The evening world. Newspaper, November 13, 1915, Page 9

a UNKNOWN SWEDE HOLDS ABERG SAFE: a 7 . THE EVENING WORLD, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 13, NEWS OF ALL BRANCHES OF SPORT 1915. INFORMATION FOR AUTOISTS PLAYING A ROUND OF GOLF WITH JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER | SNAPSHOTS OF J. D. ROCKEFELLER ON LINKS ~ ANCIENT GAME HAS HELPED HIM, HE SAYS, IN DEALINGS WITH ALL HIS FELLOW MIEN He Regards Golf as the Best Game for Middle-Aged and Elderly Men. He Is Fond of Quoits, Too. He Dresses Warmly in Loose, Knit Vest and Sweater, and, Scorning Knickers, Wears Plain Gray Trousers. Intense Concentration and Deliberate Movement Are the Most Notable Ele- o°e ROCKE- FELLER AND HIS GOLF GAME © the Line. He Spent a Long Time Helping His Guest Look for a Lost Ball, Thrusting Through Tangled and Rasping Vines Till It Was Found. Elated by Two Unusually Fine Shots, He Twirled His Club Like a Shillelagh and Told a Funny Story. In His Early Golfing Days He Wired His Foot to the Ground to Keep It Down,| Having First Tried Flat Stones. “Perhaps,” He Says, ‘‘the Greatest Good Golf Does a Man Is to Teach Him Pa- tience—Yes, and Humility.” j 2) William Inglis of The Eventng World staff on Friday played @ round of golf with John D. Rockefeller on the latter's private links at Lakewood, Mr, Rockefeller ts a goif enthusiast and plays the ancient game with remarkable skill considering his advanced age. Golf, of all games, is believed to more thoroughly disclose a man's dominating characteristics, and you will readily accept this view after reading the Inglis article. By WILLIAM INGLIS. Copyright, 1915, by the Press Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World). ‘ ‘His do you do, sir? I am very glad to know you.” John D. Rocke- feller stepped forward slowly and grasped the hand of his visitor. There was old-fashioned courtesy in his deliberate, formal bow, and his speech was unmistakably the speech of Northern New York. His dlue eyes, set well apart, met the regard of his guest with a direct gaze, friendly but searching. From his appearance one might have guessed him & Prosperous farmer from one of the upper counties. Which was surprising and a little disconcerting. One expected to find him the embod{ment of irresistible force, something calm and inevitable #s a giacier or the march of the seasons; instead of which here was a plain, every-day person. He was on the long porch of his Lakewood home, the big house that used to belong to a golf club. The porch ts inclosed in glass, a fine sun parlor for cold days, and {t looks out on forty acres of gently rolling lawn, bordered on every side by green forests of pine and hemlock, framed by tall oaks, all red and russet The old golf course has been kept ¢————————_________ ¥ up, its bunkers still of the straight ing bis head down and his shoulders pattern of ten years ago, easy for|A trifle bent in his eager concentra- the professional or semi-pro of to- | tion: p elih-head swung back and | Up very little above his shoulder, then y, but quite bard enough for the day, but quite ha mas! started for the ball with speed that ordinary performer, \ constantly increased ¢ “T think the air of Lakewood the! “spat!” and the white little sphere most delightful in America at this |flew down the line of play in a fair ‘geason,” sald Mr, Rockefeller as we | tive, not too high, and good for a walked toward the first tee, “It te|hUndred and sixty yards, while th mild, yet bracing. I tind it a great |Plnyer swung thr rafter it w change. to come here from Pocantico |the club-head ro ad high and live among the pines and balsam, | all had a slight pull on it, and Do you sea those young pines? We|rolied a trifle to the loft, but kept eet them out two years ago, and | near the middle of the fairway. they've grown so I hardly know them. We have put in hundreds of them and luid out walks and drives, and we're enlarging the lake, It keepa me busy taking care of these four or five hundred acres," HOW ROCKEFELLER DRESSES FOR THE GOLF LINKS, Mr. Rockefeller was dressed with eare, Over a soft gray flannel shirt with a rolling collar he wore @ paper vest to keep the wind away, a black golf waistcoat with full silken sleeves and a lightweight blue ‘ aweater, No knickers for him, but ordinary gray trousers with a belt of plain leather, His shoes, tan, with hobnails to keep his feet from elip- ping on the turf, which would be disastrous. “Won't you drive off?” he sald, and sat down to wait on # long green settee near the tee, When the vis- itor's ball had sailed away Mr. Rockefeller stepped up on the tee and tapped with his club to show where he wanted a caddy to put a pinch of sand, The caddy pinched the sand and pressed it Into shape and set the ball on top of it, He ‘stepped back a few yards. Any one who has waited around the tee for lls turn to drive off can remember thousands of otherwise good men who change grip and stance and almost prance in their eagerness to get poised just right, and then tap The march down to the next shot was deliberate, “I enjoy every mo- ment here,” @ald Mr. Rockefeller, “This air ts wonderfully exhilarat- ing.” He looked with care at the ball aa it lay on the grass, and, turning to his enddy, ted from the b of clubs a mid-iron., He stood ov the ball, again made that slow back swing and, without moving his head the tiniest fraction of an inch, swent the ball away a clean one hundred and forty yards, still with a alight pull toward the left, His attitude, his eager, unwavering gaze, the fixe immovable head, the tremendous swipe he delivered with a long follow through—all bespoke concentration, WIRE WICKET CURED’ HIM OF MOVING HIS FOOT ON SHOT. On the next shot the force of his body swing turned him half around and his foot moved an inch or two, Which reminded moe— used to fasten your foot to the ground with a wire croquet wicket in order to keep it from moving as you made the shot.” “Yes; I did," he replied, “In my eagerness to hit hard I used to ralse my foot, At first | put a heavy stone on it to hold it down; then, finding that was not enough, I thouglit of the wire wicket, That cured me. Now- adays, when I find I'm lifting the foot I turn the toe in and the hee! well Then he began the slowest back swing I ever saw, Inch by inch the club-head steadily drew away behind the ball, the player meanwhile keep- follow to drop into the cup. ‘Then he took an aluminum putter and hit the ball a whack. That was !t—a whack, On an ordinary, smooth-shaven gree ments in His Play; He Is Seldom Off “I heard once,” said I, “that you |? the ground and waggle the driver out, That keeps the foot in place," with many 4 weird flourish before} yfore concentration, they address the ball again and again.) forty yards from the hole Mr, This man was not like any of those. | Rockefellor took a Nght mashle, gave! He advanced slowly and planted his/the ball a rather high pitoen und! feet with care in just the spots that | dropped it nicely on the putting green, would best serve For & moment he! when his turn camo he studied the rested tho sole of the driver on the! slope of the ground, the texture of the ground behind the ball grass and the line that the ball should ' | ) | the ball would have galloped over and a out of sight; but in this case it ran very fast at first, then slowed and slowed, and stopped at the very brink of the cup. When I putted I found why he had hit so hard. The green had not been played on for w long time and the grass was pot kept down and rolled smooth. “We'll have to get help to put this green in order,” he said. “Phe men been at work constantly, but the is very slow ie caddy explained that the dealer who supplied the grass seed last spring had carelessly mixed it with tansy seed, and the men had been trying all summer to get rid of the weeds, Hard luck! There is a brook perhaps elghty ‘yards from the third green, Mr. Rockefeller's ball lodged where the bank sloped gently down toward the water. This “hanging He,” as golfers call it, is always annoying, and where it occurs near a brook has an uncanny way of pushing @ fellow's shot right down into the water—a sort of hypnosis, as all golfers well know. ‘The man of ordinary prudence would use a mashy for the shot #o as to be sure of picking up the ball clean and sending it with certainty across the brook. EXAMPLE OF MR, ROCKEFEL- LER'S CONCENTRATION, But Mr. Rockefeller took out a mid- iron, Ho measured with a keen » tho distance to the green, took ® with his right foot consider- ier than the left, seemingly ed the hypnotic brook just w him, and ga the ball a clean, ‘rous sweep that landed it on the where it rolled within four | ards of the cup. I thought you'd play safe,” I re- | marked “L did,” he answered club is safe “Almost any if you'll only take good Which is perfectly true; but how many golfers have the relentless con- centration that will hold thelr facul- # without wavering under such cir- umstances? From the next tee the fair way has been cut through piney woods for a |witth of about forty atds—room ough for a Very accurate player but (trying fora slasher, Mr, Rocke- r used his iron from the tee, which lessened the distance of his shot but |insured {8 accuracy, His ball was woll In the middie of the course, Mine | flew into the woods on the left, I was ving to call it out of bounds and tee another ball, but Mr, Rockefeller 1 find that ball," he assured me. “It would be too bad to lose it, |and it should not be hard to find a white ball among the pine needles,"" With the help of the caddies we | made # cereful survey, but not a trace lof the bull could we find, 1 was going jon, but Mr, Rockefeller stayed, One id 6 his instinct against waste rting itself. Through the occ sional brambles and stickery vines he thrust his way, and when the caddy aptu 4 found the ball he looked well When he drove from the next tee his ball carried perilously near the woods on the left, but It skewed out with a Uttle “slice,” as it 1s called, which re- stored it to the middle of the course. "I was hoping for a ‘sliced’ ball,” he sald, smiling with much satisfac tion, Tt requires a the ro! a to h every man, k ny tines In @ seoms to have the knack. A ttle later he had to play @ ball over 4 brook and up bill to a green some sixty yards away. His mid-lron shot hit the rim of a bleycle which had been left in the middle of the course by a workman, and it bounded back and into the woods on the left, “Isn't that an accident which en- to another shot with T asked as he was goin fleleney at € to play ne to ime that wheel i ver and it is unfair to any plaver to hive a hazard ike put right on the line « 3. Ferris, a Lakewood playing in the match, agreed that there should be no penalty under the circumstances, ® y."|a man of his WATCHING HIS GUEST PRIVE OFF Qvncemwose ano UNcanwoon CE “Thank you, gentlemen, for tne| ntts liberality of your construction,” suid) Woil Mr. Rockefeller, dropping the bail ity taking care," he said, “I have without penalty. “You may be too always been deliberate, never in a Uberal, but it would be ungracious to hurry. And lve always had some- dispute your kind offer thing to interest me outside of busl- 1 asked bim how he kept so And this time the ball flow true and ness, Gardening, planting — trees, straight to the green, Most men|niuking ting’ grow-—or helping to would have been discomposed by the grow them, rathor, T exercise In my incident, but this player appears not room every day, besides taking mas- to know how to get rattled; so he Then golf and motoring keep played the approach shot for the » ue in the open air a great deal, ond time just as accurately there had been no mixup with bieycle, GOLF ABOUT THE BEST FORM |, 1) ong asked ime once where I pplest, and T answered: ‘I'm happiest where Iam.’ ‘That's nappinests: Be interested 1 your surroundings, and have OF GOOD EXERCISE. enough work to do—and wholesome “1 suppose,” said Mr, Rockefeller, } yin the Inst tee Mr. Rockefeller “68 we lingered on the way to the long, straight drive that t tee, “that golf is the best exer. done credit to any player, for middle-aged and elderly men.) shot, with the mid-iron, evor was invented. I've always) went perhaps 130 yards, and the ball nN on out-of-doors man 1 was » rest within ten feet of the taught to drive a horse when 1 wis lle was happy. He gave his only seven years old. Lean hear my 4 father’s voice now: ‘son, ke oD @ SOU) ot, rein going down hill; an take care of himself on “IT have always been fon used to drive pairs of spi einen! Gentlemen!” he ex- ed "I've come back to my real I surely have come to myself." | iling and his eyes were H How long ago that # / eS wanl Commodore Vanderbilt, his son, Wil- | i ‘an eh Py Nam H,, Frank Work and so many ' r 4 othere tsed to drive trotters on t me 'O5 ENS Olina (REBRRNEE, urish as if it were a shille- | who was expounding the parable of HIS TREMENDOUS FOLLOW THROUGH Herat tes What You Want to Know About Your Auto and How To Drive It and Keep If | Expert Advice How to Keep Automobiles Running Smoothly and the Best Way to Remedy Machine Troublee— Traffic Suggestions and Pleasure Routes for Evening World Readers, By GEORGE 8. ROBERTSON. RAFFIC conditions throughout | the city are steadily becoming better and it must be a source must have @ hack license. If you are driving for pleasure and the clock is covered up and your father is with you, | do not believe you would need of satisfaction to the traffic authori- | I ttenge. |ties to know that the drivers of ve= | astomohile tetitor hicles themselves are doing all they} What do you think can be the tron- an to ald in the successful handling | ble with my self-starter on a Cedil- lof traffic, Operators of motor cars are tae 1916 i does not work, and I pecc g ac 0 dl to eo . ave to cfank the machine, bee thi acouat — th io tars 1. 1. NOSTRAND. nemaphores, and it will only be a Would uggest that you hi e short time before the little defects | good Cadillac man look over the eleo- {of this system will be eliminated. | trical end of the The bat- Vehicular traffic in the parks now |teriee may need attention or, per- haps, they do not charge when the motor is running. Automotaie Eaitor }moves in an orderly fashto | there been « motorey since man has imum. While ditions on Central magneto be changed over to run @ Park West are not as good as four cylinder motor? T.G. 8. ilht expect, it is a fact that there} It would be impractical to attempe are very few accidents on this thor-|to change over a oughfare, ‘This in spite of the mixed | mete, conditions under which on must on bite drive. With the appointment of. a |4Mamebile Baitor if my father owns an auto can L his aon, eighteen years of age, drive same without @ license, DAN J, GRUPFITHS, The law states that an operator of a motor car must either be the owner or a licensed ohhligee It permits, however, any in to operate the vehisle provided the owner or. @ I censed chauffeur is in the car at time, half dozen new motorcycle men this speeding will be properly and the reekles# driver will be more cautious In the han- f his car, Reckless driving ts wore than speeding under cer nditions, and will, no doubt, sly followed up by the traffic vrttien. 1 have an Aerocar air-cooled mo- tor, wh bh Tam unable to kee p cool. pisomatite Riles Mit eat up to a point and stop, T have the Atwater Kent ignl- Dey Give cae CGvi08 So0u) Sa fiom, and ia timed No. 1 cylinder, fe. | Kerosene in the radiator of « ine pained " 7 car during the winter montha, A. J. B. Kerosene will do no serious damage from carbon, ie y fan gives a the Prodigal son. Ho sald that after vith an advanced spark, Can. you| if used in the’ radiator, but it ie prao= in rlotous living he had to part wits vise me as to the trouble? worthlesi non-freezing ahs Pen abreent Patton W. C. SQUIRES. | | olution unless an enormers quantity buy himself bre awhile be 4 ery Mahe us uagest jenatur came down to his w hirt. So he set properly or that alcohol or glycerine 9 purpose. sold that to buy bread—and then al came to himself! Wo finished even terms. tho Mr. wane His pride as ha touched. a golfer he said as [ wan leaving, our course there ~~ _ ADVERTISEMENT, or business. | road! I've pitehed quoits, too, and | found that good exercise; besides do- | ing @ lot of gardening and t |Ing—all of these things fin "Yet 1 belleve Ise of all, It is wo « MOTORISTS’ PROBLEMS SOLVED, exer walkinic But that is not its best | ¢ the greatest good | 1": nis to teach him pa-| id humility. Hi: is Just the right mixtu and striking. Perl son, Amerion's foremost become ehauffen pot iil 10 takes course’ tn your d Evening Classes; al to- tion at hours teeult eosveniemte, = that ” Spectel Classes for Ladies lings | cat or welte for booklet. | Stewart Auto School One of the advantages of ployini on @ private golf course ix that t ) MEST STPUSTRERT (at Broadway) match may go along as fast or Sener oetieeeee aeeneer) slowly as it likes. We sim) strolled and talked and. played || We Teach Automobiling lingered as the occ The man who has on sus ygsed mor ne hig HAS Ut eri A YEANS ethe ren Vox Cara and miliions than any other t VOR NEW YORK STA’ citizen in the world showed no of masterfulness, unless one ox the intensity of his concentration ¢ every faculty in the playing of thi game, He was so painstaking, deliberate, so sure. In all the mate! he never flubbed a shot. He is only an tnch or so below alx feot in height, not heavily . igs la ue legos od a prot 4| a tell you aud py wee a Your nite, a a8 to nF peeks and oper | 2 in "Aud ate Our lant; wo. tavite Gomme F equipikent, methals and rate, 21ST KOBRIDGE AUTOSCHOOL vs) Broadway, near Gath Ht, bu rather f the string ' T vg to le trained a Hataas al ereat dant a | Motor Truck Drivers which would be unusual nixty and ja altognthor. sit or as Chauffeurs hands are well pro do not show the he prominent veins one expects ou aged hands, and would pass for the bands of a man of oad crouig av tho West Bide || at ‘room F CTIOOL. hat New York. automobile world. preventor. here ridiculed the idea, test held one rainy Thirty-cighth Street. Renault. Ibefore it reac studded tires as ‘THE Renault was started from Broadway Seventh Avenue and just hed the avenue the brakes towards on about the motor to ov Rockefeller could! ger Not forget the slowness of the gre “You must come up to Pooantico, “and try The putting greens HOW, THE: FEET ENE s GF Lo OF course it is obvious that personality and character should play a great part in the successful handling of a car; just the same as it does in any other kind of pleasure The driver of a machine has all kinds of conditions to deal with. Some are more dangerous than others; but the ever- lasting, always present danger that is just as much of a bug-bear to the experienced driver as it is to the beginner, is skidding. All kinds of devices, good, bad and indif- ferent, have been invented, promoted and | used to increase the safety of driving under these particular conditions, them have gone the way that most novelties |do, because novelties as a rule do not serve |a practical purpose; but inventive genius | was persistent, and from a vague idea of | what was needed the NON-SKID CHAIN was | finally evolved and it alone has done more to raise the safety, and hence the pleasure, of v.|driving than any other one thing in the I remember the time when tire chains were first brought to our notice as a skidding In fact every one in the trade However, the doubt- ing tradesmen were invited to a comparative day Row" which at\that time was located on Two cars were taken, one a huge Panhard and the other a light The Panhard, which had a name at the time of being a veritable merry-go- round-on-wheels, was equipped with a set of | chains on the rear wheels while the Renault was equipped with the then popular steel an antinskid¢ on Automobile Bator: How can I check the time valves on a Reo to make them stop with the marks on the flywheels? JF. K. are set with the fly- et the valve tap; while warm, to about the thickness @ hal a business card. If the tappets hi too much distance a slight noise wait it. I would sug: a change of oil. : | Automobile Kaliton | Does the law allow an owner's son to drive a taxicab for pleasure with- jout having @ hackman's tains . drivin, __ ADVERTISEMENT, _.__ ADVERTISEMENT, yo 2 ADDED PLEASURES G, aa Pe were applied and the car swerved smoothly and continued on for a distance of about twenty-five feet while the Frenchman driv- ing the car smiled and facetiously remarked , that the old Panhard would have to “go some" to even equal his performance. The clumsy old Panhard was started on its way and the crowd at the corner backed off so that the car would have plenty of space to swing once it got started. At the instant the brakes were set, to every one's surprise the heavy old car stopped within a few feet without any perceptible side swing. The onlookers were amazed and they surrounded the car, looked everything over, felt the chains, and examined the tires. They were still unconvinced, but after a few minutes a “doubting Thomas"’ demanded another test. Again the old Panhard was started off, carrying as passengers this time three of the skeptics. At the corner the car was swung purposely for a skid but it again refused, The chains held like Grim Death toa Chinaman. As the result of these few tests one prominent dealer ventured the expression that “he would take a few sets and see how the darn things would take with his customers.’ Suffice to say from that time on the chains sold themselves in that territory and now the ordinary expres- sion ‘Everybody's Doin’ It’ might justly be changed to “Everybody's Usin’ Them" without fear of contradiction. I know that from the time the trial was made in the “Row" I have been an earnest advocate of non-skid chains and I believe that they should be used on all four wheels, for a car thus equipped will never skid. Most all of “Automobile ing device, I believe I might safely say that I have tried everything, but I have never been satisfied by anything else as I have been with chains,