Show iI or Yee 4 RICE Copyright 1921 1924 New NewYork NewYork York Tribune Inc t l lF S Ot Of OF Tim TILE 1 SHORT HOItT SHORTt t aMI YME Anyone Any one or of o a dozen golf er might on a 0 certain day or through a certain tournament use ao a a mashie mo mote e effectively or II putt more ef than any of ot the lea leadin lII f tars Only the a er a go of ot tho season cal can be on short gime depends a lot upon the tho thoda theda da s 's s touch an and this thia Is especially true of ot the lie chip shot and the putt putt- putting lag ing i Jono Jones and Sat Sat-azen SI azen aro are two con consistently fine pia en Hutchison and S are aro three stats nith lIh the tho mashie nib nib- niblick nib nib-ilick lick lIk When It comes to any sort sor soror sorto or of pitch shot with Ith e ith a 0 bite bile to it II Hutchison Is master ter of or th the lot lie I o can put more cut to the tho ball than any man we know Ye Yet there are other golfers goiters who do donot donot donot not go In for Cor or the cut to any such ext extent nt Jim Barnes Darnes Is a fine mashie player who belle beliefs es In let let- letting let tini ting the ball take Its natural I run after aCler reaching the green TIms TIm's Idea li is to pitch short of ot the pin and let the ball run up to It lIo He Hel HeIs Is l better on the combination pitch i or pitch and run with the up tun-up run than any of ot the others othere I Sweetser Is la a great nIblick player He lIe uses this club up to distances that call tor for a full i mathie shot an and 1 uses It with dead dead- deadly deadly deadly ly effect Ills HIs mashie niblick play at Brookline and at was unbeatable Marston ii Is another who may at any time suddenly be- be begIn begin be begin gin to drop mashie niblick pitches close aroun around the cup Frandi Francis OuImet among the amateurs should not be left out on any range from ards Into the cup He lie has a atine afine atine tine fine long Ions game eime but his mashIe play and his short game came In general are unusually good The best putter we saw from January to January last laet year was Walter Hagen His blade nag as not so RO keen ke n at Inwood but outside ot of this one Instance he was wan deadly and easily the most consistent per per- performer per performer former of ot the tho lot On Hagenl march from California through Florida up to Pinehurst where he hewon hewon h won six Rix or t seven even ven big biff and broke so cral 0 eral cours course records hIs putting touch remaIned a flaw w Over grass greens and sand greens green over fast oat greens guens and slow greens he continued to yam ram the tho ball Into the tho cup with a 8 a skill almost beyond belief bellot Is Ismore Ill I'll oro lUgen looked as K It he wits W-B duo due to hole holo those these putts With hIs wel weight ht mainly upon the tha left lett toot foot and his body hotly firm rock steady but butIn butin butIn In no rigid ld ho had hail a certain lain tain rhythm or of ot mo movement ement on the back swing and the forward tap that woo was not to be beaten It w wits s all rhythm rhythm-rhythm rhythm rhythm and firmness and cool concentration upon I e main job at hand j Dobby Bobby CruIckshank gave a tine fine exhibition of ot Iron play and and puttIng at Inwood In the tho open until hIs putting touch s a trifle on the tho last nino nine holes oles of ot tho the play off ott But Hut Cruichshank CruckShank Is of ot the best beet putters in the trad trade frado with a aIrm firm steady touch that Is never nevor hurrIed There TherB are aro still few put put- putters putters put putters who can equal Jesse or of Boston Boiton Ouimet can lie be be even more mon int brilli-int around the greens than Guilford but Ouimet Int lint as s consistent on us es his tt fellow star Ie I another with the firm rock firm and the tho steady even with the light true truo touch Liko Ouimet h he uses his hid rl elbows IT e f l moving on Ott a line por parallel 1 tl to iLe tle lint qt of the V Vt pitt t Putting c 1 to be ppe ot of o most un uncertain tain qt-tain or of o Sweet Sleet ser er s 5 game ganIC He e hid Inti the habit or of cutting ohalf-cutting cuttIng halt each cacti putt ton however l putter consistently mos of oC the year exceptionally ell vell n a Improved his his putting and now ha has a more standard style th t should be effective The rho one basIs ot of o nil all fine putters shown through the ear was the firm firm un unmoved moved moed body and the even i-hyth- i rhythmical mical back swIng swine always ays ned rl d Title Thi la is one Olle feature that all golfers goiters can praet practice co through the tho remainder of at Q the winter season up up-on up on the tha parlor rug TVS at home horns with Ith putting p deuces devices dc now on the market Wa We know ow or of o no bitter I nay to adopt a S putting etyle tyle that af VII will I lead ea 1 to consistency There Is I no better time to form torm the tha habit or of body boey end and eail control and t f Se- Se developing de developing the e earn steady pace paca of ot the back swing Note Note There wIlt will be a lapse ot of t two 0 weeks in these with tho the 1 out upon the tho poor o of new t In Investigations ns and research |