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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXIX, Issue LXIX, 22 May 1915, Page 6

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A considerable amount of interest is being: jfcaken in competitions and in ladder matches. Several of the latter have been played and are creating keen competition for improvements in position on the ladder.

The professional's time has filled up pretty well, and the result should be, if members will practise, an all-round improvement dn play. on the play of some of the leading players in England, a correspondent to an exchange says of Vardon and Braid, who were recently partnered in" an exhibition match in aid of reKef funds: "I do not remember Vardon and Braid having played 'together in a foursome until Saturday; certainly one would not have been anxious to back any pair to beat them in such a match during their many prosperous periods in the past decade. They are an unusually interesting side, too, in the. fact that they produce equally brilliant effects in deoidedly dissimiliar ways. No player makes such obvious use of his strength or gives his body such a stern wrench ht the hips during the up swing as Braid. One watches him with the. conviction that he has trained his waist to stand the most violent twist that he can administer to it. And no player conceals the employment of his physical power with the same completeness as Vardon, or turns his body with the same ease and quietude. It is really ver.y wonderful ,that the one should be as long a -driver as the other; the inexpert, person who saw the two men driving without watching where their shots finished would stake his life that Braid could hit the ball considerably the farther. Another interesting point of comparison is that, whereas vardon often plays with his brassie a shot in which he makes the ball rise astonishingly quickly as though he had an emphatic loft on the club, and drop plumb on the green, Braid never executes this stroke. At least, I do not remember having seen him play it. Presumably the reason is that he is always forward when he hits, so that lie secures a low-flyicg shot with a lot of backspin—and again the desired effect." «