This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1905 edition. Excerpt: ...clubs. If it is a fact that baffies possess the merits that are being claimed for them in these latter days, I am brought face to face with a difficult problem. Supposing, but not admitting, that they do possess these claims to consideration, what is the explanation of their being first in the field, and yet ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1905 edition. Excerpt: ...clubs. If it is a fact that baffies possess the merits that are being claimed for them in these latter days, I am brought face to face with a difficult problem. Supposing, but not admitting, that they do possess these claims to consideration, what is the explanation of their being first in the field, and yet occupying such a considerable time in proving their advantages? Again, why were they so completely ousted from favour by the iron clubs? But I will not argue the question further. That the gutta ball superseded the old feather ball provides no cause for wonderment, but that the latter should now supplant the former would be a phenomenon indeed. My opinion is this: that every club which has secured popular use has done so because its merit was its recommendation. This being so, it will maintain its popularity until something better is produced and then it must necessarily drop out of the running, as far as the great public is concerned. Considerable alterations have also been effected in the methods of manufacture. When the game was in its infancy, and up to a comparatively recent date, the manufacturer found it necessary to arm himself with frame-saws and rasps and hew the clubs into the requisite shape. Now, however, with his hand upon a lever, he stands and watches the machine as it accomplishes its task with automatic regularity and well-nigh human skill. CHAPTER XXIX. MACHINE AND HAND-MADE CLUBS. NOT so very long ago it was considered on all sides that the task of manufacturing golfclub heads by means of machinery would be an impossible one. This was an entirely erroneous impression. For to-day it is the simplest of simple matters to turn out heads to any required model in the course of a very few minutes. If an incision for the insertion...
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