Abstract: The device is for play of games that use rackets or paddles with handles to propel objects between two or more players. A skirt is attached to a nose. The nose may have a tip formed of a hard synthetic material with a springy, elastic quality, and the tip may have a generally curved front surface and a back surface attached to a body. The body may be a generally solid cylinder shape formed of a cork like consistency material and be formed with an insert of hollow cylindrical form positioned in the center of the material about a central axis. The skirt may have at least three panels formed of a plastic material attached at adjacent edges to form a truncated polyhedron with a base edge shaped as a polygon and a truncated top edge attached to the nose.