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THE LONG-DRIVING CHAMPION. SMITH AND HIS METHODS.

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TO THE POLE BY AIR.

CAPTAIN AMUNDSEN'S

ARRANGEMENTS.

In conversation, at Copenhagen last mouth both Captain Roald Amundsen the Norwegian airman, and M. Rijser Larsen stated that the light to the Poic Mitchell has won a

won a driving competition has now been insily uscided on. Captain at San Antonio, Texas" with an average Amundsen, has made contracts with the drive of 307 wards, the longest of his

firm manufacturing Dornier seaplanes three, ahots censuring 319 yards. This near Pisa for the construction of two

Ket accomplished in

Limited, seaplanes and with Rolls

furnish the engines. seaplanes were shipped from Leghorn early in March to arrive at Tromso at the be ginning of April, when also the members of the expedition were to arrive there.

casily beats Driving Competition to

the British which takes place durin the Open Cham pronship week. It is rather curious of the fact that Mitchell, who is oue world's longest drivers, has never won the competition in this country, and yet,

if there were any wagering on the event, Besides the six "persons who will form he would start joint favourite. On the the crews of the seaplanes, the expedi three occasions that the competition has tion will consist of M. Schulte Frohliade, been held, it has been won by aa amateur the manager of the aeroplane company, -twice hyn.

Wetbered. So it and one by Mr. under whose aupervision the machines

FTCH

King's

the

meteologists, who is an artisan gol will be put together. two Ier the Canselute Club, Ashdown a doctor, and some mechanics from the with the crew Forest, has recently joiced the profession-Rolls Royce firm, together

Tromso and under the al ranks, and

guidance of Dup of the mother ship Frum. can. at Wentworth Park, there is every he expedition will proceed to

new recruit to golf be- Bay, Spitsbergen, from which place prospect of coming a player of repute. Oddly en-light will be made at the end of May. ough. Smith and Mitchell were trained The seaplanes will be piloted by Captain in the same golfing school at Forest Row. Amundsen and Mr. Elmsworth, an Ameri but neither has seen much of the other, can; The machines can carry petrol

bad 1,800 a distance of more than miles. The and they have never played together.

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in two respecta do their methods distance from Spitsbergen to the Pole the bal: correspond. Both hit is about 800 miles, and the fight is ex- extraordinarily hard; in fact, in the on pected to take seven hours. The expedi tion will remain 12 hours at the Pole. looker

it seems very much like "pressing,' a thing we are told that we must never just sufficient time to make the necessary

Apparently pressing" has different abservations. meanings when applied to different peo-

of

Lo.

Postes

When Ray, Mitchell, Smith

ith, MT

and Mr. Wethered lash out they are only calling upon their reserve of power; when the ordinary man tries to get a few extra yarda he is called a fool And the description is for his pains. generally correct, because he is almost sure to make a mess of it.

WHITCOMBE'S ADVICE.

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SIBERIAN GOLD QUEST. GHASTLY STORY OF FAMINE AND CANNIBALISM.

A ghastly story of the adventures and sufferings of victims of the gold lever in. As On the subject of "pressing," Ernest the Yakutsk Province, of Siberia is Whitcombe has some sensible advice to rea in the Amourakuya Pravda. offer. He says that owing to the fact already reported, the discovery of un- rich gold deposits at Tommot, og that certain men hit the ball such colossal distances, the geling world has been the Hiver Aldar, has completely turned the heads of the inhabitants of Siberia. drugged into the belief that little else For more than a year a stream of in counts so long as the ball is habitually sending diggers has poured towards the transported to the neighbourhood of the 300 yards inark.

It is a subtle form of new El Dorado, from every side. poison, which inevitably destroys The remnant of one party which strug victim The vast majority of golfers, gled through to Tommot stated that, like

lack of the reason

many other. gold-seekers, they and their principally by Tof the necessary strength, and also comrades lost their way in the jungle to and wandered about till they had ex because they are not in a position devote lifetime to the hitting of a golf bausted all their supplies of food. They

their

boots. ball, will never drive as far as Mitchell." even ate the tops of

2 moment when the whole Whitcombe says there is a limit to the Then came distance which the average uns mit, amine

can party appeared doomed to death from The desperate situation was Fach, End, having discovered that he should stick to "He may, without discussed in all its aspects, and after Seriously attempting it, pass the limit, mang hesitations it was ucided to con- but that is all

because he sume the bodies of those of the party to the will know that the additional yards base, who died of sickness, or exhaustion. The

but

it.

golfrein lies the secret of

In his own

+

high

been obtained mos by ext

extra exertion. Jgs and arms of a dead Chinaman were by sweeter and cleaner hitting of the cut off, boiled, and devoured. ball. ful sure he often drives 230 yards, sometimes farther, but the limit he sets himself is. 910 yards,

Naturally, circumstances or casionally, arise when he has to call

power," and in these his "reserve of power," A stances he takes particular care to swing

extra effort anti slower and to delay the very last second before impact.

in

a can-

Finally, however, all the available human, Hesh had been consumed, and no further ember of the party had died. By this time the adventurers had. al- ainst accustomed themselves to nibal diet, and apparently no longer recoiled from the thought of killing oce another for food. It was decided to cast lots as to who should die

to save rest from starvation.

The lot fell on The one other point of agreement be a man who was accompanied by two

their By tween the driving styles of Mitchell and son

entreaties the young men Smith

concerns somewhat unusual ac persuaded the wanderers to wait yet one tion of the right hand at the top of the

The shaft is

woce dar before their father was sacrí Allowed to

This delay saved the life of the back swing drop into the web formed by the thumb pre-destiued victim. Before the fatal and the first inger, and in Mitchell's case, term had expired a dead borse was co- the camera shows the finger pointing countered, and on the flesh of this anim the ai the party kept themselves alive till is

loose in the

on

straight to the heavens, l, the they succeeded in reaching Tommot.

downward

swing position shaft, hitherto

web, bring firing

caught by the thumb

Duncan

of

and Bnge and pressure of a vier-like character exercised for the

on-coming This is what is known, as the stid

form of hold which ing grip.

highly dangerous, 7*beds,vs the probability in the natural anxiety to regain possession of the club of the shaft being seized in the wrong position and at the wrong moment. However Mitchell and Smith seem to practise the Palide" without coming to much warm,

HOP, HOP, HOP." COMMONS TELEPHONE JOKE..

In the House of Commons. last month, Sir M. Brittdin (U.. Acton) asked under whose instructions the reiteration of the numerals in certain cases in telephone; calls was introduced, and for what reason. Viscount Wolmer (Assistant Postmaster- Leneral): The present method of pass- When Smith, then a gardener, went to ing telephone calls was introduced un-

immediate pre Sandwich three years ago to try his luck der the authority of my imm

THE UNKNOWN.

in the long driving "championship" he creessor and on the recommendation of was absolutely unknown. He with his technical advisers for the purpose of two counting shots measuring 1 gads helping the telephonists to locate more and 200 yards respectively. When next quickly the number on the switchboard he competed, at Hoylake last year, he and to minimise the danger of wrong won again, with three counting shots, connections.

measuring 236, 247 and 241 yards re- Sir H. Brittain; Does the hon. mem- spectively. In a dimenft wind he was ber not think it an unnecessary change? one of only about a dozen men out of Is it not easier to say "Oae-o-o-six-Hop" a hundred who kept all four shots within instead of "One-double e-six-Hop?"

a delimited fairway, fitty yards wide ord Wolmer: What the hon. member Evidently Smith possess the two

ties that matter, it driving great lugth should say is op one-c-o-sis. (Loud and accuracy. How do be it? In laughter.)

a taik I had with Smith at Branshott Sir H. Brittain rose to put a further he was quite empat in the by the laughter and cries, "Hop, Hop, emphatic that the question, but his observation was drowned if any, was to

"secret""

right band. hit as hard as I possibly

can with the right, leaving the left hand

to act as a delict with the ac-]

This is ri

Hop.

cepteil caching that the left hand (re- ally the back

the hitting. of it) should

with the right acting as a

all ignores and flouts

Like most people bis

al

Port. Smith!

band and arm are the more powerful, and he sees no adequate reason why should sub-

he jugate them to the weaker members.

Smith adopts the overlapping grip but

JUDGE AND FATHER OF: 12

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A man owing £80 and appearing Judgment summons at Shoreditch County. Court made an offer that Judge Cluer declared was

preposterous" Debtor: I've twelve in family. Judge Cluar: "Then you ought not to have a family of twelve.

Debtor: T's my misfortune.

it is not quite the same pr that employed Judge Cluer It's not misfortune.

by

the recognised masters In their case Don't appeal to me on these grounds.

the shaft is held in the joints of the fingers It's an injury to the country for a man with the palms wrapped lightly round the in your circumstances to have such a

handle Smith reverses the process, for

for family.

ht grips the club in the palms especially m

with the right hand, which is under

the shaft. This was the method of 1 Mr.

John Ball, the only difference being that This is one of the chief characteristics of

MERNET.

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A BODY THRUST.

he did not overlap. Smith combines the Kirkwood's style; as the clubhead is old and the new in rather an exceptional whipped round, the right side of the body. In neither is seen to give a thrust. Smith's

nor Kirkwood's case is there the If the "secret" of his long driving slightest sign of the left leg giving way stopped there, am afraid there would under the pressure; rather does, it stiffen

Bmita's future! not be much in it; in fact, it would sound and act as a fulceum. very commonplace. But Smith calls and will be watched with interent, because other part of his body to his aid-the right man who can drive soch vaxt distances thigh. Immediately, ou impact between should make the game much easier for clubhead and ball Smith gives a quick for himself. Against the moderate driver. real and also a moral Smith starts with ward thrust of the thigh, thus, az he giving additional momentum to the shot. advantage. Ja two years' time we shall

know how he has used them. (Continued at foot of next Column.)

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