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SATURDAY, JANUARY 9, 1932.

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EVERYDAY ERRORS

OF GOLFERS

CAUSES AND CURES

(By Harry Vardon.)

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LADIES" "GOLFING” DRAW.

Captain's Cup.

In the Captain's Cup Competition the draw has resulted as follows: Byes, Mra. Langston v. Mrs. Lam- bert; Mrs. Buyers v. Mrs. Whyte- Smith: First round, Mrs. Roffey v. Mrs. Piercy; Mrs. Redmond v. Mrs. Rodgers; Mrs. Brown v. Mrs. Bur- ton; Mrs. Sherry' y, Miss Robinson.

First round to be played by Janu ary 26: Second by February 9, Third by February 23, Final.by March 8

Miss C. B. Robinson qualified for the Captain's Cup for December. (104-29-75) a

Más D. K. Graham won the Best Aggregate Score, held over the new Course, Fanling with 287 net. Bogey competitions held over the On February 16 there will be two

Old and New Courses, Fanling. The competition on the Old Course will be for players of 18 handicap and under. That on the New Course, for players of 19 and over. handicap allowed. Prize will be presented by the Section.

It has been suggested that IVery often there is to be seen a should discuss the causes and pas player who takes the club to the sible cures of some of the errors top of the swing to the most promising manner imaginable, and scen most frequently among yet tops his shot. medium and long handicap players. In most cases, it is caused by There are golfers who, to judge lifting the head--which, of course, by their methods, 'have taken up just as the blow is about to be

means straightening the body the game without any proper tul-made. If the player will only steel tion, and never given themselves a himself to keep his head over his chance to pursue it with the plea- work, he will not make this mis

take. |sure which comes of even a modest; degree of proficiency. Truth to evil is a habit which some players Another source of the topping tell, they are fairly numerous, and cultivate of drawing the arms in I fear it is not much use trying to towards the body as the club nears diagnose and remove any particu- the ball. They seem to thisk that lar one of their faults, because, they they are going to hit the ground do nearly everything wrongly, and behind the ball. They need have their salvation lies in the direction ho fear of this, since during the of beginning the game afresh under address they have presumably al expert guidance.

Still there are very many players which they consider necessary for lowed themselves just the range who have gone to the trouble, of their arms. studying the correct. principles of

Next making the shots, and who under- humiliating errors of golf, I would to topping among the stand how the results can be place alleing. A quick slice, such achieved, but who, for some rea-as the moderate golfer often per- don, develop a fault of which they petrates, is particularly trying, for are unconscious, and which spoils the reason that it goes very little the effect often in the same way distance, and that Httle usually for shot after shot,

landa it in dire trouble.. Before dealing with little pecu-

I should say that. In four cases larities of habit which will create out of five, it is caused by start certain types, of error, I would ing to turn the hips for the down- ask the golfer who is off his game swing before recovering the club med to consider the question of his grip from the back of the head. This This, if it becomes a little bit out turn of the body results in the of gear, may cause almost any kind arms being thrown forward so that E. R. A. Green.

the club-head passes outside the E. R. A. Binne Sometimes the trouble is that the line of play and is drawn in across.E. R. A. Ashby player has fallen unknowingly the ball at the impact.ER. A. Almond Into the way of placing one hand.or the other too far under the shaft think, the tendency to hold more

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Services Billiards.

At the Sailors' and Soldiers' Home last night, H.M.S. Medway, last year's winners, defeated HMS. Suffolk in the second round of the Ng Sze Kwong Billiards Tourna- ment, by four games to one

Scores:

H.M.S. Medway.

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160

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H.MS. Suffolk.

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151

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Or he may have brought one hand tightly with one hand than with E. R. A. Last too much over the top. It is easy the other.. Most people agree, that O. A. Underwood to do these things without being]

a tighter right hand grip will do L. Stkr. Horsley aware of it, although a great.many it by turning the toe of the club C. O. A. Proctor golfers like to experiment with the on to the ball, but I think that the Marine Spencer manner of holding the club, and I tighter left hand often creates the a change chances to produce a few bother by dragging the right over. good shots at the outset, they main. It is one of my faiths, though many tain it when very likely it is funda-champlona dispute it, that the mentally wrong and harmful hands should be partners of equal

As-a sound working maxim which is not too abstruse, I would say that the golfer should, seo. that the knuckles aro neither hidden under the shaft ner exposed to his fall view on top of it. The knuckles of the left hand should be, in general terms, directed to the line of play; and those of the right hand should

be pointing in the opposite direc-1 tion. This applies in dither the overlapping_grip or the older method in which, the hands, touch, without overlapping

Slow Back.

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ST. PATRICK'S SOCIETY

First

Annual General rc Meeting. A

SUCCESSFUL YEAR.

The first annual general meeting

The report and accounts adopted.

were

New Rule Approved. The meeting approved the addi- tion of the following hew rule for limiting the expenditure, powers of the Committee, it being pointed out that it could be altered later, if desiredThe total amount ex- pended on charity in anyone nancial year shall not exceed the amount of the annual subscrip- tions 'the previous year.

"for" shall not affect the expenditure This by the Committee of special dona- tiens given

of St. Patrick's Society' was held in the Roof Garden of the Hong Kong One of the cardinal mistakes of Hotel last evening under the chair the golf legions is that of taking manship of the President,,, ir the elab back too quíekly,

Joseph H. Kemp, K.C.

to the Society for

...Whatever differences may exist

the charitable purposes.”

To regularise the procedure and in the methods of champions, and The chairman said they had just however much they may argue completed the first year of their remove the appointment of Hozor

existence as a Society and heary Auditors from the hands of the about their theories, there is one thought, that the formation of the Committee to the members of the paint upon which they all agree, It is the importance of the adage: Society had been fully justified, Bociety, the meeting approved of the Slow back," writes Harry Vardon He continued, that since, he returned following amendment to tille 16, in The Sports Despatch. So far to the Colony in April he had heard – "Omit all words pften, “audited" and a,I have seen or heard in an ex Patrick's Ball had been. He ex ed at the Annual, General on all sides what a great success: St. substitute "by two auditors perience of golf, which now extende over nearly two generations, there presso, thanks for having been up, or at an

ipointed the first President, but add. Meeting.

never has been a good player who

I took the club back quickly, m

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ed that the offico had been entirely Messrs F. G. Maunder and

a sinecure. The real burden had. W. B. Finnigan were elected Honor Yet countless lightning swings, been borne by the Vice President, Farr "Auditors, to whom the Chair or, at any rate, efforts almost de Col. D. Myles, OBF. and a man: expressed the thanks of the serving that suggestion of speed, hard-working gommittee They Society for accepting the pool- fr are to be seen in the multitudes of had worked like Trojans and tion comma

club mambers. It is possible to be deserved the sincere thanks and Committee Re elec

too slow, but not many fall into gratitude of members(Applause.) On the proposal that error. The desirable speed of The annual report showed that bon, seconded by the up-swing is to be seen particu 193 Irishmen and Irishwomen, have, following commit larly amongst the American joined the 4pcle Ince, ita forma-ed en bloc. Sir J

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