AUTOMATIC AGE
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M ills P r e s e n t s
G o lf B a ll V e n d e r !
lyTILLS N O V E L TY CO. has now de
veloped a floor-type Golf Ball
Vender somewhat similar in appear
ance to the new Club Bell, but which
is especially designed for handling
g olf balls.
The new G'olf Ball Vender has a
capacity o f 130-150 balls. It registers
each coin played into the machine and
registers each g olf ball vended by it.
This permits the operator to leave the
key o f the Golf Ball Vender compart
ment with the professional o f the club
who can fill this whenever necessary.
There are thousands o f private and
public g o lf clubs throughout the Uni
ted States. Each o f them is a poten
tial location fo r this machine. Here
is a machine that operates in exactly
the same manner as a Bell, but in
stead o f paying rewards in coins or
checks, it pays awards in g o lf balls
o f nationally known, widely adver
tised brands.
The usual procedure in placing Golf
Ball Venders is to purchase the g olf
balls from the club professional at the
full retail list price. A fter the cost
o f the g olf balls has been deducted,
the net earnings are divided on a SO
SO basis.
By purchasing the balls
from the club professional at the full
list price, the operator does not in any
way compete with the sale o f g olf
balls by the professional, and due to
the large quantity purchases, this nat
urally gives the professional an inter
est in the success o f the machine.
Locations o f this kind need to be col
lected only about once a week as the
vending compartment can be refilled
by the professional whenever neces
sary. The operator can tell from a
glance at both registers exactly how
many quarters have been played into
the machine and how many balls have
been vended.
Aside from the unusually high
earnings to be obtained with the Golf
Ball Vender itself, it has another
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great advantage to the operator.
A great many private g olf club?
encounter a deficit each year whicL
must be made up from private sul
scriptions and assessments collected
from the members. A great many of
these clubs have no idea o f the earn
ings o f Bell type machines. Often
they have such set opinions regarding
equipment o f this type that they will
not even allow the operator to dem
onstrate what the machine will do.
A m ajority o f g o lf clubs now want
Golf Ball Venders. As the popularity
o f this machine is quickly demon
strated to the house committee, it is
easy to induce them to try a few
Bells. The Bell entertains the mem
bers and earns enough to eliminate
special assessments. A great many
members who might strenuously ob
ject to special assessments o f any
form cheerfully play machines, feel
ing that the machines are giving them
amusement, and, at the same time,
they are helping the club.
From the standpoint o f the club,
the machine is the ideal method o f
raising extra money because it collects
its earnings from the players who
make the most use o f the club fa cili
ties.
Everywhere there are g o lf courses
— private and semi-private, and pub
lic fee courses. All o f these are loca
tions fo r Golf Ball Venders. When
the actual operation and method of
handling this machine is explained to
the professional, there is no reason
why he shouldn’t be very enthusiastic
about having one installed.
Fresh’nd-Aire Go.
Plans Spring Drive
F or many months, engineers o f the
Fresh’nd-Aire Company have been
making extensive preparations fo r a
new line o f Fresh’nd-Aire circulators
— with freshening and purifying fe a
tures. And now their large factory
is in full production.
In 1936, their activities in the fan
line were confined to making large
fans fo r others, using motors o f out
side manufacture. However, fo r 1937,
besides conducting all sales activi
ties themselves, they have extended
their activities to include special re
designing and rebuilding o f motors
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to special specifications that insure
long life and trouble-proof per
form ance.
“ W e have incorporated many cus
tom built features in motors that are
not available from outside sources,”
said Mr. R. W . Devore, president o f
the Fresh’nd-Aire Company. “ By
doing so, we claim to have achieved
efficiency and perform ance in addi
tion to sturdiness and reliability far
superior to those that could be
achieved with other m otors.”
“ Our goal is always to build the
finest most efficient air circulators in
the world with air freshening fea
tures that excel all others. W e also
aim to build Fresh’nd-Aire to last
longer than the man who buys one.
As we say in our literature, thei’e is
only one Fresh’nd-Aire and we chal
lenge all comparison o f Fresh’nd-
A ire’s exclusive features o f finest
performance and highest quality o f
construction throughout.”
Fresh’nd-Aire is built in one o f the
finest, largest and best equipped fa c
tories, devoted exclusively to fan
manufacture, in the world.
Mice Replace Balls
in This Game
A unique parody o f the pin ball
game has been perfected by Paul
Jones and William Junda, two high
school teachers o f Belleville, N. J.
They have corralled a choice collec
tion o f field mice and are goin g to
ship them td their concession at
Atlantic City, N. J. They expect to
have a very profitable summer, pro
viding the police and the humane
societies leave them alone.
The two men have arranged a large
wooden playing field, patterned along
the same lines as the ordinary pin
ball field, but about ten times as large
and filled with numbered holes. There
is a trap at the far end o f the field.
When the patron inserts a coin in
the chute, instead o f a ball rolling
out, a mouse is popped forth. The
mouse is supposed to move down the
field and go into one o f the holes.
I f the hole which the mouse enters
is the one on which the patron has
placed a bet, the payoff is made in
merchandise.
Bill Rabkin, o f International Muto-
scope Company, wrote the A u t o m a t i c
Age
from Paris, France. He said
that Paris is an operator’s paradise,
with automatic machines working 24
hours daily.
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