Parowan Times | 1927-12-21 | Page 3 | Golf Playing at Night with Luminous Balls

golf coll playing at night with luminous balls it looked af alfirst first like a jubilee celebration of some kind as lure bare after flare streaked tile the horizon of van cortlandt park bark golf course new york city rut cut these rocket like ilke streaks were nothing other than luminous golf balls being tried out by their inventor M J bloomer scientist of columbia university these luminous balls keep their light tor for ten minutes after being tilt lilt from the tee and thus thug with the old aid of electric lights over the greens the night becomes as day to the insatiate golfer sportsmen now picture additional possibilities for or night golf with the aid of tills this hall ball and illumination of tee ings flags by employing the piercing rays of nf the now popular neon light which can be seen at great distance and through fog mist and smoke in his experiments with the fatal ball mr bloomer drove off eight balls from the first tee and located all of them within six minutes lafle huge glow worms they nestled among grass leaf and tree far down the fairways and in the rough