Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1900-09-02
Scratch.
The Newest EalI.

The newest golf bail is ''bounder."
Nothing like it has ever been known in
the game. In appearance, sizes and
weights. the new ball looks the same
as the standard gutta-percha ball. but
the resemblance, as the adage tells Of
beauty is only skin deep. The skin is
a shell of pure gutta-percha, a fraction
less than an eighth OF an inch thick,
which is compressed in the mould to
fit like a glove over the inside part OF
the ball. The heart of the ball is a
small cube OF gutta percha. While this,
is soft the end OF thread of the best
Para rubber is stuck in it. AS the
gutta hardcns it is tightly wrapped with
the rubber thread, much as base ball
is wound with cord until the desired
dimension is attained. The next pro-
cess is 10 mould on the shell, when,
after the usual coats of white paint,
the ball is ready for play. 1t is the in
venticn Of Coburn Haskell, one of the
Governors Of the Cleveland Cox Club,
who has been experimenting with the
ball for two years. 1t is now practical
ly perfected, but none will be put on
the market until next spring The cost
will be about twice as much as the
regular bail. The rubber filing adds
greatly TO the resiliency Of the ball and
the inventor claims that an ordinary
player may easily drive from $40 to 300
yards every time. Iron shots carry in
the same way and the oFG1nary cop
bunker or trap is not pitfall, for the
ball usually bounds over all obstacles.
In putting the lightest tap will send
the ball the length of the green.
THE inevitable result, said one OF
the firm to handle the ball next spring
"of the use of our ball will be that all
the golf links must be heightened"
All amateurs who have tried the ball
concede that nothing like II has ever
been seen for carry aud roll One
player. who has tried the ball in IT'S diff
ferent stages of development. asserts
that a smuggling driver cannot ger q
longer average Of distance with IL than
an ordinary ball. but that II improves
vastly the carrying power OF player
who has little strength In the swing.
Besides" said this player. there Is
70 click when the clubhead catches the
kall and the feeling Is like driving on
a mass OF putty. No one can put well
with them. either. for they are SO fast
and bounce so over the slightest in
equality that feather wands would
have to be substituted for putters TO do
seed work on the green.
Che thing is certain, the ball VIII
c.rry further than any ball ever used
en- our links. Should It come into gen
eral use the present game would DO rev.
clr.ionized. II one-half that Is claimed
Tor the new ball be true.-Exchange-
Friday at Highlands course Miss
Ethel Ewing and K A. White defeated
Miss Genevieve Ewing and Dir. w. E. II.
Caldwell two UP on twelve holes in q
mixed foursome match The playing
was spirited all the way through, the
victors putting forth their hardest e.
forts in order to win out.
49,
DR.. Storer smashed another record
al Wheeling course He now holds the
is hole record. ia 81 strokes. Dr. Stor-
er.s play Il easy. natural, and steady.
even during match thore betnx hardly
any peroeptaple change II hfs p1ay.
HE lateet performances y only hia just~
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