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" & - ia a lesson or at leastfriendly least * " " o 1 1nendly nendly friendly ( advice L Lfrom \ ( ? * 1 ' 1from 'from from ' from Harry Vardon Vardonon -on on - , on hov ho v to play acertain a acertain \certain certain \ , 4 4certam certam certain type of shot i ) k kWalter . wVSrWalter Walter neverEyy never I , ] Fk t Eyy " , . , , j jthought | Eyythought neveri .2.11 2.11 211 i . t-A t A tAU - . . -U- U - U1 Uall . , - ' " . J Jall 1 thought he knew itall it all or any big rart Eart : Walter Dagen flagon Dagenof flagonof Oagenof of It at it . . atI I 1 ve ye tried tned to learn something somethmg that thatwould thatwould thatwould would help my pluy pl"y ply ploy " for he last ten tenor tenor tenor or fifteen years I 1 thought as a k d 1 I 1k1 Iki Iki k1 ki ew most of ot ItIt itIt it itIt It was only when I 1 began to find findout findout findout out how little I really reaUy kne v that I l Istarted lstarted Istarted started wuin wmn winn ng rig again aga10 after a lapse lapseYou lapseYou lapseYou You get a lot of fool sh and useless uselessadvIce uselessadvice uselessadvice advIce But here and there you youcan youcan youcan can p ck up something somethmg that will help helpa a lot lotWalter Walter Camp and PudgeYears Pudge Pltdge PudgeYears Years ago Walter Camp told me meI mean mean mean I an interesting mtcrest1I1g exper ence once he had hadha hadhar , har ha ' ' ' with Pudge Fudge Heffelflnger Heffelfinger a toot foot tootball football tootball ball star who Nho lasted over 30 yearsPudge yearsFudge years yearsPudge Pudge Fudge was so good Camp saId saIdthat saidthat saidthat that I was afraid be he would be an another another another other know it-all it all - - In place of ot that thatI thathe thathe ( hathe I he kept coming commg to me for more ad advice advice advice vice on guard play I showed him himI himtJ himU himU I tJ U ree new variations Later on he heC'1me hec hecime C'1me C1me c ' sme back baek and told me be he had hadlearned hadlearned , ' l'arned larned learned ( ' four new angles One of ofthese ofthese tbese these was the time possibility of the tbe run running runDing , nmg ning guard How flow ow many people hnow11 knowtI knowt know tI t/ t tat / at Pudge Fudge Ueffel HeffcIfiDffer llefrelfinger mger bad had "orked orked worked workedout " workedout . out and developed the correct meth method method method od of ot tho the running guard around 1889 1889or 1889or 1SS1or or 18901 18901All 1890 ? All I 1 know is that as late as 1921 1921or 1921or 1921or or 1922 Heffelflnger Hcffelfinger then 53 years yearsold yearsold yearsold old kept tell tcll ng Bo McMiU n then then22 22 to speed up his start and gIve gIveh giveh h m a chance to lead lcad that Interfer Interference interferonce interterence ence once Ask BoTI lbTi Bo lb BoTl Tl TI e a more you kno lmo v the easfcr easier easfcrany easierany easierany any game is an old time tramer trainer tramersaId trainersaid trainersaid saId recently You can save your yourself yourself yoursell self so much and last so much long longer longer longer er You can often oftpn handle superIOr superIOrphys superiorplays superiorphys phys plays eal cal power and even greater greaternatUJ greaternatty greaternatui natUJ natty al skill by kno lmo ng more than thanyour thanyour thanyour your rival does But Bvt this can only onlycome onlycome onlycome come from trying trymg to learn every everything everything everything thing you can as j.ou jou Sou . so go alongI along I |