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Show URGES MORE USE OF SPOON AND MASHIE St. Andrews Official Wants Them Restored to Place of Importance. Judging from the remarks of Henry GuIIen, secretary of the Royal and Ancient Golf club, manager of the British Brit-ish Walker Cup team, golfers on the other side of the water are not nearly as perturbed over the question of a ball change as they are here in America. While speaking unofficially, Mr. Gul-len Gul-len said that In his opinion the reason rea-son for the constant lowering of the scores is not due so much to the ball as to the fact that golfers are getting ever and ever better. Like every one else, Mr. Gullen would like to see some of the old clubs Buch as the spoon and the mashle return re-turn to the place of importance which they formerly held in the game, but In his opinion the new ball with which the C. S. G. A. Is experimenting will hardly succeed Id doing so. It is his opinion that club officials who are inclined in-clined to complain when some of the stars perform feats that make the par look silly are making a mountain out of a molehill. "It Is no disgrace to a course to have some golfer such as Tolley come along and register a 05 or a CO when the par is 71 or 72," said Mr. Gullen. ''Such things are likely to happen no matter how far t he ball travels. Rather Rath-er should we pay tribute to the men who are able to do such marvelous things. At St. Antlrews we have lowered low-ered the par two strokes as one way i f compensating for the scoring." |