. St. Nicholas [serial]. most ideal sportsmen I evermet. It makes me hot all over to read such state-ments about him. Let me tell you right now thathis temper needs no curbing, as one report him play a few important matches, as Ihave, and you will agree with me that his sole un-easiness comes at a time when he is leading. Onething more about this youthful marvel: his gameis without a flaw! Most boys of his age are apt tolet their free playing muscles enter too prominent-ly into their game. Their fault is that they playtheir various clubs alike. But Jones is a veteranin this respec
. St. Nicholas [serial]. most ideal sportsmen I evermet. It makes me hot all over to read such state-ments about him. Let me tell you right now thathis temper needs no curbing, as one report him play a few important matches, as Ihave, and you will agree with me that his sole un-easiness comes at a time when he is leading. Onething more about this youthful marvel: his gameis without a flaw! Most boys of his age are apt tolet their free playing muscles enter too prominent-ly into their game. Their fault is that they playtheir various clubs alike. But Jones is a veteranin this respect. That gets us down to the technical side of golf,so I might as well explain what I mean by citingan example from a recent match I played with ayoungster. We were having quite a struggle andin due course came to the fourteenth hole. Fromtee to green, the measurement was 140 yards,though this distance was really equivalent to ahole of about 115 yards because of the elevatedtee. It is an easv mashie shot. A forced mashie-. THERE WERE FEW TIMES WHEN WE COULD ESCAPE THE WATCHFUL EYES OF THE GROUNDS-KEEPER 916 GOLF AND YOUTH, niblick will sometimes carry one home. Now thetendency of a youngster is to force his iron shots,and it is one that he must overcome early in hiscareer. The first essential in iron play is to keepthe ball on the line. There is no better way ofdoing this than to learn what you can comfort-ably accomplish with each club. On this occasion,I came to the fourteenth tee with the scant leadof one up. I could ill afford to offset this advan-tage by a mistake on my part. * Consequently, Iselected a mashie which was good for 160 yards,had I chosen to play to my limit. My first object,therefore, was to make sure that the ball carriedin the general direction of the whole. Next, I hadto make sure of my judgment of the distance. Ifigured it a three-quarters shot, a shot whereinthe club is taken back about that fraction of thedistance you bring it back for driving. My ballla
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