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8 The Bend Bulletin, Wednesday. August 21, 1957 What's In the Future? Fantastic Sports, Outdoors Gadgets Predicted By BOB BAIUIHIt Bulletin KportH Editor Have you ever seen a golf ball that whistles to attract attention, a mechanical ball player or a per onalizcd power -pack lor swim mers? Of course you haven't, but these and other even more fantastic Items are possible for the sports man and sports Ion of the future. We Americans, as the experts swear, are lazy. We hate to work and will expend any amount of time and effort to get out of work. The aversion to effort even ex tends to our recreation. Take golf ' as an example. The game, adher ents cjaim, is fine exercise, what with all of the walking around. . So, what do we do? j We invent golf carts and ride around the course, stopping only long enough to hop off, stroke the ball, and jump back on. This Is exercise? Take, for another example, . swimming. We buy nice suits and water paraphernalia, travel to the pool, indulge in a brief dip, then ' spend the remainder of the time lying at pool-side, "sunning our selves," so we Bay. - Considering our present attitude toward exertion and the trend in the direction of more and more gadgets, It is entirely possible that we will be able to purchase a wide variety of things at the "Easy Living" store of the future. Sell Finding CSolf Hull Consider, if you will, the extro verted golf bull. As you make your round of the course, suppose that the ball is hit into the rough. As you flounder around in the underbrush the ball will whistle loudly and flash a bright light to aid in the search. Deluxe models could contain a miniature broadcaster, allowing the round object to shout, "Hey, Joe, over here." Swimming, for the occasional weekender, is now something of a chore, entailing a great deal of thrashing about, with considerable expenditure of energy. The individual who likes the wa ter but not the work of swimming may some day be able to pur chase a tiny, compact, waterproof motor with a propellor, which will push him through the water at a' chosen speed. Harpoon For ltlrdu These personalized motors, which will be strapped onto the water enthusiast, could, if equip ped with side floats, do away with big boats and motors, which, of course, will take a little more of the work out of recreation since lifting and hauling the craft will be eliminated. And for bird hunters, why not have small Imrpoons, tied to a sirong nylon thread, so that the bird, once shot, can be retrieved Prairie Dreamer Would Find Elk Lake Ideal Spot Fishermen in the flatmnds of the Midwest often dream of a perfect lake, where trout feed at sunset in water holding the mirror-like reflection of a snow cnpix'd moun tain. They mtuht nnt know It, but It's Elk lake they're Ihinkinn of. About 35 miles from Bond over the hard-surfaced Cascade Lakos highway (North Century drive), Klk lake has become famous for its beauty. Easily visible from the lakp are the towering South Sister moun tain and Bachelor butte. Both are snow capped the year-round, and at times South Sister's reflection seems to fill half the bike. Klk lake's trout include rainNiw and eastern brook. Though the lake rontains a large population of these fish, they 'are often difficult to catch because of excellent nat ural food supplies. At one time Klk lake gave up most of the eastern brook egp used by the Gregory K til lit? juiiiiiti!iiini in iia rnn.riu, activities. ' Elk lake resort, operated by the Symons family, is one of Central Oregon's finest, Excellent boats, clean and freshly painted, a mod ern restaurant and snack bar. food and camping supplies, cabins and a ioun?e are offered by the resort. For hardy fishermen, a pack sta tion Is based at Elk lake. Horse and cuidrs are provided foi trips to the back country lakes. without the necessity of wading in to the water or crawling over rocks to get to the prey? Now that we have made' it al most impossible for the recrea tionist or sportsman of the future to work up a sweat, let us briefly consider player - participation sports. Swept up in the move toward less and less effort, baseball clubs will probably be the first to con vert. Initially, the pitching machine will be improved and the hurler with a sore arm will take a seat on the bench, fixing the speed ajid the pitch by remote control. Mechanical Baseball His jealous mates may want to Join him, also controlling their me chanical players with buttons. Baseball managers could discov er that a bank of controls are as good as a number of individual ones, and the player would be pounding the streets looking for work. ' The game would develop into a contest between two managers, manipulating their players. The World Series, then, would be much I like watching a pair of pinball ma-. chines locked in combat. Granting this step, other sports 1 could be expected to fall in line. We would be treated to the spec tacle of two-ton hunks of machin ery bumping "heads" in the game of football which would probably become known as "machbajl". Tailor Made Groanors , "MashbaU" players, with the ex ception of running backs, will probably be of heavy-gauge steel, equipped with shock absorbers. Tennis players and most track sters, on the other hand, will be made of lightweight material, probably aluminum, with rewed up motors. Wrestling machines will be equipped with groaning devices, with faces of rubber, to allow the contortions so dear to fans of the "sport". What will happen when the cycle has gone full-circle? One good guess is that the sportsman, bored to tears by so much inactivity, will find it necessary to go back to work, and the cycle will start all over again. 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