Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 97, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 April 1911 — “BOUNCE BALL” THE LATEST [ARTICLE]

“BOUNCE BALL” THE LATEST

New Exercise for Outrof-Conditton Business Men invented by Gymnasium Physical Director. By the invention of a new gymnasium game—“ Bounce Ball” —Dr. E. W. White, physical director at the Illinois Athletic club, claims to have solved the problem of exercise for out-of-con-ditlon business men. The game resembles volley ball, in that the ball used is the same and a similar net Is used, but “bounce ball,” Doctor White says, has the faculty of making staid business men laugh, exercise and perspire at the same time, yet without realizing the fact that they are working. The game can be jftayed any place and the grounds are not limited to any certain measurement. In a gymnasium a volley ball net is stretched across the middle of the floor and the players are evenly divided on either side. The ball used is the lightest size volley ball with skin cover. Service starts from the back line and the ball is knocked over the net into the opposing territory. The object is to return the ball before it hits the floor or before it has taken more than one bounce.. Each player, however, Is entitled to one bounce of the ball before it is returned.