19 APRIL 1940, Page 17

Rhythmic Advice A humble golf-player confessed that he had invented

a couplet of imperatives which, he said, had much improved his game. It seemed to me that the lines are equally applicable to the swinger of the scythe, that much superior implement, whose movements are as good a subject for art as any im- mortalised by Greek sculptors. What is throwing the discus or driving a long ball compared with mowing a broad swath? The doggerel advice runs as follows :

" Left arm out, right arm in, Slow back and slow begin."

If these four rules were faithfully observed, how many fewer blades would be bent and balls foozled! They would apply to the use of the felling axe as well as all golf clubs.