TRUTHS OF GOLF

Northern Advocate, 29 October 1932, Page 12

TRUTHS OF GOLF

ELIXIR FOR INFIRM. AMAZING RECOVERIES. Golfers claim that their game is an elixir for the infirm, a rest, cure for the overworked, and a tonic for the exhausted. There must bo some truth in this (remarks a writer in the London “Daily Mail”). I. have just been talking to Harry Twine, the professional at Ashford Manor Club, Middlesex, who a year ago suffered such a severe motor-cycle accident that his life was almost, despaired of. Twine had fractures to both legs and the bones in his left hand were badly smashed, but be has made such a recovery that during the past Jive weeks ho has boon playing golf and has regained almost normal use of his limbs.

. “When I began to play again,” he said, “my loft knee was quite still’, but now I can use it properly. The only trouble I have in golfing is caused by my left hand. .1 cannot hang on to the club at the top of the swing, and have therefore been compelled to shorten my swing. “However, that does not seem to have made much difference, for . 1 have had a score of 71 here, where the scratch score is 74.”

Twine's amazing recovery recalls to mind the even'more remarkable return to the links of the famous Irish international golfer, J. I). Mac Cormack, now a Ministry of Health Official in Dublin. During the war ho was shot through the spine and lay on his back for throe years.

In his first championship he played golf in a steel jacket, and though naturally still handicapped by his wounds, few of his friends would guess that this golfer, who is ranked high in the list of British players, was almost shot to pieces.

There have been one-armed and onelegged golfers of considerable ability. Outstanding among them is Yves Boteazou, a French professional, who qualified for the British Open, playing only with his right arm.

The long-distance walking championship of Essex was won recently by one D. Gum, whose brother, J. W. Gum, finished third. The stcond man must have found' the going verv stickv.

Henri Cochet, after his defeat by Ellsworth Vines in the United States tennis final, stated that never before in his years of experience, not even excepting his'’matches with Tilden, had he faced so hard a barrage as the American champion sent at him. Although he praised highly the sportsmanship of the American players, Cochet was critical of the “organisation" of the national tournament. It was not, he said, his intention to again enter for the United States championships.