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INDIAN CONSTITUTIONAL PROGRESS.

LIGHTER GOLF BALL UNITED STATES PROPOSAL, Writing in the "ung Mail, Mr. R. Ea.. dersby Howard "saya;---

The British committee having tried up successfully for three years to limit the power of the golf ball, the United States, when Sir Stanley Red opened a dis-

cussion on Now Foros in India." Golf Association EN now turping its attention to the problem.

ing

SIR STANLEY REED'S SURVEY. Lady Emily Lutyens" was at home to the British Indian Union on November

und

Sir Stanley Risod drew attention to the immense changes which had taken plac In both countries members of the govis India since he landed in Bombay

bodies consider that changes in the years ago. It was then a counter with a tals of bail manufacture art destroy

the balance of the game that the

congested agriculture, a strug- gling manufacturing industry, and easy compressed energy of the modern, ball, going politics stampet with the impress with its rubber thread wound under high of Gladstonian Liberalisin. Today, as a tension, makes driving so long a result of extensive irrigation and of is- abolish many of the intermediate shots tensive cultivation, congestion was so light- through the green which were formerly end that a shortage of labour was almost chronic. India ranked in the League of Nations as one of the great industrial countries of the world.

necesary.

This may seem almost satirical to people -who seldom hit their tee shots far rough to reuder the approaches at all simple, It is a fact, however; that under favourable "conditions many of the linding golfers now reduce the game inrgely to drives nid full bangs up to the hole with a mashie niblick, followed by putts.

to 1.82uz.

i wote

Polities threatened to pass under the control of those who could hout, the loudest, The constitutional machinery had moved, slowly perhaps, but still it had moved, in conformity with theso The proposal of the United States Golf forces. The Morley-Minto rejectes provid- Association is to leave the size of the balled a useful stepping stone from

what close bareaucracy to z. genuise as at present, but to reduce the weight,

measure of responsibish of

government in

that The present rate is operation throughout Act of 1919. The

that measure the world-limits the weight of the tall was for nearly three years obscured by this

"It is suggested by the U.S.G.A that come the expression of all Indian

con-co-operation movement, which had be diacon- the maximum weight shall be 20. und tents. That movement waned as the primary extensive experiments are being canried causes of discontent were removed, and out with the object of showing that such effectively perished from its sheer negation, a ball will achieve the purpose-that of But it had left a bitter legacy in racin curtailing the length of driving without passion: it was one of the ironies of the diminishing the pleasure of the game, Indian situation that a moment aiming Tatil May, 1920, there was no restriction at national unity had raised racial anim in the matter of the golf ball, and the sities to the most dangerous pitch. The and most popular kind among gool players extreme forms of Pan-Isinaises was that weighing 31 penny-weights.

Sikhism were anti-national, inasmuch as. they aimed at, minority rule.

Then the imitation to 1,62oz. (as avarly as possible 22 peany-weights) was intro duced. This about the weight of out of every 100 balls now in use, no matter what their sizę, There are balls of 57 pennyweights, but the demand for them is limited almost surely to the longer handicap women players and beginners.

Os of the leading British manufac turers tells me that the scheme of the C.S.G.A., if adopted, would reluce the maximum weight of the ball for ever body to 27.706 pennyweight very light ball, judged by the modern standard."

Mr. John L. Low, the most experienced

member of the British Rules Commities,

thinks that' would curtail an average good drive against the wind by 20 yards.

on its mara!

There never was a time when strong. impartial control was more necessary to keep India from drifting into chaos. But that control must rest sanction, if for no other reason beeruse it was British. The Act of 1919 embodied not only a constitution, but a policy-the policy of the gradual development of Tadis to full responsible government, and the increasing association at Indians with the administration:

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Probably it would 205 medyo a drive CONTINENTAL

down wind by quite so much.

Mr. J. Fritz Byers, president of the

U.S.G.A., told me when he was here re

cently that his committee regarded the PERFUMERY

limitation of the power of the ball as the paramout question in modern golf. This proposal to lighten the hall is the result of its investigations, Whatever happens, it is fairly certain that Britain and the United States will agree on a common policy..

THE CRICKET "BALL Almost "all who play, or have played. cricket must have heard of Duke's cricket ball. There is in fact, only one com petitor in England for the reputation of making the best ball. Mr. Harry Duke. the descendent of the Duke who invented the cricket ball, continues with the firm of "Duke and Son," and has the secret that has been so jealously handed down from father to son. While the style and shape of the original cricket bat has changed, the ball played with to-day is in weight and size precisely as it was constructed by Duke 200 years or more ago. Cricket ball manufacture is one of the closest industries in England. It is concentrated in the Tonbridge country, mainly at Quarry Hill. The shops at the factorics are so carefully guarded for the preservation of the secret that not even

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An extraordinary experiment recently made between New York and Warsaw, Poland, at the direction of Dr. E. F. W. Alexanderson, of Schenectady, chief engineer for the Radio Corporation, is described by the New York Fevening Post: A signal was sont from the, Radio Corporation's Broad Street office, vid the Radio Contral Station on Long Island, to Poland direct, at which point the signal was made, to actuate the Warsaw tran mitter, and thus send itself back to New York. Radio waves travel 186,000 miles a second, and the signal covered the dis tance to Poland and back, something less than 9,000 miles, in the tiniest fraction of a second. It proved but a stop to make the tick" or signal continue ita travels. Again and again it chased itself round the same vast circuit with lighta- ing speed, each time diminishing slightly in intensity and stress till it finally died away in audible tinklings. The loop was looped forty Limes, and the signal thus travelled altogether about 380,000 miles twelve or afteen times the distance round the globe.

Our English-speaking peoples, in our slow, onfish way, are looking on, are as kisting, at an attempt to wasto and terment to death a great community as civilised as our own,-MT. H. G. Wells,

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