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[ALL RIORTE K5822v20,] GOLF FOR EVERYBODY.

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THE WEAPONS OF WAR,

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of wood behind the spot where the ball comes in contact: but the face should be straight, not balged.

THE MODERN CLUB.

in use. According to Androw Lang, wooden halts were dist used; then feather balls had a long run in the game. Principst "Pater- son, late of Bt. Andrew's, now in New York,

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The modern hond is much thicker; that is, the introduced the frat guttis there in 1846, mado GENERAL DRAPEES, HIGH-CLASS DRESSMAKERS, AND face la much deeper. Of course, for effective out of the packing of a Vishnu idol sent home work the cubic contents of the head must not from Singapore by his mississary brother be too small; if the length is shortened, the Then Mr. Tom Peter made a ball with gutta- DR. J.. G. MaFHERSON.

depth must be increased to ensure this. On in parcha outside, and lead inside, a terrible Though not exactly a "war" a real golf land courses, where the green is softer than onslaughterer of golf clubs. And now we have the indiart.bber. match has in it a the element of personal the sen-coast, this has been made necessary for American Haskell, made up in a marvellous warfare, One does not like to be beaten in the playing through the green. Bat the craze for a way with gutta-perolia sod single; all of one's powers are brought to boarberculean drive off the tes is morant the bottomThere has been a marked improvement in the apon the contest for victory.

of the alteration. With the old thin-faced ordinary gatta-percha ball during these last Hugh, very little sand, if any, was used on the fifty years-this has had much to do with more teeing ground. Accuracy of aim with the thin generally succesefal scoring. Meanwhile 180 a faced club from the toeing-grennd was of imolean 27 gutta ball, and wait for a time till the mense advantage in playing the second-the Haskell is fully tasted. I saw much of both important shot of the bole. The driver was Hoylake; but I have not room here for giving always used for this if there was sufficient dis my opinion on what I then saw.

Next Week: tance, unless the ball was lying very bad. The thin-face caught the ball below the centre, aud

"HIP CONTESTS," BY H. H. HILTON. made it rise gracefully, as no other club could "Tuz FORTUNES OF WAR IN CHAMPION- effect. Now, all the glory is in an enormous drive from the tee with the broad-faced club. One cannot get below the ball so easily; and the second shot is sometimes sacrificed.

Accordingly the "weapons of war" require to be very carefully seen to. The player must be master of each; and the tower ho has the more likelihood is there that he will be able to use each to the best advantage when required. I have seen a professional-Willie Park-with two caddies-one the advising caddie 'according to the Golf Rules, with the ironmonger's stop of irons together with a few wooden ones; the other, with a surplus stook, in case of breakages during the round, or for some left-banded mOVE- ment in an emergency. But I cannot stand such extravagance in the variety of weapons. A few good ones well known are worth two bagfuls of differentiated dummies.

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STYLE OF PLAY TO BE CONSIDERED. Of course, no fixed rale can be laid down ag to the best set of clubs and balls which a golfer should procure. Style has a marked power in player; and the two players in the final for the Amateur Championship at Hoylake in May bad not a very prepossesing style, for they had been well up in years before they handled a club. Only their patting was most deadly on these harricate days; this may be attributed to their sk!!! as excellent billiard players. Yet it is well to cultivate a good style, and clubs should be suited to that style.

There are golfers "agile" and golfers “non- agile"; and each requires his own kind of weapons. An elastis or agile player, who can put his whole body into the stroke, must necessarily choow a comparatively stiff driver; whereas a sluggish, non-agile player, whose shoulders are not fiozible, requires a supple Blafiud club. As the tailor makes the clothes to suit the man, the alah-maker should make the clubs ütted for the style of the golfer.

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The length of the driver depends upon the ployer's style-not upon the Leight of the wan only. Roughly speaking, in general practice, if the head of the club, be placed on the ground af, his feet, the end of the handle sheaid reach- the pit of the stomach. A tall span generally prefers an upright club a short man a fiat and comparatively longer club. An necasional kaor mous swipe may be made when the balance can be hit in the swing; but in general, one fails in accuracy when quick nerve-power is intro. E undersigned, having been appointed duced; and without that quick nerve-powerT AGENTS for the above Company, are there is a dating softness and coussqueat short-prepared to accept RISKS Current Rab

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One thing that beginners should carefully observe, never to man the club which, has the spring in his hands: Many have ruined their style trying to checkmate this difBoulty. If the spring is felt anywhere in the upper half of the shaft the stroke is uncertain. Be careful, thon, in having the spring gradually increasing from the contre to the whipping. As the driver is really the most important club in the set, III. have dwelt most on it. The best players are those who commenced and played for years at school with only a driver and a clock.7

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In choosing the weapons of war "fancy," top, goes a long way, The youth enamoured of his watch, has the best that ever was; tho careful man considers that there is no razor en earth like his own; and a spoony husband is said to make the same remark shout his wife-- for a time. The golfer, too, must consider his clah the very best before he can be really and continuously successful with it. Faney goes much farther than we would think. "That's pictur," the professional will say of his favourite, though in another's eyes it may be very common- Pince. Fet the selection makes all the difference. Allan Robertson, the greatest of golfers, is. the "fifties" had a crase for this “fancying " of golf clubs. About nine o'clock-two hours before the golfers of the "Parlotte" (18 the old Clubhouse was called) woaid appear at the £1st band, and easily manipulated by the finger; pared to ACCEPT RISKS against FIRE

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The next important wooden club to the driver was the wooden patter. For many years this Is been laid aside by players: but Braid's success last year at Muirfield, as open cham the adopted use of this was the secret of that pion, gare the world sufficient evidence that success. I am glad to see that many very disHE Undersigned AGENTS of the above T Company are prepared to ACCEPT tinguished players are now using the aluminin

RISKS against FIRE af Current Entes.

W. G. HUMPHREYS C00. patter of the shape of the old wooden putter.

Hongkong, 3rd August, 1903. Of course, I prefer wood, but shape is what I hold to be essential. The wooden putter should be upright, perfectly stiff in the shaft, and ver. tical in the whole face. The hoad must be a little heavier thau that of the driver, but it should feel "swoot" or wall-balanced in the

hole for the forenoon's round, Allan would be

for the holing of sine patts requires the nice, soon sidling down the walk from his house to

the palm of the hand. The wooden putter Hagh Philp's shop. Hugh would be at the delicate touch of the fingers, and by no means can be dispensed with for short patte especial- door or ou the green near, with his long spron on, as well as his spectacles, busy scraping a club head with an iron scraper (a rectangularly on a keen green, where one can give a little

more "paother" to the shot with the sleek, pisca of thin steel, about four inches by two),

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and thereafter rubbing it gently with verse, In the "sixties" the mid-spoon was conrepared to ACCEPT EISKS against- FIRE and the fine sandpaper, to put on the finish-sidered a most powerful approach club. I am CHEONG LEE & CO., Forniture Store, ing polish. Hagh would put a couple of hours' glad to see Mr. Hilos using an aluminium a head after Jamie Wilson, his. imitation of this (by Mr. Mills, of 'Sunderland) Established over 20 years. Importers and work on

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without glue to a spare shaft to calculate the jerking as with a cleek. effect. If it pleased his fancy, it was glued on

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case, some of the head would require to be It oan be used for a fue skimming wrist rasped out; for Allan played with very light approach with deadly accuracy. The light clubs. No such extra trouble is taken with a iron is now indispensable for short approaches, driver now, for clubs are thrown into the lofting bunkers, and stymies. But the shaft. market in thousands for one long ago.

AN OLD-TIME DRIVER. 'There are, however, some general principles to which it may be considered of importance to attend in the selection of the weapons of war." I once saw in McEwan's, of Bruntsfield, Edin- burgh, a fine specimen of the old style driver. It belonged to the Duke of York (afterwards James II. of England), who was a keen golfer on the links of Leith. That old clad, whick did faithful service more than two canturies ago, was tande by one Andrews Dickson. It has the horn and load in the same parts of the head, and is "skared" similarly. The shaft is made of split-web-not sawn, as is generally the case. Old, slowly growing asb, split according to the esed of the wood, forms a very lasting handle. It has not the sharpness of spring possessed by the modern hickory; but it is far more durable, and cas etand a jerk better. With pleasure do I now book on my split-ash Hugh, which I used to handle with power more than thirty years ago. Dickson's shaft was well executed in the tapering, stiff in the top of the shaft, and gradually suppling to the "whip-

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there was a considerable book on the face at the nose. The King's club-head was made of apple tree, for a long time the favourite wood for that part. Now, well-seasoned beech is generally preferred for the driver. This old clut, on the whole, is for before the scoplo gaud au strang," which non-agile golfers prefer.

Now we have a shorter head, or a balger. Dr. Argyll Robertson zeminded me at Muir. fleld last years, on the occasion of the Open Championship, that. I was the first to play with a shorter head than the classical Hugh's I now see that the shorter head, İLEM more power. I with broader top, don't like the bulger; and it seems now CONNAUGHT HOTEL, Booms 4 and 5, to have gone out of no among the best players. There is more elasticity in the besth

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a good player accidentally gets into a banker, he uses a niblick iron; but sometimes only once or twies in a whole round, so I do not class it as an absolutely necessary weapon.

A good light iron for delicate work was a lifetime's fancy; you dare not break the well-poised and time-asal bond of the shaft by undue jerking: for you cannot easily get two perfect handles for one iron with the same balance and touch. It would fakes years to get the new shaft into the same "sett" as the old one, and no artificial "bend“ can equal what it takes years to form.

These formed my stock in my heat days. Occasionally a wonden oiblick could be very successfully used when the ball was in u doop cap But driver, mid-spoon, oleok, iron, and wooden patter formed the essentials.

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