Show BACKSEAT DRIVING Pros Can Do Work Repairing Steel Clubs I Just Out for Fun By fly FRANK FEAN K BAKER Telegram Sport Sports Editor Steel Shafts Need Not Be Returned to Factory Golf Gol cl club l who have repair men fig fig- Ig tired their trade was ruined by the introduction of the steel shafted clubs have a new lease on life lite with production pro of tools to do the work on the metal shafts The new tools have been designed by the Pr Professional Golfers GoIters association tion In behalf of Its members throughout through through- out the land who have seen their golf shop hop work dwindle materially during the the- the past past two years Demonstration of the n new w. w tools tooLs tooLs- some seine of which are ire already in use at several everal Salt Lake golf golt shops was shops was made In actual work at the Country club Monday by James P. P Gallagher traveling for the theP P. P G. G A A. Most of ot the pros assistants and a anum num number ber of and outstanding players players' of the state were on hand to listen in on tho the clinic These men saw actual proof that the new clubs can be repaired repaired re reo re- re paired or rebuilt in the local shop just just- justas as effectively u As as the work formerly was wu done for the wood rood shafted clubs dubs No Need of Player Waiting Long Time It It has hns been heen the pros' pros lot recently that when a 8 steel shaft broke in the hosel hose to send it to the manufacturer whose plant Is h hundreds of mil miles distant distant and and wait walt two or three weeks for its return This was because he had no tool to cut a 2 steel shaft but a hacksaw or ora ora ora a grindstone and was without the proper tools toots to make satisfactory fittings fittings fittings fit fit- tings much less keep from marring and scratching the Now the P. P G. G A A. offers a shaft shaft- cutter that can be operated by hand handin handin handin in the ordinary shop to cut a steel shaft in jn 10 seconds and a new rivetIng riveting rivet rivet- ing block with new type of punches that will drive out chromium or stain stain- lc less rivets It is the work then of only a little while for the club pro or to remove the damaged shaft and put in a new one The work can also be done to broken steel shafts in wood heads Hence the player is not forced to wait a long longtime time for the return of his club and the home pro can adjust the club more snore nearly to the players player's individual needs Under the smarter marter repair methods meth meth- professionals are belne I taught to make clubs clab better rather rath rath- er than weaken them with their repair work Instead of drIvIng I the tho small mall ene end of shaft baft to fit hose hosel of Iron head as head as has baa been the practice In three-fourths three of previous prey ous s work of tnt that the that kind the Je club club- makers are taught to ream out hoath of f Iron heads head to fit Iii the shafts hafts These shafts shafta It Is la pointed point point- ed out are always alway weak at small end so 0 should hould not be made mado weaker weak er by filing filing- The point of the clinic cHide II Is to train men mento mento mento to make the repairs without changing the basic qualities of the club dab Began 37 Years Ago i In Golf dolf Shop Gallagher is an Interesting golf goll character himself While this Is h his first year eat out for P. P G. G A A. At he has been a all aU his life He got his first association with a o 0 golf shop at the old St St. Andrews sp S1 course near Yonkers N. N Y in 1896 under the tutelage of Willie Tucker t He gained further pointers rs in the p principles principle of from Willie re Dunn winner of ot the first U. U S. S open n 1895 m mOne m One of the tools tools' he has hu designed that undo undoubtedly will prove popular Is a bending fixture to put on or take takeoff I off loft One can readily see th the many uses of a tool of this this' type for fox it can accomplish much for who are getting stout and others who cannot get the ball up S Fans at the Utah B. Y U. U track meet last week were Impressed by O 0 the sportsmanship of LaMar Taylor Tay Tay- lor lot who waited to let a teammate teammate- George Ashby win Ashby win the half half- mile mlle race They saw only the visible friendship of a star tar however however however how how- ever who ho forsook the the glory of winning another event that a mate mat on ond might get a first place and thereby thereby there there- b by win his hi college letter Ashby's Ashbys Ash- Ash sta by's bys berth on the Cougar team Is omd of an accident yet that p it emblem will wilt be cherished deeply M by him A Junior at the tho Y r Th The this former Delta boy went out oat for ce track chien chiefly for the exercise He lIe na didn't entertain any aDT Idea of making flak mak In lug ing the team He lie proved prone promising promis ea lug ing from the start however and arid ch trot 10 a pla place e on the tho team Be Ho bran ran rana Pr a good second to Taylor b th be be- fr Jn ing far ahead of the field When It was wu evident they could ouId loaf In En of ca OJ ahead Taylor let him t take ko the lead hi him hi his |