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ALEX ROSS COMES BACK
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T. B. Cobert of Brockport, N. Y., won
the trophy in this "week's 100 target
lion.linon oiToiit of 1 Cl-.,n ClU .UT, r.
score of 92-8 100. Two other handicap
8 men finished second and third. J. C.
Huff of Philadelphia, was second, at
91-8 99, two targets ahead of Norwood
Johnson, Pittsburg, whose 89-8 97 was
the third best score.
Treating 'Em Rough.
At a recent London dinner George
Bernard Shaw was the guest of honor.
The toastmaster in introducing him said
that a certain club in London recently
had voted on ' ' who are the three most
famous living Englishmen?" The bal
loting showed George Bernard Shaw,
Lloyd George, and Charlie Chaplin far.
in the lead.
"And I can't help wondering," said
the toastmaster, ' ' how Mr. Shaw likes the
company in which he finds himself."
"I don't mind Charlie," spoke up
Mr. Shaw. New YorTc World.
to further interference" he adds, ''ami
if so, they must be allowed to go their
Brings Some Timely Remarks of own way and play a game such as ihey
Taylor's With Him have evolved without stymies, but which
' is not golf."
By E. A. Deniiam Summing up, Taylor claims that "the
"If our professional team expects to real golf ball of the future should float
do anything in the British Open Tourna- ami should not weigh more than 27
ment at St. Andrews this summer, ' ' says pennyweight. The intricacies and hedg
Alex Ross, who has just returned from ing-in tactics of the modern golf archi
a two months' visit to Scotland, "they tect will then be swept away, restoring
would better come to Pinehurst and prac- to us the courage we used to display in
tice their running-up shots." boldly hitting the ball up to the hole
Alex went on to explain that the turf with wood and pitching it like a man,
at St. Andrews is almost as hard and with iron. The cross-bunker will reap
resilient as it is at Pinehurst, and in ad pear after being cowardly condemned as
dition to this the conformation of the unfit to rear its head on a golf course,
ground around the greens is such that We should then play the game as it was
anything in the nature of a pitch shot is intended to be played, in the air, and
more apt to kick off at a tangent upon should not crawl up to the green in fear
hitting the earth. "Everything runs up and trembling like an anaemic worm."
at St. Andrews," he continued, "from Alex Ross interrupts at this point to
all sorts of distances. Jock Hutchison suggest that this is all very well, but
and Bob MneDonald, who were playing that it 's the anaemic worm who is going
there with Larry Ayton at the time I to cop the early bird at St. Andrews this,
visited the course and who are now on summer, just the same, or words to that
their way home, have got the thing down effect.
to a science and were cleaning up every- Taylor winds up by paying his re
one who came along." Ross himself was spects to "the deeply-ribbed iron clubs ,
not numbered among the victims of the which are rapidly coming into vulgar
well-known Chicago trio. In fact, his fashion, "the use of which," hoi says,
golf abroad was confined to a few rounds will, if his floater is adopted, ' "be
at St. Andrews with Capt. T. A. Roberts throttled at birth; and the player who
of Detroit, and he says very positively can put a stop on his ball by real golfing
he is not; going back there this summer, skill will again become pre-eminent and
Andy Kirkaldy, the famous St. An- proud of his achievement."
drews veteran, does not take the chances Taylor's letter to the Times follows:
of our invading professionals very seri
ously, according to Alex, who found the STANDARD BALLS AND RIBBED
same attitude common to most of the CLUBS
British golfing fraternity. On the other i am not surprised to learn that the
hand, says Ross, nearly everybody over tests that have been made with the new
there seems to be a trifle doubtful as to "standard" balls have resulted in such
the outcome in the amateur title event a manner that the Committee responsible
as, according to the English newspapers, for introducing the limitation find them-
nearly every one of our leading amateur selves in a dreadful quandary. It was
experts intends to land on Britain's confidently expected, and the hope was
shores within the next few months. insnired bv neonle who should have
A day or two before Ross sailed for known, that when these limitations as to
home, J. II. Taylor threw a hanu-grenade size and weight were made compulsory,
into the comfortably furnished trench of it would not be possible to hit them as
the British Rules Committee in the fonr far as the long-distance balls that had
of an attack on the new standard ball i)eOU in use during the past few years.
tnd an argument for the substitution of it was the laudable desire of the Com-
a floater type weighing not more than n,jttee, in conjunction with the Ameri
27 pennyweight. Having a grievance and ean delegates appointed with full power
being a good Britisher, Taylor wrote to to deal with this question on the oc-
the Times about it and Alex brought the easion of their visit last year, to pre-column-length
article home with him. serve the relative values of the strokes,
Boiled down, Taylor claims that both aim to prevent the playing of the game
the British and American Committee were fr0ni becoming established as an orgy of
misled as to the driving possibilities of oncr driving.
the new standard weight ball. He says jt ow appears that both the British
that whereas one of the chief reasons for ail( American Committees were misled,
its adoption was "to prevent the playing or the advice that they received was not
of the game from becoming established fuuy examined as to its reliability np
as an orgy of long driving. . . it has pertaining to the properties of flight con
now been established conclusively that the tained in a rubber-cored ball. It has now
restricted ball can be made to travel i)0en established conclusively that the
further than the balls it was intended to limitations imposed will have a decidedly
supplant." And he instances a recent opposite effect to that intended, and that
match in which, using the new balls, he the restricted ball can be made to travel
frequently outdrove George Duncan farther than the balls it was intended to
which Taylor modestly adds "was net. supplant. I notice that Mr. A. C. M.
true to form, as it is well known Duncan Croome, one of the members of the British
an leave me well behind." , Committee, confesses to this disturbing
Taylor blames the British Committee fact ami ono is eft wondering what this
for accepting the views of the American bociy intCnd rtointr about it. I can cor-
Committee without due investigation and roborate that which Mr. Croome asserts.
wants something done about it immediate- j was piayinr wjth George Duncan a
ly if not sooner. "It may be that the few weeks ago. using a new standard ball
American golfing public may be adverse ma(le i)V a weii.knmvTi firm, but not the
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