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Show MAKING OF BALLS COMPLICATED JOB In the center of the standard base-oall. base-oall. as used by the professional playors, there is a globe of compressed compress-ed cork covered with rubber. This lobo is about an inch in diameter and ground It are wound a few layers of coarse twine. It Is then sent to the fl-inding room, where machines first fvind on thick four-ply blue yarn. At frequont Intervals tho ball is soaked in a ceraona Boluation and put aside to dry. Many different workers have to do fflth tho winding of the ball Each workman tests It for size and weight oeforo -ho pasBes it along. The machines ma-chines Insure tight and even winding, and there are different machines for different sizes of yarn. Thea machines ma-chines are operated In secret in a locked room. When the ball has been wound to the proper sizo with blue and wbito arn, and has been dipped in the solution, so-lution, It Is wound finally with smaller smal-ler yarn Thu3 tho firm, rough center cen-ter Is overlaid with finer and finer material until at last It is smooth and perfect, ready for the cover. The best horse hide obtainable is .iscd for covers. The pieces are cut bv hnnd and dampened and stretched The ball is put Into clamps and the cover sewed on with cotton thread, which has a greater frictlonal jtrength than linen or silk. Each ball is sewed bv hand nnd then nut into a rahip tht '-revs do7-i -'it on',. o'f.h'' r le'ne Ir- -t'U another .wlse. T'.ic.i. after being Elfai-cV . unci wrapped, the ball is ioady".for the A hall weighs five ounces and is fiiDe inches in circumference. In the course of manufacture it Is weighed dtia measured five times Harper's Weekly. |