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Salem, MA: The Salem Press, 1902. 2nd Edition.. Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket (as issued). 8vo 7.75 - 9.75'' tall. Hardcover. Book Condition: Near Fine. Jacket Condition: No Jacket (as issued). The Salem Press, Salem, MA 1902. 2nd Edition. 147 pages. Printed for private distribution. Number 521 of the 1902 second edition, same year as first edition. Green cloth, red and black pictorial decor. Frontispiece photo is of golf course architect Alex Findlay, showing his drive follow through. Printed with glossy paper stock. Nice Firm Clean copy ! Interior pristine. Size: 8vo 7.75 - 9.75'' tall. Most detailed purely instructional golf book of its era, profusely illustrated with diagrams and drawings, some humorous. Thoroughly modern and effective in its language and approach. Contents: Golf in general; Driving; Curve on the ball; The wind and hills; Approaching; Putting; The mental game of golf; Index. Charles Stedman Hanks was a Boston lawyer who was an authority on golf, camp life, and early New England coloial history. 'Golf is probably the most scientific of all out-door games, requiring as much accuracy of stroke as tennis and far more judgment than cricket or base-ball. The fascination which makes it the game of all games is that the mental as well as the physical make-up of the player enters into it, no man excelling at it, no matter how mechanically correct he may play, unless his personal characteristics are a part of every stroke he makes. No other game requires such a variety of physical and mental adjustments, and no other game gives so complete a measure of the whole man.' Page 1.(1856-1908) Sports::Coaching/Instruction::Golf RBR17 RBR17