A New Game for Indoor or Outdoor Use.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 19th July, 1889
Complete Specification Left, 5th Oct.; 1889-Accepted, 7th Dec., 1889
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
A New Game for Indoor or Outdoor Use.
1, GEORGE LILWALL of Avonside House, Bidford, Stratford-on-Avon (in the County
of Warwick) Gentleman, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
It is a game well adapted for Ladies, especially school girls; on wet days can play
indoors, on fine on the lawn or court or yard.
The net is 3 ft. high (mesh and balls the same as in tennis) 8 ft. wide.
Three standards 4 ft. 6 in. high with cross bars: the courts are 4. two on each side
6 by 4 each.
A. & B. play C. & D. (or two may play) each player serves 3 balls. A, standing
clear of his court throws a ball within his court when it bounds over, but under the
bar, into the court of C. on its rebound if C. catches it in his purse net it counts
one to his side, if he fails to catch it one is counted to A's side.
From 1. io 6. is "One Round." Six "Rounds" is one "Game."
"Love Knot" or a tie: the next score is " point," a tie again is
the next to scoro is "One Round."
A. Scale of perspective of net and courts.
B. Scale of foot stand.
1 B. Plan of indoor foot stand.
11 B. Side elevation of ditto with screw for bottom of standard.
Five all is
point love:
"
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
A New Game for Indoor or Outdoor Use.
I GEORGE LILWALL of Avonside House, Bidford, Stratford-on-Avon, (in the
County of Warwick) Gentleman, do hereby declare the nature of this invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described
and ascertained in and by the following statement :-
The drawings are those filed with the provisional specification, numbered and
dated as above. The net is shown fixed ready for play with the courts marked.
A is scale of perspective of net and courts.
B scale of foot stand. 1 B. plan of in-door foot stand. 11 B side elevation of ditto
with screw for bottom of standard. 111B side elevation of outdoor spearhead,
support for securing standard in turf against wind. C scale of 4 ft. rod for fixing on
top of standards.
1C the rod. D. scale of standard.

page_text: 1 E plan of small ditto.
111 E scale of ditto.
11 E section of purse-catcher.
Balls to be used are the usual lawn tennis balls. The game
is played with two or four players. The larger purse catcher is for beginners: the
smaller ones for skilled players.
Three balls are served by each server and turns are taken as in tennis named.
A. & B. are partners against C. & D All the players stand fairly outside the chalk
lines until the ball is served.
A takes a ball in his hand and throws it on the floor within his own court and
makes it bound over the net but beneath the cross bar, into the court of C when on
its re-bound (not before) C catches it in his purse-not, thus scoring one point to
C & D. the other two balls are served in the same way if C fail to catch cither of
the balls then three points are scored to A & B. Three misses are allowed in serving
but if each of the three tries fail to pass the ball over into the other court then one
is counted to the other side.
The counting is from one to six making one round: six rounds is one game.
"Five all is "love knot."
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed: I declare that what
I claim is
1st. The conception of a new game to be played with a net simple and inexpensive.
2nd. The callisthenic character of the exercise not being violent, or unwomanly,
will be invaluable for girls at school.
3rd. The fentures of novelty are that the same game can be played in door or in
a paved court or lawn.
Dated this 16th day of November 1889
GEORGE LILWALL.