New Britain herald., 1930-04-24
SCIENCE FINDS
 NEW GOLF BALL
Expanding Center Said to Be
 Most Progressive Step

With the ever-increasing millions of dollars that are being poured into the game of golf in this coun- try, 1t is more than natural that science is being attracted as never before to devise new and better im- plements for the dub and expert.
 Cushioned clubs, putters that will do everything but sing Rudy Val lees Maine Stein Song' and which come in shapes that would put 10 shame the average robust pretzcl and the new larger lighter ball, des- tined to become Official next Jan. I, are late products of the inventive Yankee mind. Now comes the ex- banding center ball, claimed by it's manufacturers-an Ohio concern of repute-to be the most progressive step in goIt ball construction in the last 10 years.
 Made in New Size The new pellet already is being turned out exclusively in the size which Is to become standard next year, 1.6S inches in diameter and l.55 ounces in weight. If 1t does what its creators gay 1t will, count less host of fairway habituals will rise up and call them blessed.
 Construction of the ball was be- gun more than five years ago on the recognized premise that the blows from golf club penetrate to the center of the sphere and that it is OH the reaction, good or bad, at that point that the liyeliness of the ball depends.
 To prove this beyond a doubt, a ball was made with glass marble as it's center. After being struck timber of times 1t was taken apart | The marble was pulvcrizcd as though q hammer had been used on 1 1t.
 1 Once this was established, the in vcntors set about deyising q center that would gain in resiliency instead Of lose.
 Liquid Center Adds Life Exhaustive tests showed that golt balls lose their life rapidly after from Is to 50 holes play. Some re- tain their original sprightlincss only for single round, others are able to stand the impact of the club over much longer route. All, however, | begin to go dead at some point or another and the deterioration is very rapid once it begins.
 The newly created ball, with it's liquid center, is said to be no diff ferent from any other when it is first teed up, but the longer it is used the livelicr it becomes. Tests up to 100 holes and over have dem- onstrated this to be so, the manu- facturer claims.
 However, he doesn't say how to keep it from sinking out of sight in pcrnictously located lakes and creeks Or from hiding away in the rough. These are things science has yet to tackle with any measure of success.
 They Won't Explode How the miracle of greater dis. tancc with age is accomplished na- turally remains trade secret, but 1t is said to be done through a com bination of materials in t1ie center. They are not dangerous chemicals, 1t is said, and must not be confu.ad with the explosive centers used some years ago, which were quite apt to blow q foursomc's hats off without warning.
 In fact. tho company claims the ingredients of it's core can be taken Internally without injury, although the outside covering might not turn out to be the best thing for the di- gcstiyc tract.
 III connection with the 1.GS-1. .55 ball, an interesting round was play. cd at the Westwood Country club, Cleveland, not long ago by Eddi, Williams, the clubs professional and Jack Cummins, an outstandine amateur player in northern Ohio Each played an old and new ball attempting as near as possible to Use the same club on each ball for a certain shot.
 Won't Affect Average Golfer Williams and Cummns concluded when their round was over that the average player will not be greatly affected in his game by the lighter pellet. They found that hitting in to the wind lost them more distance with the new ball than with the old, but that with the wind at their backs the situation was reversed. Slices and hooks were accentuated l but little, particularly iron shots. On the greens, both admitted the new model might not hold to the line as well as it's doomed brother, but they were enthusiastic over Its stroking qualities, declaring it had much "sweeter" feel when tapped by the blade of the butter than the sphere now in use