BRITISH GOLF.

Press, Volume LXV, Issue 19646, 15 June 1929, Page 13

BRITISH GOLF.

NEW AMATEtR T A LEST. THE BI RDEN OF SI OW FLAI. frar-4'..iT tumi r- c rwm rwmm ■ fly Hirry Vardon. (*« Tr« Or-***-iliac:; ior > ~i ; i« ..r Lr.tr *L«kal*rf f<*» »g U.st itic t.gt.t x>t ri*i*£ uueat \m Untie; :.u r.(Lr go if ar*s tt« la <at wiger (•*■•• and »t *. ** % ic; **■*: :.»•-- a, {•**•«■ rM a* any * * - * :- - jr-w; »**a T>*jf»a :a Ijl ■ p!..>ers. act-d (• .:. 1? ♦-» . ' whn fca*» th- '."■ r'ajcp .f t>j>uiim u> UVr makitei; rbcj may nc: I* -ij* tw .n'.frn.. - .. z\\ stTT.fe lißi.ciiat* 1 /, h-• t:.■ y j r .. . & -.jra ths: the hj« tt*"n- * + . :» rar.i.tj f»rw«-4. asd :ta- ■"!•*: T'"op'r ca.dar'- -t w.IJ b» aw n. :■ . ' ' ! :ty as tl.«- *.M. "1 • i - f.--\..i a \k.tut.c £• »<i it <tiv.**r/ In :•« ►-. f ■«•-... i» v,»« *a !.'ii< f *' "« " J .ate the pwhlit .». si: ■•■•- - \1- T. J* "rrktau-, 1V.. :'».-lt. ' Mr c. \ J*', "rat, aa 4 ■<>* Mr W. >■:•: • S ■• ■* . ' tetaJ ■ ' • ■ 'i typ-S tUt a!! r ' - ,;* <|ttat)*!.M* l*',rk r.* ..< ii.i a *».ft£» t -f J.-i p. It*". <•<'*."-• M- l-'j.t ka* »B*«t .' •• , •*.' •.. jf.it ''■•mgkt f'T-wa : , - < .'.'■' ;,. ■ \ \> •i.r: l>r 1 we>itielj w.>fi :i>e ftrntat s" »>':' c. a*-; ■■r.-.ip ;«j y.ars aj* t >.ai:'.:i<us i' j .-at.ta-. f.>' f.*< us- J •■ ii ■- irn ■ .»n. let b< ►.• - • ' iptd a i. mai piay .ax pa*t ■ .•!■*..: j- * -■• ( 'IBe-tcy, an «a* • • . n a ir. ■ .» ;i, i ut aaaica w »i ("• -i.'i I*i;*. . r :r, ii« < ..ateat .•.-K-.1. i.ri -rui prufi-aaiona'*. !'■■ i-ii'i cr.>atitfaetorv f tr«B"a»i»r. " • ■ 1 .1 :.<-■.-.] -,-r. .> ,j ' .„„,, ,{ .a, yt-uugt ' bn>aii 'i-« ff j'- «m w tha* ''•.. Is 1 -.' l.' - :*. !iurd*« «t ' i'i:"i..'i :. !-:.;-! "i for 1 \i n irt-mua, v. itn ill thr aw>4itat;«ai :.'a* );cep« it ntnr prtxiarf« ita ff *: ri saita by soddca inspiratiewa. Jade :ng by fc *.gr. 9 ./ t t lt - r aaasptnaak tft :n which M' 1' rkiut w«r bis e»rww Hritish tit!. :.t I*'<-«*«irk. naay mf p'l- juanij urn:' • U'». ■" h ) n*]r>f to he the ex- v.] lira and ia« be4rkbe*e ef tl»*> e-iuntry'» [laying streagtk, ar» •• np p-i »*ed by nir«f tat'en taat isrt hai e »*:! led v.-ir <>r » ratnral ;ift» af >» ipsraiien.

Opacaattre Castum. It has been T'cmsrkfil #*«• bow that no othi r game hat cttfWea i* tV same way as golf froaa an ccraa* mf theorising and piet am -f dubious value to the prraoa wha p*» sessea—as nearly everybody <Amm~~him own individuality. Professionals teach Ue gmac •»*•*■• ingly well to tbo*c diaWaU whjrrt*. the middle-aged begiaaera; aad tae sooner our youag players leans t*> h* as natural aa Mr Perkins taa a»tt#* it will he for our ataadara mt a*ill It was taking them aa averaga *f tana* hours to think their way roaaa iSsaatwick in the amateur thaatptaaahipnot because anybody ia partieataw wan causing the delay, bat bttaist that wan the general rate of pragma* aataag the young, who surely oagfet to W quicker ia mind aad morrmtrmf tk»« the elderly. In point cf fart, it looked as taaaga Mr J. W. It. Peas*. Mr Ed«ard Mackwell, and others approaehiag or sarpa—ing sixty, rould make ap tnair astaaa a great deal quicker tha» player* )m than half their age, several «f wanat they beat. One member of th»" rhamproaaliip eoat mittee suggested that «"aeh ra**p*tHar should take round a tin ean in w»« to deposit loo** iai]>rdia»eat* friek*>4 up daring the prowls about tht patting green, so that the eoatrata asiarht b* examiaed aad weighed at taa lalai for, ia most instances, it was ditaaalt to discern that the player had f*v*4 anything beyoed a farther «tcaa* imr delaying the basin*** of striking taa ball.

Another thought that ■ bwll aaaaftf be roar when a retwitMf peried had b»« allowed for preparations, aad tkat the player should tkea be firs*) a tiawlimit of ten seconds in wkirk t» kit hi* shot. To be sore, thru- prepoaaat are whimsical and imprartieaW*-; taey ar* mentioned as an indieatioa tkat tIM protraetedaeas of ti« pTariMlflaani brought disaiay to the oHeiat as w*n as the epeetatorial mind. The Siaiala Way. Mr Pcrkias it the fort anas* pee seasor of a brain that Has ae tmttim* tion toward* tJtia profowad wwrMmm oat of golf u a scientist yroMw*. He ii the personification of aairrte. B* has been the sane ever einee to Started to play mine years age. Ha la new nearly 21, and ke has met altered mm whit since he made his first boaad-rate prominence by winning the Esgftae native ehampiomhipObvionalr Ma mi ad works ia ita asm unsophisticated way. He » not at the least degree concerned wttfc a k—ijrai and on* new ideas as t» how ke sheeM dispose his joints aad ■■■■km Ke doubt, he has thought a goe-i deal ah eat the way of hitting shots tkat ke tfkjaa, and practised thoae shots m let, Ws he has mot allowed tht tkeeriea af otker people to distract jkiat. About fif teea years ago tk#ra was a vogue of exeeativerr alow gaff ■asaaaj the Americana. It was a «aft waeek they fait to be correct. Mr Heanriefc Schmidt, one of their yosng kaaaa, who reahoed the semi-anai af a Britiak championship at St. Andrew*, was slow enough to make the flea* <ma§v I am told that ha is jnst the sease aa ever, only more so; aad that he Ue* five boors to play a nateh with Mr Jefca McHugh in a California n <-hsHßp*»» ship. There waa another (I taiak at* aaas* was Stearns) who very nearly broagks the French open amateur ebaatpionekie to a standstill. That phase ke* aww passed out of American gelf. Its mantle aad ita exhaust iag evectf aacai to be settling upon British aatanfw golf. Everybody knows that this ia a gase* that requires thought; hat a kaaaking point ia reached w!ina d#ttkrr* tion overeomee inspiration. Mr Paridae ha* merged the two quft'itiet iwte a woll-bala n«*ed whole.