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Title: Popular science monthly
Year: 1872 (1870s)
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Subjects: Science
Publisher: New York : D. Appleton
Contributing Library: Gerstein - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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ith special clothing,shoes.clubs, cocktails, pro-fessional instructors andsimilar adornments. It isnow possible to bring itinto the home and havethe family play it withoutbeing decked out in sportshirts. Indeed, the indoorgame is the next bestthing to the outdoorgame itself. It is said toparallel accurately all thecharacteristics of an out-door course, and affordtrue putting practice. Itcan be playetl on any rugor carpet ofgood size. The pla\erstarts off with amashie shotfrom a felt teeover a bunker.After holing out,the next strokeis through a lowa n d n a r r o whazard callingfori)erfect <lirec-tion to the tirstdisk. The disk is soconstructedthat a ball willenter from anyangle with onlya slight amountof resistance;but once in, it cannot roll out again. Thethree disks, hazard and hole are easilyturned around, so as to face the ball.Should a ball be played against the out-side walls of the hazard, it will be de-flected sharply to one side but will notroll beyond the edge of the rug.
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Every drive is registered in yards by thismachine for teaching beginners in golf Devices for teaching special golf-strokes athome have been in-\entcd almost withoutnumber. One of thelatest is a machinewhich has been in-\cnted to teach scien-tific driving. The diagramexplains the workingof the golfers firstaid. It is a ballmounted on a ball-laaring shaft. It has all the fascination of a roulette wheel and your dri\e is registered on the calibrated dial. A plunger-spring set brings the ball to rest enables the pla\-er to frequently as he wishes. m the floorall teed anddrive off as A Duck-Boat as an Automobile Tod lV7-r)\-;l ,...„„.■ :. 1. . ^ NO) LI. canipiiiii HiHils have, fromtime to tunc, l)cen in I rod need, butIt IS doubtful if anything more dar-ing and ingenious has been conceixcdthan an automol)ile with a durk-ljoat fora top, the invention of G. W. Clark ofGlendalc, Cahfornia. The boat not onlytakes the place of the regular top butalso serves as a sunshade. In a \ er\few mo

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