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Show GOLF. George Steiner was practicing with his approaching, ap-proaching, mashie, making short approaches from the driveway at the side of the club house. The gutta was lying in a wheel rut, about as nasty a lie as can be imagined. "Now what can a man do with a ball like that?" he asked. "You get lots of lies through the fair greens just as bad." Well, I saw Travis play just such a shot in his famous game with Eben Byers last year, and have seen it played the same way by other high class players with good results. Travis used a decided chop with a short swing. A three-quarters, or full, swing with an iron, as with a driver, comes very near the ground for some distance behind be-hind the ball, so this shot would be useless. The idea is to "snap" the ball, and the club head, instead in-stead of being carried through, goes into the ground, taking plenty of dirt up with it. Much distance cannot be hoped for as a rule. But the results, when the club head meets the ball fairly this way, will often be surprising. This same "snap" shot, by the way is- often used from a rather poor lie when it is desired to put the back spin on the ball It works well on turf, but on the sand greens here it is not so effective. ef-fective. & & ? What Steiner said about the fair greens is true, though. Several of the players have already learned this to their sorrow. Rains will do the course no good. The sheep may. Wouldn't it be possible to get a road roller out on the course? When a player gets a lie after a good drive that requires a niblick, and when this occurs, not only once, but on an aveige of twice out of three times, the calm joys of tiddle-de-winks or chochet work are apt to be impressed on said player's mind, with a consequent drop in the price of golf balls. 0& t7 v In this connection, would it bo proper to squeak a little, and ask what is to be done next year? Turf courses in this section of the alfalfa belt are not Impossible. Witness the course of the Overland Club at Denver. On the present grounds turf can hardly be thought of. But on lower ground, where water is more easily procurable, procur-able, it would be comparatively easy to keep a course covered with grass. The game has outgrown out-grown its fad days here. It is the physicians' worst enemy. And many of them love their en- H emy. On a real golf course, where the gutta H stands up on the grass and fairly barks at you, H daring you to slam it into the Provo suburbs, H where bad lies are things to be talked of instead H -of to be expected, the game has joys that are un- H dreamed of by us of the sandhills, gravel patches H and sage. A. FOOZLER. M |