Salt Lake Telegram | 1934-05-10 | Page 18 | Left-Handed Golfers Should Stay on Port Side, Says Their Champ

J Left Handed Golfers Should Stay o On Port Side Says Their Champ l Hooking Southpaw Runs Into Much l Trouble Meant l ik for Right Handed 0 Slices on Present Courses t i By PAUL GALLICO f NEW YORK May 10 During some recent wanderings over the adjacent pe le I 1 came upon the e gentleman who the right to the title of d' d dS d'S S tes l left handed h ft-h golf championship be use ho ha hawon won it away from a a lot of oth other r left handed golfers or at leasaU ll the left handed g golfers he be could get to to- com come out and play him for it His name is Is- Everett Lly t aJ and he 1 is an Inventor who falls fails from Columbus Ohio I had he heard of the dub club ot of the red headed men n n and the club of the one one- armed men but the the- club of the left handed golfers vas aT ew ne on me Master M ter George Herman Ruth was once a member ot of Mr dub club ot of th the golfers I 1 asked ked the boss whether Ruth was still a member and he shook his hb head cad sadly No he said He fHe was for tor a awhile while but then hI his caz came ie along end emd he You know I guess she zhe tho thought was Iwas after a a dollar fr from m him which could not could not eca e- e ca caise Mr Livesay conducts the theY club of the golfers o out out- t of f his own pocket pays aU all the of the annual tourney y and ny other t. t item of cost that crops up I do not know Livesay I does this except maybe It Is because be be- nun cause he he- heIs Is Isa a left You know what t they ey say say- about left left- handed banded baseball pUchen I I. played a round of golf toU with the champion southpaw In which he shot hot a 2 from the wrong side aide of the ball and during durIn the course coune of the game came I said that I was Wal de lighted to have the opportunity to study a handed left roller golfer at dose close range ranle and see lee what they ware ere really lIk Ilki Vell said Mr Linsay patting lila his drive yards dow the middle it if you ou find out anything let rae me know Ive been curious about It for a long time Mr Livesay has qualified for both amateur and open champIonships but unfortunately developed a streak of hooking both times and hooked booked right Of at c urse you must realize that when hooks the ball is really going a mile mUe a minute in the tha tion- tion of a right right-hander's slice Golf course architects the world over have been q quick ick to punish a slice with yawning bunkers matted rush rush and d dense nse forests lining the right hand side of the cour course c while they hey have been much more lenient with the thc hookers S Some me day with wealth derIved from some ome future inventions Mr Liv s y hopes to build a left handed golf goU course the first and only one of its kind In the world built siv members of the let golfers golfers' club in which all the trees and brooks and traps and bunkers will be put on the port side I r think thinka a part of his sch scheme me thereafter will willbe be to kidnap a lot of right right-handers and make them play it Mr l Livesay Is a big powerful footer aix-footer weighing 10 pounds Always a be took up the cudgels for his brother golf olf olfen en when he found professionals throughout the country trying to turn left banden around and make them right And It used to be tougher than all get out ant to buy any decent left banded club clubs The champion had bad o observed ob served many Id left banden In so ae lion and even as you and I has haa seen strong Then pale run In aU all directions And hide behind trees and dig themselves Into sand traps at the appearance of a left left- bander on OD the tee I II Professionals too lazy o too 01 too J to teach handers left how to hit would turn them around and ruin them Ulem When Mr Livesay finds natural natu natu- ral left left-handers who have been forced to logo gO right he turns them back again He says it cuts culs ten strokes of off their game and makes them ever so much sweeter to their vives ives and children His ambition is to get Babe Her man and Rube Into hIs club which Is not a go d argument that there is nothing the matter with left lett- handers bander to S