A New or Improved Game, and Apparatus to be Used in connection therewith and for other similar purposes.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 17th Feb., 1894
Complete Specification Left, 19th Nov., 1894-4ccepted, 22nd Dec., 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
A New or Improved Game, and Apparatus to be Used in connection
therewith and for other similar purposes..
I, JOHN JAMES HENRY STURMEY of No. 19 Hertford Street Coventry in the
County of Warwick, Journalist, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to
be as follows:-
My invention relates to a new or improved game and apparatus to be used in
connection therewith and for other similar purposes. The apparatus consists of a
board printed and coloured or otherwise marked to represent, more or less nearly,
The board is
the holes, hazards and other features of a golf ground or "links."
also marked with a series of lines or holes, which are preferably numbered
consecutively. Some of the said lines or holes are coincident with the golf holes
and others with the "hazards" and the like. The game may be played with dice,
dominoes or a teetotum or the like, but I prefer to play it with cards in the
following manner.
Equal numbers of cards are dealt out to each of two players. The players
examine their cards and the first player exposes the card of lowest value in his
hand; the second player then exposes the card of highest value in his hand and
scores the difference. Next the second player exposes the card of lowest value in
his hand and the first player then exposes the card of highest value in his hand and
scores the difference, and so on until all the cards are exposed or the last golf hole
is played into. The game may be modified to allow of more than two players
taking part in it at one time.
Counters, or pegs, which may be in the form of miniature golf balls, either with
flat bottoms or pegs adapting them to rest on the said lines or in the said holes,
are used to indicate the progress of the players on the board; the positions of the
counters or pegs on the board corresponding to the positions into which the golf
balls would be hit in the real game. The progress of the game on the board will
also be scored, by any convenient scoring apparatus which may or may not be
incorporated with the said board. When the dice, dominoes, tee-to-tum or cards
entitle or require a player to advance a certain number of points he moves his
counter or peg on so many lines or holes as the case may be. This movement may
bring him to a line or hole indicating one of the golf holes, if so, he scores as if he
had struck his ball into the hole in the real game; or it may bring him to a
hazard or the like, in which case he may be required to loose a turn, move back so
many points, or be otherwise obstructed. Special values may be attached to certain
cards and incorrect playing may be made to involve an obstruction to the progress
to the player.
The apparatus may obviously be used for or introduced into the scoring of other
games and for other scoring purposes.
Dated this 16th day of February 1894.
W. B. MAXFIELD,
Applicant's Agent.

page_text: A New or Improved Game, and Apparatus to be Used in connection
therewith and for other similar purposes.
I, JOHN JAMES HENRY STURMEY, of No. 19 Hertford Street, Coventry in the
County of Warwick, Journalist, 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 :-
My invention relates to a new or improved game and apparatus to be used in
connection therewith and for other similar purposes.
The apparatus consists of a board printed and coloured or otherwise marked to
represent more or less nearly the holes, hazards and other features of a golf ground
or links." The board is also marked with a series of lines or holes, which are
preferably numbered consecutively. Some of the said lines or holes are coincident
with the golf holes and others with the hazards and the like. The game may be
played with dice, dominoes or a teetotum or the like, but I prefer to play it
with cards, after the fashion of golf, the scoring being as in match play.
It may be played with either two or four persons. Having decided on the
method of play, and chosen sets, if four are playing, the cards are shuffled and a
cut is made by each side or party the one holding the lowest card cut taking the
honour, that is, scoring first. The cards are then shuffled, cut by the player taking
the honour, and dealt by his opponent, who deals nine cards to each player, turning
up the next card for trumps, this remaining trumps throughout the game. The
rest of the pack are then placed on the table between the players and drawn from
as play proceeds, in the manner hereafter set forth. Both players place their balls
on the tee, that is the heavy line without a number, at the commencement of the
round in which the hole is also situate, and long or driving play is commenced.
The player not taking the honour plays the lowest card in hand. His opponent
follows with the highest his hand contains, and player No. 2 scores, with his ball as
a marker, the difference in the value of the two cards played. The second player
now in his turn leads off with the lowest card he holds, and his opponent scores
the difference between this and his highest card. Each player then plays another
drive after which follows the short game. Each player now holds five cards.
From this point in the game a card is drawn by each player after each play, thus
keeping a constant five in hand. The player or side not holding the honour leads
off with a card at option for the opponent to play to. In the scoring each card
counts at its face value, except as otherwise provided; a knave counting eleven, a
queen, twelve and a king thirteen.
In the short game the scoring is as follows; A card having been led by the first
player, the second player must play the card having the nearest face value above
the one led, or he may play any trump card he possesses, scoring the difference in
points between his own card and the one led. If he is unable to play a card higher
than the one led he plays any card he pleases and scores nothing, but in the case
of a trump-unless the card led is also a trump-he scores the difference either
above or below.
If
The following special scoring also takes place; a card of equal value will, if
the player is in a bunker or other difficulty place him clear of the obstacle.
he is in no difficulty it will lift him clear of the next in his path.
The king of trumps will give him the next hole if played to a trump led, if
otherwise it will lift him clear of his next obstacle or out of the difficulty he may
be in at the time.
Knave, queen or king of the suit led, other than trumps if playable, will score
one, two and three, respectively, above their face values. That is to say; knave 12,
queen 14, king 16, both in the long and short game.

page_text: The play is made in turn by each player or side after each has drawn a card;
the player holding the honour drawing first.
When the last obstacle is passed, putting play commences for the hole. Here it
is not sufficient to reach the hole, but the player must score exactly into it in order
to hole out. If he requires, say, three to hole out, and his exact score is five, he
goes two beyond the hole, and then scores back again, playing always towards the
hole until he exactly holes out.
Should the player holding the honour hole out first he must give his opponent the
lead for another shot the two players balving the hole if this shot enables his
opponent to also hole out.
The holes are scored on the scoring scale as made.
balls are placed on the tee line for the next hole.
After each hole is made the
Five cards are drawn by each player in order to give each nine in hand and the
order of play repeated, two long shots being followed by the short game as before.
If the cards left are insufficient to go round, those which have already been played
are shuffled and placed beneath the res. This is repeated as occasion requires to
the end of the game.
The player scoring most holes at the end of the game wins. The full game is
three times round the course or eighteen holes but a short course of once round
may be played if desired.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING.
The drawing represents the board marked with lines and numbers and depicting
a golf course, having holes A, A; hazards B, B; bunkers C, C ; streams E, E;
fences F, F; H represents the tee; J, J, numbered holes punched or otherwise
formed through the board for scoring by suitable pegs, the progress of the golf
gaine on the board. K, K, represent the balls preferably made with flat bottoms.
If a ball score be played on to L the next score counts half, if on to M it counts
backwards; if on to N it must be put back to the tee; if on to P the player must
draw a card and go back as many as its face value indicates; if on to Q it must be
put back 5; if on to R the next score must be halved; if on to S the next score
will count as two; if on to U the next play must be scored backwards; if on to V
the player must draw a card and go back to its face value; if on to W it must be
put back four; if on to X the player must miss his next turn. Directions to this
effect are printed on the board in the positions indicated. The apparatus may
obviously be used for or introduced into the scoring of other games and for other
scoring purposes.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is :-
1. The apparatus to be used in connection with the herein described game,
substantially as described and as illustrated herein.
2. The apparatus to be used in scoring games substantially as described and as
illustrated herein.
Dated 104 1.0.
Naomhar 1804
WILLIAM BESTWICK MAXFIELD,
Registered Patent Agent,
19, Bowling Green Street, Leicester, Applicant's Agent.