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EASIER GOLF

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H. Sruar Hossos.

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WHEN YOU HIT THE DIFFICULT SHOTS

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IT ISN'T JUST GOLF"!

A considered view of golf, after following some important matches recently, is that the most devastat- ing phrase in the game is, "That's just golf!"

If a player takes three putta when two would have given him the hole, he consoles himself with the thought that this is the sort of thing that golf does to the golfer. If he plays well in the morning, and bals in a more vital match in the afternoon, he once more reflects that golf is just like that.

But I am ready to assert that it isn't.

The Best Shot. The best amateur players-al- ways excepting Bobby Jones-are two or three strokes behind the leading professionals, and the rea- son for is summed up by this deadly phrase, "That's just golf!"

I recall standing by a veteran professional and watching a play- er alice his tee shot into the rough and then get on to the green with↑

a magnificent brassie shot.

"That's the best shot you'll see to-day," I remarked.

"Ay." said the veteran, "And if he had hit his first one like it in- stead, he need not have left the fairway at all.”

Shots to Win

AND MISS THE

upon him that one of their secrets is that they make everything as easy as they can.

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THE

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In ROUND THE CINEMAS

ball is kept on the move. lawn temps for example, as long as you keep your oyo on the ball, you "time" it unconsciously:

Real tennis demands first a .inthematical mind, otherwise the scoring becomes a positive worry. Then once the heavy cut shot that gives the good length of the back. wall is mastered this game de volves itself into knowledge of The court.

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WEIRD EFFECTS IN "13TH CHAIR,"

ALL TALKING MYSTERY.

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Have You Heard?—

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Bob had returned home, and was confiding to his father his intention of settling down with one of the

Microphones that follow actors Take rackets next. Here 13 # through doors, and cameras that hali that comes at you really whirl over their heads in fantastic fast. Some will say that a half- arabesques, furnish the uncanny. velley at rackets, properly "tim-effects in the strangest drama, Tod eu," gives more delight than any Browning's talking lm production ether shot known to, the sports- of "13th Chair," which is showing

Perhaps this is so, But, at the Queen's Theatre. again, given nimbleness of foot and the ability to position one-roles she created in the stage play.girls of his dreams:

With Margaret Wycherly in the self, which comes from quickness and Bela Lugosi, creator of the in recognising at what angle the role of "Dracula," as the uncanny ball will leave the wall, this game detective, the creepy, is not the most diffeult.

gripping drama of the stage was filmed with many effects impossible before the footlights.

Squash after a certain point is a matter of the survival of the hitteat. Bowls on the other hand. does not require violent training although it is a game that calls for the greatest skill

Concentration and Rhythm. First, the awing is easy, and, far as possible, it is similar in essentials for all shots. To carry a proud record in important events the golfer need not produce shots of startling brilliance, but he must seldom get into the position where he has to produce then. It is the

But so far we have only con- same with the great professional.sidered the physical side. There While he is playing with club are the equally important points members, a little light-heartedly, of temperament and nerves. perhaps, he may welcome a chance to show the way to get out of a bad situation; when in an import-

ant match, however, he is a differ- ent man-playing all the time with concentration, and rhythm that

Errors of Distance.

"And now that I've told you I'm going to marry Isobel," he said, "there's one more thing I want to get off my chest."

"What's that?" asked dad. "That 'tattooed heart Marguerite's name on it.".

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with

sational denouement, and the de- The uncanny seance, its sea tails of the strange murder plot in mysterious India, are all produced

The great Chapman, on his way with shadows, and other remarkable de- timidly approached by a small boy strange effects, sinister from the nets the other day was tail.

who, as is the habit of small boys, Holmes Herbert, And Conrad Nagel, Lella Hyams, asked for his autograph,

Helenz Millard, Moon Carroll, Frank stride, said "No I won't give you Mary Forbes, Chapman, without pausing in his Leigh, Charles, Quartermaine, my autograph, but here, take this Clarence Coldert and. many other bat.

I don't want it any more; I noted players appear in the mystery have just broken it at the nets." story, adapted from Bayard So the youngster staggered home Voiller's stage success which ran for several seasons

with a bat nearly as big as himself. and has been played all over the state when he grows up, but no on Broadway He may attain great office in the world.

It is Browning's first-all-possession will perhaps give him talking picture.

more pride and joy than that broken bat so lightly given away.

here we are led back at once to those two games that I think are most difficult, namely golf

and cricket. Often during a golf match there comes a vital moment when the next shot to be played may mean victory or defent.

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out old man!"

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And the player knows this. Again at the end of a four-round Bredal competition, the golfer ny know the number of shota he must not exceed over the last two or three holes. There, too, he

"HAPPY DAYS." requires good nerve.

In my opinion, however, cricket

With every player at Fox Movie. makes

éven sterner test. tone City in the cast including Will What true cricketer exists who Rogers, Janet

Gaynor, Charles aces not know that curious sink- Farrell, Victor McLaglen, Walter ing feeling as he buckles on his Catlett, Ann Pennington, Edmund pads; when. if he is "in" first, a

end calls to him "Umpires are "Happy Days" Fox Movietone all

Lowe, and William Collier, jun

talking musical romance, begins an That is his cue. who does not feel like death at

No player engagement

to-morrow at the that

Quenn's Theatre. becomes "ernek" batsman.

But this sen sation must be banished the in- stant the pavilion gate clicks be Find him or he will soon be "back in the hutch." himself. The trouble is that His mistakes, when he makes take is tatal;

one mis. them. are not errors of careless games there is always the possi- whereas tri other ness, but errors of inches or yards.bility of recovery.

No Time For Experiments.

If you are five love down and Afteen-forty The golfer who does not win against you, you may still win. If matches, though he may get com- your drive at the eighteenth drops plete enjoyment from his game, is in the brook, you can pick out the man who experiments. There and put your next shot "dead." is no time for experiments In match play.

A mistake at golf matters little to a professional who knows that he can beat the opposition when he likes. When a bad stroke may cost him a vital match, however, he concentrates on getting the bail where he wants it, all the time and every time.

A humorist once said, having ex- might astonish a player accustom plored everything off the fairways-ed to him in lighter mood. of one golf course-from the rushes by the lake to the woods and the thickets-"I don't dislike golf at all when I play like this; the game becomes so interesting." Golfers have been heard to scoff at, those players who hit the ball a hundred yards down the middle at ench stroke, and use the same wooden club for a mashie approach. That way of playing golf may scem uninteresting, and it is cer tainly not good golf, but it comes hearer to the methods of the

masters of the game than the pro- ceas of bad, shots and recoveries that marks the round of the average short-handicap golfer. That greatly-abused word "psycho- logy" has been more overworked by golfers than by any other people. What the golfer needs is mathematics and less psychology.

It is unnecessary to talk about the "will to win"; it is shots to win that are needed...

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The Ability for a Better Shot. Players who claim a tempera- ment are merely those whose swing is not sufficiently grooved to bear the strain of mental excitement.

It has been said of Bebby Jones

that he can get what figures he likes in order to go one better than his adversary. That may be will to win-but I suggest that it is the ability to put more into a shot when necessary without loss of accuracy.

The more the golfer studies the first-class players of to-day, the the realisation is forced

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WHAT IS THE HARDEST GAME?

Interesting Comparison and Study.

GOLF TO FISHING.

[By M. D. Lyon is Chefoo Daily News] Golfers any golf; cricketers say cricket; draughtsmen draughts; lovers. say courting.

Bay

The first point is, do we want to discuss which game is the hardest to play well or the hard- est to play anyhow? There is no doubt whatever that the lawn tennis ball is the easiest-placed -ball of the lot.

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A player of world-beating ability cannot afford to have off-days when he consoles himself with thoughts like. "Isn't this just golf"

When any golfer finds himself as many players do--hitting the difficult shots well, and making mistakes with the easy shots, he should be frank with himself. He should refuse to admit a moment of truth in the superstition that this is golf, He should be honest, and admit that in trying to hit the ball a mile he is swinging too fast, or that, with easy short putts, he'] is looking up for the satisfaction of seeing the ball drop.

Every golfer can take strokes off his score by grooving his swing, making rhythm of his game, and treating every shot as though the match hung on it.

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The cast is replete with stars, the and costumes are gorgeous. songs are tuneful, and the settings ensemble for

The climax numbers 100 entertainers the minstrel show and there are 20 musical numbers and many specialties. Benjamin Stoloff.

"Happy Days" was directed by

** INFATUATION.”

wife approached you one evening Say, Mr. Husband, suppose your

while you are reclining comfortably, But if the umpire gives you in your easy chair blissfully read- "out" .b.w. Tate doubts you may have on the sub-putting her lips close to your car, whatever ing your evening newspaper and. ject can be immediately dispelled whispered dramatically: by glancing. at, the newspapers next morning.

For my part give me trout rod, a grey morning with a a light gentle breeze upsteam, the finest cast, a day fly, and the seatrout running

"I love another!"

You would probably

rise up to

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Italian border when, we he said, "We had

"On our recent Continental tour," reached the were met by Fascists, and I was told to ac company them to the local police station. the matter, and I could not under- I had no idea what was stand a word they said.

"I called on the British Consul. who explained that I was being played in London, last September questioned about piece I had

I then put on the bill 'Mussolini and his

band will play Bye-bye Schneider Trophy. This; apparent- ly, had given offence, and I was cautioned not to repeat my indis. station for two and a half hours." cretion. I was kept at that police

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ing that she is in love with another Every once in a while that is man. On the contrary, he informs story!" the way

you take Pinkettes, to her politely, but firmly, that he keep your liver active, your diges means to take no notice whatever fused to give his wife her freedora tion good, your system clean and of her extra martial affairs, and even though she herself confessed Why then become a that as far as he is concerned she to him her attachment for another on his feet, and if he will apply slave of the daily Saits taking is still as faithful to him as she was the following rales, which are habit,

with at the moment

nuptial vows.

Any good batsman can with tery little practice of course, apelling is difficult too-become a second-class lawn tennis player. Hobbs plays well, so does Percy Chapman, and so do I. But the

gap

between second-class lawa tennis players and first-class is enly crossed with diflculty,

A good bat is necessarily quick healthy.

or tortute yourself

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There is a warning in "Infatua wavering husbands and a first-rate story.

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Frankly speaking, As gently as Lature Pinkettes he is too busy with matters of "Try to see the maker's name correct, constipation, bilions at great Importance to be seriously on the ball as you

make your tacks, sick headaches, in a single troubled by what he chooses to shot."

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I think golf. is one of the most to insure difficult games for this reason: breath, the "timing" is not automatic: as piles.

it is in other games where the Pinkettes, 70 cents per vial. The husband in "Infatuation" re-

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