1952-05-24 — Page 13

THE SLICE-

SLICE THAT SHOCKING SHOT-IS ONE OF THE 2 EASIEST TO CURE

By MAX FAULKNER.

The slice-that shocking shot which sends the ball swirling away into the rough on the right of the fairway-is the most common fault in the average handicap player's game. It is also the most wretched and the most expensive in strokes.

Happily it is the easiest to cure.

1 have always worked on the principle that if my pupils know why and how. certala faults happen we can achieve the cure twice as quickly. So, what happens when you slice the ball? Simple. Instead of making the ideal strike of the club on the hail (ie, with the face of the club square to the ball and the line of flight) you make contact so that the club face cuts-across-the ball, however slightly, from out- side to in.

Alternatively, it can be caused by the face of the club being "open" instead of square on, at the moment of impact.

Perhaps we can also diagnose type of allee. your particular

ball

if your shot starts the down the left hand side of the fairway and then curls It away to the right, it is ten to that you are hitting from OUT to IN.

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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MAY 24, 1952.

PETER LOVEGROVE TAKES

A Glance Back At The Rugby Union Season

London.

Most memorable feature of the 1951/52 rugby union season in Great Britain, which recently drew to a close, was the visit of the mighty Springboks, who fully justified their label of World Champlons and gave us forward and half-back play of an almost forgotten brilliance and precision.

They swept the board in the International matches-administering a sensa- tional 44-nit whipping to the Scots at Murrayfield and only London Counties, at Twickenham, succeeded in lowering their colours, though both Cardiff and Midland · Countles ran them close.

LLA-

cess in the last twelve com- because the County Champion- petillond.

Oxford won their fourth suc cessivo Inter-Varsity match, Army, who went and the through the season, unbeaten, -Inter-Services regained the tille und also beat, the French Army.

ship does Interfere.. a certain amount with the composition, of leating sides, in the first three months of the season..

and

Wales, who put up a superb Oght against the tourists and wers but three points down at "no-sitle," then went on to win the Triple Crown and the In- ternational Championship for the second time in three years.

Coventry, always in the van, They were the best-balanced

did not fasto defeat until thei

htyeen houting, then struck sidb in the tourniment, even if

bad spell, but finished strong- they were unimpressive against

Tho Welsh Guards from ly with nine wins in their last France in their last outing.

BAOR carried off the Anny to games. England,

of finding a much Cup, so long the property Bedford's powerful defence hole. Cut out the tendency to more determined pack, happily the Catterick Signola, who only three times conceded over Max Faulkner is still

Northampton then "pen" stance which many relinquished the wooden spoon found consolation in the York 10 points, greatest of our Englisti golfers, people develop in an effort to to fish second, Scotland, with shire Cup-the first Service held their

own among the In his victory The Dunlop steer the ball to the left, The five defeats, had their worst side ever to win this trophy.leadors, though

their attack pro- Tanrmanent last week he

stance Lquare

encourages Aseason for very

lacked the bite of past seasons. many, years,

CLUB RUGBY duced maznilleens golf. After he better pivot,

Gloucester recovered much of while France had a most

fosing (3) Check your backswing" lucky spell, came from the course he spent

a vital

fa club rugby,,

where the their old prominence; Bristol's several hours completing this

Or first importance is a Arm player before half-time against

than beat was a "double" over Har- seces of instructional articles, finger grip on the club to bring beth Wales and England. Even weather interfered less an ikat they can continue while it well on the "inside" groove so they dominated the cham- uzual, Welsh clubs again ruled lequins in an in-and-out season,

and whiles Cheltenham fell away he is in America fighting it out with a full pivot to bring pions and only went down to the reast,. with the best over

there." left shoulder well under your England through a penalty geal Newport, though not quite the little.

sides they have been, leading have got a tremendous kick out chin and buck square. to the In the last few minutes.. of doing these articles," he said. hole; Check your downswing.

the.field.

"I ko the idea of helping others in play better."

Keep the inside-to-out bringing your right close to your right hip. (1) Check your grip. 'Put your hands

bring the thehend through. giving you slicing trouble, your left hand well over

knuckles with three

Above all, don't be afuid to take it and shaft,

throughout und with the left swing, swing smoothly.··· use: a high tec-when you arewing,"

thumb on the right hand side I

If this seems to contain too trying to put mallers right.

the shaft. Dit the right much detail,

down break it have no room for the 100 popu-

|hour slightly under the shaft

and work through stage by Jar idea of grabbing a spoon or

directly stage. It really is simple if you a brassle whenever some little that the thumb is thing goes wrong with The on top of the shaft. I overlap tackle it that way, Above all

Bic driver. Tackle

problem ny little finger.

11 give chance. Get out with

A your driver and bag of balls' and the club is my motto. And now to buskness:

and work-It cut the hard way. Once you've mastered it you've got it for. good.

If your shot starts off 10- wards the right and then curls for over outwarde it is just as certain that you are hilting with the face of the club wide

OPEN

THE CURE

Now lets get down to the cure. If your driver has been

ut

(2) Check your feet and stance, Stand square 1.3

the

RIGHT. This is Max Faulkner's grip. Note three knuckles showing in firm left hand, and right thumb on top of shaft.

STREAMINE

WRONG the slicer's grip. Loose left hand, and right harid too far over the shaft. This allows lack of left hand control, and a predominance of the right.

grocve elbow Make club

te

This "cure applies to both main slicing faults. But if you happen to be the "open inco" ype of victim you might find additional help in the tip take your club back more with your left hand than your right. This stops the wrists roll which uptas the face.

All these points, incidentally, apply to your irons as well as you woods. By just think it over, for a few minutes and then get out there and that slice It's something no self-respecting tolfer should have for long).

cure

(Next week: Cure for your hook)

TROUBLES IN FRANCE Franco's troubles did not end thare - That there has been a good deal of "siumamateur

been aeross the Channel has cominion knowledge for a long Inic und the International Board called on her to put lier house in order at a meeting Murch if a fresh break the Home Unions, was to avoided,

with បទ

hns

The French Federation proposed the abolition of National Championship tourne- inst-an elaborate affair run paly on a two-League basis in

Cardiff 'with

Harlequins and Wasps vero the leating London sides and Cardiff gave the Springboks a appropriately shared six points

wont rare fright,

17 games in their annual encounter, At one without defent

stage, Wasps alss winning the Middle and beat Newport three times tax "Sevens." London Welsh in their four encounters. The were the best of the Exiles Monmouthshire club won #sides, and London Scottish the many as of their 40 matches biggest disappolniment, and scored, some 000 points. Both beat the Barbarians over Easier

►

Melrose, for the first time in their 75-year-old history,

car- ried off the unofficial Scottish These two famous clubs were

only club championship, their by strongly challenged

the defeat having been sustained at much-improved Aberavon, who the hands of Watsonians in the scored "doubles" over Cardiaret half of the senson: and Llanelly,, and beat Neath, Sivansca and Northampton

"Neath also had an excellent sepson, and crunteil Cardiff and Newport among their victims, while Cheltenham were

with a knock-out element the closing stages which has caused most of the "under-the counter" deals and much rough only English side to beat them. play. But clubs in the Southe-free-scoring Ebbw Vale West.

where the game came on by leaps and bounds, strongest, are protesting. vic while Maesteg were always lently, and the issue, romains difficult to score against.

the balance.

Middlesex,

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Turpin For The Grand National?

he

Randolph Turpin, Middle- weight Boxing Champion, hus ambitions outside the boxing ring. Ho wants to become a Swansca lost a number of steeplechase

when ridor who provided ending, players in the closing retires from boxing,. most of the Springbok-conquer Ing London Counties XV car-lages and finished ried off the County Champion dmuch ship with a fortuitous victory over Lancashire in the final

St. Mary's easily the hest of the Hospital sides, kept the Hospitals Cup-their lenth suc-

with four

racecourse,

defeats, but Lianel He has been schooling horses of their over the Warwick former glory, and Gloucester and has been found to have u alone could lower their colours natural aptitude for the sport.

"He has д fine sense of outside Wales.

balance, and has rapidly deye- loped into a first-class rider.

Fred

Trueman, Yorkshire

English club records compare to tavourably,

did not partly

NO MONEY IN FOOTBALL?

DON'T YOU BELIEVE IT

Says PETER WILSON

No money in football? Don't you believe it, for even if some of the smaller entertainment tax next season Home club are going to feel the pinch of the new there is oodles of boodle to be picked up abroad.

For instance the Argentine Football Association has offered Hibernian, the Scottish Soccer champions, £25,000, plus free passage and accommodation, to play just three matches in Buenos Aires in June, Previous negotiations with Arsenal had broken down.

own.

In fact, come off it.

t

ALL-IN SHOW

But what of the other side of good-it seems to my untutored, weight title against the one man who would be favoured to take it the coin. Four Luton players, mind patently unfair that a man captain Sid Owen, International who may have hurt himself from him-our own Randy Tur

Bernard goalkeeper

Streten, through trying too hard. should,pin. Charlie Watkins, and Billy Cook with his family, be financially were taken out of the party that penalised through no fault of his lett on an Irish tour on May 0.

Over to Camblanca, where an They were among several

enterprising promoter, finding Arst-team players who have not

that -'SUGAR' 'AGREES

・the ordinary organised re-signed because they object to

Boxing news comes from lar assault and battery was not the sliding scale of Wages which

enough for the local and wide. Frem New York: 1: telling means less money when they are

poccurred that World Middle-eash customers, decided to inject playing for the reserves.

of improvements" content that recognised Arst-weight Champion "Suga: Ray a couple team players should have £14 Robinson will meet the world which the late lamented Marquis per week whether they are in Lightheavyweigh: Champion, Jeey 'Queensberry never included in

Maxim, nt Yonke Stadiumis rules. the League side or not.

Chairman Charles Jays said that the board would stick to theis wages policy which, he claims, provides an incentive to get into the first learn and stay there.

They

with all due deferenze to Mr Jeyes, that sounds like a piece of inspired nonsense to me; for if a player should lose his place through injury--an:l a cosible substituto takes over and maked

FLUTTER IN THE GOLFING DOVECOTES

The newly legalised central sharted pudier is causing a dut- ter in the golfing dovecotes: Wielded by Hendon, professional Reg Horne, it has indeed become a deadly weapon.

won

11c the £300 first prize at. the opening tournament of the stason at Moor Park, and then sot the field a chase at the ensu- Ing tournament at Sunningdale.

Ils first round of 68 was almost entirely due to his brilliant put- ting and--it was noticeable that after his success at Moor Park a number of his rivals had turned ovor to central shafted putters,

The club cannot, of course, entirely eliminato human error, but it goes a long way towards it and certainty reduces the odds of missing from anything up to a couple of yards,

on June 23.

Robinson, who is as changeable as a traffe light, has consistently; and that he wants no part of battle with the 12t. 7lb. Maxim, to whom he would be spotting over a stone in weight,

First of all he dorsed ahias- ected snoer of scrappers into the ring without the preliminary formality of differentiating be- tween amateurs and profession als.

Then, presumably on the pin- But Robinson has always been clple of what the eye doesn't as able to listen to reason when the heart doesn't grieve over, ht there has been a chance of in-blindfolded the let and insiond creasing his huge collection et curing those old fuddy-duddy. pictures of past Presidents of the leather boxing gloves, he alrap- United States-all printed on pcd billets of wood on to their The hospital rolu.ns "haven'). Ant I have always maintained come in yel; but the net romult that he would rathe: have a was a mass suspension for six, crack at becoming A triple months of everyone concerned in world tile holder the never lost this mercy little May dance. the Welterweight Championship)

bank notes,

1als.

rather than risk his middle- -{London Express Service)

POP

fast bowler, is another sports- man who may branch out in a new sphere.

He may

become a professional coccer player,

His talents were discovered in quite a novel way. With other members of the Varichiro cricket team, Fred took part in

charity football match against Bradford the Third Division North side.

the He made a hit with Bradford, officials, and after the

game they offered him a trial.

-(London Express Strisce)

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