1939-06-12 — Page 24

PUTTING

By BEST BALL

Putting is practically half of golf, as a stroke analysis of par for reveal, yet the any course will practice sessions devoted to put- ting usually measure far less than half of the total. Winter provides an occasion for evening up this disproportionate ratio for putting can be practiced in the home pro- vided the Mrs. is agreeable. Fur- thermore enough time can be tak- en to formulate a certain systém of lining up the shot. One trouble on the actual green, in the hurry many players of a game, is that

have no set system but are contin- ually experimenting, hoping that this putt will be better than their last. As a result they rarely show the natural improvement that should be theirs.

Conscientious

practice

during

the shut in months should give one a good formula for putting. Par- ticularly important is the first stage; that of lining up the shot

GRAPHIC GOLF

PUTTING PRECISION

LINE UP

SHOT CAREFULLY

12-23

THE CHINA MAIL, JUNE 12, 1939.

VERA HRUBA IS REFUSED ENTRY INTO

CANADA

Port Erie, Ontario. Immigra- tion officials at the border here have refused admittance to Canada of. Miss Vera Hruba, Czecho- Slovakian figure-skating champion,

and adjusting the clubhead at right angles to it. Bobby Jones for ex- ample, as illustrated here, sights. the line from back of the ball, then adopts his stance

the and, with clubhead poised over it at right angles, lines up the ball with this line. The next stage is adjusting the clubhead back of the ball so that it will travel atraight along this line. These necessary prelim- inary stages to the actual putt en- able the golfer to get better pre- cision and also gain a measure of relaxation for the actual stroke.

Wednesday-Strengthening The Grip..

on the grounds that she was person without a country.”

The official stated that her re- jection was a matter of depart- mental routine, based on the fact that Miss Hruba was in the United States on a temporary visa issued by Czecho-Slovakia, which had been absorbed by Germany since her departure. Miss Hruba was to have appeared at a skating carnival in London, Ontario.

The pretty Czech star was under- stood to have put up a long argu- ment with the officials in an effort to keep her engagement, and to have told them that she would pro- test to the Czecho-Slovakian consul in Washington on the grounds that Great Britain and Canada have not recognised the absorption of her country. Reuter.

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