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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2175, 13 June 1914, Page 14

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Oiv GskexJ. . ' HARRY VARPON FUtt OF FAITH. The Putting Gleok-, ' 111 a recent article in a London paper, Hio well-known professional, Harry Varda.n, says: "I do not suppose that anybody has tried so many experiments with putters as 1 liftyo dine, so tlrai it is n small matter that T have now arrived at the eonehwum that there is nothing lib® a pntijiag cleek for getting the ball into the hole from a distance of tbrto Or four or five feet. For 1«»g putts I am still usittg the club which Mr. Dfown and I devised, and I. do not think there is anything -better for the purpose, but it is .wonderful what a ■change -of club will do sometimes in regard to those- wretched yard mid foii-r----foot putts of which I must have niissad comities® thousands to tins past ten years. At Woifriesdon aiid Gosforth Park the short jiutts seemed easy. Hiey had their simplicity one delightful day at La Bmilie, when I tackled them with a elttb about a foot long which I had Made as a last desperate resource. Biit they seon resumed their old terrors. I asn full of faith just iiow jft the putting cjeek for yard shots. X ■\voiife wlieit it will tceefre % shock." The Holy Tarrof. Mention of putting (says I?, B. Howard, ill the London "Sportsman") reminds one that Jffcli White, who has studied the short! _ game as deeply as a«yti®ly, and acquired a world-wide reputation at it, li<ts lately brought out a new ohib which has some striking features, -and which lias won the confidence of sorao famous players. The idea wliu;h White sought- to put into practice was to produce a head; which, while affording the usual area of stnk* ill:', surface, would br> less weighty than the nennai. and from which the ball would depart with that "dick" which wo kneiv so w«l! in tfce Has&eß days, lie eivmp to the conclusion thai: half tht> difficulties of putting were born of the heaviness of. the chfb, wliaEh ft as Smell too dnmsy for so delicate a pliTfosr, and the fact that there was oitrm, osti.v a seKse of smothering the bsU at the instant- of impact instead of the (•■beefy confidence which was felt trhen the healthy "click" smote the -ears of lW i phnwr as lie strnefe the object. White achieved his 'doubts purpose in a biiiliam.h- simple way. He bored holes through t.ius head q.f the club: that operation Ims produced both the effects which 3><- desired--lightness and the "click," l'<-op!o nil-) have tried Itie club. say that they, ean-not' iaissi- ft putt with it, and nil Aniericili ha-s. declared. tliat White's first name for it, the '.'Civic," ouuht to he changed, fie insists v.pcn callina it tie ''Holy Terror." It is something to have excited sii American like that. Chfistcliurch v, Dtago Club, Jlic annual Oxf.uie between the Ot-ago and (.hrist.ehnreh i'Jolf Clubs for the Cii :aphc!l-lli)«kiiiK and Ibintner shields took place lon Tlr,ir?day of last we&k. hi the contest for the Campbeil-lles-kiiiß shield, played i-n tho ljioriii'ig, Chi isiekureh won six fjf the .eight rn-atehfis. In the afteinoofi, -O-tago w'gr. the Hanmcr shield by one hole. The UampbeM'-Hosking shield Was presentrf in 19(10; by Mr.- 'S. H, (now Mr, Jiisiiee) Hoskirtjj ffuct Dr. Graham Ciuftpbell. In that year it was wan bv Chfistchareh; also in .1,902, 10(18, 1812. and 101.'), O'trtgo won it iit TJOI, 1003, 190-1, ISSJbs, 1500, 1907, and 100.5. Thy miiteh in HilO resulted in a- draw, ainl. l-fi 1011 no w'ere played l . The JiaJimcr Shield was presented. by ' Mr, B. E. W. H.an:jner in ht wh-toh year it was won by Ohrislchiijelt, who also won it in 1800, TWOS, Wo?, n.iid 1313. O'tasro won it in 1901., 1902. 1903. 1905, 1908MO9 1010, and Ml lia 1900 the Match fesnlted in a draw, and in IPII iW) linttches vere played. Wrong: Turn of lhp wrist. • My i xperi-?!'<.'e as n tesielier tells mo thiit tlie .'aiiit most fre'iuemly i'oni.d in women wlien they take U|) the giiijie is that they turn the left wxist. t4ie'wrojig Way at llio beg-in rang-of the (savs Harry Vardon in tiio "Daily M.aiF). Tvi"ir bent is ai arrii thai writ so that it stands out instead of being tiirncd cjtj.iorjy and gently inwards at the start O'f the .swing. This turning inwards of the leftwrist (fiorowing it towards the Itojly, so to speak} to be the first ©ovement. aiid it is not far from being the most ifflporkiit. It mns;. not be overdone-, hut the_aetio.it in tho correct degree is essential l.tec:a-ttsß it fe tite only way of getting ihq elnb-iiead into the proper position at tho top of the. ewi.n.j|. And unless the- ciub-head be rightly disiJosed at that fliage lib sjiouki he pointing to the. Kronnd) there cannot be much ehjitiee mf hittirig a. good shot, I have ft-oiiilered niafty tinies why it is fhaf_ svomen beginners exhibit ais inclinatien to turn _ the left wrist the Wrong way at the inaupr.hiniion of Uie s'.ving. It is not nea riy so noticeable: in men. I too 3 theory on the snbjec:t. Mfest women pLiv the piano, and. in doing m it is customary for the wrists to be afelred in such a way thiit they are Itioking up to tho ceiluii;, and tljft t'ii rotinn to ths piano is tho only c-ausi; that I can 'deceive for so yronouneeu a feature «f ''t'he early eforto of Wortien oil the links. Knrori Items. The bogy maie'v jilayed sit Ksrori last Sat'ti-day res id led in a win for Barry Keesini;. A l;:rco number of rnmpetjtors te-ok part in the play, a trophy W i»e donated for the q-veiit by Mr. L-. George. The injprovan)eii,tis heiiig enectod to the- eiitb-hous-e are nmv weli in Jnaiid, and it is expected Hint Use contract will be efiiup.leted early nest week. Varians grccrts and teea 'have been improved di'iring tii© week, these haviits fmftWed fwm the long s.pell of wet weather JchßsonviHa v. Karorr. The lV>!l.oivi«gpiaye.fs hare been picked to yeprosent t'ho johnsoiiville Club in a return Hiatoli *■;. Karori, to be piaycl on the Kam i Lmks tliis afterHOon: - - Sloane, A'lniiiSi Kent, Slooro, Manning, and Kraves. Tho -Karen team will be as'follows r— Bnrueti, jl'lkt-h, Boyes, - .U'Leliaml, At-kiiMon, Magnus. Jattinss. Tiw tmnelwluig rotindß of tho World's Gliitrapio-ndtift are- to be played at I'WstwWk, Seo'tlipid, 011 Thursday and Friflav next. The qualifying ro:uuJs, un Tharsdiiy and Friday of this week, were to "be played en tho Troon a»d T;v,-an Mnnicij.al eosuses. Aeeo-rdinft to tin- '•KoU.iughaia Daily Excess," a wcyiithy IjOndon syndicate) with a Sootiish raibvay o&mpauy at its back, has secured seme Sflft acres of infioria.iid hi IVthshite. It is intended t i lay out two golf eonrscs, and 'argo hotel, r.txo'mnclaikm is to be provided. A sti-Tii of £10.000 is to he expended on tlw links, and £50,000 -on. tia baild» infrs, Tho conij'retiiion fo? the Winter Show Assoeiatiwi'a Capj played over 36 botes at Hamilton last week, was won by N. 1?. Jacoteen. His gross se:;: ea for n'orniuit; and afternoßii were 103 aiid 116, and his net scores 75 and _88. Playing over nine holes on the Hfttt fltibi's cwoise on Weditesdn.v afl-wuooa, K. V. Kirk flnisjifrd all s-fiaiv will) hsfiy. "Kvety litila helps," (irovtdcd [hat Httlfi is' a drop of "NAZOL'-'' Wlven >•<>•!\t ii co? lin thn hoad inh.ilp s funwhiffs: if the trouble is in the threat, gttiskli* -sense drops on a piece of sugar, "iakm tray, "XjtfQL" ensMi-es i'elie!, -Jdvt,