Show PSYCHOTHERAPY I i String Ball Boll Helps Nerves DENVER Dont Don't sell U the winders string short The citizens who sUp slip furtively about picking up bits of string which they wind into large balls are doing what is best for them whether you or they know it or not That's That the considered opinion of year 64 old Ted KImpel The winders string ers he says say are afraid to admit they enjoy the simple sim sim- simple pIe business of ot winding strings Into balls baUs They think the man with the butterfly b net may come and get them he adds But Dut Its It's just the opposite that's true Kimpel who in 30 years of string string- winding has built himself an Ill pound ball believes that string- string winding is good for you you that that It Is tops as s an aid to your disposition But Dut take lake It straight from Kimpel Its It's better that way WHY If It youre you're the nervous kind windings winding's for you You can wind up all your troubles in nice neat little circles and forget em Im the nervous kind Now I got string from all aU 48 states In the union and one piece that may be from the England England the folks who gave it to tome tome tome me said so and so-and and I feel fine Ball Dall Is Masterpiece l His lIis masterpiece is about 85 Inches in circumference solid saUd white from surface to core and some some day he plans to rent a nice clean garage or some place with a great-big great door to toll to it and let that ball really grow He Ite says saYI hes he's never heard of anybody anybody any any- body with a bigger ball baU of string He says that like most of the nations nation's na nod Lions tion's string winders he tried other hobbles hobbies first He collected pencils and stamps and even ven clipped cUpped things out of newspapers for a while But Dut I felt I wasn't getting any any- where And then one day I began piddling around in the kitchen with witha a little old piece of cotton wrapping string I began making one and two pound balls I wasn't ready for a abig abig big Dig ball back there in 1918 But Dut I knew anew what I was doing was fun One day he decided to go to a Denver hobby club and maybe pickup pick pickup up ap some lame literature on string wind wind- Ing Lag But Dut the club didn't have anything any any- anything thing on it nothing at all And some of the members laughed at him said that fooling around with string was no hobby Developed Own System That made me sore Kimpel recalls recalls re re- calls aUs I never went back I developed devel devel- developed my own system for string string- winding I make a little ball baU first and put it on the floor noor Ive I've got a hook gook on the wall and I feed the string up from the little ball through the he hook and down to the big ball b which I sit sU on a box This way my winding arm doe doesn't t get fouled with the he string As A. elevator operator at the Denver Den ver Athletic Club Kimpel knows all the he members member They give him the string off aU their laundry all but a afew afew few rew of them who Kimpel is convinced convinced con can vinced are solitary string It It is a matter of chronic chagrin to him aim that there are persons who seek the he solace of string winding string without coming right out and admitting that winding string-winding does them good KImpel doesn't name any names but Dut he does say that In his job he comes tomes In contact with some pretty important figures and that he knows mows for tor a fact that five or six stars Mars of the sports world are solid soli solitary tary ary string Three of these are Ire golfers goUers |