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TUESDAY. DECEMBER 9, 1916,

HON. MR. S. H. DODWELL'S

LECTURE.

Continued from page 4)

THE GRIP.

The grip of the club is a most important matter. A good many ladies I think place the left thumb round the shaft, instead of down it, This according to the experts dies not give the necessary control of the club at the top of the swing. If you place your left thumb down the shaft it is important that you should place it down the right side that is just to the right of the centre of the shaft. This gives you much more power: with your

left wrist. It is exactly as with a tennis racket. If you try to hit a back band hot with the back of your hand facing the objective of the ball, you can get little strength in it, but if you put your hand more over the racket and turn your wrist back at the same time you can get three 1imes the power into the stroke. So it is with a golf club. I do not sug. ges that if you are satisfied with your game you should alter your grin, but if you do try placing your left thumb down the shaft, see that it is not down the centre. You can; easily tell if it is correct because you should be able to see three knuckles of your left hand as you address the bail, instead of only one.

STANCE.

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Stance: You should not stand with, your knees locked. They should be slightly bent, but the right leg should stiffen up at the top of the swing. You cannot keep your weight on the heels, as it should be, if you stand with stiff legs. At the address the

club should be slightly depressed

but not unduly.

FASCINATION OF DRIVING.

CORRESPONDENCE.

37. VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY BIZLAR.

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[To the Eduor of the " China Mail.")

THE CHINA MAIL.

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,

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ball and requested those behind to go through, if they find the ball a second or two later, sometimes go

Driving is one of the fascinations of the game." There is nothing so exhilarating as hitting a good one off the tee. From observations I. cannot think that some the ladies can get that satisfaction out of their drives that they might. The art of driving consists in swinging the club round in a circle as fast as you can, but so that it is travelling its fastest on themselves as if they had not as it comes on to the ball. The signalled those behind to go through. axis around which this circle re- Once having signalled you must volves is an imaginary steel bar give precedence and wait. One of driven through your head and body the worst offences is not getting transfixing you to the ground as off the green directly you have you address the ball. You are holed out. I remember once sit merely able to twist your body from ting on the seat at the third hole the hips. The circle which you at Happy Valley and listening to should describe should not be too two ladies-1 mean gentlemen upright. It must be fatter and more round the body than is the case with most ladies.

(laughter)-arguing as to whether one of them had executed an air shet or a preliminary swing off the last tee. It took some time to settle the matter and the argument was punctuated by shouts of Fore in the distance. The proper place for the settling of little diferences of this sort is on the way to the next tee and not on the green. It is not that one means to, but oce is apt to get, so interested in one's own game that one furgets there is any. body else on the course.

LOCAL REMARKABLE SHOTS. A goling lecture would not be

Mr. Dodwell here gave a dem. onstration of good driving as taught by Braid, who, he said, asks the player to regard himself as the wind ings of the spring of a watch when driving. The circle described by the player must not be too upright, and the lecturer thought that a great number of the ladies should attempt fatter circles. He showed how an upright drive was certain to slice the ball. In the illustration of the good drive the lecturer pointed cut that Brald, Vardon, and Taylor sux-complete without some reference to gest starting the club with the wrist. In the cinema pictures, the great players are shown using the arm and the shoulder at the same time. The Hon. Member for the Chamber of Commerce, the captain of the Golf Club, had his own views about the use of the wrist in the drive. (Laugh ter.) All the lecturer would say was shot; the shot with which an old then there WAS another that the cinema gentlemen were champion laid bare the bones of the wrong and it was ridiculous to expect Chinaman

you all know the third hole at Fanling a few local remarkable shots. As has several times been done in one; the seventh orce. It is rumoured that a Scotsman did the 16th in one but for certain reasons he made no mention of the fact. (Laughter). And

in his pot on the

a good drive without allowing the hillside at Fanling. The Chinese wrist full play. Then the player would say that the spirit of that old must be careful not to fall over. Chinaman had Braid was keen, said Mr. Dadwell, on destiny. As you all know Jasner some bearing on insisting that in a long drive it was Clark was killed in the war, but that essential that the left heel must be shot will ever remind us of one of torn of the ground It was also the finest golfers and one of the finest necessary to keep the weight back characters who ever played the game on the heels.

Mr. Dodwell than gave some useful photograph of Jasper for the Club in this Colony. I am trying to get a hinta on iron sho's. He said that house. The Committee are trying the player must not allow the iron to get photographs of the pioneers to flex hack over the body loosely. who founded our beautiful links The dies, he thought, often made at Fanling. the great mistake of swinging it too pictures I do hope

and around those tar. In some cases it reminded him of be able to weave a little web the egg and ap501 race. It was only of sentiment. Only a little more. necessary to keep the left hand taut Sentiment might for instance lead to to lift the ball as high 29 оде

our annual meetings being attended

We may

wanted. Braid advocated at the top not on the basis of annual company of the swing.

meetings, where no one turns up unless there is something to grouse about. I am not suggesting this be cause the Committee want members. to come and pat them on the back; all they want is to feel that they have the co-operation of all members

PUTTING AN INSPIRATION. Mr. Dodwell then proceeded: Putting is an inspiration, You ladies probably patt better than we, maa. One of our scratch players maintains that the hole ought to be the size of a soup plate with the and above all they want construc- green sloping down to it, and then I doubt if he would always get in. His heory is that it takes a golfer to get on the green but that any idiot can get into the hole. (Laughter.)

oor.

tive criticism and not destructive criticism. Some of the bid Club houses at Home are regular museums of sentiment; I know that we are young but we must begin sometime; I would like to take this opport the only item of sentiment I have unity, now you ladies are present, to noticed at Fanling is a stuffed snake give your gentlemen friends a few-and very indifferently stuffed at words on the question of the etiquette that. (Laughter.) It will be easier of the game. The etiquette should for you ladies to introduce a little be learnt as soon as the command, sentiment into your club-house than ments. No player should go round it wifi be for us in a golf course unless he has first to say the least of it, somewhat studied the etiquette. There are prosaic

edifice. But that will several requests which are be remedied in time. The fascina-! not properly observed on many tion of golf is that it can never be COMFY03. Replacing your divots conquered. The characteristic of the is one of them. I believe if you were British nation is that they will never to take an aeroplane over Happy be conquered by anybody or anything, Valley in the summer, it would look therefore golf will be played "unto as if it had the ampox. I always eternity. Is it not, therefore, well feel when I find my ballreposing in that we should try and ensure that hola made by a mubody else not our club, when it becomes the Royal replacing their divat as; if I would and Ancient Hongkong Golf Club and like to leave my firks m the hoge our course one of the finest fa the of catching his ball later, hue that is world, contains some record of its sot the spirit in which golf is played history, its pedigree, within the walls Again, players having lost, their of its club bouses?

Then there

was fun.

They are getting bolder. The latest victim was walking when his roof pocket, he was afraid to run up side was lifted, Having $800 in his streets after the snatcher.

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