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Show NAP LAJOIE LEARNS GOLF IS DIFFICULT Ex-BasebaH Star Finds Way Up Is Pretty Hard. experience Has Taught iKing of Keystone Key-stone Backers to Pay More Attention Atten-tion to Movement of Wrists and Actual Accuracy. Nap Lajole, former second baseman and manager of the Cleveland ball club and champion batsman of the big leagues. Is finding the sledding in golf ao easier than the hundreds of other auners. " Nap, one of the regular visitors at Highland Park, the municipal links, bad en awful time eventually breaking 100, and has just recently mastered the trick of negotiating 18 holes somewhere some-where in the 90s. Bt the ex-king of swat Is advancing rapidly. When Larry first started to play regularly he walloped the' ball for further fur-ther orders. He apparently had in mind his home run clouts of the rare old days of baseball. Putting all hla mighty strength In the swings occasionally occa-sionally did give him a drive of 250 yards or more, but the bnll was seldom straight. Invariably he hooked or - - -'"- sliced into the rough, and he was al most constantly in difficulty. Experience taught Larry to forget all about supreme power In hitting the sphere and to attnfh more stress to the movement of the wrists and actual accuracy. It taught blm also that the main thing Is to keep one's eye on the ball from the start of the upward - swing to the follow through. Lajole is driving 'em out around the 178 mark quite consistently now and his shots are more frequently than otherwise straight down the course. Like all beginners be la bothered with such combinations as a good day with the woods and off-color with the Irons, and vice versa, but all his associates admit that Nap is getting there and at a real lively clip. |