Evening Star Newspaper, November 25, 1923, Page 71

nd Jones are Brothers in Sport: Now Is Time for 5 OF FEW PARALLELS figest Amateurs bn Championship Demon and Pythias of Golfdom. BY W. R. McCALLUM. RUE friendship, said a sage, is realm, or words giving the same thought. a collaborator, is based on mu Be so, the sport world has before it today ftiendship in the brotherly—feeling Jones, reigning national open golf Francis Ouimet, first amateur holdar erack golfers of the day regarded tourneys as a clean sportsman. Begun four years ago, when 3 doddering age of eighteen, amateur champions of utual ect and esteem. betw grown, v it stands two comman Franciy is more than ten vears Bob's senior. Bob Is in his last rear at Harvard Law School and will get his shecpskin next spring. Francis 1§ a mature business man, many vears out of school gnd with & family of his own. Bob is just contem plating marriage. His (ngazement towa charming Atlanta girl. with sn Irish name, recently was announced. Yet these two men, the two youngest amaten who ever won the American open championship. one from the south and the other from the land of the baked bean, far apart in vears and to a certain exteat in upbringing. have become the firmest ifiends any one could imagine he | agivice and solicitacions of the one | have become the rock on which the h the hour when defeat 1 their chos 1d of | range as it seems, boh were | ¥ the same relent k smoor— the second round and out- Ouimet in semi-final. | That Piay-off 8t Inwood. H newspaper men who “palled” the boys at Inwood will nev: forget that play-off when the two | Bobs, Jones and-Cruickshank, one an ama r znd the other a professional battled down tretch for the eatest prize n golf. Nor they unspoken tBoughts of that showed only too plainly in as he watched Bob Jomes iron club vards away fr pip at the Iast hole and unfiinchingly ! hit bne of the fines s were play The ~eith an came long be- to make the day night. while orid rubbed its eyes believed that last ‘Bobb: stood on the threshold of tional title, we saw Bob Crui in Far R Harry ton and had to meet on t the day of the play-off | then, and would repeat today. that | ne was lucky to get a chance to tie. | Iron shots and putts such as Bob Cruickshonk made on that eighteenth | nole st Inwood are not made cvery vou have to tie for the open champi i Oulmet Had Jones in Tow. And_where was Bob Jones while Bab Cruickshank was enjoving ronolitan delights of Far Rock- Bob Jones was in the care of Francis Ouimet. Franc ed Bobby away, even b dmirers could zet took him to 2 ner, and thes evening, amid nuiet ings. But the P ot golf. to him home tion er Bob we of a fr STRAIGHT OFF THE TEE LOCKED in an effort to settle matches today by inability of B away from their clubs, of them with twelve on each side—w on the goli course one afternc given assurance they will be on han brethren, and the simon pures are the pros. Nothing remains ¢ but High winds such as prevailed y occasion of the meeting between the An effort way made by the captains of both sides—Albert R. MacKenz! for the amateurs and Fred McLeod for the pros—to arrange the match for this afternoon. but several of the leading professionals could not leave thefr clubs on a Sundav afternoen Jost of the amateur performers will | be sglected from the Columbia Coun- | try Club and will practically all be | members of the Columbia team—mid- | dle Atlantic and District team cham- pions. The stake will be a dinner, | at which the losers will stand treat. Work of removing the first green from its present location to the top of the hill opposite the sccond tee at Columbia has been begun, and the green Is expected to be completed within & month. In the meantime, the present green is being used, but | the location of the new green will® call for & finer cecond shot and a bet- | ter placed tee shot than the preseat green. The fifteenth and eighteenth | tees at Columbia have been sodded ail over during the past week, eliminat- ing clay tees from the course en- tively, except on a little-used por- tipn of the second tec. 1 Work of comstruction on the sixth and ninth holes at Chevy Chase, in- volving removal of a cross bunker at e ninth and addition of a cross jler 2t the sixth, along with addi- | of & cop bunker near the sixth ben, iwis completed during the past Removal of the cross bunk at the minth’ which caught only bgd! topped tee shots, doesn't mean much byt the construction of the pair of ‘bunkers at the sixth may mean some- thing to the scores made next season. Golters ot the hington Golf and Country Club will compete next; Thursday at handicap medal play for a pair of trophies given by a golfing magazine. ' None of the other clubs bas announced tourneys for Thanks- giving day. ¥Final round in the two-man team championship at Bannockburn fis{ echeduled for today. The event hasy been in progress for a month and has ! brought out some of the finest golf of | the season at the Glen Echo course. During one of his matches K. I Kel- lerman, jr., shot a 33 on one round of the ninc-hole layout. Golfing purses for the professionals are getting larger and larger. The finest plum hung up for the pros un- til recently was the $6,000 tourney at San Antonjo, Tex., the winner of] which receives a cholo slic of - that generous emount. And now along Comes a. seuthern California town which /recelves @ clolce slice of that by newspaper men was runner-up hip, this probably out as one of the g figures in the world of sports. i1 wonder ! were ia few the i ¢ amateurs and professionals—twenty-four n- this week. sterday wouldn’ | Boverning body of golf that purses be ! that the spirit of commercialism be approval. FRIENDSHIP Ever to Win American Are Regarded as the more to be valued than coin of the! True friendship, said tual admiration and esteem. If this example of real sporting that has grown up between Bobby hampion of the United States, and of the title and ionc of the too few who follow the ung Bob from Atlanta, then at the to Davey Herron in the 1919 unparalleled friendship and feeling =en these two amateur golfers has estfriendships between In the morning they rose, and after breakfast Francis took Bob on a long automobile ride around Leong Island. Yet the talk was not of golf. Of course, Bob had ‘t back In his head, but he didn't give any outward sigr until the car drew: up at the portals of the Inwood Club. About 11 o'clock on the: Sunday Bob Jones won the open championsaip. For nearly twen- ty hours Francis Ouimet and Bob Jones had been together. The ex- champion and the chdmplon-to-be did not talk golf. Then the piay-off. not give Bob advice bLave tried, for he is too @ood a sports- man to violate any of the ethigs of the same in the smallest degroe. And the two B came down to the last hole all square, with the balance hanging on that iron shot of Eob Jones’ Bobby's Great Iron Shot. Francis Ouimet, his friend, Tom and Thomas B. Payne of the' United States Golf Association con- ' stituted the little group that hung ther all through the round. And Francis looked at Bob Jones' lie for that iron shot he stepped back. his facc white as a ghost. His jaw drepped when he sow Jones take his long iron. and dropped farther when he “saw the ball, rising on a long, straight flight, carry the water hazard and Crop within a_putt of the hole. vhai Francis’ thoughts that moment. He sald he describe them, but he had aith in the ability and s friend, Bob Jones. > end, when Bob had holed the £ putt, @ littie flushed, a little | and a very fustergd Bob | ran over to Francis with the | he that 1 h Francis could He would not t couldn’t hope and from you. | he gracious | he received up. and equal cious words of Bob Cruick and Francis Ouimet, who said words at the presentation Together at Flessmoor, Too. vent lowed | M in and in the - t Bob Jones that hot day again as Francis Ouimet. He 4. afier a bril- | i0 in the morning. go the ble = again of the Francie' d lose another chanc g he wants above teur championship Three days later Francis himself met the eame imperturbable Mar- ston. And Francis went down, fi ing grimly a that r: P . spelling defeat for the ex-hold: the titie in the gallery wed him was Bob Jones, a mpanied bv Big Bob Jones, father | of the open champion, and a pal of his son { Few at the all—the am of lendships in any sport have | had t adfastness of the feeling ! of the comradeship between this pair of fine sporismen. Francis wan's Bob ® win morc than anything in the | world, and Bob wants Francis to win h the same intensity. Bob's roe yel to come. Francis' hance mav come again at any time, but in any cvent the loser will be pulling for the winner. What a great Anal it would be to find these two ar- | raved against each other at Merion next year has the question of supremacy in team several of the professionals to get thrash out the issue of supremacy All the professionals have d to perform against their amateur only awaiting the chance to meet for the weather man to be lenient. t make too enjoyable an amateurs and pros. ambitious club wielders to shoot for. | It makes the $1.500 for which the | pros battle in the U. S. G. A. A open seem a paltry affair indeed. This, in stite of the request last winter by the | lield to reasonable limite in order not carried too far by enthusiastic | hoosters fur a particular course or | Jocality which desired to be on the! soling map. ; To Young Densmore Shute, black- | haired, modest golfer of Huntingdon, W. Va., goes the prize for the funnlest golf yarn of the year. Young Shute 4uallfied and won, the first match against Ned Allis in the amateur championship at Flossmoor, and then found himseif opposed to Eddie Held of St Louis. the trans-Mississippi champion in the second round. Shute Gidn’t’ play so well {n the morning and turned one down to Held When they went in to lunch Shute inquired as to trains back to Chi- cago. that afternoon. He was asked W~ 3 wanted to go back to Chi- cago With an amateur championship match on his hands, and he sald he thdught he lad been beaten, admit- ting he didn’t know that all matches in_the amateur are at 8 holes. Then he_went out in the afternoon !and gave Held an artistic trimming, shooting a 73, which licked the Mis- gourian by 3 and 2. Against Bob Gardner he didn't do well, for Gard- ner beat. him by a one-gidad margin. But this lad Shute will bear watch- ing in future championehips. His father is a professional golfer, who is determined his son is to be an amateur of promise and to this end he has schooled the voungster care- fully until now he has all the skill of a veteran campaigner, but little of the experience. He negotiated two dead stymies in a‘row at Flossmoor, cutting” the ball around that of hu| epponent with a midiron. Decision of the bodies which professional golf to hold q rounds in the east and west. for the national open champlonship was a wise one and one that will find favor with most of lhedplld players. Many a kick was heard and many a com- plaint at Inwood last vear against the unnecessary delay and waste of time consumed In playing the champlon- ship, which took an entire week. Four days were required to qualify the more than 300 professionals and ama- teurs who entered the tourney, and by the time Friday had rolled around those who played on-Monday, Tues- overn remely tired of waiting without golf. lay and were denled -scheme to be used, with upanimous ‘hey came to the privilege. next year will meet. day or Wednesday had gotten su l ’ THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, NOVEMBER. 2, 1923--SPORTS. SECTION. How Bobby Jones Became Greatest Genius of Golf STROKE THAT WON THE OPEN TITLE Bobby Jones illustrating the restricted finish of the famous “push shot™ with the iron: the type of shot, with its low, long carry and short run, that reached the eighteenth green at Inwood over the water in front and stopred six troke that won the {eet from the cnp—the en championshi | | | t W CHAPTER V. Southern Champion at Fifteen—Play for the Red Cross. BY 0. B. HILE Bobby Jones’ form KEELER. 4 as displayed before the nation-at Merijon in 1916 did not change materially, and did not need to change materially, his figure underwent a remarkable alteration | in the winter of that year. At Merion he was short and stocky. In the | next six months he gained six inches in height and lost seven pounds in weight, coming down from a chubby 152 to an almost slender 145. Then | gradually came the smooth, sleek musculature of golf, and he was 2 | trim, salwart athlete of medium height when next he appeared in a na- | tional event, at Oakmont in 1919, But before that came the war, and before that came the southern | amateur championship, at the same Roebuck Club, in Birmingham, where Bobby broke through for his first tournament triumph away from home. i This was three months after he was fifteen, and Bobby, while his | father and Perry Adair and Perry’s father, the late George Adair, and all | the, other Atlanta hopes were being bumped off, was trundling along | like a little juggernaut through the field of 64, taking them as/ they { came and stopping his first three opponents at the twelfth green. i Wheelock, another New Orleanian, in | might be calied the match-play era of the semi-finals. nan | unmerciful drubbing, shooting a 76 in |mendously bold and siashing style and the morning round and ending match early 8 Tralled by a big: e had seen since Merion, the Atlanta yards. And on the greens he was a Doy shot tha first four holes in par. | little wizard, plainly expecting all his negotiated another 76, and went in te ' 10 and 12 foot luncheon comfortably up on the stub- gusted when t born and combative little Aiaave rated one cf the best fighters medal player of his generation. he is Jacoby came with | & rally In the afternoon, but could | appear, while 13-foot putt that sinks in n Then he defeated Rube Bush, one £ the best of the New Orleans con- ingent, 3 Gnd 2, and caught. Tom He gave Tom an in the matinee session, and 7. Louls Jacoby wes the final victim gallery than he fat man, 1 southern molf. ot break Bobby's stride and the atch ended with Bobby a southern ampion, 6 and 4, on the fourteenth reen. Then Bobbyr really was rattled. He had won tournaments before and club championships. determired turned into a But this was some- And suddenly the cool, little golfing _machine red-faced. perspiring thing else schoolboy, under the blast of cheers from the big gallery. Jacoby, smiling broa hand with the most lation, say fast as he could when And whén v, extended his rdial congratu- all Bobby could think of to was: “Much obliged.” And His Mother Kissed Him. He was about scuttling away s his mother reached him and kissed him, while the & roared agaln. always has been allery Bobby that wax. He was that way at Inwood, after his £ reatest triumph. On the way home. learning on the train of preparations to give him a rousing welcome at the stat in Atlanta, he looked positive- Iy frightened for a moment and later X e confessed he had considered leav THE STAR’S PANORAMA OF BASE BALL A Pictoricl Highlight History of the National Game (Copyright, 1923, in U. S. and Great Britain by North American Newspaper Alliance. All rights reserved.) NO. 19—WHAT HARRY WRIGHT DID FOR BASE BALL The name of Wright goes down significantly in the history o aeronautics. More significantly, in another family .of Wrights, it goes down and glorifies the an- nals of early American spo Of English extraction, the Wright family began in this country with a famous cricketer, his two sons —Harry and George—bringing to base ball that spirit of team play known to cricket. George's son Beale C. Wright, was a champion tennis player It was through the methods adopted by Harry Wright, when he organized the Cincinnati Red Stockings in 1868-70, that the crude game of base ball began to be revolutionized. He brought to it a more scientific meaning, because he insisted on the more articulate meaning of every posi- tion in the game—infield and out- field. It was a great temptation for the unprofessional player in early days to play for the benefit of his best girl looking on, and not for the ultimate victory of the club. It would have hurt a good batsman then to sacrifice a hit for the good of a run. In other words, before Harry Wright, each player played for himself. Wright said to his men: “Don’t play for hits; play for scores.” And this slogan was the reason for his invention—though he didn’t know it at the time—of the sacrifice hit. It was Harry Wright, who, in 1867, faced boldly the rule that players were to receive “no pay.” He went to Cincinnati with the idea of organizing an all-profes- sional nine. He reached out not only for the best local talent, but he beld men from other places, thus establishing the custom of scouting. Base ball history shows that the great player came from unexpected corners. Anson, for example, held the distinction of being the first white child baorn in the neighborhood of Marshall- town, léwa, in 1832, Wright gave his men the first distinctive uniforms. He signed up his brother—perhaps the best all-round player known to the game. In 1869, the Cincinnatis had uninterrupted victory in-their tour of the country, the firet castern tour cf a western club. And they made money, which ‘places Harry Wright as our first base ball magnate. Here is the first salary list, so often quoted: Harry Wright, cf.. \George Wright, ss Asa Brainard, p. ‘Waterman, 3b. Sweasy, 2b. Gould, 1b... Allisod, ¢ Leanard, 1f Cai McVey, Hurley, utility. .. This is mere pocket_money to the players of today. The Red Stockings went down in defeat in 1870, June 14, when the Atlantics of Brooklyn put a stop to their phenomenal vic- tories. 5 Harry Wright was born in London in 1832. In 1863 he was with the Knickerbocker Club of New York. In 1866 he played cricket with some English crick- eters visiting America. He went to Cincinnati in 1868 and made a record there as an organizer; HARRY WRIGHT WHEN HE WAS WITH THE BOSTON TEAM IN 1871. then, in 1871, he organized a club for Bosten and won three pen- nants for that ci Tomorrow: “George Wright” THE CHAMPIONS OF 1869, THEY WON FIFTY-SEVEN GAMES AND LOST NOT ONE. THESE ARE THE CINCINNATI 'RED STOCKINGS, WRIGHT, CAPTAIN AND CENTER HIM AND HARRY DLE ONE STANDING; GEORGE WRIGHT, SHORTSTOP, IS Bl ON THE READER’S RIGHT. THE | LDER, IS THE MID- STANDING MAN OTHERS ARE, LEFT TO RIGHT, STANDING: C. A. McVEY. C. H. GOULD: LOVWER HQW, A.J. LEONAED, D. ALLISON, A. BRAINARD AND C. SWEASY, ' the | ing the train at a station outside of town. This was the beginning of what | Bobby -Jones' career, when his fre- his superb putting made him perha s, the most respected amateur in lx& country. At Merion the vear befors ha had hit the two longest tee-shots | of the tournament, estimated at 320 Puits to drop and dis- did not. | And today, regarded as the greatest grateful and happy if the 3footers dis- {2 round seems to him like something off j& Christmas tree. Off for the Red Cross. { At this stage, too. Bobby and Perry 1 Adair went crusading for the Red Cross war chest. They were far un- der the age of draft or enlistment, but, accompanied by Perry's fathe George Adair, they toured the cou jtry in 1917, and 1918, playing exhi- i bition matches. They helped to raise | many thousands of dollars. In-1518 the boys were accompanied in many matchés by another Atlanta golfer. Miss Alexa Stirling. then nationai { Yoman champlon. and Miss Elaine Rosenthal as the fourth member, they played numerous interesting matches for the Red Cross. But in 1917, at the crest of his { match-play_era, Bobby Jones accom- plished a feat’ which his father to i this day regards as his most notable jachievement in that department. j, The occasion was the pro-amateur | matches in the east. put on by the, Professional Golfers’ Assoclation’ for | the Red Cross—an event that netted {the Red Cross $14,000. by the way. On successive days Bobby defeated Cyril Walker 1 up at Baltusrol, de- feated Freddie McLeod 2 up at Si- wanoy, and defeated Emmett French 1 up at Garden City, sinking a 25- foot putt on the home green for the match. Bobby was the oniy amateur. as I reca to win all his matches with the professionals. and he and Perry Adair won three points at foursome play—the only points thus acquired by the amateurs, though Jerry Travers and John Anderson also were in the lists. each winning a single point. Bob and Perrs getheg zecounted for six of the eight points won by the 1 j gent At His Top Then in Putting. Bobby continued to play Red Cross | matehes with various amateurs and | professionals, along with Chick | Evans, Kenneth Edwards, Warren K. | { Wood and others until the school { bell rang again. { . The national ship was not plaved in 1918, and there are thos cline to the belief that this was bad | luck for Bobbw who in those vears. with really remarkable putting in conjunction with a bold and power- | ful gamo from the tes and through | the green, was winning an almost i credible proportion of his match with the best of the amateurs and the professionals. ~Certainly Bobby never has putted so weil since, though his general method has set- tled down into the smoothest and steadiest vet displaved in America— jsome say in all the world 1 1 remember something Chick Evans told him in Atlanta in 1916, when Chick Evans and Warren K. Wood were playig- a couple of friendly matches i with fob and Perry at East Lake and Druid Hills and Bob was rather step- ping_ahead of the great Chick. i “Bobby,” said Chick. ‘I hope you I never find out how hard putting really amateur s Chick had found out. §o did Bobby, {not €0 long after. | | "1t any onme shot or type of shots vond the rest in the method of Bobby. it is his modification of what is termed the “push shot” with a straight-faced iron, a No. 1, or| a No. 2. “I rarely hit an anyway." says Jones. equarely In the back as the. club is starting upward in tffe swing. 1 'knock down' almost every shot with an iron, sometimes taking a good slice of turf just beyond the spot where the ball lay. It's a Reverse English. “This means the ball is struck be- fore the club has reached fhe lowest point of the swing. It imparts a strong backspin to the ball—like the reverse English_in billiards. This keeps the i t straight and low. with extreme carry, and steps the ball quickly after | it reaches the turf. “] play the shot with a restricted swing, not taking the club back as far as the horizontal, and hitting with very firm wrists. The club finishes poin ing nearly straight toward the sky, and not around my neck, as in a dri ing stroke. I am conscious of hittin the ball down, in this stroke, and the: unch’ goes into the ball and not into the finish, called by some people the “follow-through.’ " 1t was this shot that won him the championship at Inwood, played with a No. 1 iron from the short rough, the stands out b iron shot clean “T mean. hit it very hard. To reach the pin, the ball had to travel 190 yards in the air, land beyond the lagoon’ across the very front of the green, and stop with almost no roll. It was the only type of shot that could have been successful. (Next Installment, “Twin Disasters’ IOWA 17-14 VICTOR OVER NORTHWESTERN EVANSTON, T, November 24— Towa came, off victorious in the annual | home-coming foot ball game with North- ‘western here this afterncon, winning 17 to 14. The Purple and White, defeated in every e, furnished ‘the surprise of their seagon by uncovering an aerial ; attack in the final period that almost, spelled disaster for the Hawkeyes. ! At the end of the first half the score | was 3 to 0, Hancock of Jowa having; scored a fleld goal in the first period. ! Capt: Mcliwaine —of - Northwestern i openied up In the third peried and by o, series of line. plunges and end runs o o way for Destephanno |.é’:r. a touchdown. Davis kicked goal. | In the next period Graham went over | for an lowa touchdown, to be followed closely by Fry for another. ~Hancock | Xicked goal on occasions. Mcllwaine then heaved two forward passes, one for 35 and. the other for 30 | yards, placing the ball on Iowa's 5-yard line, from which h‘;?‘med through for a touchdown. Seidell kicked goal. began - another march Ting of STl Sirane e _v;n'n‘hd it from &coring again. ball lying close to the earth, which was | Tennis Players t o Act NETMAN SHOULD ANALYZE HIS PLAY IN OFF SEASON Realization of Faults and Practice to Perfect Them Is Essential to Headway in Game. One Weakness Fatal to Success. BY SAMUEL HARDY. to review their matches of the past season, to analyze their vice fi T this time of the year it is an excellent plan for all tennis players tories and defeats and to get firmly fixed in their minds a clear idea of how to improve their game. During the summer, when the players, especially the younger ones, of the matches and by the urnaments are in full swing, most are carried along by the excitement ire to win as many rounds as possible. They will not at that time start in systematically to correct their faulty strokes, nor ‘will they dare to practice on new ones, since any change in playing at this important time, they argue, may cost them a match. on using the Instead, they kecfi o es that the: with safety, the strol strokes that they know they can use like and have perfected, trusting to luck that their opponents will not discover and play to their weak points. This mistaken policy, this sacrific- ing the chance of developing one's game, to the desiro to win some match is answerable for the loss of many a champion. It is the worst error that a promising player can make, an error that will, if persisted in, cost him dear. Over and over it has been demonstrated that the one who gets to the very top and stavs there is the one who has no di cernible weakness in his game Must Perfect His Game. “A chain is as strong as its weak- est lnk” might well have been written. about tennis. Every great player recognizes this and uses every possible chance to correct all faults in his techniqus. Tilden, Johnston, Brookes, Patterson, Anderson, all have won their places, not alome through natural aptitude for the game, but because they have all labored constantly and patiently to bring their games to perfection with no vulnerabie points. For them every match in every tournament is an o portunity for practice; every match lost a valued lesson that will be remembered No great plaver ever has suddenly achieved prominence in tennis. Every champion knows that there is no “royal road” tothe first ranks, and knows that if he would keep his place or gain a higher one it must be by hard work. It is possible for every plaver to tmprove his game. The first essen- tial is a thorough and intelligent understanding of what constitutes correct form, and a realization of its importance. Should Study amd Practice. Tilden's books should be careful studied, especially those chapters on arips, footwork and body position Then a player should analyze his own game, comparing his grips, etc., with those given by Tilden. He should get some good player or a profes sional to point out to him his faults. Once he understands where and how he is weak he should concentrate on those strokes, visualizing hi self as taking them in the o manner. As soon as the weath, mits he should at once be ticing on these weak stroke: ing them again and again. stance, if it is his backhand Inside Golf — ByCHESTER HORTON The very {requent tendency among golfers 'to pull the club back with the right hand as the club is taken up can be thorough- 1y corrected if the player will clearly understand that the right hand resists the left hand, slightly, during the back swing. The leverage of the clubhead on the ball, in the golf stroke, complished largely through a scis- sors-like resistance which is set up between your two hands and which attains its maximum effec- 2t is tiveness at the instant the ball is struck, In the well made stroke. The left hand pushing back as the right hand pushes forward on the shaft imparts velocity to the club- h That is why we preach that golf s a game of fecl and touch, not strength and force. Thus the player whose right hand is pulling his shatt back as he takes the club up can first try gripping tighter with the left hand. This will carry him along to a proper feel during the back swing. The thing to do then fs bring the pres- sure of the right fingers more into play, little by little. The pressure should be equal between the two hands finally. (Copyright, Jokn F. Dille Co.) s | weak strokes. poor he should run around every forehand drive and take it backhand | until he no longer fears i | This is the whole secret of suc- cessful practicing in tennis—playing the shot at which you are poor until it has become perfected. Six years ago Tilden depended en- tirely upon a chop. He was, however 2 keen student of technique and realized well that no player ever | reaches the very top who does not possess a sound and dependable fore- | hand drive, so he b gan to master jthis important stro I have often iseen him change from 2 beautifuily jexecuted chop,” with which he wae | winning, to a far from perfect drive. isometimes losing the match in con- isequence, and afterward h heard {him say cheerfully, “Wasn't that go- ling better toda He now possesses a drive that is flawless and uses it as his principal point winner. Bo *Tilden and Joknston were originally yWeak in the backhand. now they | score countless aces from that | sition. Morton Is aum Example. In 1919 B. L C. Norton ber of the South African D team. but was not considered a good enough player to compets e lagainst the Duteh. Ti! and I | discussed with mitations jof his game an kly told jRim that he d get any vhere unless he serfously began to {change his service and backhand. ¥ remember Tilden said to him: “If you are “content to play only with men iwho possess but one or two_ go {strokes, why keep right onm, but i ¥ou really want to get up out of that class and amount to somethin i then g Norton at once started on h At first he unexpected defeats and ings. In just @ vear | veioped his game r well rounded |y fect technique h strengthened his backhand u is his strongest strok ! Fafl 1o Bolster Game. On th other hand, we a iname ma have failed to win first have lost their i ttles T | some weak stro | his poor backhand nis histo: 1 orften wonder h he would have gon had his |training been diferent a forts directed tov [ perrect ¢ | beaten again and asga {lacked an aggressive 10 |and it is oniy this p he has seemed dstermined 4o o stroke ‘What could neon have done if he and used a drive ct chop? T modern that wonder that the beginner o orly trained plaver o b to him. But that is not t He must idea of I ique, remem- pering that if Ls has a single weak- | neus his opponent will surely find it H Trouble With Backhand. In nine cases out of it is the backhand drive that is a player's weak spot.” This is especiaily true of American players, who are prone to overaccentuats the importance or i1he volley and far too often they de- velop this stroke before they are properly trained in sound ground cnever T help any young plaver ist upon his mastering and at once and using it ag- ely. He, himself, will prob- ce his forehand drive, but v the backhand be- t is more difficult. When he tered both drives I initiate h! into the ysteries of top spin nd_under s and then beg on his g The main thng Is to get the right mental attitude toward your game, to cut yourself a standard of per- fection ~and try stenty to hieve it. That is why I 6o strongly dvise the immediate start in learn- |ing correct form from books. Then | when vou commenca play in the early spring you will be that much ahead, and will grown interested in vour new etrokes and their dewelop- ment before the tournaments begin. | As soon as vou have learned one new stroke begzin on another. That {is the way Tilden did. It will mean | hard work, but you will be amply re- { paid, and &t the season’s end you will { find vourself a long way on the road | to real championship form. (Copyright, 1023.) 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