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The great advantage of good approach play A fascinating club Characteristics of a good mashie Different kinds of strokes with it No purely wrist shot Stance and grip Position of the body No pivoting on the left toe The limit of distance Avoid a full swing The half iron as against the full mashie The swing How not to loft On scooping the ball Taking a divot The running-up approach A very valuable stroke The club to use A tight grip with the right hand Peculiarities of the swing The calculation of pitch and run The application of cut and spin A stroke that is sometimes necessary Standing for a cut Method of swinging and hitting the ball The chip on to the green Points of the jigger.

Generally all mashie shots may be separated into three groups. There is what we may call the ordinary mashie shot to begin with meaning thereby a simple lofted stroke, there is the running-up mashie shot, and there is the special stroke which applies extra spin and cut to the ball. There are very pronounced differences between these strokes and the ways of playing them.

When I get a good drive off the first tee," said Booverman discouraged, "I mess up all the rest. You'll see." "Oh, come now," said Pickings, as a matter of form. He played his shot, which came methodically to the edge of the green. Booverman took his mashy for the short running-up stroke to the pin, which seemed so near. "I suppose I've tried this shot a thousand times," he said savagely.

Kittridge, with her spectacles also mounted, was carefully and warily "running-up breadths," stopping every few minutes to examine her work, and to inquire submissively of Miss Roxy if "it will do?"

I regard the ordinary mashie as the best club with which to make it, but there are some good golfers who like the niblick for this task, and it is undoubtedly productive of good results. However, I will suppose that it is to be attempted with the mashie. The stance is quite different from that which was adopted when the running-up shot was being played.

When the running-up shot is played in these circumstances by the man who knows how to play it, he can generally depend on getting much nearer to the hole than if he were obliged to play with a pitch alone. It is properly classified as a mashie shot, but there are golfers who do it with an iron.

One cannot very well compare the two in words, however, for the finishes are altogether different, as an examination of the illustration of the finish of the running-up stroke will show. In this case the swing stops when the shaft of the club is pointing a little to the left of the direction of the ball that is speeding onwards, the blade being on a level with the hands.

Filling all of the outer wall between the peephole, leaded windows and running-up to the slope of the ceiling, was a great fireplace of native white freestone, carved into fluted columns, foliated capitals, and a flat pediment of purest classic lines.

Apart from the loft, I think a little more accuracy is ensured by the removal of that inch or two of turf. Now there is that most valuable stroke, the running-up approach, to consider. When skilfully performed, it is often most wonderfully and delightfully effective.

Meanwhile, at camp there had been a little running-up of excitement, occasioned by the arrival of the Governor's son, who came on a commission from his mother and sister, bearing a note of invitation to Mrs. Reed, her sister, Mrs. Mann, and June Reed. Jerry Boyle for that was the name of the Governor's son was greatly surprised to find his friend, Joe Walker, in the camp.