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THE GOLF SWING.

A NEW METHOD.

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1940.

GENERAL NEWS.

PROPHECIES OF WAR.

SOCIALIST THEORIES..

THAT WILL NOT WORK.

An Observer contributor writes Sydney, August 16-The Pre-

So great is the attraction_off :-There is something pleasantly mier of New South Wales, un-Socialiam for certain minds that revolutionary in the book entitled veiling a war memorial at Sydney, hey never pause to consider The Golf Swing." by Mr. Daryn said he wi had he could feel ways and means, and blirdly Hammand, who describes in assured that the recent war was accept all the diets of their pro- unmistakable

the the last. Europe was unsettled phets, from Karl Marx downwards. language methods and principles ennnciat owing to the nations lacking To such people, if room is left ed by Ernest Jones, the Chisle-room to expand and looking for for their political regeneration. hurst professional. Jones lost territory. Japan was also hold Mr. Reginald Tayler's book. The his right leg in the war, but this ing territory in China, and unless Soriafic fusion (Allen & Unwin: Gd. net). should he fact has in no way diminished something happened to prevent it.25. his skill or his enthusiasm for the there would be war between the wholesome corrective.

He has accomplished two countries during the next Tayler has carefully weigbed game.

There wase chance that Socialism in the balance, and many notable achievements in decade. the world of golf, which fully every nation on the shores of the found it seriously wanting. He entitle him to speak on a subject | Pacific would became embroiled, sets out to show that, if captivat

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which has perplexed millions of but whatever nation might can ing in theory, it would fail utterly THE OPENING SEASON

unhappy golfers in the two hemi-template an attack on Australia in practice, and land its devotees Spheres. Now, the basis of all would know that such an attack in an unenviable predicament. good golf is, in the cultivation of could not be lightly undertaken,

State Socialism, whether appli

a true swing In the possession because the deeds of Australiansed internally or adopted in a wide of it yon may become a scratch in Europe had shown the stuff of international sense, must be econ- golfer: without it you will of which they are made. Certainty go on fooling to the end of your days.

a

who . taugh: that consisted in

the:

omically unsound. As the author! emphasises, the east of living) would be greatly increased, and Jones bas brought ani

ang advance in the wages of the Socialist worker, while at first uncommonly penetrating mind to practised by first-class golier.

the complexion of Having bear un an uneanmanly complex The up-swing is neither a funeral subject. The pure of most of our rite mor a musicali trick. Mr.distinct gain, waul! soon prove galang ille is to be found, so we Doren Hammond declares that but an empty comfort.

The worker would find that are told, in the proper use of the it is untrue say that the per hands and fingers in performing son who makes the upswing at a socialism embodied in a very the swing. Jones is convinced snail's pace does in fact possess etcient way the philosophy of that the golf swing can be con-control of the club. The best Thoreau, sistently performed only if it is golfer is the golfer who has the happiness really conceived as one movement, that greatest control of the club and reducing one's needs to various members of the body it may well be that he is the golfest and simplest possible. including the shoulders) are nor-er who has the quickest upur Socialist citizen would thus mally anxious to get busy too swing this being an effect, not be in training to become a trans- son, and of course, a cause, ni supreme leendental philosopher worthy of Istrenuously and too

that the only way of insuring control" i nevessity, we come the bes: Concord tradition, but at their working in due cordings back to the underlying principlest he would probably find it tion with the other members of jof the work the hands and fin-difficult to realise the advantages physical frame, notably the handsgers must provide the initiatory of a citizenship which, while We gather that giving him higher wage, and the fingers, is to treat them motive power.

whether this is performed slowly restricted its purchasing power. as disastrous leaders, bar

or quickly does not really matter and required him to exercise the wholly admirable followers.

--what does matter is that the virtue of self-denial even The golfer is urged as a first

A proper movement should be executed regard to the necessaries of “life.” obtain necessity to mental parture of the process of properly. hitting a golf ball with a club) head. In this mental picture you visualize clearly swing in

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which the motive force is applied by and through the bands and particularly the fingers: let him:

THE TOP OF THE SWING.

in

RUSSIA'S EXAMPLE These conclusions are lorcibly Having got the club to the top lastrated by what has been hap of the swing we have to bring

Socialists, an appily, show no down again--on to the ball Pening in Russia, but our owD Mr. Hammond ridicules the re-disposition papfit by the j cease to raze what other physical/commendation of some disting Russian object-lesson. Instead, processes are involved: and la-1uished goliers that the plethey concentrate their energies ал imaginary on vilifying the critics of Bol- him rest assured that if his brain should aim at

person bebind him. In principle-hesis: statecraft and on loudly prompts the hands and fingers to do their work, the other members such teaching is unsound. It is

to suggest on first-hand know- of the body will probab's domisleading also to suggest that contradicting everyone who dares theirs. Do this and you are told the down-swing is begin by a pull ledge that all in the Soviet garden of the left arm. So good golfer.) that you will be well on the way he says. has anything in mind

is not lovely. to achieving that crisp. decisive other than hitting

In general, Mr. Tayler's in- the ball! method of bitting

dictment is that "Socialism is a golf ball either is the head-lifting disease destined to fall by reason of its which makes the professional's) game the despair of the onlinary be cured by nostrum, not even inherent weakness as an economic a fixed determination to keep structure in State-building; it! the head down. There certainlsmus: fall because its foundations

iamateur plager.

THE STRAIGHT-LEFT ARM. is sound common sense in the!

written.

learned

ed to the one ides of bringing the the hitting idea immovably in his we are asked to accept are fal- Everything must to subordinate statement that" If the players are unsound, because its economic theories and the premiers which jelob head on to the ball be mean-mind, he is sure to look at the lacious. It must fall, because jof a persistent movement of the ball the player only fails to look

Hit persist in, neglecting factors Hounds and fozers. The amulet at when that one dominating of vital importance, while pursa- shoulders, hips, lez, and feet idea is momentarily absent, Alling vague phantoms. the products must respond or hampered to the the famous coliers of modern imaginations le loose from! Trull made upon them.

huve In other times |worde, pun just not be conscious treatises on the turning of the the restraining leash of reason."

This argument he proceeds to of piveling, or the turning more-wrists. Bradas and, "The first! ment of the hips-these must movement must come from theupport with several buttalions of concrete examples, and he con- follow automatically. Wherra-wrists," and J. H. Tarlor lars it

teste with much, vigour the Georce Duncan is a firm believer down that the left wrist takes

Socialist assumption that labour in the straight left-arm in the up the club back." This is how the

is the source of all wealth. Even ward and downward salur Jones author of the book under review in these days of high wages, short states that the golfer "must not sums up the matten "The average hours, and slack working. Isbour think of keeping his left arm and player will doubtless suffer less if the club shaft in one line as long he thinks of his wrists that if he taught by some of its mentors Jas possible this ides shows a thinks of his forearms of het regard itself as oppressed by

merciless profit-makers. complete lack of appreciation of biceps, or his shoulders, or his burden of the song throughout is the funtions of hands and hips, or his feet; for though he is surplus value: there is not a fingarst; he must not think of nearer to the truth than he might single refrain introducing minus keeping his left arm stiff this, in be. he is further from it than he value. This term indicates the so far as it happens, is an effect need be. If the rules of golf made hot a cause). If at the top of the necessary to strap the club to position which arises where there is an expenditure upon labour swing the hands and wrists are the wrists and not to hold it in.

power without securing an equal no: underneath the shaft, the sole the hands, it would doubtless be exchange value; in other words of the clubhead is not facing upgood plan to think of using the where actol loss results from wards. and ether obvious wrists. Bat as the golfer does, as

Such case of loss are and symptoms are absent. then you a fact, take hold of the club in his the production of commodities." may know that you have failed hands and anger. the writer always have been numerous, and somewhere in the finger work. cannot for the life of him see why We now come to the grip, he should not try to hit with which is of great importance in them."

"The

these businesses it is the worker" alone who benefila.

The delights of living in a swing which depends on hand There is a delicious piece of Socialist State have oiten been and finger action. Mr. Daryn humour in the chapter on The pictured by imaginative enthusi Hammond explains al great Balance of the Body." Mr. Darynasts. How those delights are to length bow the club should be Hammond tells the story of ate provided has never, however, beld. The overlapping grip is dear friend whose golung life had been convincingly demonstrated. employed, because as most of us been one long effort to acquire "The community," as Mr Taylor, know, it gives complete unity of what it pleased him to call "e

says, "can only enjoy that which action. But we are informed that firm stance." He could, however it first produces. Thus, if the the majority of golfers entirely be guaranteed to lose his balance State is to do all these wonderful miss one of the essential features every time he essayed anything things for its citizens and of the grip, viz., that the fore-beyond a quarter awing. The at the same time the citizens are finger and thumb of each band writer goes on:"Just before the to do less work and get more pay play the dominating part. The war broke out he (the friend) it is called upon to work a miracle true finger grip is to be achieved announced confidentially that he The fact is that if the citizens are by taking bold of the shaft with bad discovered that the secret of to receive more they will have to the thumb and forefinger of the a good balance was to plant the work more. But it would be left hand, pressing them together. right foot firmly on the ground worse than useless for pro- Then the other fingers are wrap and then to stiffen the right legpagandists to employ such ao ped round the shaft. You are so as to form a buttress which

argument." warned against permitting the should support the whole body. back of the left hand to be too He made an effort to put this far over the shaft, because of the great ides into practice; the but consequent stiffening of the wrist tress proved unequal, to the reasoned. While many shibboleths and forearm which will crampstrain, and the result was that are ruthlessly riddled, new and. the swing. The thumb and fore there was one moré cripple in the engaging ideas fake their place. finger of the right hand grip the country, and one less soldier than Whether the golfer takes them or shaft in similar fashion, the there would otherwise have been. leaves them, be will be made to other fingers of both hands fal-The number of golfers was not, think for himself. It is certain his filling & necessary but ancillary however, affected. The reader of game will not suffer by perusing function. It is rather alarming this noteworthy, addition to golf-these pages with their sixty-three to be told that "the principle of ing Hterature is never left in illustrations; it is more than Lelow-back, which is dianed into state of ambiguity; every argne key that be will emerge better the ears of every beginner, is ment is soundly and logically golfer in sequence.

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