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Show Golf Playins at Night With Luminous Eclls It looked at first like a jubilee celebration cele-bration of some kind, as Hare after flare streaked the night horizon of Van Cortlandt Park golf course, New-York New-York city. Cut these rocket-like 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 for ten minutes after being be-ing hit from the tee, and thus, with the aid of electric lights over the greens, the night becomes as day to the Insatiate golfer. Sportsmen now picture additional possibilities for night golf with the aid of this ball and illumination of tee flags by employing the piercing rays of the now-popular neon light which can be 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. |