Abstract: A scoring system for use on a golf course hole having a tee and a pin for ranking measured distances from a golf ball for each of several golfers playing the hole. The scoring system includes a transmitting station having an input device for entering a distance, for each golfer, from the corresponding golf ball to a particular location on the hole and a receiving station located adjacent the tee having a display device. The most favorable distance along with the name of the corresponding golfer is transmitted from the transmitting station and displayed on said display device. A method for ranking measured distances from a golf ball for each of several golfers playing a hole having a tee and a pin is also disclosed.

Abstract: A dilute mixture of a large organic parent compound in an inert diluent is formed using a specially designed diffusion cell to control the amount of parent compound that is taken up by the diluent gas. The dilute mixture flows through a hot pyrolyzing tube where the parent compound is decomposed solely and totally by a gas phase unimolecular reaction into equimolar amounts of reactive gas and a stable reaction product. The method produces an internal standard for determining the concentration of the reactive gas since the stoichiometry of the reaction requires that the concentration of the reactive gas be equal to the concentration of the other reaction product, which can be easily calibrated by standard methods.