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WEARING DOWN" AT GOLF:

THE PRECISE VALUE OF LONG DRIVING.

To the golfer, whether he be a sörutch player or a long handicap man, there is no more fascinating subject than long driving, remarks a writer in the irrerie WITHe will explore every possible Bekl to vbtain those elusive "few extra yards.": he would verily believe, stand on his head if he thought that hy so doing he could habitually drive another twenty yards. Long driving is a form of golfing disease that has lone mire to strike at general efficiency in the game than any. thing else. What then is the precise golf ing value of very long driving. Judges by the standards of two such men as Jack Baith and Michael Bingham the value is 7. But in the case of Mr. Roger Wether ed. Mr. Cyril Tolley, and Abe Mitchell, to cite there instances, long driving has certain definite values, not the east among them being the demoralisation of the adversary,

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I know of nothing more rahausting even paralysing, than continually to be playing the old from thirty yards in the rear, with the other fellow's drive always on the course. It is a species of "wear ing down that in the long run will de- stroy any man. no matter how 112:Fiaསྐས i42119 he may think he is to influences outside his own particular gume, Self-conscious ness, the most destructive of all human weaknesses will eat into his golfing system as surely as an acetylene flanie will eat into metal. These reflections REC based on the assumption that the enemy's drive is always down the mid dle. that his second shot is equally immaculate This is a state of perfectioni only met with in a very few men

THE BEAL TESTS,

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It certainly is not-found in either Sunith or Bingham. Both men hit the ball dis cances that create a feeling of despair in the souls of the ordinary golfer. There is n erash, a hiss like escaping stene, and the ball is seen hoding its way through the air to fall like a shot partridge a good 300 yards down the course. No, not al ways on the course; sometimes a very long. way off it. It is an occasion for wonder. ent that while these two men in parti eular cover vast and even unheard of dis tances from the tee, they fail repeatedly in the tests of score-making and "match

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SCOTTISH SPORT. RANGERS STILL CHAMPIONS.

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It has been a truly wonderful wind-up in the Scottish League Championship. Until the last week of the contest the issue was in doubt, and the struggle was us kven at the heroin as at the top of the bible. Rangers have won the Flag for the fourteenth time since the institution of the competition in 1891, in which rear the Ibrox Club and Dumbarton shared the honours. The struggle for the title this

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was unusually prolonged, mainly through the äne effort made by Airdrieon- ians, who as in the two preceding terms, finished serund. Hapes entertained indeel, that a deriding game between the rivals would be necessary, as would have happened ad Airdrieonians won their closing game and Rangers drawn, or bad Airdrieonians drawn and Rangers lost their last games. The con trary happened, however, as Rangers bent Arr United and St. Johnstone defeated Airdrieonians. the margine in መህርቲ one goal. Rangers instance being

total of accordingly finished with, 60 points against the challengers" 57. The merit of Rangers achievement is shown by the fact that only three games were lost in the 38 matches played, Air-" drieoniaus, Hamilton Academicals, und Ei- bernina alone of the 20 competitors having the distinction, of defeating the Cham- | pious. Airdrieonians in addition divided the points in the second game, and were the ouly competitor to 'escape' defeat at the The succoss of instance of Rangers. Rangers is a tribute to their sustained power and ability. They have won the League Championship for three seasons consecutively. Their inexplicable failure in the Scottish Cup competition notwith. standing, it will scarcely be disputed. that since the Armistice at least they have pro- ved themselves the most skilful and capable team in Scottish football. For two succes. sive seasons the Airdrieonians have finished as runners-up: this season there is only a margin of three points between them and Rangers, as against a deficit of nine points twelve joonths ago. After running almost. neck and neck with the Champions for alost of the season, the Airdrie men cracked up in the last week.

At the other end of the list of results, Ayr United join Thir] Lanark and go down to the Second Division. Falkirk escaped by the skin of their teeth, and Queen's Park

made a capital finish.

Dundee United will be joined By Clyde- bank in the promotion list from the Second Division."

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competed for the long-driving champion the busi on which any change in the ship he has won against all the biggest hitters and all the best golfers in the world. None approached, him either in Steain Laundry has been considered..

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Smith rather takes a pride in the fact that the right, hand is the dominating and en the sole factor in producing his colossal length. The hand, as in the classic case of Mr. John Bail. lies under the shaft, a foras of grip that makes for added power, but not always for direc- tion. It is the grip of the matura! "hooker," and Smith, when he errs in direction, as he often does. pulls the ball neross the course from right to left. Dun can has taken Smith under his wing, and the right hand is now being made to climb over the shaft rather than fall under it. This method wil very probably take off zome of Smith's length, but, on the other band, it is calculated to make for greater | accuracy of shot.

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WORLD'S BIGGEST HITTER. Let as now take the ease of Michael Jing- ham, who has become known by the sobri- quet of "Bangham" by reason of his pro- digious amiting. I would give the palm to this typical Irishman from Tipperary as the world's most powerful hitter at the golf ball. He is even more powerful than Smith. I remember Hagen being partnered with Bingham at Lewd's last year, and after a couple of drives hear- ing the American say, This is one of the boys you must turn your back on when he is driving. There was much sound common-sense in the observatios It meant that to be influenced by Bing ham's driving was to court certain diaes- ter. It also meant that man, being ar imitative animal would, by watching the effect of Bingham's shots, be sorely tempt- ed to follow suit So Hagen, the wily strategist, turned his back and played his own game-a game far beyond the capacity and the reach of Binghain.

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OPENING CRICKET MATCHES,

Rather unfavourable weather conditions marked the start of the cricket season, but on the whole the clubs on view promised well particularly in the West. The princi.

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West, 139; Poloc, 6

Gha. Academicals, 61; Clydesdale, 35 Carlton, 1v1 for seren, closed; Bruns. wick, 40,

Watsonians, 115 for, 9, closed; Selkirk, 47.

first round, * score that would have caused justifiable annoyance on the part of a very ordinary scratch mau. He drove over 300 yards at the second-hole- and was left with a simple mashic shot which he hooked to square leg. Que more instance of long driving that is not allied to anything else will suffice. At the thirteenth hole, measuring 470 yards Bingham required only light mashie for the second shot, He prompt- ly' put it in a bunker.

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length. The third hole, which is 610 In their early days. Tolley, Withered. BOLTS, NUTS, RIVETS, DOG SPIKES

yards in length, was reached with a drive of 320 yards, and then a mashie iror shot. At this same 'hole Mitchell required two full bangs win a woodra club. Bingham first became notorious as a mighty hitter at Walton Heath, wehre I saw him perform some pheno menal feats At the first hole his drive finished or the second teeing-ground-a- colossal shot, but far of the line. reached the second hole, which is crossed by a gravel pit, with a couple of jigger shote-total distance 435 yards-while he drove the eleventh, thirteenth, andy four teenth greets, measuring 237 yards, 328 yards and 353 yards respectively,

A PATHETIC CASE, It is rather pathetic that a man who can' mhake" the game look so ridiculously easy finds that it is all very elusive and so terribly difficult. At Lek the other day in the qualifying competition for the £1,200 tournament, Bingham failed most conspicuously. He took 85 for the (Continued on next Column),

and Mitchell were every bit as bad, but. the process of sowing wild oats was scarcely so profuse, nor did it last quite It may be, of course, that so long. Smith and Bingham will settle down to a more reasonable view of the science of golf, but at the moment there is bard ly any evidence of it?

Now, what is the moral of all this? It is that long driving persis of no value except as a sort of satisfaction to oneself, and of admiration in those who imagine that the be-all and end-all of golf is in hitting the bali "out of sight." Of course, it is nothing of the kind, and that is why Hagen very wisely turns his back on young men, who go in. purely for walloping. More than any thing else, golf calls for the quality of control, not merely of the ball, but of oneself. It is to be hoped that the lesson provided by the cases of Smith and Biag ham will be learned before the army of Americans, led by Hagen, swoop down upon us at Prestwick in the attempt to lift the Cup for the fourth time in Ave.

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