1954-05-08 — Page 17

SECOND SERIES OF GOLF ARTICLES

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MAY 8, 1954.

If Only Players Could Cut The Slice Out Of Their Game..........

By BERNARD HUNT

(Britain's 1953 Top Money Winner)

If some handicap players 1 know could cut the slice out of their game they would aide down the handicap list as if they were on an express lft.

I would any the slice is probably the commonest of all the faults in the game especially for beginners and long handicap players. The better players get spasms of it, too, but, mostly, they know how it is caused and, therefore, how to cure il

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vason why shouldn't pass on the mer el.

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faulty grip.

perfectly natured grip The back Marry a time have seen the of my left hand is straight In I With the best thing to under- handicap piser leave the lace line with the halo and so is the Although my right. the site in quo of us club wide open--especiu-palm of ib ipw died. If we well

aruderstand that by a wooden club-us he is ad-you can't see it in my plekure, Parenalogically hemy left thumb goes well down the steps alessing it. Linking

about getting the the shaft and I have a pretty ball up in tits shot and is giving good grip on the club with the

plenty of lace. The astonish-fingers of my left hand,

thing is that he doesn't It is

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simple, ing realise he is doung ik

Which is a good haluul grip. Alternatively ho haur let his thing. For the grip the tunds right hand creep too for over is the centre ping of every The shot in the game. As an as

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from one of two things First, it can be produced by bringing the chub-, nood across the fun out-

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Cali come five pact, UI sticking straight

Though with

the club-face open at ungaet.

If your slice rothes om at pen Ther J'PLE

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the shaft - probably due i

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comfortable--0 that when he troubles multiply.

will probably swings normally at the ball has the Dall

grip us the

effect of opening Travels

IN TO OUT

What I call the slicer's grip is straight down the centre of your the club-face for Jum,

commonest of those and then cuts Cleanly, line for a while

therefore, you have one of the

The right hand away at the end. If your slice to check up on this open tacs complications.

the top of the comes from the cut-across mult; business at the stance and also

Without it more likely to start down about the grip. As you can sec The lett of your time and tude from the illustration, I have the all the golf grips ! sumphat of steadily nightwards.

mak I am certain it is the best

FAULTY GRIPN The open-have fault s very, ON

Nine Laties vul army cured,

I just Lake up my club, put)

is too far over shaft probably

the the striker

ikand realising strik result is that the club is brought into the strike of the ball with the club fare wide open.

So check thuo two points club fare at

of ten 4 ounies from careiros my paling together-que each first of all---your

mmg up with the club or Irvin sule the shuft--inu Lake

Who is

is YOUR H.K. FOOTBALLER

OF

N

THE YEAR?

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EVER before has there been so much public interest in Hongkong soccer than during the season now ending. And never before has the Colony boasted so many talented players -players who have given tens of thousands of soccer "fans" clever and thrilling exhibitions of their prowess in this greatest of all local field sports.

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The China Mail has, therefore, decided to organise among the followers and supporters of local soccer Gallup Poll to determine, by popular vote,

Hongkong's Footballer of the Year.

China Mail renders are cordially invited to fill in the form below, nominating whom they regard as the Colony's outstanding footballer of the current season.

The two qualifications for nomination are:

(1) Footballing prowess.

(2) Sportsmanship on the field of play.

Nominations should be addressed to The Editor, China Mail, Wyndham Street, Hongkong. Entries will close on MONDAY, MAX 10.

The result will be announced on Saturday, May 15.

To the Editor, China Mail.

My nomination for Hongkong's Footballer of the Year, taking into regard his playing ability and his sportsmanship on the field of play is

of the

Signed

THE

WEEK-END

GAMBOLS

BUT BAYE DEAR, WE CANT

AFFORD TO

SY SHUSHY MALTIID'S LISTENING TO WHAT WE'RE SAYING AT

eLORGE, DEAR IT'S MICHAEL. WILDING, HE WANTS TO SPEAK TO YOU ON THE "PHONE",

Club.

the address and your grip at

the address. And remember

that if you let even a little fault develop in either it can bove a mighty big restait.. probably involving hours VI

searching In the rough.

The victim of the cul-across or outaide-to-in fault has more thought to put in and BRYTE work to do to get his cura, But bere again I say you must check on your grip, your dub head position, your stance-keep it square--and concentrate on try- ing to hit the proper way-from IN to OUT.

A lot of

people go wrong

right of the beginning of their swing. They tend to start their back swing by taking the club- head away from the ball on the OUTSIDE are. That, immediate-

by, gets them off line and brings them back into the ball with a cutting action. The thing to do is take the dub-head straight back from the ball. You might even try taking it very slightly inside the straight line.

FOLLOW THROUGH Having started right the next thing is to pivot properly. Make sure you have a full turn of your shoulders and when you start your down-swing see to it shoulder leads

that your

our left the movement and that you keep your right elbow well into your right

right side. It you car

and

take a club in your hand right try It you will see it docs keep you on the inside-to-out swing.

now thail

you

Grip Wrong

This is the slicer's grip. The right hand is too far over the shaft. When the club is brought into the ball the face is too often left wide open. The simplest grip la best.

Grip Correct

The vital thing is, however, to make sure your right shoulder does not come forward as swing down. If you allow that to happen you ruin the whole thing, for it means that the club head will be thrown out and you will be back to the old problem of cutting across the ball at impact.

next vital thing is to The

In every shot, too, you must properly, hit on the inside-to- follow-through with your shot maintain firm grip on the out arc, and follow through to making the dub-head go right club. That doesn't mean solzing the bole. In case there are one through towards the bale. This It like a hammer. But you must or two points In this article is an absoluto "must" for every grip it with sufficient power to which may not be completely shot in goil Don't collapse maintain

effective control when you've hit the ball; keep throughout every phase of your to your local professional and clear to you why not go along the club going through doubles your effective hitting

This is the simplest of all golf grips-and the best.

I put my palms together, one each side of the shaft and grip naturally. The back of my left hand faces the hole and so does the palm of my right.

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It shot.

So the main points aro-check chat to him about it. He'll be your grip, your stance, pivot only too glad to help.

by Barry ABB leby

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America Expects Another Olympic Triumph Through Superior Coaching

New York, May 6.

American Olympic officials realise that Russia will be a strong threat for unofficial team honours in the 1950 Olympics, but believe that superior American coaching, starting in high school and carrying through the colleges, will give the USA another triumph.

the

the

"Americo la deeper in good there will bo time trials in

to make suro high school coaching and belter October in college coaching. said athletes have stayed in good Kenneth (Tug) Wilson, Pre- condition," said Mr Wilson. sident of the United States

BIZE OF TEAMS Olympic Committee, as he, Dan Mr Bingham discussed Ferris of the Amateur Athletle size of the teams, Union and Lyman Bingham, US

"At the International Olymple, Olympic

Committee executive Committee meeting in Athene secretary, discussed the 1900 this month we will try to limit Pan-American Games to be held the size of the squadh," he said at Liexico City and the 1880 "At Helsinki in 1962 there were Melbourne Olympics.

070 athletes who

who never competed at ah. We simply must Cus down, not only due to the ex- pense but also because of the housing problems. Perhaps each country should be allowed only

"The American boys got good coaching ต they enter high school a 13 years of age and wals better as they go through Mr Wilson noted. ns also

corner on technical knowledge, but other nationa

Ho are catching up." ferring mostly to track and field

what of a

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was to

one man in each event, or some

team eliminations could be held before the Games start Melbourne."

He noted that for the USA it will cost $450 per athlete to

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Cortina Olympics at Melbourne,"

Mr Wilson said d'Ampezzo, Italy, and $1,000 per "However, we are not forgetting athlete for Melbourne. there are many good athletes in Mr Ferris, just returned from the military services, and we the Central American Games of ure getting plenty of co-opera-Mexico City, praised the sports tion

the from

services in facilities there, noting that all athletic events."

of them are of first-rate inter- The 1000 Games will be held national calibre, and said that

American athletes from November 22 to December North

wil B. on awkward time for Ameri- have to get to Mexico City can college athletes. The sea- week early to get used to son in America onds in June, altitude.-Urated Press. and the new college term starta in September.

"We will select our team in June, as usual, and perhaps

TRABERT EMBARKS ON TENNIS CAREER

New York, May 6. Tony Trabert, looking ahead to a rich professional tour in 1955, plans to quit college soon, devote all of 1954 to amateur tennis

and, obviously, win all the titles he can. It is entirely possible that Trabert's pro- gramme could bring the Davis Cup back to America.

Most Americna experts think that Trabert, at his best, is the beat amateur in the world better than Lewis Houd of Aus- tralia. No one knows yet jual how good Trabert can be, be- cause he was just starting on his big-time career when he WEE taken into the United States Navy for a two-year tour of

duty

Ho caure out of the Navy last Spring, too late to be in form for Wimbledon, then won the U.S. singles championship carly in September In Forest Hills. In the Davis

Cup Challenge Round in Australia Traberi trounced Ken Rosewall in the singles, shared with Vic Seixas the American victory in doubles, and lost to Hood in the pay-off singles ma

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match.

However, given a full year of concentration on international vennis, Trabert night improve to the point where he would be to Jack Warthy Kramer, and Frank Sodgman Es the "big man" of tennis singles,

"I'm

married man with responsibilities," Traberi

said. have think of the future." It was obvious what he is think- ing, He cannot attend the University of Cincinnati and do justice either to his studies or tennis.

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to

To play in the Challenge Round again he must either give two months of school in November and December, or get as much school as possible, fox- get bis tennis training in the Autumn-Winter weather at Cin- cinnati, and then hurry to Aus- tralia at the last minute and try to réguin him form,

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WIN WIMBLEDON

So, If he quits school

and

turns wholly to tennis, he may

win

at Wimbledon, Forest Hills and oven in the Davis Cup in

1954. If so, the 1955 Kramer professional tour would

Krab aim to play with Pancho Gon-

zales, Bedgman and Pancho Bexture, and Trabert would mako anywhere from $50,000 to $100,000.

Of course, it Trabert is licked at Wimbledon, at Farest Hills and at various other tourna ments, he can change his mind and re-enter college in Septem- ber to inith his business course. Trabert Indicated that he has discussed the whole problem with his college

president.

The collage president has agreed

that in this case it may

be wise to quit school now and return a few years later to com- plote his work for a degree. Trabert in only 24 and cus afford to wait a few yours ir he is making - bla expecially

a profesional player thome

I would be a big boost to Amerions Davia Cup hope it Traberk down quit school for bonis. The United States Lawn Tools Association then would have only one problem--find the best doubles partner for Traberi Jecalled Prese

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