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Show MOVING PICTURE EVIDENCE OF GOLF FORM NOT ALVAYS TRUTH Harry Vardcri, Whose flay Personifies Golf Form. Motion pictures of golfers in action are really very Interesting, especially when run slowly so that one can study them more closely, writes P. A. Vaile In the Chicago Herald-Examiner. I want, however, to warn players and beginners, especially, against believing be-lieving all that the "movies" show them. Camera Is Liar. It Is an old gag that the camera cannot He. Well, we all know that it not only can, but does. We also know that the moving picture camera has the ordinary camera beaten out of sight as a prodigious liar. I am led to these remarks by a recollection rec-ollection of some moving pictures of Harry Vardon, whose play personifies golf form, If anybody's does. This great player is shown clearly dragging his hands away, in the upward up-ward swing before the clubhead lias left the bail. Now, it might sound foolish merely to say that I do not believe the pictures pic-tures give a correct representation of what takes place. Therefore, let me -give an Illustration of the ability of the ordinary camera as a liar. Anyone who cares to may see In "Great Tennis Players" several pictures pic-tures of players serving or smashing with the racquet having a most pronounced pro-nounced bend forward. Trick of Shutter. Anyone with any common sense must know that if there were any bend to the racquet at all it would be backward, back-ward, yet here the camera shows It to be clearly a forward bend, and mark you, these pictures were taken at the rate of one twelve hundred and fiftieth fifti-eth of a second. It is merely a trick of the focal plane shutter. Therefore, do not implicitly accept any moving picture evidence of golf form that is repugnant to reason or the best teaching without most thoroughly thor-oughly sifting the evidence. |