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I Grantland Rice THE HARDEST THING IN GOLF “What is the hardest part of golf?” asks one of the scrambling devotees. “Is It wooden club play or iron play or putt ing? Is it getting good foot action or getting good body action? Does it come from getting the right use of hands and wrists? There are so many tough sections to a golf swing that I thought there might be some starting point.” The hardest thing in golf is the ability to keep on con centrating along right lines. This is where most of the stars crack up on certain days. Also, it is where the average golfer finds a big part of his trouble. For example, we might start with putting. No great intelligence is re quired to know that putting carries three main angles: 1. To judge the speed of the green. 2. To pick out the right line to the cup. 3. To stroke the ball smoothly. What happens? On entirely too many occasions the golfer is still guessing about the speed of the green and the right line in the mid dle of his stroke. So here comes a jab or a stab or a lifted head. His concentration is completely scram bled. All he has to do, in set or der, is to decide on green speed, line and then smooth stroking. I mean to make a definite decision in each case. Few do. Advance Considerations You can also take the start from the first tee. The average golfer must understand there are just a few details to be considered in ad vance: 1. To get a comfortable stance where the feet are not planted and the body isn’t locked in advance. 2. To be sure he starts his back- swing smoothly with a natural body turn. 3. That he must finish his back- swing and not hurry his downswing. 4. That he keeps his head in place. Watch the planted feet, the stif fened legs, the hurried backswing, and the uplifted dome of thought, sometimes known as the head. The best mental attitude in golf is to feel you are a bit laay—that you are in no hurry to finish your back- swing nor to start your downswing. The best mental attitude is to keep your mind on the swing and on the ball—without thinking ahead. It is better to try to keep your mind on the ball than your eye on the ball. The action of the eye fol lows the direction of the mind. You can’t keep your eye on the ball while thinking on beyond of traps, bunk ers, rough, ponds and out-of-bounds. Correct Foot Action The hardest physical action in golf involves correct foot action. “I should say more golfers have trouble here than anywhere else,” Henry Picard, P. G. A. champion tells me. “Even few of the better known golfers are any too able in this detail. “Good foot action means your starting balance. It means trans ferring body weight from left to right and then from right to left. If you have good foot action it means you are balanced at the top of the swing to complete your down swing. If your weight distribution is out of order, the result will be nothing to cheer about. “What will help better foot ac tion?” Picard continued. “To stand up to the ball much straighter than most golfers do. To stand a little closer to the ball. To keep your feet closer together than most golf ers do. What chance has the golfer to get his feet working when he is stooping over, when he is reaching for the ball with his planted feet wide apart? Turning Made Easy “Not a chance in the world. He wouldn’t try to throw a baseball from any such position. He is un comfortable, to start with. He doesn't give himself a chance. Make a point of standing up straight er and not spreading your feet. This makes it much easier to turn— to get your weight transference working the right way. “This applies especially to chip shots and short pitches. On these stand closer to the ball and keep your feet much closer together. This will prevent stooping over and tightening up. This also will give your hands and wrists a chance to work. “If your feet and body are locked, the hands and wrists will never have a chance to swing the clubhead. For example, locking the left ankle also locks the left wrist. You just can’t finish your backswing. This will de stroy rhythm of movement, destroy ing the accuracy of your swing. “Another tough factor in golf,” the Hershey Hurricane continued, “is keeping the body working with the hands. The body is the more powerful. It wants to get in there and help get more distance. But what it usually does is throttle hands and wrists. THE SUN. NEWBEBKY. S. C, FRIDAY, AUGUST 16, 1940 Go-to-School Headwear Will Include Chic Matched Turbans By CHERIE NICHOLAS IT’S high time to be tackling the go-to-school wardrobe problem. So far as millinery is concerned, thanks to the charming fashion of wearing bewitching little match tur bans, such as have been so tre mendously popular of late, the col lege girls’ plan of action is made perfectly clear. Just keep in mind the slogan “a matching turban with every frock or blouse or suit.” Sounds like a big order, doesn’t it, but truth is it’s as simple a way to get rid of the hat question as we know. Not that new fall turbans are go ing to repeat summer versions. In deed notl Just watch and see what happens when the fall style parade is in full swing. You are going to see the most captivating, unusual little pompadour concoctions enroll under the turban regime, that fancy can picture. Designers are bending their efforts to create turbans that take kindly to the idea of being posed back of the new pompadour hairdo. So when you take a piece of your dress goods to match up a turban to go with your new fall frock be sure the model you select is the kind that will set off your flattering pompadour curls to perfection. Note the turban shown in the oval below to the left. Here a bright red drape is brought through a golden ring in a way that gives the exotic far east caste to the picture. It tells you that tur bans that tilt forward go fifty-fifty with the very new pompadour types. Assuming that you will be getting together a whole collection of tur bans to match (with each dress a self-fabric headpiece) we especially cite the “chignon” turban as a must have in the group. The turban with a chignon or with a bandanna tie at the nape of the neck is sure news that is news. You can carry out the idea as extreme as you please. Knotted and tied, the ends will stream down to the waistline at the back or stop at the shoulders. You can get in the better shops a clever little chignon type such as Lillie Dache interprets via a red, white and black silk scarf manipulated as you see above to the left in the oval. Note the saucy chignon frill at the back and see the impudent bow to the fore designed to accent your widow’s peak to the utmost. This type turban also adapts itself to the new pompadour hairdress. If you like bright stripes, tell the world this fall via a stylish peaked turban together with a gigantic matching envelope bag of red, white, yellow and blue striped fabric as worn by the smartly clad young woman pictured to the right. It adds to the glamour of the new jersey frocks that the majority of them are accompanied with tur bans or toques made of the identi cal jersey. The figure centered in the picture demons;rates how inter estingly the alliance of a striped jersey frock and a matching striped jersey draped turban work out. Here a reefer of dusty rose flannel over a navy and white striped jersey dress, navy shoes with dusty roae quilted bag and gloves add a defi nite style touch, the cabochon twrist of the matched jersey turban sup plying the final touch of chic. See how flatteringly it reveals the pom padour, which, as said before, is the characteristic feature of the newer turbans. The vogue for matched fabric hats is expressed not only in turbans for this fall but we will see many brimmed sports hats made of tweeds to match suits and coats to which add a shopping bag of the same and behold a perfect ensemble for travel and town wear. (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) Pompadour Felt Whether the hat be wide of brim, a tiny toque, a draped turban or a dramatic beret, milliners are tem pering them to the new pompadour hairdo. The model pictured accents sophisticated simplicity which is so important just now. Its lavish brim with neat grosgrain ribbon band and short streamers at the back are em inently style-right. Suede for Sports Is Coming for Fall Soft PiOve suede is being used by Voris, a West coast designer, in a collection of sports dresses for fall. One dress of suede, in a pottery pink shade, is collarless and has soft, unpressed pleats in the skirt. The belt is just a wide sash of brown suede. Another dress of beige suede has a fly-front closing, a per fectly straight skirt and deep, sad dle-stitched pockets on either hip. Fashion Hints for The College Girl While the dress of the college girl must assume a casual look, yet in reality it must observe most metic ulous detail that insures for it style distinction. You will thrill with delight at the sight of the new featherweight jer sey dresses styled in classic sim plicity but spectacular at that be cause of the fringed shawl of the self-jersey that is thrown noncha lantly about one’s shoulders. And then there are the newest-of- the-new pinafore frocks. Can imagi nation go beyond this—a navy dress with a bright red pinafore of sheer wool with pleated apron skirt and a jumper top all carried out in de mure little girl fashion yet skillfully tuned to teen age wear? You will want to include one of the new and clever drawstring models done in jersey. They are fitted to waist with drawstrings that tie in front. An other suggestion is a plaid skirt with suede shirt in bright monotone. Color Contrast in Fall Wool Suits Two-piece jacket-suits dramatize color contrasts and blends more eye- appealingly than ever. Some of the new color contrast suggestions of fered are olive green with mauve, brown with pale blue, plum with pale blue, dark brown with to&ee tan, red with hunter’s green and so on and on with the color spectrum fashion will make merry this fall. The schemes are worked out with monotone tweeds coupled with plaids and stripes. Lots of plaid is on the way for fall. It will be tailored into long coats, into separate jackets and for the costume entire. By VIRGINIA VALE (Released by Westers Newspaper Union.) T HERE’S never a dull mo ment at Big Bear, Calif., these days. Nc sooner did 20th Century - Fox’s “Brigham Young” troupe finish work on location near there than Mono gram’s “Queen of the Yukon” moved in. The town has just one im portant street, and it’s jammed nightly with bearded extras (whose beards earn a living for them) and members of the cast. Irene Rich, Charles Bick ford, Melvin Lang, Dave O’Brien, and June Carlson are in the lineup. Melvin Lang and Dave O’Brien had to stage a fight the other day; in preparation, Bickford spent sev eral days teaching O’Brien how to avoid injuries. But—when Director Phil Rosen called “Cut!" O’Brien fell to the ground, and the company doctor found that he had a broken rib. He’d been too much excited to remember Bickford’s instruc tions. * When young players in Hollywood get discouraged they remind them selves—and anyone who’ll listen— that it takes just one good picture to make a star. “Look at Pat O’Brien in ‘Front Page’,” they’ll say. “Look at Cary Grant in ‘Topper’—Shirley Temple IDA LUPINO in ‘Little Miss Marker’—Errol Flynn in ‘Captain Blood'—May Robson in ‘Lady for a Day.’ ” Another name has been added to the “Look” list—it’s that of Ida Lupino, who did a nice job in “The Light That Failed” and has won her spurs as a result of her “mad” scenes in Warner Brothers’ “They Drive By Night.” She’ll co-star with John Garfield in “East of tH> River.” * We may have another Rogers- Astaire picture, if HKO can find the right story for it. Fred Astaire is free-lancing at present, and Ginger is booked for three pictures, one of them being a picturization of the very popular novel, “Kitty Foyle.” But some time next year they may be dancing together again. * Herbert Moulton has a new idea for screet entertainment, and he hopes you’re going to like it. After six months of hard work he has finished an abridged version of “Love Me Tonight,” starring Maur- iee Chevalier, Jeanette MacDonald and Myraa Loy, and originally re leased in 1932. It will run just 45 minutes. Other old-time successes being considered for streamlining are "Design for Living,” “The Lives of a Bengal Lancer,” “Night After Night,” and “One Hour With You.” * Betty Field left the stage for Hol lywood a year ago; in that time she’s played four big parts, so dif ferent from each other that she’s the envy of all the other young ac tresses. In “What a Life!” she was the nice high school girl who was Jackie Cooper’s sweetheart; in “Of Mice and Men” she was the sultry, amorous young woman who attract ed Lon Chaney Jr. In “Seventeen” she was a giddy young siren, and in “Victory,” her latest picture, she’s warm, tender, understanding. * Three years ago Ralph Edwards hitch-hiked from his home in Oak land, Calif., to New York for a job. A couple of weeks ago he returned to his home in a plane. These days he’s so busy that, when he decided to take a six-week vacation, five other announcers had to be called in to sub for him. Six months ago he turned up as creator, director and master of cere monies of his own program, the hi larious “Truth or Consequences.” It was tried out on four eastern sta tions, and soon will be launched on WEAF in New York. * ODDS AND ENDS . . . Geraldine Fitz gerald returns to the screen to co-star with George Raft in “South of Suez” . . . Looks as if Charlie Chaplin’s “The Dic tator” would be released about the middle of September . . . Susanna Foster has a gold powder box which, when opened, plays “Fight on for U. S. C.”—given her by the boys of the University of Southern California’s band, who worked with her in “There’s Magic in Music” . . . Tyrone Power will do a series of pictures based on tales about Zorro, the California bandit—his current one, “The Cali fornian,” is a re-make of the old Douglas Fairbanks “The Mark of Zorro.” DERFECT to put on and wear * right now in flat crepe, silk print or spun rayon, this beauti fully cut shirtwaist fashion will be a cool delight on the hottest days of summer. No. 8727 will look so crisp and fresh, in striped lin en, polka dot silk or brilliant white sharkskin. And it will feel com fortable and unhampering, be cause the lines are so simple and free. The bodice can be fastened with three buttons and turned -fl.sk Me ^Another % A General Quiz * The Quettions 1. Who wrote the poem in which appear the words: “Stone walls do not a prison make”? 2. Do the Eskimos have a word for any number beyond twenty? 3. When a military man speaks of logistics, he refers to what? 4. Which President of the United States lived to be 90 years of age? 5. Which of the following have the highest diplomatic rank—con suls, ambassadors, or ministers? 6. A long ton is equal to how many pounds? 7. What are bats classed as, birds, flying mammals, or ro dents? , 8. Where in the United States are the Badlands? The Answers 1. Richard Lovelace (“To Al thea from Prison”). 2. No. Their word twenty actu ally means “a-man-counted-to-the- end.” 3. Logistics refers to transport and supply. 4. John Adams. 5. Ambassadors. 6. A long ton is 2,240 pounds. 7. Flying mammals. 8. To the southeast of the Black Hills, in the western part of South Dakota. back in narrow, deep revers, or buttoned almost to the throat, with shallow revers. Why not have it both ways, since it’s so very easy to make? There’s practically no detailing to it—just a few gathers beneath the yoke and darts at the waistline. The circular skirt has a lovely, youth ful swing. Pattern No. 8727 is designed for sizes 14, 16, 18, 20; 40 and 42. Size 16 requires 4% yards of 39-inch material without nap. Send order to: SEWING CIRCLE PATTERN DEPT. Room 1324 211 W. Wacker Di. Chicago Enclose 15 cents *n coins for Pattern No Size Name Address Strange Facts Odd Light Sources Billions of Moves Triply Destroyed C. Among the many unusual ob jects that emit a light or produce a luminescence that may be seen in the dark are rubber bands when snapped, quartz pebbles when struck, lumps of sugar when rubbed together and adhesive tape when stripped from a roll. ! e ! C. The number of possible move# in a game of chess is almost be yond calculation. For example, there are more than 4,000,000,000 such possibilities in the first six moves of each player. C. 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