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Show Page TUESDAY, JANUARY 9, 1931 The Dragerton Tribune, Dragerton, Utah 6 V SPORT LIGHT Sam Snead Tells 'Em and Shows 'Em GRANTLAND RICE HAPPENS to have SAM SNEAD of the greatest natural golf swings the game has ever known. This takes in Vardon, Braid, Taylor, Jones, Hagen, Sarazen, Hogan find Nelson. But it might also be remembered that Sammy Snead is also a high-clas- s golf instructor at White Sulphur Springs, W. Va., where he is home pro. And while Snead is on the tournaBy ment trail quite a bit, he is also at home quite often, giving lessons. It isnt generally Grantland Rice known that Snead was a football, basketball and baseball jstar. in high school as well as a fellow with ability to play golf. I was talking A short while with Sammy about the intricate quality of the golf swing, when it came to the teaching side. "One trouble In teaching the golf swing,' Snead said, "is the territory it covers. It starts with the head an important factor and it runs on to the feet another important factor. Be " tween head and feet, it takes in body, hips, knees, hands, wrists and just about everything the human system has. "If your head action is poor, the swing is poor. If your foot action is bad, the swings no good. Id say you must start with the balance, and that begins with the feet. You know balance isnt a post stuck in the ground. The feet must move and work with the swing. When you start the backswing with your hands and arms, the shoulders and hips and knees must all work together. One part of the swing cant work against another part. "I would say, Sam added, "that the swing starts all together. Once the hands start to move the club head, the left side also begins to turn. You cant leave the left shoulder, left hip or left knee behind especially the left shoulder. You cant split up the swing in sections, as so many try to do. "Its a tough job to teach anyone to put all these parts together. "Dont hurry the downswing. "The average golfer starts "What is the most common fault in golf?-- 1 asked Snead.' "Too much tension too much stiffness is the main fault, he said. "They get all locked up even when you give em the right stance and the right grip. But. outside of tension, they have a lot of trouble with body action I mean in keeping the body in place, in helping hand action instead of hurting it. his downswing before he finishes his backswirfg. Hes only thinking of socking that ball.JIe cant wait to get in position to sock it. A golfer who keeps his head anchored, who doesnt rush his backswing or' hurry his 'downswing, will shoot pretty good golf, even if he makes other mistakes. "One trouble in teaching golf The body Is likely to overpower the pupils are dumb, but becajse it is such a hard game to teach. Essence of Lemon It takes about 400 lemons to produce 10 ounces of oil or essence of lemons. rx - l' - ill jKy 7 v ; i j f' v-- - A hands and arms. "Which is harder, I asked. "To teach golf or play tournament golf? "Both are tough ways to make a living, he said. is there are so many things you can do wrong. Somebody has written there are 132 ways to slice. Sometimes 1 almost be lieve it. I cant understand why most golf instructors dont go up to the top of tall buildings and jump off.' Not because their ba. The Biggest Faults were moving in NEW PEOPLE old house across the fence, So they had taken the house after all! Well someway she had to keep the brat out of her yard. There were her flowers in and Molly went about her sewing near the window complacent with the certainty that the couple with the ten the spring and 'summer. Hed rummage In her sheds and break up things. She glanced out of the window and saw Ronnie climbing the fence. She pulled herself out of the chair and waddled hastily to the door. Here, here, she galled to the child. "Get baek in your own yard. Ronnie looked at her a second then climbed back over the fence. boy year-ol- d with whom shed talked just the other day were not the folks moving in today. Turner had never liked children, and through all these twenty-fivyears she had been fortunate that none had moved next door. She felt in a way that telling prospective tenants with children the bad features about the old house had spared her an association she couldnt have endured. There hadnt been anything wrong in speaking the truth. ' Molly put her sewing on a table, got up from her chair with difficulty and hobbled over to the coal stove to shake it down and put in a scuttle of coal. She had told the woman the truth about the house being drafty and needing repair, and about Frank Overton being so tight hed never do anything about Molly e it. - and turned toward the window, and that was when she saw him: Ronnie, the boy belonging to the woman shed talked to the other day. He was standing against the fence looking toward her house. Planning up his conquests of deviltry, she thought, and she groaned downswing." "Thats another thing you have to in sick disappointment. She hobbled back to her chair. watch in teaching, Snead said. time I asked Ben Hoganthe first move he made on the downswing. 'Get the left side out of the way and the left heel back in place, he said. "Then you have something to hit against. Most golfers start their hands too quickly on the About this -- .V She straightened ten-year-o- ld OLLY THOUGHT she had Ronnie settled, but the next afternoon when she went out to the shed for a bucket of coal, he came to the door. "Ill get your coal In, he said. Molly wouldnt look at him. "I dont need you to get my coal in, she said. "Get back in your own yard. Go on, now! It was the way Molly looked that caused the kid to scamper down the walk and climb over the fence as if she had actually shot'at his feet. The unpleasant incident didnt keep Ronnie away. Every day Molly had to chase him out of her yard. Every day she vowed shed skin him alive. What kind of mother did Ronnie have that she allowed him to pester a crippled old woman like her! But one night a blizzard came, and the town of Hanover was covered with ice. Molly just had one bucket of coal by her stove, and she dared not venture out on the ice to get more. She used the coal she gotdown sparingly, and-whto the last shovelful, a lost, desperate kind of feeling went over her. What would she do? Late that afternoon a knock soundeS on her door, and when she opened it, Ronnie smiled up at her en EDDIE uncertainly. "Ill get your coal in, Miss Turn er, he said. "Its slick, n you might fall . . . Molly coaldnt speak for a moment. She felt almost humble with shame and gratitude that he had come. "Well, I well, that would be sweet of you, she said finally, and for the first time in all these twenty-fiv- e years of not wanting children next door, she saw the injustice of her prejudice toward them. What queer quirk in her mind had blinded her to the happiness a child could bring her? Maybe it was because she had never looked at one not as she was looking now at Ronnie and seeing the clear innocence of his eyes. A smile broke across her old . THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN, LONG RENOVNED AS A FOOTBALL POWER, WHAT WITH ITS RECENT HIGH -- SCORING CLUBS AND FIELDING MOST'S POINT-MINUTE TEAMS, SCORED ONLY 4 POINTS IN THE ENTIRE SEASON BACK IN 1881 J A i face. said. "Thank you, Ronnie, she Strange, how good she felt say ing it. The feeling was beautiful -one that she had waited much too long to experience. t ' s S A 'S 'w V . V ' y' ... A little girl named Glenda, with WALKS FOR FIRST TIME the aid of braces and crutches, walks for the first time three years of life. She is being treated In Childrens Orthopedic hos- pital at Seattle, Wash., for a congenital dislocation of the hips. She has had five operations and more than 100 X-ra- ys. GRASSROOTS Harry's Blunt Correspondence Alienates Music Critic Bloc By Wright A. Patterson n GAIN PRESIDENT TRUMAN has done himself an injury by writing a characteristically impetuous letter that will cost him votes should he again be a candidate for the Presidency. In billingsgate such as a marine might use in expressing his opinion of the Chinese Reds, he upbraids a music critic on the Washington Post for a criticism of daughter Margarets voice. The critic said it was flat. It was the President, not Margaret, who objected to the statement. He might have disagreed without injury, but he will not be excused for the language he used in telling that music critic how and where he will beat up that critic should they eer meet. It was language that he should cot have used while holding the job as President of a great, cultured and Christian nation. It is language that will be recalled, and remembered by many thousands should the President again ask for their support in 1952. Harry S. Truman should establish for himself a censor to pass onaiLof his unofficial correspondence who would check his impetuous outbursts. i The joint statement issued at the close of five days of conversations failed to disclose any real purpose for the British prime ministers visit to Washington. All that was accomplished, if anything, might have been done in a teleOf conversation. phone course, Prime Minister Attlee may have needed a vacation, or he may have wanted a few unrationed meals, with bacon and real eggs, not the powdered kind, for breakfast. Such things are hard to come by in socialistic England. As far as the President was concerned, the one thing he asked for, but did not get, was. for England to stop the supplies it is selling to Red China, direct or through long Kong. That would touch the British pocket-boo-k, and Attlee turned thumbs down on such a proposition. Any way it was a nice call, and went off wjth every evidence of friendliness. What purpose there may have been back of it we may find out later, and then -- we may' not The increase of 16 cents an hour in the wages of U. S. steel workers is but the beginning of another round of wage increases, to be followed by another round of commodity price increases, that ia more inflation. For the next two or more - the purchaser of commodities will be the United States government, either for rearming ourselves or for the rearming of western European nations, years largest for which we are obligated to do the paying. U.'S. Steel has already announced a 5 per cent increase. According to the figures of Raymond Moley, a 16 cent an hour wage increase for only workers means a total increase of more than $6,000,000, all of which will be passed on to the 'purchaser. It Is $6,000,-00- 0 the American tax payer must dig up; Congress gave the President authority to freeze both wages and prices, but it did not fix the time. Fortunately he cannot freeze price increases without also wage increases. While he waits, the dollar .continues to devaluate, inflation 1 . continues to grow. We not only pay more for the commodities we buy for our personal use, but we pay billions more for what the government buys for rearmament at home and abroad. Inflation is not "just around the corner; it is here and Is growing. The President tells us to quit buying things we do not need, things we can get along without, but his government does not practice what he preaches. The one big spender for things we could get along without is the government. I wonder why the President in making appointments, finds it expedient, in so many cases to pick those with questionable backgrounds- those who made the wrong guesses in our Chinese policy, causing us to favor the Chinese Reds. Certainly there are enough members of the Democratic party, whose associations are not questionable, who cannot be charged with Communistic leanings, to fill the jobs and whom the senate would confirm without question. The weather is a subject on which all of us never agree. Released by WNU Feature |