The evening world. Newspaper, September 3, 1913, Page 11

SRT Serres ee ea gents a ee gE RE RE RS a THE EVENING WORLD, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 3 arom sw] NEWS OF ALL BRANCHES . = The Niblick Is Used Chiefly to Get the Ball Out of! Bunkers and High Grass—Club Must Be Played With a Straight Up and Down Stroke to Bi Gain Best Results. Tenth of a series by Alex Smith on how to play golf. To- day’s article explains the nibliok. The country’s leading golf in- structor and Metropolitan winner posed especially for the ac- companying picture, showing how the club should be played. This series is an exclusive feature for The Evening World and appears on these pages three times a week. BY ALEX. SMITH. | (Permer Open Champion of the United States and Winner of This Year's ‘Metropolitan Fitle.) Copyright, 1913, by ‘The Press Publishing Co, (The New York “ening World), | HE niblick is a big ald for bringing the ball out of bunkers and tall rats, but the club should be used as little as possible and only as & last resort for getting out of difficulties. The niblick, because of its unusual weight and pecullar shape, is exceptton- ally hard to handle. It is so heavy and powerful that ft needs @ brand new stroke, different from that used for any other club. The time to play the niblick is when the ball ts found in a bunker or other hazards that dot every golf course, To their sorrow, beginners will find themselves getting into bunkerous trouble very often during their early trials an@, consequently, must rely on the niblick for getting back on the course, Because of the heavy work the niblick {s called on to do the club must be gripped very firmly. The nib- lick {s played with a straight up and down stroke entfrely different from the follow-through swings used for most other clubs. This straight stroke fs exceédingly hard to master, but It is the only way the awkward mblick can be played properly. i Many times while approaching the green @ golfer will find himself as the re- sult of a poor shot in a bunker or trap. The only possible way to escape with the loss of but few strokes ts to make a short pitch on the xreen and play the Aidiek with such a stroke that the ball will be given a back spin that won't per- mit it to make a long run on the green and past the hole. ‘ ing should be considerably in advance of ly opposite the left heel. The club must be carried back entirely with the wrists. Don't attempt to bring the club from in back of the shoulders as for a follow-throus! It muat descend more from above the shoulders, ins When bringing the awa) from the bi and arms. Any body motion tan’t till throughout the stroke ¢ Bear in mi.id to keeP your eyes giued on the ball, If you happen to glance up @mecond or two just before making the stroke the chances are that the ball \\will_be either topped or sent flying off to the right. Rememb ything else, to hit the ball firat and then take turf. more toward the body and after the club meets the ball turm@the wrists up? The leas follow-through the better, The ball will rise with” rising little follow-through. Beginners when using the niblick try to make a sort of a scoop stroke. They never make much headway. Instead of the ball rising it shoots further Into the With the straight up and down etroke the ball is given ‘This gives what {s known as the back spin to the ball, This spin prevents the ball from taking a long roll after landing on the It je the same principle ut in billlards to make he downward stroke of the cue will mi =r @ short distance, and then the spin causes the ball to retract. To produce the same result with the nibiiek in order to have the ball come 4 quick stop with the back apin it im necessary that the face of the club hould strike the ball in {dentically th o cue meets the vil'tard ball, This up and down stroke fa not only the very best for getting out of bunkers, but {t must be used to bring the ball out of tall grass. Beginners whe rane often make the mistake of pla he niblick with a sort of @ sweep of scoop stroke. This ia wrong, When a player attempts to bring his club along the ground for the aving he will encount rase that will twist and wind around the club handle, taking much of the strength from the @troke. ‘The grass catching on the club will turn the toe of the c! body, resulting in a pull which would keep the ball in the @ hard hit, The job of getting out of grass is one of the hardest shots a muat make. 1 have devoted montha of practice on this one single play, and beginners ould quickly realize that they appnat become adept with the niblick unless they ‘eon. ball take @ quick stop. ivory that makes it run jb in toward the Pitche Who was @ big factor in the victory of of 1910 against Chicago and that of 1911 against New York, has been officially declared out of this season's big battle for the championship. Durin, next to the last game of the series with the Giants spring he took part in only one big league game—the opening contest in Boston—where he pitched four innings. down with fever and was away from the club until hie réturn early last month, Now be true, them without even hi all of it comes from that the umpire exceeded his BUT, REMEMBER, THEY ARE IN In the mean time thosg Boston Braves and annoying us consi mound yesterday and ga' Catcher Raride: throw at second and Thorpe ke thrown to first for prise among the players, This y started the season for Boston lik: league in hitting and appeared to be a Axture, sth! has a atring on him, when calied upon ng out of sand is much the same as playing out of high grass and a You've got to keep pounding at the ball and sometimes trust to luck, The accompanying picture siows how the sand fied when the hs fo Bit eu get article wil) contain suggestions ter playing tem eee atl acc linkstctenescibtlasiaatt a ni il ianat l ie —t — al So Badly Injured That He’ll Be Unable to Appear in the World’s Series. PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 3.—Jack Coom' he brought back his old intestinal trouble through how confined to his bed, and the physicians who are Coombs has never been the same since he was ‘hit b Connie Mack iseued the following statement: “Coombs is out of it for this year, 10 ie hard luck, bat we must @o into the series without him, should we win the pennant. Joba had the success of the club at heart. He fretted in Maine waiting for the chance to join us and take hie place in the box. £ hoped when he came back that he wae all right, and his bronsed color cettainly indl- ented that he wae Gt. But he still inchs the mocessary strength for ‘baseball. “E had expected to work him ont this morning with @ cateher and itters, and to use him in & game this week in case he showed Any- thing Ube the right strength. Mis doctors have not reported on his condition, but he never sould got right in time to i iE \ By Bozeman Bulger. FTER two days of unuaual suspense J. MoGraw looked over his escutcheon A this morning and found the blot gone, His long record, thanks to President Lynch, remaing unbroken and he has still to win @ decision. “For two days I have been wondering if it was realy in the cards for them to give ME the best of a baseball argument,” the Giant manager said with a half grin, “and as the time passed I was almost on the point of believing that it might No, there's not a chance, In this particular case I made no protest, was not in the mixup and let the umpire act on his own initiative, and atill I ; | lowe!” . EVEN BEING 4 CHAMP HAS ITS OTHER SIDE. Under those circumstances it is pretty hard to tell just what a fellow really ought to do. In a nutshell it's like this: The Giants were pri ing out their half of an inning by the league umpi were chased out of Philadelphta under And yet the gage has been de thority. WHO'S THAT SAID WE SHOULD LOVE THE UMPIRE? This makes two games that the Giants have lost to the Phillies through the mistakes of umpires few weeks ago Ump! nd they can not be blamed f feeling a litt! sore. KEEP YOUR EYE ON THIS FOR A PRECEDENT. Regardless of whether there was a ground rule preventing spectators from occupying a certain section of seats, President Lynch has put himself in the rather awkward position of deciding that the Phillies would have won any- | way because they wert two runs ahead when the trouble atarted. is neither clear nor according to the rules, game should have been awarded to Philadelphia by a acore of 9 to 0 It neither team was at fault the game should be played over or the Giants should at least have a chance to play out thelr inning, If the Phillies were fault, then the umpire should have been upheld, Either the umpire, th Phillies or the Giants were wrong, and it ts not up to the Pre league to decide how a game “ought to” have ended. STILL, THEY HAD JUST AS SOON HAVE THE GAME. After all, thie ruling by Mr. Lynch te likely to prove a Dicssing in disguise to the Giants. The playere are hopping mad and will now go owt and fight their hardest to settie the race in a hurry. On ao count of the big lead they have been inclined of late to slow up in their efforts, as have the Athletics. From now on they'll have to be up on their toes, See if they don't. Fr LACE NOW! ably. Hub Perdue, the champs about PS ’ NEW RECRUITS FOR THE ALL-AMERICAN BONES, haa been notified of membership ém the All-American Bone Club and Jim Thorpe will probably be admitted with tum. with Burne on first, Rariden made « throw to second without waiting to neo {f George would try to steal, which he didn’t, The ball rolled to the outfeld and Burns walked down and took the extra sack, Thorpe'’s claim to member- ship in the select order reste on his run from firet to third in the fifth inning when Crandall hit @ fly to GriMth, Bil Sweeney made « bluff as tf taking « running. In the mean time Grifith had double play an ood rally was knocked in the head REINFORCEMENTS CAME TOO LATE. After Tesreau and Fromme had been frailed for the five rune made by the Braves, Old Doctor Crandall got on the job and twirted us some championship ball, He allowed just two hits and walked two batters, Once the Doc had cranked up and got under way, the plate was absolutely free of Boston runners. If the Giante had been able to hit Perdue Crandall might have pitohed them to victory, The release of Third Baseman McDonald to Rochester caused much asur- is fellow, fresh from the Texas League, new star, For three months he led the It is very Ukely that Stallings Pinch Hitters McCormick and Herzog were in fine fettle, each making a hit Jal!, who served both ea pinch hitter and pinch pitcher, also got his two base bingle, but all to no avall, The regulare eouldn't live up to their name. wn testi} ° it rat 6; Bi duane Called at oy th MES SCHEDULED FOR TO-DAY ‘ork, ‘Gee Mew Tork ot Boston. '» eum nee. r Coombs of Athletics Again the Athletics’ great pitcher, team in both the world’s series prac- bad nd have told Manager Mack to announce that there is no chance of him twirling again this season, batted bail in the fo yeare ago. This Immediately after he was taken fornia racket wielders. Kast three years ago. have been playing tennis,” he says, I was just fourteen years of age. 1 had been toying with the game in| Playing real tennis, what t@ known in San Francesco Golden Gate Park. Practically opeak-! tion, the Golden Gate Park #. RK. | When I was seventeen years old, me member, sithours of eoetee 1 joined othera | suppose I reall, encourage young fellows | oie curmaments as a member of the ifornia Lawn Tennis Association, trokes and apeed ef I owe my tennis to Dr. Marvin, who is one of those men whore | keep them out of bad com- pany and other mischief. I played at vice Qh court covering, 1 firat with a ‘busted’ racket and a ru ber bal, Then Dr. Marvin talked to us boy@ in the way that he has and necessitated by some of us became anrbitious. types of tennis Is in “L wanted to be & great tennis 1 thought of Larned, Whit- Wright, Doherty eater’ dreams of his W and Cobb. Again, however, it was Dr. Marvin who laid another firm founda- That President Lynch Has Awarded Saturday’s Forfeited Game to the Phillies, It Makes the Second Time This Season That the Giants Have Lost to That Club Through the Mis- takes of Umpires. a forehand drive, but In the end one! finds that it ls the weak spot that that a boy or fire of against fered a chance to see if they could win. And ent that they didn’t even start, Lynch deciding Kiem brought them back on the fleld to play a game| that they had already won because he hadn't announced the bai that case it was the fault of Dooin, who signalled Pitcher Alexander to pitch the ball, And in His ruling Ir the Giants were at fault the qident of ind here cutting up didoes @ Gallatin squash, got on the neat @ trimming as they have had all season. It was the elghth inning before they cotid nick Hub fur any- thing Mike a run, @nd the one that came in the ninth was ton late to be of any use “cigarettes, ” me re wy Stood Him in Good Stead Since. F there has been one particular point about the Far Western tennis player that has excited Eastern surprise it is the youth of the Call- when he eo surprised the | player. to take werlously+a sport the ‘mrai er, Lajole | excited comment whi owed the importance troke, say jan must sacrifice a pose a N in orger t of Western tennis, to ov able. «| in xe Enough “Bull” Durham Tobacco is sold in_a ycar to make appfroxi- mately 12 billion cigarettes—about the same number as all brands of ready-made cigarettes in this country combined—and the sales are still growing, Millions of experienced smok- ers have learned that they can roll for themselves better cigarettes from “Bull” Durham than any ready- 7 made cigarettes they can buy. 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Indeed, the very speed, t! GIRLS — Broadwa; me over the 60 in— for the next of McLoughlin talks, an exclusive feature of porting pages.) AMUSEMENTS, wonderful form the coast players have shown {a unquestionably due to the fact that they can and do play the entire year, whereas the Eastern star must be content with juat five or six month matio conditions, rather than any sectional superiorly, hag eaused the Weat- erner to loom up as the tennis leader of the country. McLoughlin at twenty waa practically the same player he is to-day. Tunner-up In the national champlonship, winner of the New York State he Longwood Cup and the Southampton series, and a year later won the Newport tourney and @ succession @f titles and cups that shook up the Kast- efn tennis firmament. The rest of the Western contingent, Strachan, Johnston, Griffin, Long, wan even younger, and therefore o aurprise to the etaid Banat. McLoughitn’s description, the first he known fault of hi has ever given fo the public, of hi® first serious lesson, and It takes prec early tennis daye, is, therefore, very| dence over every other tennis advice, Interesting, Me had been playing teanls) both for beginner _ HOw OP tit. ‘Ticketa purchased for tonight goad PER tn LIGWER A jareptbonal With Geo, Macfarlane ead A weld gata Conde’ FHF POTASH a Encouraged by Dr, Marvin, I joined the Golden Gate Park Junior Tennjs Club, where I showed the firat signe of From that club I the | Was graduated into the major With JANE COWL East and the coaching of mi ally fast by asphalt courts, naturally di ered 4 courts aid not prove but 1 have never for | to us because we had the of speedy strokes which were given freer play on grasa than on by the Weatern tern people, th: Tevision of the a LAST 2 WE The Creat Mboto 1 AOU EMILE, ROOF fVz,4" in nen Sieteh fs that the incomparab! | Whitman was the first important Kast erner to urge a Wemtern invasion of ewport. 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