Salt Lake Telegram | 1930-03-17 | Page 4 | Sport Talk and What Not

I r AND W WHAT AT N NOT NOTH r iJ 1 I H L D DI I S Scientific L Instruction I. Naval science has conic come to the aid of the unhappy amateur ama nina j t ur golfer Through h a device just invented by Professor Sir James a ites Henderson on of the tile admiralty gro gyroscopic copic department it is isnow 15 t now flow p possible without any golf ball ban and without any field to te tell iel whether your drive would have gone straight or been becil r. r sliced and how badly sliced Tire device has no name It is Sir James' James own homemade home home- made gadget Keith Jones Joncs writes us that it was born of an m inc c eminence in iii science not matched by an eminence in JU golf a a condition of affairs that Sir James was Vas determined to remedy despite ti the tho despair pah oC or his hi- professional Ional donal instructors So with a thoroughly thor thoL scientific outlook ho ho set about working out his own salva-j salva lion and started l lout out with tho j that thal It was nece necessary sary first of It all to find out just what happens t I I to th hands and the club head at atthe th the th moment of ot Impact between tho the club head and tho the ball Near Neap to the toe of his driver he fitted a double reflection mirror c consisting of two small mirrors set at right angles t to each other Near th the trie heel of the club h he placed a t pf plane ne mitre mirre The Thi Th doubt doub mirror in the toe of the club reveals the errors caused by turning the nose of the club in inoC inor inor or oC out th the tho plane mirror near the heel of the club reveals the tho errors caused by the hands lagging or Ic leading ding A thin bean of I light thrown by a alamp alamp alamp lamp falls on n s white spot on the carpet This Thin spot represents the b ball ll In ta taking ing the proper stance and addressing the ball the light is seen in both mirrors When a perfect per por- f ct complete stroke is s made two nearly early instantaneous but distinct flashes of light are arc seen as the club head swee sweeps s through the beam of light One flash comes from the double mirror mirror- just before the im impact impact im- im pact pct th the other other- flash comes from the plane mirror just after the thc im im- im pact If IL the thc lash flash from tho tim double mirror mirror mir mir- occurs late tho ball was sliced t K IC It occurs early carl the the ball wa was pulled An n call early caily flash on the plane mirror means that the hands wore were leading and that tho halt hall was probably probably ably half haH topped A lato flash I would n m mean fan an that tho hands lagged and zuid tho the ball would havo 0 been heen bal hal The gadget ma may l la 13 fitted with a screw r to any ol old driver er or thuu thought though h It would woul lt bo ho n akry to gouge out some of or tho the lead to retain tho right weIght and hal bal al- al ml ance e. e