II. GOLF BALLS
The manipulation of golf balls is a still more recent innovation. It was the happy thought of Mr. Henry Gordien, the clever Minneapolis magician, of making the balls of soft rubber that brought them into their own. Mr. L. Ireland adopted the idea, added the double clinging shell feature, and worked out clever routines with the balls thus prepared, thereby presenting the profession with one of the best tricks in the whole field of sleight of hand. These rubber balls are an exact imitation of the real article: the surface will neither crack nor peel and can be cleaned when necessary; the clinging nature of the rubber makes their handling a matter of ease and pleasure; their small size facilitates manipulations; and the use of the two shells, which can be made to adhere to the ball, permitting it to be thrown in the air safely, makes possible some astonishing effects.
All the sleights and manipulations that have been explained in the preceding section in connection with billiard balls are applicable to golf balls; there are, however, certain sleights which can be done only with golf balls. These will be explained first.
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