S. S Backseat Driving B Frank K Baker Telegram Sports Editor Present Ball Seems to Satisfy Golfers Raw winds have swept snow flurries flurries flur flur- ries galore across the links and wives vIves have kept their husbands home to bund build rock gardens but theres there's one consolation In the little golf played so o far this year and year and that's the lack of complaints about the ball This time a year car ago nGo the squawks over the balloon sphere echoed over the fairways from coast to coast and was the subject of almost every after- after the match discussion In Jn the locker room Old Joe Duffer and many of the st stars were flying the distress signals signals sig sig- nals and they weren't bashful in letting letting let let- ting the games game's ruling powers know about it So 50 tar far the golfers goiters have forgotten the ball this year as an implement on which to lay by the blame of all their golfing ills Their putts may be rimming rimming rimming rim rim- ming the cup and their drives may maybe maybe maybe be straying from the fairway with S provoking regularity but the new sphere doesn't bear the brunt of ot I cen censor cen cen- sor lor It did last summer Things arc are so much improved that thai I executives of the U. U US U.S. S. S Golf Gol association j tion and auxiliary agencies can move around freely among golfers without having to duck accusations of Youve ruined our game am e. e New Sphere Packs More Weight Golf o officials precipitated the peaceful peaceful peace peace- ful era when they listened to the walls wails of 1931 and authorized the manufacturers manufacturers manufacturers man man- to add seven one hun of ot an ounce to the weight of ot the ilic official ball The heavier balloon ball so far has met with universal approval It doesn't cure a slice bounce automatically automat automat- cally out of ot traps or whistle in the tall grass but it behaves s better in the wind and Is more consistently satisfactory satisfactory satis satis- factory to handle on the greens while still offering better lies through the fairway The extra weight it Is developing eliminates the exaggerated tendency to rim the cup on putting or to float on the air currents Seven one hun of an ounce is not much to get et excited about when it comes to buying potatoes or br r beefsteak but that margin in a golf gol ball apparently has meant the difference between constant constant constant con con- stant wailing moaning and gnashing of teeth and serenity I The United States hasn't won a a. I hop step and jump event in the theOl Ol Olympic games games since Ier Pita Prin- l steins suin's victory In 1904 And there doesn't seem to be much of a chance this year ear either with Oda coming coming- over with the Japanese team this summer Oda covered approximately 51 feet in winning the event ent in the 1928 Olympics a amark amark L mark that has been excelled only by A. A W. W V. V Winter of Australia In 1924 and then by a margin of less than a foot toot