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Show Cclf Playing ci Night Yiih Luminous Ealls It looked at first like a jubilee tele-bration tele-bration of some kind, as flare after Hare streaked the night horizon .of Van Corlh'.ndl 1'ark golf course, New York city. Uut these rocket-like streaks were nothing oilier than "luminous" golf balls Lu lug tried out by their inventor, M. J. Bloomer, scientist of Columbia university. These luminous balls keep their light for ten minutes after be-j be-j ing hit from I lie tee, and thus, with j the aid of electric lights over t he greens, the night becomes as day to the Insatiate golfer. Sportsmen now picture additional possibilities for night golt with the aid of this ball and illumination of tee flags by employing the piercing rays of the now-popular neon light which can he seen at great distance and through fog, mist and smoke. In his experiments with the luminous lumi-nous ball, Mr. Bloomer drove off eight balls from the first tee and located all of them within six minutes. Like huge glow worms they nestled among grass, leaf and tree far down the fairways fair-ways and in the rough. |