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Show Limit on Golf Equipment Beginsin'MiamiTourney BY STUART CAMERON I'nited Pre Sports Editor CORAL GABLES, Fla., Dec. 9 (UP) Golfs newest controversial controver-sial ruling limiting a player to 14 clubs gets its first major test tomorrow when 200 of the nation's best tee off in the annual Miami Biltmore $10,000 open championship. While the rule does not become golfing law until January 1, 1938, the Biltmore tourney committee ordered its enforcement in this event Just to furnish an early test. Aces of the tourney circuit are sharply divided in their regard for the rule. Ralph Guldahl, national open champion and defending champion of the Biltmore title, is the most outspoken. Culdahl thinks it is "silly to make any such arbitrary ar-bitrary ruling." Another one of the antls is the veteran Wild Bill Mehlhorn of Chicago. "Why 14?" he asks. "Why not seven? That's enough and I've got to do a lot of thinking to figure out enough clubs to make my bag as heavy as the others." Henry Picard of Hershey, Ps., Argentine open champion, objects to the rule "because It might cramp the style of some future Super-Bobby Super-Bobby Jones or Super-Walter Ha-gen." Ha-gen." Picard said he likes to carry more than 14 clubs so he can switch when scoring poorly. The rule, adopted by the golf as- ci ...,y.': .ft -f-y- ;.;"' ft! - --will - n ' ifi i i Vi i ' J Ralph iuldahl. ..Dislikes elub , I restrictions. sociation to lessen the burden of the caddie and to place greater emphasis on skill, also has drawn the ire of Leo Dlegel of Philadelphia. Phila-delphia. "Whoever hit upon the number 14?" he asked. "Why not 13 or 17 or any other number? I think a player ought to be allowed to use as many as he wants to." Many professionals express opinions, but not for publication. This is because so many are "tied up" with various manufacturers. Club makers, naturally, do not like the new rule fewer clubs per bag, fewer club made and sold. Harry Cooper of Chicago, one of the most consistent prise money winners, is one of the biggest club-toters. club-toters. He often has as many as 29 clubs, including six woods. Such a bag weighs 90 pounds. Cooper takes virtually the same swing with all irons. A player of his style puts an emphasis on gauging the distance of the shot and choosing his clubs accordingly. The player of the old school Mike Brady, for example regulates reg-ulates distance by length of swing, and facing ef dub. Brady used but seven dubs when he tied Walter Hagen for the national pen title in ISIS. Jesse (iuil-ford (iuil-ford won the national amateur In IStl using only seven, while Chick Evan carried but eight In rapturing both open and amateur ama-teur in I9IH. |