The evening world. Newspaper, August 28, 1913, Page 11

| GIANTS HAVE LOST EDITED BY FIGHTING SPIRIT piconet 8 EDGREN To Make the Correct Mashie Shot, Ball and Ground Must Be Struck at the Same Time—The Chip, One of the Greatest Shots in the Game, Is Made by the Mashie, Eighth of a series by Alex Smith on how to play golf. To- Gay's article is a continuation on the mashie, player and instructor posed es pecially for the accompanying pletures showing how the club should be played. This series is .AN exclusive fedture for The Evening World and appears on “these Pages three times a week, The BY ALEX SMITH. Qrermer Open Champion of the United States ‘Metropolitan Title.) Consrieht, 1019, by The Pre@e-Publishing Co. (The New York Evening Work) LACE both feet solid on the ground for the mashle swing. Take a P Position rather close to the ball, with the right foot well in advance : of the left. In this attitude the ball should be about on a line with your left foot. For the mashie, as with the other trons, the ball and ground muet be%struck together, off the correct shot it is essential to take some turf in As the mashie only needs a quick, hit or snap, the follow through isn’t carried as far back as for many other clubs. Picture No, 2 gives the top of ewing, full view, for the mashie. geen that the club ts only carried back far enough for @ short stroke or snap at the ball. It is singular tiit many players when using the mashfo and other clube make a quick wing, while others indulge in a lot of giming. This is a matter of Personally I do but little aiming and preliminary swinging. the follow through. ALEX temperament. Too much alming often spoils a shot. Many beginners, and even golfers with more exporfence, find playing the mashie difficult simply because they attempt to use m full shot, or stroke, with the clus, 1 play the mashie with a half stroke, Occasionally T need a full stroke when It is neces- sary to pitch over a tree or some other “high obstacie, This Is a -are occurrence, “Rowever. The mashie is the hardest club tn the making a full stroke, and except in few instances, 1 prefer the mid-iron Anstead of the mashie for full strokes, Thie matter of selection rd leason fog beginners, At frst t generally try playing the mashie with a full stroke and then fail into the bad habit ,of hooking the ball, Mashie shots are never intended to @0 over a hundred feet. The majority fall way below that ‘distance, It is at this time that the ‘mashie becomes a treacherous club ‘in the hands of a novice when he at- cfempts to make @ full swing for so “short a distance, It is with the mashie that I make my favorite shot-the-chip, I have found the jost important of all shots, tined more with it than for an@ the results have apent. The 4purpose of the chip shot is) when at #@ distance of about ten or fifteen feet sfrom the green to give the ball a short Pitch or loft and then let it round The ehot is made ft on the Back stroke onip, jo short that the club perore Of course, and Winner of country to realize the poss!bilities of the many professionals my time played what is now Tt ts plainly Guan 1m Teey & TALKING TS You, You Bie SIMP. HERE ITs THURSDAY AND You HAVENT GR OR Training noted DE old LADY WILt GIT SOREAT Me , BUT IM GoNNA SOAK To get ae Athletic Council at West Point Issues Statement in Ex- planation. _—— (Special to The Evening World.) WESTPOINT, N. ¥., Aug, 28.—There will be no Army and Navy football game this year. The rival athletic committees can come to no agreement wpon the matter of a site for staging this big contest and the Army has therefore arranged a bis its place, which will be played at West- point on the Saturday following Thankegiving which is Nov, 29. The following authoritative state ment was given out to-day by the all aports in which the Cadets partici- pate Statement: to etate that, after making every effort, it has been unable to agree with the Naval Athletic Council upon the location for this year's fotball game between the Military and Naval Academies, While the Army Coungil tefully appreciates: the fact that the University of Pennsyl- ground at the finish There 1s no foilows 2 shows how the club fier the shot has Pp impact given e chip snot-comes | e a long accurate ‘the chip, but they did it without know- ing the wonderful value of the shot. Many years ago I eaw what might be accomplished with the chip and I quickly put in a lot of practise on It. I named ft the chip and became very proficient getting down to the cup with it. It soon became my most important shot. It won match after match for me. It is surprising the large number of players In tournaments who grew a0 nervous when I used the chip shot that they finally wasted enough strokes to lose the match, It was the chip, more than any other shot, that won the Metropolitan title for me in the recent tourmiment at Garden City, It {s almost amusing that this little play with {ta pitch and roll should Prove so dangerous, My falth in the chip is go great that I would recommend tc beginners hat as soon as they gain @ good {dea of the mashle to start Practising with the chip shot. I don't think that with the proper amount of Preparation they will go far wrong. However, this play as well as all other mashie shots can only be mastered after long practise and the beginner might just as well make up his mind early to devote a lot of time to the {mportant feature of approaching If he hopes to Play a strong game of golf. The next article w"l explain the putter, ns ARRANGEMENTS COMPLETED FOR GIANTS’ WORLD TOUR | CHICAGO, Aug, 28.—Arrangements for the worl! tour of the Chicago Amerionns and New York Nationals have been completed as Said, it was announced t ell, advance man for sulled yesterday trom 1 the Empress of Japan bound n, The same vessel will carry hietes when they leave the Cane! org.Nov. 19, games. It is certain that the teams play at Yokohama, Tokio, Kobe, Nagasaki, Shanghai, Hong Kong and, ry, T was the firet in this Manila, vania has extended itself to the limit In providing accommodations, the demands | made upon the Army Athletic Council have been growing at such @ rate until at the present time they have assumed such proportions that make the playing @ fthe game upon Franklin Field im- possible {ro man Army point of view. In the search~for a location where! the accommodations would be ample from every standpoint, and where the fi game would assume the aspect of a truly national event, geated the Polo Grounds in New York. This proposition did not meet with the F approval of the Naval authorities, how- ever, The Army authorities feeling that sinoe the game could not be given this national aspect anywhere else except ‘on the Polo Grounds, preferred that it ‘be returned to where It was originally played, upon heme grounds, It was only after the Naval authorities fatled to agree to play upon the Polo Grounds, @t Westpoint or at Annapolis, that th Army couneil found Itself compelled to turn to the only other government in-| stitution for a game that would prove! @ fitting cltm: schedule, Such a game has been arranged and | the Army's opponents in Its this yea championship game will be the team from the Carlisle Indian School. The game will be played at West Point on| Nov, ® The breaking of the negotiations with the cadets’ Gearest foen, the mid- KING GEORGE’S GOLF INSTRUCTOR TO PLAY HERE. BOSTON, Ave. %8.—Christopher See lerway, golf instructor to King Goo: of England and the Emperor of Ru. - sia, has arrived here to participate in the open golf championship on the Oak- ley Club course in Brookline next Empress. widered one of the strongest players in England. He will pend the next two weeks practicing ‘on the Oakley Club links, ee the Army sug-) Army Officially Cancels Football Game With Navy me to take | Rw Army Athletic Council, which governs | “The Army Athletic Council regrets | J Corian, 1918, by The Press Pubilehigg Co. (The Mew York World). CHICAGO, Aug. %.—The suggestion of President Comiskey of the Chicazo Amer js that the playing rules be revised next winter at the convention of managers, umpi and newspaper- men was endora to-day by Premdent Murphy of the local National League te. Lo! are va GONNA GIMME ME] Bowne Peron Now ? VELL = AY 010 SOME WoRK ff has been my belief for several years that the play! les are badily in need of recodityini Mr, Mur- Dhy. "It looks especially bad to have the rules governing balks interpreted differently in the major jeagues “I believe that a committee compris- ing all major league managers and um- Pires and leading scorers would be un- wieldly, work better, I think the meeting should be financed by the National Commission Qs the experts would be performing 4 Kreat service, The playing rules could be thoroughly discussed and overhauled, to the great benefit of the national fro ten days to two weeks, WELLL ’ pues tr's PooR UTTLE hearer | come To m's MoTHER-- 4ND Dib Thos] NAUGUTY CLEVELAND Boys PICK ON Him acain!9> FF wer cook, une Y Zn WHEN CONE macn'S KIDS jer lowing nineteen straight games Jersey City defeated Toronto in the ime with a 5 to 1 score, due ly to Shaw's hitting. Brandon 1d was given fine sup- homer-in the first stored three and his Gmely omgle in the counted tho other two Skeeter runs, TEGRELD FOL. 43 GLOBE reg sr py we a Oy w Munleal Fier, rae DOL Ae phe ne 4 PAMAGes 9008 Wer uaa 13 ITT! . GIR Nar ty to 1 i Hak KYPA |GOTHAN * ini TOMORROW SIGIT TURKEY PROT COND OLYMPIC TO.N1G AMNTEL uv le RETURN OF THE PRODIGAL SON. Qunarever THT MEANS. s ae IN@ DANSEZty hile PAAUINY & OABAKK' Mie and Mi dies, marks the end of a controversy which has lasted all summor over where the next Army and Navy gante should bo played, Bur ovary OF "YESTERDAY'S eat A I, Barna ris” 7: No games eebedulapl ' fife? Maton Pay; postponed, Of the seventeen contests on the MES SCHEDULED FOR TO-DAY rated back New Tork ab Tern hubdelia st Now York, ‘on nine and an dork op Daliaa bie me played at te Tule at Cinciuoatl, Washington at Boston, f 8 BILLY WATSON’S AMERICAN ROOF aut Reee,,! 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