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ER. Undersigned has received in stenstions from Mass. Thor C to sell by Public Auction

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TUESDAY, the 18th May, 1610, at 8 pm,

this Sales Rooms, Daddell Street, The Steamer *DAGMAR” make now lies in the Menam. Bizar Bangkok, with all her machinery, gear and appartenances, etc.

1457 tons greus Reg.-

921 tons not Reg.

1300 toza deadweight capacity on

knota.

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This Steamer went ashore in the Gulf of Biom, was alred, and towed to Bangkok, where she was dry docked and patched up.

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`DRIVING, ▼."SHORT PLAY.

BY GEORGE W. GREENWOOD,

his approach shot and his purt than what he does with his drive. And in medal play I have not any doubts about short play being the more useful, so long as the player gets a straight drive of reasonable length. I once had a most, amusing match I have received an extremely on a rather narrow course with three interesting letter from an earnest huge hitters, all about scratch or student of the game, who from long plus. The three started by wagering observation and much gleeful experi. ence, has arrived at the conclusion their drives, and ally two of that, expressed in valuce, the short them went out of bounds. I was game is the more lucrative in the content to paddle along the centre of

the course, and we won easily. winning of holes than long driving. |

During the last year I have This is a highly controversial subject, and by a subtle artifice, by no means employed (wasted?) much time in unfair, I am enticed to express an practising these short shots, and opinion upon it. Among frst-class some of your remarks on the short amateurs and professionals it it game have, therefore, been to me of

great. interest.

1. You refer to Mr. T. D. Armour's mistake in using a niblick near the green and not a flat-faced club.

2. You speak of Mr. Du Maurier apologising for running up with his polter, and quite rightly say that no apology was needed.

or the short game? My correspon- dent has pit, forward a plea for con- centration on the lather departiment of the game where players find it inherently impossible to propel the ball vast distances. He is right, of course, but who will deny that the most glorious, fascinating, and im pelling thing in golf is the ability to hit stupendous shots with the wooden clubs The craze of modern golf is. for length and still more length, in- which there is never a thought for the little run-up or the lofted ap proach that you will have to play; and the putting that must be done. Have you ever considered that nearly half the total number of the shots you make in a round are played on the putting green? Not a bit of it; if true to say that matches are won and

you have contemplated the matter at lost on the green, or within twenty

all you have summarily dismissed yards of it. But he would be a

it as being unworthy of your serious foolish person who applied this

attention, or that it is much too dictum to all who play, or pretend

wearisome a business to focus your to play golf. Or. many courses

midd on. You prefer, when you do that I know he who bits

practise at all, to take a dozen bal's moderately far and straight, no

The conclusion I have come to and lash them about the course in matter how idiotic, in comparison, is after elaborate experiment is that the vain hope of discovering why is his other part of the game, is the the lofted approach is out of date is that that pompous fellow Jones man for my money. On the other with the present hard ball, unless it consistently outdrives you by fiftens hand, on most suburban and many is necessary by reason of some and twenty yards. It is more than inland courses, the gentleman who bunker or other obstacle. The pro probable that you have reached the scuffies his shots along the ground, contriving in his undignified progres. Per shot with a hard ball is a shot limit in the matter of the length of sion to escape the pitfalls that beset along the ground with something in your drives, so all this blind fury and the nature of an approaching, hateful envy, in the expenditure of his path, and can, when within cleek. I have

down which you stand an excellent chance reasonable distance of the green,

2 cleek to about a putter of ruining what game you already play his approaches with destructive length, and find it does very well, possess, is mere wasted energy. Why accuracy and unfailing regularity, both in approaching and patting nor employ some of it in an attempt and then follow up with demoniscal The present hard ball ought not to to improve those dainty clip shets putting in the person to be avoided be played in approaching in such a from off the green of the cut pitch if you do not wish to transfer too manner that aggravated bounce is over the corner of an intruding many florins to the pocket of another, certain to ensue. I noticed the other hazard with the pin at the other However, let my correspondent-it is almost certain he is a short driver day that Mr. R. R. de Montmorency alde? These are shots, if you perfect who confesses to an unobtrusivest a match through playing a lofted them, which will bring you great collection of twenty-one putters, and approach instead of running up and profit.

I see that at Stoke Poges Mr. We- The most striking example of re- possibly whole armoury of ap thered beat that gentleman by a cent date of the extreme value of the proaching irons as well, give his

pretty chip at the last hole, having short game in winning matches is views. He says:

previously holed a twenty yards' shot that furnished by Mr. Carl Breth at the seventeenth. Some time ago erton, the Birmingham golfer, who

I venture to suggest that it would

cut

be worth white to consider how many. H. Taylor created a storm by a won the Irish Open Championship at

holes are won or lost '

(1) By long driving:

rather foolish remark about Scottish Portrush in September last. Now, (2) By short play, which may golf. He lofts his approaches (as no Mr. Bretherton is not a long driver be defined as anything up to 100 one else can do), while the Scots run doubt whether he ever will be

up, but I think that by now he has but he is the most calculating person yards or so from the piu. When I speak of long driving. I am that he could not make the bail stop plays for position; in other words, repented, as he has since remarked I ever saw on a golf course. He making special reference to pour

his shots are placed always with a articles on the abnormal driving of Dear the hole. Mr. Tolley and Mr. Wethered. These The great difficulty in the short view to the next being made as two and Mitchell, Braid. and Ray game is to control the run of the simple as circumstances will permit, hard ball. It is especially difficult Bat he defeated all his opponents, are, I suppose, the longest drivers we on a keen green. Og such a green more especially Mr, T: D. Armour in I find a putter with a very broad the final, mainly by reason of ha give a casual reader the impression base is the best out of my collection wonderfully accurate approach play. that after the tee shot all is over. of twenty-one. I have made a num with the jigger shots of from eighty confess that they give rather a hoper ber of putts with it in what is, to me, to twenty yards in length Mr. less feeling to the majority of golfers. who are not abnormal hitters and cannot drive more than 200 yards or 80, and never will.

have...

Your articles would

MEDAL PLAY.

a new fashion, viz., to place the Bretherton might have been out face of it so that it is at right angles distanced from the tes or in the long to the extreme right edge of the Iron play, but he was gener Tø hole. I was suprised how accurate dangerously near the hole when the the putta were. The late Lieutenant putting came to be done.. And as Granted that an abnormal power Freddy Talt would go through a Mr. Armour, with his seventeen'put- of driving is a great asset . H. whole day without, missing a putt of ters, could not putt at all, tie was Taylor said to me at Hoylake when less than 6ft, and the ball always naturally in extremis Massey won, the day before the seemed to enter the hole from right championship: "I am afraid of Braldi to jeft. -

he hits so hard"), Lthink that the

short game is still more useful.

_____THE FASCINATING THING,

And I confess that 7 am more inclined It comes to this: What is the to consider what a man does with winning factor in golf-long driving

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