Salt Lake Telegram | 1931-05-12 | Page 12 | This Game of Golf

C OF GOLF i iI I By 0 O. B. B Keeler leeler m x This may be a I tip Up and then again it t may not now But if you ou are in the habit of teeing a golf ball so that you hit it on the trademark sophistically sophistically sophis- sophis known as one of ot the poles Itis it itis itis is Just as well to keep on doing ILAnd it IL And if you haven't the habit it may Y maybe maybe be just as well to acquire it By Bj what I lately found out the new standard golf goU ball bail is constructed with witha a very ver slightly longer axis or diameter eter from pole to pole than through the he equatorial plane if I may b be permitted the explanation In other words it is Just the opposite opposite site ite of the earth which as every student of physical geography is taught aught before reaching his teens Is sightly flattened at the poles ISE F. F A F. F I don t dont don't say that all golf gol balls are I- I made this way I haven't tried al alf all allot ot of f them with a gauge gause But Ive I've tried four our of the standard brands and very every one of them fits the gauge more snugly on the polar axis than on the thc eq equatorial The gauge which is the first one I ever saw Is a ring of a 3 light white metal with a a. hole In It which I am told old Is designed just to pass a new standard golf golt ball bail with a perceptible friction That is the hole is inches in diameter If a ball touches it t with a sticky sort of sensation in n passing that ball thus is up to the ho legal size in the United States of f America If n a ball drops through the ring of its ts own weight it Is under the st standard standrd stand stand- nd- nd ard rd size and is Illegal REAL DIFFERENCE Now In trying the several brands that hat came readily to hand I was astonished by th tho evident difference In diameter Some Seine manufacturers obviously ob were taking no chances of producing reducing a a. projectile which might In the variations incident indent ind mci- dent ent even to the beautifully pr precise ise methods of modern golf ball construction con- con I come out undersized undersized- undersized due perhaps to the enamel being ten- ten thousandths of an inch too skimpy Several balls of well known makes were sufficiently large to resist forcing forc- forc ing ng of ot any reasonable degree when tried ried on the ring Thc They were not much larger Jarger than the he prescribed But they were some l larger They all were pert perfectly perfect perfect- t- t ly y legal of course There is no limit upwards for the size