’TWAS EVER THUS

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1075, 12 September 1930, Page 7

’TWAS EVER THUS

J “Cricket!” said the lady over the fence, scornfully. “That's ail them men can think of now.” But it was ever thus (says the ‘Sydned Sun”). As far back as 1876, when Disraeli was making his witty | speeches in the House, and the news- ! papers were railing against the fair ! sex for not having less accessible ! pockets, in “these anti-crinoline days,” t when Professor Aldhyus Browne was •jelling a hair restorer that was not dye and the literary critics were shocked at Bret Harte for making his hero likable ; the “Graphic” quotes in innocent surprise : “. . . It is not invariably the case thai only players can appreciate cricket; tc many men who have never held a bat in their lives, the height of .happiness is to sit looking on at a match, with a plentiful supply of beer (! ) and t.obacco (!!). and with full liberty to criticise, ridicule, or applaud what is going on." Putt Smoothly There is only one way in which tc putt well, and this is to putt smoothly Do not use your arms. .Hold the putter in your lingers—not the palms of your hands —as lightly as possible and allow your wrists, employed as hinges, to do all the backward and forward movement. Far too many golfers keep their arms stiff, and clutch the putter tightly, the result being a dull, unsympathetic, stroke. Putts more often than not, have to be “coaxed,” and this effect can only reward wrist work, and a light, sensitive grip.