat Civil Service at the Valley by a small margin. I nm inclined to think that the visi- tors will succeed in taking the points in a close game, but on the
Martin Smith, the banker's 2011. who received a Blue at Cambridge this year, was down at the tenth but squared at the twelfth, won the 15 and 10, and holed out a chip shot at the seventeenth to win with flourish over the son of the famous polo player Miller.
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LONDON, May 20.
Fifth Round Results. Tulloch heat Wethered 1 up. Roper beat Voigt rup, Tippett beat, Tolley 3 and 2. Morrison bent A. de Forrest
and 3.
J. de Forest beat A. Newey. 2
and 1.
McCormack beat Straker at the
10th.
ONE THOUSAND GUINEAS. TOURNAMENT.
DUNCAN AND JOLLY FAIL TO QUALIFY
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
LEEDS, May 20. No less amazing than at West- ward He was the Thousand Guineas Professional Tournament at Leeds, where two members of the Ryder 4 Cup team. Duncan and Jolly, to gether with the strongest American challenger, Horton Smith, Jailed to get under the qualifying total of 150. for thirty-six holos. Two Argen. tine players, Freccero und Genta, and Willie Hunter, British Amateur Champion 1021, also failed to quality.
Turnesa, America,, headed the Other qualifiers with_6--138. notable qualifiers were Churio, 70-72-142, Charles Argentine, Whitcombe 3-71144. Daragon, of South Lodge, had an unenviable record of hitting five successive balls out of bounds at the sighth hole where he registered a four-
Martin Smith beat D. Fiddian 3
and 1.
F. Miller beat Beaumont Feare
2 and 1.
The championship at Westward other hand, the Dockyard players Ho, which has been simmering with might decide not to give anything uprises throughout today, reach away. Taikoo are-entertaining the
Kowloon ed a climax when the two greatest Bowling Green Club. C.G. took the pointe last week, at English post-war golfers were de- Quarry Bay and I doubtful whether their close neigh-feated along with the last remain.
ing foreign challenger. bours would be able to do the same,
W
*
am rather
Club de Recreio and Civil Ser- vice juniors, both playing on home ground, are likely to gain the de- cision over the visitors, Kowloon C.C., also at home, should be con fident of defeating the Yacht Club after their recent creditable wins, but the visitors cannot be treated lightly. I also fancy the chances of the Bowling Green Club when they entertain Taikoo.
TO-MORROW'S TEAMS,
The following are some of the probable teams which will appear in to-morrow's games-,
Club de Recreio. Nocreio senior team (away) v Craigengewer at 4 p.m.:-Dr. R. A. C. Basto, A. Basto, C. A Lopes and C. G. Bilva (Skip.)
E. L. Barros, P. A. Yvanovich, L. A. Gutierrez and C, E, Mar ques (Skip.)
A. S. Gomes, B. R. Robarta, L C. R. Souta and I. F. Lux (Skip.)
Recreio junior team (home) Craigengower:-F. Prata, J. M. B. Rosario, A. V. Bartos and J. 0. Ozorio (Skip.)
The remaining players now in- clude six Englishmen, an Irish man, and a Scotsman, none of whom has previously won the title.
(Continued on nezi Column.)
F.V. Whitta, W. Venables, FL Rapley and V. Petherick (Skip.)
Reserve: J.A. Criig..
Taikoo B.U.
Taikoo Senior team (home) 1, K.B.G.C.-G. McLeod, 8, C. P.. Amery, J. Russell and R. Wallace (Skin)
J. B. Chapman, J. Sloan, W. Weir and J. Ferguson (8kip.)
T. Staiton, J. Polson, J. Laing and N. Drummond (Skif.)
Taikou junior team (away) 4. K.B.G.C.-S. Hope, J. J. Whyte D. C. Speirs and T. Grimes (Skip.) J. Mitchell, W. Canningham, R. M. Keown and D. Munro (Skip.)
W. Brown, T, Sari, W. Bell and R. K. Duncan (Skip.)
Kowloon Dock· B.0, Kowloon. Dock RC team (homo) 0.8.C.C.-H. G, Cooper G. Henderson, J. Pescheon and T. Cullen (Skin).
F. Xavier, J. Basto, J. M. M. Alves and F. V. Ribeiro (Bp.)
M. F. Baptista, H. Rotario, EC. M. Romedios and F. X. M. Bilva (Skip.)
Kowloon Bowling G.6. K.B.G.C. senior team (away) Taikoo J, Rodger, G.H. Sherriff,
NB Club head back in right, Nish and W, Russell (Skip.)
direction sends bail" in
right direction
N 10 Wrist action
N 11 Stance marrow, weight
on left leg
12 Strike ascending blow
N 13 Body near ball, eyes over
الدية
DN 14 Pendulum swing, left
right
DN 14Comfortable-stanoo
D 16 See line from ball to
back of hole..
R.S. Nichol, T.B.W. West, G.E. Roylance and D.F. Warren (Skip.) 6.3. Chambers, T. Ferguson, EWL Hogbin and L, Guy (Skip.)
Reserve: A.K. Taylor.
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C. Atkinson, J. A. Lindsay, F. Goodman and J. C. Brown (Ski).
W1. Hedley, J, V. Ramsay, H. M. McTavish and It. Lapsley (Skip).
Reserves: A Celman, E. Docherty and 1. Kempton.
H.K. Electric B.0. Hong Kong Electric R.C. team (away). Civil Service:-F. Nar- mingion, J. Slona, G. T. Padgett and A. Webstor (Skip.), K.B.G.C. junior team (home) N.S. McKay, G. Thomson, S Talkoo:--H.F. Stoneham, J.J. Deacon and W.H.B. Muskett Cameron, W.E. Halo and A.W.E. (Skip.) Davidson (Skip.)
C. Butler, C.E. Gabagan, D. G.E.F. Thompson, G. Rodger,S. Hill and J.F. Luony (Bkip.). H., Tose and W8. Drake (Bkip) Reserves: H.B. Jonts and G.W.- (Continutil at foot of ntzi column)Kinghorn.
teen.
DAVIS CUP TENNIS.
DENMARK AND POLAND EACH
WIN ONE MATCH
[THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCT.)
COPENHAGEN, May 20.
In the third round of the Davis Cup Denmark and Poland each won one misgles natch.
Henriksen (Denmark) defeated Hebda (Poland) 6-3, 6-1, 4-2,
Tloctynski (Poland) beat Ulrich (Denmark) 88, 0-1, 36, 69, 62
Union Society was packed and
OTC were turned away. To hear with crime in Chicago, and such a Mr. Wallace on subjects connected delightful heading for the debate as Delenda est Chicago," was too good a treat to miss.
The people of Chicago may be ing," he concluded, but they are most hospitable, and I would not It would be as bad as destroying have the city destroyed for worlds. London."
The motion, was carried by 171 to 143, manjority 25.
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