TENNIS STRINGS.
The best gut used in stringing tennis rackets coines from the intestines in the stomachs of lambs and sheep. Poorer gut comes from the inside of cattle, but tenuis gut is not obtained from a eat. The gut is obtained from tho abattoirs and is pared down and seasoned by special drying. The fibres are then twisted together, about eight or ten making the thickness of the gut. To impress 011 players the effect of the weather on gut, a manufacturer states in his catalogue that in England there are hundreds of weather cocks which faithfully record the approach of rain. Often when the sky is clear and the weather looks perfect you will notice the cock gradually turn to "Rain coming." The contrivance is worked with tennis gut, which absorbs sufficient moisture from the air to alter the reading. Later, as the air gets clearer and drier, the cock changes to "Fine Weather Coming."
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 287, 3 December 1932, Page 2 (Supplement)
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