IN the July GOLF Louis Martucci was referred to as being an object lesson of national importance to golfers. Martucci lost his left . arm when he was about fifteen months old, so he has never known what it means to have the use of two arms.

We now show a number of interesting exclusive photographs of this really remarkable golfer. Martucci is anxious to get a situation as professional at some club and instead of his lack of the left arm being a handicap to him, we really think that it would be of service.

There are still a number of professionals in this country that are doing their best to spoil the game of their pupils by telling them to "let the left do the work." It would indeed be hard for Martucci to preach this to his pupils, seeing what he can accomplish by the use of his remaining arm. Strange to say, however, he has demonstrated that he can teach a left-handed person the game.

Martucci is a stoutly built young man, as may be seen from the photographs, and he has a tremendous right arm, as may also be seen. For a man that uses only one club he gets remarkable distance, but he uses his weight very well indeed, as may be seen by studying the picture where he is shown at the top of his swing in the drive. It will be notice that his weight is very well balanced. If anything, it is probably a little more on the left than on the right, for his right leg is perfectly stiff, while his left is kneeing in toward the ball.

Also it will be seen that Martucci feet are both firmly planted on the earth. This is a point for elderly and very heavy men to note carefully, because many of these unquestionably indulge in far more foot work than is necessary.

Intelligent golfers that know what Martucci is capable of doing must naturally ask themselves, if this man can do what lie does with his right arm alone, is it not the strongest Prima facie evidence that the right is the more important of the two arms? Those that are in the habit of taking notice of the professionals' time-worn gag, "let the left do the work," ought most seriously to consider the use that Martucci is able to make of his right arm, the only one he has. This seems to me to be a most effective object lesson which should do much toward putting at rest this mooted question.

He played Tom Kerrigan, the professional, at the Siwanoy Country Club. It is stated that in this match he averaged on his drives 220 yards and that he took more than two putts on only one green. Kerrigan won the match at the seventeenth green by holing a fifty-foot putt, and went round in 76, while Martiucci took 82. Martucci went out in 44 and came home in 38, one stroke over par, and it must be remembered that this was the first time that he had played on the course.

There can be no doubt that this was a very remarkable performance, while it will be in the memory of our readers that at the recent professional tournament at Van Cortlandt Park, New York, he went around in 68, two strokes above the record for the course. These facts speak for themselves, and it seems almost unnecessary for us to emphasize the importance ~ to any club of having the tuition of a man who can put the minds of the golfers of that club so strongly in the right line of thought as can Martucci, for it would seem to us that it would require a very low order of intelligence on the part of and- body- of people to see a golfer going round the course in the splendid scores of which I\Martucci almost without practice is capable, and to stick to spoiling their game with the obsession of the left-Band tradition And- club that employed Martucci as a professional would almost certainly find a very great improvement in the play of its members. For, suffering at first from the handicap of having only- one arm, Martucci has had to make his brains assist him in overcoming that disadvantage. He has succeeded admirably and his general form is astonishingly good.

His work at and near the green is wonderfully accurate, and he is a living exemplification of the fact that anywhere within a 75-yard radius of the pin the golf stroke may quite well, if not indeed best, be played with the right arm alone.

To preach this to golfers, or to learners, would be wrong. But Martucci's work emphasizes in a remarkable degree the fact that in short work the burden of the stroke may quite well be thrown upon the right; but it is most advisable for golfers, while they are playing, not to have this idea in their minds. It should just be left to the right to assert its dominance in the stroke naturally and easily, and not let it enter into conflict with the left.

The advantage of recognizing the fact that the right is the master in the golf stroke is that it is the natural thing, and that once one has got the idea into his mind he never requires to think about it again, whereas in following the ordinary advice of the professionals to let the left do the work one is trying to do an unnatural thing and therefore must be conscious of the effort in doing it. This almost invariably leads to bad work, for one begins to interfere with the natural exercise of the proportionate power allotted by nature to each arm.

Although Martucci uses only one hand it will be seen that he uses to very great extent the finger grip, whereas one would have been inclined to think that, using only one hand, it would be necessary for him to use the palm grip so as to get the firmest possible hold on the shaft.

Martucci says that since he took up golf about seven or eight years ago he has found that his arm has developed greatly- and the powerful muscular development of his forearm can easily be seen in the photographs.

Martucci is shown in one of the pictures getting out of a bunker. He is particularly good at extricating himself from trouble of this nature and his stroke shows in a very pronounced manner the importance of finishing strongly and firmly in the sand if one wishes to get a sudden rise. One of the greatest secrets in bunker play is to hit hard and hit downward, and Martucci's game exemplifies this in a very pronounced manner.

Martucci's putting is very good indeed. There were very few of the professionals who could do anything that lie could not do at Van Cortlandt Park.

Martucci is of Italian parentage, but lie was born and educated in this country. He is undoubtedly a very intelligent golfer, who has not merely learned his game by imitation, but has used his brains as well. We have little doubt that if he could get the regular practice which the nature of his present duties as starter of the Essex Country Club preclude him from doing, he would speedily lower his scores, and then he would indeed be a great golfer and one to whom very few of the professionals would care to concede any handicap whatever.

We are taking a great interest in Martucci because we firmly believe that lie can be of great service to the game by impressing forcibly on the minds of golfers the great power of the right, thus in some measure undoing the bad work of those who teach the predominance of the left. We shall be pleased to hear from any club that is interested.