US1452618A - Game - Google Patents

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W. L. SAYERS GAME Filed July 17. 1922 called the driver.

Patented A531124, i923.

narran sra'rrs WILLIAM I.. savnns, or BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

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Applicationled July 17, 1922. vSerial No. 575,458.

To all whom t may con-cem.:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM L. Seimas, a citizen of the United States .of America, residing at Brooklyn in the county of Kings and State of New Y7ork, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Gaines, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The invention upon which this application for Letters Patent is based is a new gaine, in which the appliances for playing it are in form., at least, common and well known but so devised as to make it possible by their use to play indoors, as on a tabla-an imaginary gaine of golf. I

to make any detailed description of it, pei'- haps, superfluous, nevertheless for lpurposes of this case, tliefollowing statement is apposite.

A player of the gaine drives oif from the tee a teed up ball by means of a wooden club Assuming the hole to be a long one his second shot may be made with a brassie or a midiron, his approach to the hole with a inashie and once'on the green his last stroke or two with a putter. Should his ball in its course dro'por roll into a bunker or other hazard he must use a niblick and under some conditions of play other clubs are used as all familiar with the game are well aware. l

I propose, as a means of playing an imaginary game, a form of polygonal body such as a spinning` top or a die with au arbitrary` number `of faces. preferably siX, and on each of these faces in two horizontal columns are a series of letters which indicate the clubs generally used in playing the Igame and cer" tain other data with which all players are familiar, such as a lost ball, out of bounds and holed out. y

In the accompanying drawing I have illustrated the device which havev devised for playing this game. Figpl shows a top in elevation. Fig. y2 a die in perspective and Fig.` 3 a development. of the faces of die or a six sided top showing the'letters or charac-k ters thatindicate the play.

.No more detailed description of this draw ample, will have the letters D.- (driver), B. ,A

(brassie), Mi. (midiron), M. (inashie), N. (iiilo'lick)v and P. (putter). While the second column contains arbitrarily selected letters to indicateclubs yor the other data re-y ferred to. Any number may play the gaine in the following manner.

He who has the honor or is first to play spins the top or 4throws the die which on coming to rest exposes one of the faces. vvThe first letter indicates the driverv which the vplayer is `assumed to have used and opposite the letter B. which indicates that when the n players turn comes around again he is lhile this Oame .is now so well known as.

assumed to be playing his brassie so that "on his next spin or throw if the same face of thetop or die turns up he will find opposite the second letter B. the letter P. which shows that his brassie shot` has landed him on the green and that his third shot will be with the putter. Assume that on his third spin or throw thesame face turns up, and that he finds after the P. the letter H. which shows that he has holed out. lScore cards are used and for each spinyor throw one stroke on a given hole is recorded so that the player in the above example will beshown v A to have made the first hole in 3. n Another example-Suppose that ythe face turns up on which the letter O. is alongside theletter D.. this shows that the player has driven out of bounds and means that he loses one stroke and must spin or throw again.

this shows that the player has driven into a bunker and must use his niblick. On his vnext spin or throw therefore he may find that the letter beside the N. indicates a inashie or midiron or some other club andv so he .must continue to play until he gets face comes up on which an H. is in line with the vP.

lt will be seen from the above that the number of faces or sides of the top is arbitrary although a square die willhave but six, and that the. combinations of letters in the second columns is equally so.' Generally these are so arranged that the number of strokes on the majority of holes will-be four which is what happens in good golf generally v spinning` top on the faces of which are arranged in -tWo parallel columns characters, which in the first colnrnnrz are in the saine order and indicate the clubs used in playing Jche gaine and in the order in which they are ordinarily used'` and characters which in `the second coluinn are arbitrarily selected to indicate different clubs7 and Various data characteristic of a golf gaine.

In testimony whereof I hereto aix my signature.

WILLIAM L. siii/ms

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