THE PERFECT GOLFER

Northern Advocate, 13 June 1931, Page 12

THE PERFECT GOLFER

Leo Diegel has drawn a picture of a perfect golfer and declares he would like to be caddy for him. He would have Bobby Jones play the wood shots and Tommy Armour the irons and then Jones would step in again and do the putting. This perfect golfer would have the temperament of Horton Smith and the generalship of Walter Hagen, The irrepressible Leo, a great golfer in his owji right, then talked of great golfers in all departments of the game. Taking the drive first, he nominated Bobby Jones and Walter Hagen as his' ideal drivers. There are longer hitters, he said, but they arc all over the cohrse.

“Few, very few, outdrive Bobby,” said Leo.

“And have you noticed this winter that Hagen out-hit the men he played with ? ”

Again, in brassie play, Leo named Jones first, but for second place he turned to Harold Samson, California pro., who eliminated him in the last P.G.A. Championship when he was the defending title holder In experts with the spoon he ranked Bill Mehlorn, Jones, and Frank Walsh in that order.

For the long irons the decision went to Armour first and Willie MacFarlane second and in play with the ..medium irons Armour and George Von Elm.

Hagen was named in a class by himself with the short irons, and Gene Sarazen and Johnny Farrell won the nod -with the niblick. He suggested Horton Smfth and Jones as the leading chip shot players and took the same two players in reverse order as putters. “In seventy-two holes of play Jones will out-putt any golfer in the world by six strokes,” said Diegel. “Horton runs him a close second.”

“Macdonald Smith first,’’ was the reply, when he was asked tc name the player most adept at getting out of bunkers, “then Hagen, Farrell, and Jones in that order.”

Asked to name the best player in the wind, he countered by asking that that question be made more definite.

“It depends on which way the wind is blowing,” he said. “For iron shots to the green with a following wind, I select Mae Smith, “Tony Manero is my choice for irons into a loft to right, or slice wind.

Mohlhorn is best in a right to left or hook, wind. I think Mehlhorn' is the best right to left player in America, so it stands to reason a. hook ■\yind is a set-up for him,”

A writer in London “Daily- Mail” says: “I hear that Dr. R. H. Bettington, the old Oxford and Middlesex cricketer, is now confining his sporting activities to golf. Always a more than useful player, he writes to a friend that he considers he hijs improved his game a lot since his return to Australia. His last four ' rounds on a 78-bogey course were 68, 72, 70, 72. Betting is one of those rare people to whom all ball games ('ome easily-. He could have won the highest honours at cricket, lie got his Ru,yby Blue as well as a golf halfblue, and in addition lie was good at billiai’tb, swimming, and lawn tennis.”