Show Balls Travel With Astonishing Speed Some Soule speed When Patterson the Australian tennis tennis tennis ten ten- nis player knocked out Jean Borotra with tennis tb the bounding Basque a ball hall at the Davis cup elimination matches at Germantown Pa he started started started start start- ed something for the mathematicians How come a tennis ball ballan can an knock a n man out they wanted to know So they got their pencils and paper and by devious methods mysterious n to most of us got an amazing result When a giant like Patterson hits a tennis ball ban with his bIs racquet It travels traveis at the terrific speed of fe feet t a sec sec- ond If It this could be maintained It would travel 8 82 miles an hour Not satisfied with that the scientists scientists scientists went further and found that a golf ball when hit b by a a pla player er like Uke Ouimet or Bobby Jones Jr makes an automobile look like a a piker er The golf ball speeds at the rate of feet a a second 1 I |