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FRIDAY, AUGUST 21, 1931.

STEEL SHAFTS IN GOLF

WILL HICKORY COME BACK TO FAVOUR?

B HARRY VARDON:

There seems to be the impres- sion that steel-shafted golf clubs have reached the peak of their popularity in Britain, where they were made legpl just under two

years ago.

other question.

with clubs lent for the occasion because the player, not intending to engage in golf, had arrived without any.

Re-Converted to Hickory.

THE

ENGLAND THIRD SAYS GOOGLY BOWLER.

Australia and South Africa Foremost.

TEST RIVALRY.

Australia and South competing for cricket to steel shafts would think now if,Africn

that having no driver, somebody accom-supremacy, we might say modated him with one of hickory, England and New Zealand are ile might say "This is a dread- fighting for third place," BAYR

The golfing life is rich in stories of these episodes, and they inclie speculation as to what the convert

"With

MAIL".

PERRY

CHINA

CAPT. DAVIS PIONEER

́ OF AVIATION.

Completes His Million Miles at Brooklands

FOUR AIRMEN CELEBRATE.

A million miles of flying and

four glasses of lemonade for four

ON TENNIS CROWDS.

Shower of Cushions in America.

WHAT IS A SPORTSMAN?

FELLOW WHO DOES

THINGS.

crowds of hangers-on who loudly bawl that they are sportsmen too, and the genuine inds are too full of sportsmen's humour to point out. that they are nothing of the sort, EFFECT ON PLAYER.

At Cambridge the other day 1 A stout alien at a club the other introduced to me as "a was inquiring after a man who had day was When I think about lawn tennis rowed with me in the Clare boat. great sportsman," in that he had a crowds from the view-point of the should let him alone if I were firer on every race that happened. player there comes at once into my you," I was advised. "His life isWell, betting on a horse-race, or a mind the vivid picture of cushions, new one long grouse and scowl | man-race or a motor-race you aren't

British

It can be said that steel shafts Meanwhile, the steel shaft holds will have to consider New Zealand plished, they came to earth and little way of expressing exuberance-lects postage stamps." Collector, of and their lady friends. Still, f

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a shower of cushions, hurtling on Pity. He used to be such a sports- there to see is not sportsmanship. to a centre court from the grandman and such a cheery soul. And I would rather bot on which of two stands, says F. J. Perry in a home there you have the whole philosophy lien on a window-pane got away paper.

of a human history, writes O. J. first-if I were watching the files. The curious deluge fell on one of

Cutciffe-Hyne.

It is probably silly to bet on 'half Very well then. Now let us get the things people do bet on. But Hills, New York, after the defeat down to a plain definition of that there perhaps I am prejudiced, be of Jean. Bototra by Berkeley Bell in much-abused term The

cause I have a rooted objection to the American Championship last Sportsman. Recently I heard a man providing out of my own pocket Autumn. It was merely the crowd's described as "A sportsman who cel- expensive upholstery for the bookies

On the adjoining, court John Van

course he might be, and there is you have a taste that way, it in your Ryn, fortunately, for him, was hav-nothing wrong about his hobby own personal affair, There is ing an easy match. It would have dare say. But sportsman, on that nothing wrong about betting, unless been all the. same had the score account, he certainly was not. R. you bet more than you can afford. The cushions, carelessly aimed, fellatamp collecting as the highest probably at the same time paying on both courts and play was held up form of Art, as it took a lot of your extrance fee to that exclusive for several minutes until they were trouble, was very costly, and was club, the Burglars' Union. cleared away,

entirely useless when it was done. I mention the incident as illus-But even ne, delicious, whimiecal, trating the appreciation of the inventor that he was, did not sully American gallery when the play is the decayed pustage stamp with the of the "firework" variety-as it

Sportsman's imprint. Was on that occasion. The people there go to see "fireworks." If they are satisfied they let the play ers know, as they did that day in this amusing fashion.

airmen,

The last of the million miles was flown when Captain H. D. Davis. ful thing." or he might discover A. A. Malley, the famous Austra-A.F.C., Captain E. A. Jones, Mr. springiness. lian cricketer, in the Sydney Sun. G. E. Lowdell, A.F.M., and Mr. I suppose this is true in the that he liked its

Malley commends England's S. A. Thorn, flew round the Brook sense that at least four players Probably his conviction would be out of every five must have had dietated entirely by the way in sporting spirit in granting extra lands track to celebrate their ag the two "show" courte at Forest steel shafts itted to their wooden which he happened to be hitting Tests to the New Zealanders. Hegregate flying mites.

The four airmen took off from beaded clubs; but whether it the ball." if he chanced to be expects that the visitors will put

he up just as good a fight as in the Brooklands and flew Bve times means that a reaction is now set striking it truly, I dare say

Whatever the outcome of round the aerodrome. Then, ting in in favour of hickory is an- would be from that round a man first.

these Tests, he says, Australians 1,000,000 miles having been accom re-converted to hickory, have given new hojke, and there-the field as a club for driving, and more seriously, which may lead to toasted the occasion in lemonade. Captain Davis began flying in fore help, to legions of handicap, it is interesting to hear opinions a regular exchange of teams.

"England is raking the field for the times of Colonel Cody. He is players without affording any cor- as to why people like it. responding advantage to the golf-player, who has a short handicap, bowlers," says the Sydney Morn-n pioneer of aviation who came era of outstanding'skill A. famous explained to me the other day:-ing Heraid, "and the two extra through the war unscathed and there been 5-all in the final set. L. Stevenson once, defined postage if you start doing that, you are ex-champion, who will have none "I can't get so far with it, but I Tests awarded to New Zealand will received the Air Force CrosE.

Captain Jones, after serving but hickory shafts, pointed out to can keep straighter." Another de- help England in her problems of me the other day one of the diffi-clared that it had increased the reconstruction, as well is helping through the war, became an R.A.F. instructor. He has made Afty culties in the way of their revival length of his best lee shots by ten New Zealand.

"We here have the same pro-forced landings without an acct- for drivers and the other clubs yards. Indeed, there is a pretty (with wooden heads,

wide divergence of opinion as to blems as England, and we are seek dent.

ing constructional aid from the the exact nature of its merits.

Mr. Lowdell, who earned the tour of the South Africans in Aus- Air Force medal in the war, is an Keeps Shots Straighter.

tralia. Australia welcomes the instructor in a civil flying school. The fourth and youngest mem- The one thing certain is that it gesture of the English cricket nu-

something that handicap thorities towards her sister ber of the quartet. Mr. S. A. Thórn, does players like. My own observations Dominion."

only began flying after the wars but has covered 125,000 miles through the air without a crash or accident of any kind.

ers

even

The four, airmen, having com- pleted their million miles and finished their lemonade, decided to celebrate their next aggregate of a million flying miles at some future daté,

If you

"SPEED KINGS' "' RISKS.

Mr. Turner's Adventure On Wrecked Craft..

Push Cyclist Preferred, My own appreciation of a man's sportsmanship varies directly with the amounts of physical exercise. mother-wit and good humour he puts into it. For instance, I prefer the push-bicyclist to the motor merchant, and I have far more reapect for the shooter who worrica a stoat out of a limestone wall on a bitter spring morning than for the more glitering hero who in one day to his own pair of guns bringa down two hundred and fifty braco of pheasants (all high birds) that another man has reared and driven. to him.

Difficult to Obtain. "It is a job to get hielory, driv- now," he declared.

The chess, shove-ha'-penny and billiard experts are all very pos "They are not being made." It is

sibly most excellent citizens in their perfectly true that, while the wooden shaft is still the favourite

respective ways, but by those parti- associate of the Iron head (be convince me that this something. It is thought that the South

cular activities they do not acquire of keeping the shots African tour of Australia will be

Do you who come to Wimbledon the palm of aportsmanship. It will cause it is lesa jarring thinn metal consists joined to metal), manufacturers straighter; certainly not making a fiucial success, in spite of de-

realise how you, as a crowd, can be to their annoyance I am afraid help or hinder a player; can turn that I bracket and professionals all over the them longer, which was the virtue pression.

with these those the issues of a close struggle? country have been so husy fitting originally claimed for the steel

of the different

dashing fellows who go and look on Early in its reign. there clearly a matter steel shafts to wooden heads thut shaft.

nt the big cricket matches, or loose there has been little time to think were tales of people. driving 30 degrees of torsion.

off their howls at football referees, about hickory for this purpose. yards farther with it than they Bul it is the privilege of only

or attend boxing shows in any seats Nor, I suppose, has there been had been wont to drive with the very few to control a club-

from the threepenny. to the three The real Sportsman is the fellow much Incentive: Hundreds of hickory. The magic which so hend at the end of a springy

By means of it, they im

guinea. But if these men played who does sporting things cheerfully thousands of steel-shafted drivers, often comes of a change may have shaft.

cricket themselves even the cork- himself, to the best of his ability, 'brassies,, and, spoons must have produced in them a swing of won-part those slice spins, pull spins,

and-broomstick variety in a back with his own thews, and by his own been on crder during the past drous rhythm and acceleration. top spins, and under spins which

"Hold it and loose it,” as, we say

street, or had a ten-minutes-wit, and - always plays the game, One professional who em. Very likely the increased distance are for beyond the capacities of year.

Eyes at this moment are riveted between-shifts footer scrap in a The non-Sportsman' is the shirker Of the sixteen in the jargon of the field. ploys several assistants remarked was half-truth derived from the the multitude.

have men in your team who know upon Captain Malcolm Campbell, back yard with a rag ball, or pasted who goes to see other men do these to mne "We're no longer club mink-working of the imagination on the players in the Walter Cup match

who la trying a new course for his one another with the open hand on sporting things, keeps himself care- ers; we're blacksmiths. The golf-swing, and the rest just imagina. last year, nine used hickory driv- how to hold the hall and get rid of

ers. They were:-Bobby Jones, it at the proper moment, after famous car on the banks of the the road home after they had fully buttoned against the least er who wants a new driver thinks tion.

At any rate, I think that the George von Elm, R. H. Wethered, drawing the defence, Soccer is one Salt Lake at. Utah, and Mr. Philip cloked-out, then I would touch the trace of exercise, and shouta noisily only in terms of steel. To Bug- gest that he should have a wooden effect has died down considerably, C. J. H. Tolley, Sir Ernest Holder of the easiest games under the sun. Turner, the well-known racer, who brim of my hat to them as brother as to how he personally would like

recently at Cowes, in a craft Sportsmen, though I do none of to see the game played, shaft would be like recommending and that nobody would claim now ness, Rex Hartley, T. A. Torrance,Andy Wilson.

weighing only 70 was making a these things myself these days ex- Little old Great Britain was built a sailing ship as the most effec-to be hitting the ball appreciably J. A. Stout, and W. Campbell.

Every Rugger player knows the promising attempt to eclipse the cept perhaps the last. (If you are by men who lived clean and liked tive way of crossing the Atlantic. farther than he used to do, writes. It has to be said that first-class

extreme importance of following record for outboard motors when in the habit of travelling about the sport. It is being very badly let Imagination's Magic.

Harry Vardon in The Sports Displayers have one extraneous rea

for remaining faithful to the ball with the eyes. Now I lay he ran on a sand bank and damag-world a bit, it la always sound down in the present Year of Grace patch. There is reason, however, son

on, following the led his craft in a fog. When found policy to keep your personal defence by people who call themselves in the statement that the shots fly hickory. They can always be sure equal emphasis

Sportsmen, but who are nothing of The steel shaft dees of obtaining good shafts of it, ball with the legs-by which I mean by rescuers after two hours he was scheme in working order). straighter.

Misused Words,

the aort. not twist in 'the swing so much which is not the case where the "backing up" and "following up." calmly bailing out water and in

-I, M. B. Stuart.

imminent risk of drowning,“

There is nothing wrong of course as Hickory. Consequently, the handicap armies are concerned.

in going to look on at a football handicap golfer who places the

match. But you have, no more face of his club squarely to the

reason if you do for calling your ball in the address may expect,

self a sportsman than you would when he uses steel, that it will re-

for claiming to be an actor if you turn to that position, when the

put in as evening at the theatre: Frequently n.new club will pro-shaft is of that fairly whippy

No two words in the English duce shots commensurate with the hickory which is usually selected

language are more misused than ability which the struggler always for drivers.

Sportsman and Sportsmanship, and felt was in him, and which had

the reason is fairly plain. The been blurred only by "implements So far as my inquiries show, the

real practitioners are dumbish sort singularly ill-adapted to the pur- really great players regard steel as pose." Sometimes a club borrow a disadvantage rather than a help, ed from a friend will do it. Many" because they feel that they cannot great strokes, and even record obtain the same spin on the ball rounds, have been accomplished as with hickory. This, again, is

Golf being a game which, more than any other makes its votary the creature of his own fancy, it

is conceivable that time will bring a widespread desire for the return of hickory-shafted drivers. Every player knows how often, there is wonderful stimulus and an aid to excellence in a change of equip

ment.

Champions Like Hickory.

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