South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-08-19
GOLF BALL YARN
IS QUEERED BY
MEXICAN NAME
Story OF Jumping Golf Ball is
Very LateSt-RefuSeS to
Stay in the Tall and
Uncut.
By Frank G.. Menkc.

NEW YORK. Aug. 19.-FrCm out
of the heated confines of Tuscon, Ari-
iona comes a story of a wonderful in
vention-the jumping Mexican golf
ball.
The ball is so constructed that when
il gets into the shade of long grass. or
sinks into casual or other water. II
Immediately begins TO jump, and II
jumps so high that it clears the wa
ter or grass and il plainly visible to
the searcher.
The Mexican jumping bean forms
the core together with a little grub
worm. Now these worms dislike
shade and as soon as ball goes into
a shady place. such as high grass or
water, the worm begins to flap its
tail In Tapping il naturally Will mt
the jumping bean. which upon being
tapped, Immediately begins TO jump.
This new invention is expected TO
prove a great boon 10 golfers who
have faculty of driving wild and
sending their ball into dark. damp
places.
Ball players" asserts Frederick
Clarke. boss of the Pirates, play bet
ter, snapper baseball when a crowd
is present" Crowd of girls. umpires,
policemen, or what kind of a crowd?
A western gun club which has main
tanned the same shooting range for
many years, recently delegated
squad OF laborers To comb the ground
for spent bullets. The men gathered
more than 25 ton of shot, which were
| sold at the rate of $40 a ton. other
clubs are beginning TO do likewise.
Fred Judy. the 50 pound jockey.
who is something of a sensation on the
| Saratoga IN. " track, is being
| tOuted as a coming wonder. He's 10
years old. handles a horse like a vet
eran and has outridden many Of the
best jockeys in the game. His home
is in Kansas City where his father
| keeps a law office.
Walter Pipp, secured by the Yanks
| from the Tigers, is one of the 1915
sensations of the American league.
| Pipp is one of the timliest hitters on
| the team and in addition to that he
| has hammered out more three bag
| gers and more home runs than Ty
! Cobb, and has made almost as many
dobules as the Georgia Peach"
| Maybe Bill Hart quit his umpiring
| job in the National league because
| he's a firm believer in the safety
| first" rule. In these days of Heinie
! the Zim, Johnny. the Terrible TrO-
| JAM" Johnny McGraw and a six club
| battle for the pennant there's no tell
/ ing what might befall an umpire.
Infelder Bill Rogers deserves some
! kind of a medal. He began playing
major league ball in 1909 That's six
years ago, and Bill never has been
| chased from a ball game by an UNI
/ pire.
Just now Bill is with the Reds.
| Until last season he was in the Pa
| cific league. The Maps grabbed him
| then. tried him out. and let him go.
] Bill was manager and captain of his
/ team on the Pacific coast He was
! known as an aggressive, scrappy play
/ er, but he seems to possess the Won
/ derful faculty of going just far enough
and no further-when he is rid
/ ing an umpire.
| Shark fishing is providing lots Of
sport for anglers oft the New Jersey
| coast. Special lines are being used
and some of the sharks. Of the blue
nosed variety. that have been caught
weigh over 140 pounds and measure
over feet in length.
During the early part of the fishing
! before the anglers were Jerry to the
/ tricks of the sharks. many of the fish
got away by biting the line in two.
/ But the fishermen now use wire
| leader about six feet in length that
defies the sharkian teeth.
Brooklyn boasts of a tennis wizard
in the person of Billy Ellwood. aged
seven, who has taken the measure of
many adults who have played against
him. Billy is no taller than the net
and he insists upon using the regula-
ton racket. He began TO play tennis
three years ago. under his fathers
teaching. and now dear, old dad who
is a star player. has to hump some to
beat his diminutive offspring.