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With his blazing game Snead helped to drive the nation's golf scores down from the low 705 to the low 60s. (Improved equipment-notably the steel shaft and the larger ball, and such gadgets as the power mower and the fairway sprinkler systems-helped.) Sam Snead, with his own particular style and corn-pone personality, was something new in combat golf. For years the game had been dominated by English styles. With the great American hitters-including Snead-golf had got out of its Oxford bags...
...Self-Propelled Sprinkler. A lawn sprinkler that propels itself over any prearranged course at the rate of 17 feet an hour will soon be marketed by the Reel Sprinkler Co. of Toledo. With the hose laid out in any pattern on the lawn, the Reel Sprinkler (a rotating sprinkler at-'tached to a hose reel on wheels) moves forward under water pressure, winding up the hose as it goes, then shuts off automatically. Price...
Water Worm. Plastic garden hose which acts as a lawn sprinkler was put on sale by A. M. Andrews Co. of Portland, Ore. Holes punched along the Vinylite hose spray a 12-ft.-wide swath of lawn. Price for a 50-ft. length, which weighs only 1½ lbs. and can be rolled into a 6-in. bundle...
Automatic Gardener. Texas Lawn Sprinkler Co. is selling an electric control that automatically turns on an underground sprinkler system and waters a lawn when it needs it. Two electrodes keep track of the moisture in the air and soil can be set to turn on the sprinkler system if the moisture falls below a certain point. Price of the sprinkler system varies according to the size of the lawn, e.g., about $2,000 for a 100-by-200-ft. lawn. Price of the control...
...Sprinkler Sentinel. An automatic timer which will turn off lawn sprinklers after any period from one to 60 minutes has been put on the market by Automatic Controls Corp. of Ann Arbor, Mich. Price...