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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, AUGUST 11, 1917.

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From

Monday, 13th August

August to Saturday, 18th August.

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teet a real problem. Holee were had some fine holes. I remember fairway of the sixth hole, because it can be conceived and felt by complished in this manner, and upon as the means of relating ite far too straightforward and easy, especially the second, fifth, and then you have the green open, any body who takes the trouble to therefore, the clean bitting of the principal armies, and that nothing From lettera which I bave eleventh. At the first named, you with its full length awaiting the consider the extent to which the ball is only a matter of ordinary ebould be done to make one received I gather that whole had to place your drive to the run of the Lall. If you drive air is disturbed. Vardon on Tactical Problems.

care. The back swing can be so branch of the service appear more hearted efforts to remedy this de- right so as to have the fall width straight, you have booker If the green happens to slope abort that the clab is always very desirable than another, but that fect have been made since 1913, of the green on which to chip:froating you on the right, while in the same direction as that in well under control.

emphasie shoald be placed Below we give the fourth of swben last I had the pleasure of If you drove anywhere else, you the green is elevated to the which the wind is blowing, then 'I have a mongrel club which I upon the fact that upon the perits of articles on golf which visiting the United States, and bad a bage bank to carry with dignity and danger of a plates, you are indeed in clover, for innse for the stroke; it is nearly men above the consoription Harry Vardon is contributing to the courses were then a hundred your approach. The beauty of with hills and hollows guarding addition to holding the ball up to straight faced, and, for want of a age d-volved the daty of bringing the New York Evening Post:~ times more interesting than on the filth hole Isy in the testing it.

that imaginary corner in space, better name, I call it a randing the National Guard and regular Very often the fires thing to the occasion of my previous tour nature of the second shot, made My home course, Fotteridge, you will strike the incline when ap mashie. A mid-iron, how-army up to the war strength. escape. notice is that which is in 1889 1900.

with either a bratsis or an iron bas sa admirable example of the the object drops, and the com-ever, will meet the case if you "There are to be no distinctions most obvions, and a circumstanc» As a mode", I could suggest according to the wind and the dog legged bole. It is the aiz bination ought to be quite saffici- stand a trifie forward, and so, for between the regular army, the which the average golfer is spt to nothing better than Detroit, ss.length of your tee shot. This teeth. By driving well to the ent to insure the ball stopping on that matter, will an ordinary National Guard, and the forcee overlook is that nearly every hole suming tast it is now as I saw second stroke had to carry right, you face the fall width of the green.

ma-bie. You can always reduce raised by selective draft," Mr. on every course ie a proposition it three years ago. At Detroit, chaia of backers, and only a per the green, and pitch against the When the putting green is the loft by this procedure Baker told me to-day. "Every in tactics.

you have to be playing the hole fec∙ly strack ball would do it, slope. When you take the direct unguarded by bankers, and no of addressing the ball with the man who wears the uniform of I am writing now of the hole all the while; not merely slapping The eleventh, I thought, we line, the green is bidden by had more than a moderately short body just in front of it instead of the United States stands on an as it stands as problem by itself,away at it. Archie Simpson, one the best hole on the course. You gen sad trees,

approach has to be attempted, it level with it. notrammelled by any considera of the most beautiful swingers of had to drive over 150 yards off The number of golfers who, sis as well for the player to con

equal footing." [Next Saturday another Vardon tion as to the state of the match a golf club that ever Scotland long grase in a sort of miniature short holes, utterly disregard thisleider whether he shall pitch the article will appear. In it the

The possibility that the sem or medel round. Sometimes the produced, said to me when I play-valley and then face and carry queation of taction, is extraordia-ball or ran it up. Personally, I writer develops the point that no

scripted army might be different- position is at had that even the ed him in the age when he was over a water hazard with a. clackery. The average player is par- think that pitching is the asfer one will ever learn to be a good but Mr. Baker has promptly pat ly aniformed had been suggested, thinking player has to throw dis past hie prime: "The game or iron. The green sloped towards ticularly fond of a short hole. He method in most cases; certainly golfer until he practices the art aretion to the winde, and make fetches against me now." Dyou, so that there was every in- may be one of the maltitude of it is so when one is playing of carrying a diatant obstacle, and tions in the American forces. The

down every effort to make distinc ophie mind for a series ci death-troit is not past its prime; it is centire to hit this shot boldly, as long handicap men, bat he never against the slope of the green, that is why every golf course or-glory efforts. But that is not only just coming into its king- there should be with every differ faila to believe in his ability to and in most cases it is so when should be well supplied with armies, to be sure, raised by the frequently the case, and what I dom. But, as golf itself did to ent approach. It is good for the obtain a three when the pin is one is capable of playing the ball cross hazards; his personal fancy selective draft will constitute the would point cat is that, day, in happy Archie Simpson, it fetches architect to remember that, when situated no more than 150 or 160 with the mashie, so as to make it is the diagonal banker.] and day out, four golfers in every against you.

he has the grouad made for a yarde from the tee. And yet how bite the ground when it fella and five fail to realise that the hole is All the while you are hard up testing hole, he should beware of does he set about the task of stop. a problem at all.

against the proposition of con-overdoing ita qualities as a trial achieving this apparently simple But the average golfer does not They see the lig stick in the quering the difficulties. The by cramping the space on which lest? As a rule, be selects a care to risk the "cat

"machie distance and determine to make second hole, so far as I can re- the player has to approach. starting place in the middle of shot, which needs skilial ex shee line for it. Certainly we collect it, was one of the best on These are holes that occur to the toeing ground regardless of ecation, and, presented with a wast to be close to it in as few the course. You had 10 place me at random se being worthy the direction of the wind and the green which falls a little away strokes as possible, but frontal your drive to a nicety 80 as to tvpee, for American coursea. inclination of the green, and tries from him, or which, even being. Besult is not alwave the beat open up the grean; if your tee Toere were many other excellent to play straight on the pin. level, is en keen as to make the No Distinction Between Regulars mess to the erd." By driving shot went azley, you had bunkerstitbite, the numbers or natures of That is all right when the green ball hard to check after it pitches, few yards off the direct line, we to carry with a very long secon which I cannot readily reosil is level and there is no wind, but, be is justified in depending upon may render the second shot very shot. You deserved all the estiWhat I would like to urge is the in other circumstances, a moment's the rancing-up shot, so long as mech easier. Naturally, it hap-faction you enj yad if you effected desirability of their multiplication reflection will probably mean the the ground in front is suitable. pens often that there is nothing that carry, but it was much and the consequent encourage difference between a successful A mid-irou is a good club with Washington, June 13. The sident and the Secretary of better than the direct line. A simpler to put the tee ebot in the ment of 8 raes of thinking and an ozencoessful ebot. Suppose which to play this stroke, and, in Secretary of War, Mr. Baker, War that by the time the men westness of the ordinary goller is right place. That, I eubmit, golfers.

the wind is blowing from left to order to reduce the loft of its to-day took steps to discourage conscripted are called to the that invariably he bothers about as golf ebould be.

Take the case of a green which right. The geme then is to be face, one should stand a little recruiting talk which had colour, a better attitude toward- Zothing else. Be does not stop Another hole that I liked in slopes a little. If its drop is to 2in on the right hand side of the more forward than asual. That tendency to discredit the conscript service will have been instilled to consider the most favourable mensely in Americe was one at the right, you must place your teeing ground so as to hit the ia to say, the band should be a soldier. Zalons to get recruite in the minds of the drafted troops. plaes from which to play his Mayfeld. It was just a drive and drive a trifle to the right, so as to ball into the wind. Then you trifa in front of the ball daring for the regalar army and Nations! President Wilson will 10- approach in relation to the stops a chip. But how interesting have the tilt of the green on to can play the shot with far greater the address.

Guard, poaters and speakers bad morrow make a notable speech. of the green. That is precisely drive and how fascinating a chip! approach. If you drive down the power and confidence, becanee In order that neither small called on the young men of the which it is hoped will inaugurale. the matter on which he ought to It was slightly dog-legged, with middle, you will be pitching to you know that the wind will bold rises in the ground nor unseen country "not to wait to be drafts campaign of education among reflect as he elinda on the teeing a river on the right. You bad to the side of the hill instead of fap the ball when it is losing it impediments-acob se particularebat to enlist now." Some of the masses who bitherto have not ground. He should always be to place your drive precisely so against it, and that cannot fail to initial velocity.

ly strong tafts of grace-shali the soldiers engaged in recruiting believed the issues of the war thinking ahead."

as to carry over a corner of the be a precarious operation.

If you play straight down the check the run, it is desirable to had made extreme speeches in really touched their lives. By As a result of either the can-river with your chip-koly a We have many holes in Britain course from the middle of the impart a little pall to the ball order to make it appear deeirable esiterating and explaining the. ning of the links architect, or the beautiful hole. Mayfield was one which illustrate this point, as, for teeing ground, as most golfers do. That will enable it to overcome to volunteer now. rather than canses and purposes of the war,, configuration of the land, most of the most natural looking instance, the second at 8.he wind will get hold of the ball such obstacles, and it is easy be forced into sarvios later. sad by making the man who has. bolts reward the player who coures that I saw in America, Andrews, where you must place sear the finish and take it off the learn. It is a matter of turning The Secretary of War told the been selected to fight for the.

U. S. ARMY.

and Conscripts.

orinoipal force of the United States in the field at the end of a year, and if the war is prolong- ed for two years, the majority of fighting men will have been obtained by the selective draft.

War Department officials re- cognise, however, that at present there is a lack of enthaeisem among some of the young men of the country who may be drafted. The indicated claims for exemp tion bear out this impression, bat it is the opinion of the Pre

gives a moment's consideration to and I enjoyed particularly the your tee shot to the right so as to line. There is a kind of corner is the right hand ball over at the correspondent to-day that he had nation feel the compulsion of duty this question of tactics. It is a carries from the tees over the pitch your next shot against the the atmosphere at which to sin instant of impact, as though you just sent word throughout the rather than law, the Government poor hole that does not incite the brows of hille. I hope it has not slope of the green. "At the so that the wind will hold up the were turning a key in a look. service to the effect that the seleo ill rightly be giving its attention. gand golfer to such thought. For been altered much,

thirteenth on the same historic ball at the right time. One canno is as well to remember that youve draft process was to be to the prime consideration of an a long while America was remisr And Brookline, where we play course, you do best by driving so describe its exact location, since can get long way with a short regarded as the mode which the effective army-ius spirit and

far as to the left as to be on the it has no corporal existence, ha back swing when the ebot is ec national Government had decided' morale."

in the matter of making the golfed for the championships-that