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GOLF AND GOLFERS,

PROBLEM OF STANDARDISING THE BALL

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS. FELDAY. DECEMBER 80TH, 1910.

ed with ware ben ont open by the committee to so that it was all right-a prosedure which would be too ridiculous, but would still be the only one to ensure that the proper and legalised game was balug played- and it was found to be all wymag the player would have to be disqualif od for a fault for which most likely he was in no way responsible.

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Mr. Henry Leach, writing in The Standard, When the professionals had their Anal tourna

-And agaiti, if a player starts with a proper ment of the season, nearly two mouths ago. there was much talk about the possibilities of ball and inithos with one, is an official to follow standardising the rabber-cored ball, aui Willie biz round the course to see that he plays all the holes with that and with no other? Ideas Park made a

n-suggestion to the effect that ne ball that did not flost in water should be allowed ch as these only indicate the difficulties of the for play, not so much, presumably, because it problem, and the one conclusion to be arrived would not float, as that its failing to do so indist is that the only way to standarise is for calod

than had been enstomary with that golfers are to play with-and this also is longer

balls. The suggestion did not impracticable--or that they are to give licences receive much encontagement from players gener- to manufacturers who guarantos in some very ally or from the arities. We have been having special way that they will only take the right various discussions upon standardising the bathing according to the specification supplied to off and on for the past four or five years; but them. Even if this were done,

they have been brief and vague, for willl sighing for greater length than the players generally such standardia tim has seomted to be utterly offisial ball yielded them; and then there would impracticable, and all the time there has bonn be manufacturers, as at present, coming out a feeling that we were getting near to the end with something to do it with, and golfers would of the process of perfecting this ball, and that agree between themselves that in their watches whon fuality was rouched in this respect, and they would use the pirate balls. This sug 20 no more balls were made that would travel for- tion is at the base of the liftealties ther than all their predecessors, there would be tion; that the average golfer has no regard for an end to all-grumbling and four in the waiter. the authority-and there is no apparent reason But our season is seated to put a few more at present why he should have. He know a

which is rolf game of yards on to the ball.

is the kind of thing to most likes to play, issed be in going to play that game, What will be the onteams of the situation it is impossibio at the present time to say, thing that is clear is that if matters are allowed To drift the game will soon be brought to a state of obacs, and another is that we have no antho rity that is property capable of dealing with the

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Something in the that will carry out a thorough investigation of the whole usiness from beginning to end and capablo make the best suggestions of which it is after doing so is urgently necessary, and thin commission should embace not only such as the championship authorities and some of the leading golfing dignitaries of St. Andrews, but about what was going on in curtain parts of the golfing country I communicated with a certain fessional players and manufacturore. It is only of clubs, leading pro public. amateur player of the very highest standing, who had been a witness to it, mad he auswared by combined and thorough investigation of me thus, 1 8 a professional carry 220 this kind that any good result can be schiored Fords against a wind. We paced it, and there and thesarious danger which is threatened avert- was a wall to carry. With the same wind a 260 ul. Mr. John Liow and the low who wore with Fards

carry was done by him Another pre-him must feel her thoroughly their attitude had fessional (named) did 250 and 280 yards carries since been justified when, on the first introduc on to's green over before driven, at the tion of the rabber ball, they fought strenuonaly

by bili flanked

against it. But it top of a steep Was a fine carry. I did a 180 yards carry grits is this connection, and apart tom that it with wid iron, playing spine a wind that is still the fact that the rabber ball has made. was strong enough to stop the ball ringing the game pleasenter for the majority to play; more than from five to ton yurds, although the and has most certainly had much to do with the ground walked ony. The hole is on a cliff vast increase in the popularity of golf in recent edge, and it is all carry my midieo is wat times. These who consider themselves to be at much lofted, but it is not quite a driving iron the head of golf are following al this time s Now we may accept this statement as boing comfortable policy of Laisser faire. This will quito reliable, and, doing so, we must at onenos do. The danger is serious and imminent. Ace that a must serious state of affairs has

the

Rerum,

Thin

arisen. If these things had happened during competition Eason there would have been

in the pataro of a pauie; as it is,- something

is time to think the waiter over quietly there before the bug naing of next season. It is quite clear that this ball and the others that will soon be made like it will apart all the holes on all the courses and make the bankering wrong again. It dues, in fact, appear that it will cause a disloestion of the game grouter than anything we have known since the rubber ball first came in, and once more orory bly will begin to say that something must be done," but what it is that should be, or can is more than anybody can say. Elementary thoughts, of course, fara nyon the subject standardisation; but what is it that is going to be standardised? A little while rince some- body said that it would be a good thing to make a now rule that if the rubber ball were played with ou ordinary occasions the gutty Aliould be used in championships and all other com- petitions and matches of the first importance." A SEVERN HANDICAP..

of

That, however,

over, would not get us out of our Ricnities. The great majority of the com- petitors for the amateur choupionship in those lays are man who have bona trained up in their golf with the rubber cored bill, and they would revot against any insistones that the other ope How should be used in the championships,

the rule could they revolt it might be asked,

clubs. Well, I were made by the governing doubt if such a rule would be reade by this gay- erning clubs, who ar sasay in number, and in several cases cara loss for the championship than did no one for the game in general; but if they who is acquainted with a certain under-current of fealing that exists among the general ra aud üle of competitors would ask the question as to how they might revolt. It would be clearly unsatisfactory in every sonsa for men to ho play. with one kind of ball nearly all ing the gand and then be naked to play with the year. something entirely different and mere dificult to manage in the championship. Then, if any. body thinks that the making of such a rule would tead to finduce competitors and aspiring competitors to play with the gutty always, and ut the same time exercise by example in is finenes upon the ordinary players to the same end, they oze surely mistaken. Ther are two fusters of overwhelming importance in this consideration, one being the constant desire of the player to If as far as it is posible to hit a hall with a golf club the learning for len th, nad more length-ad the other being that the rubber

is va je vastly more pleasant to play with. These considerations pat the possibility of a partial or general raversion to the galty ball which seeing to be the only possibility in standardien. tion entirely out of the question, unles by a aupreme effect of authority, a general edici

hit

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It must be so were issned.

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