Improvements in and relating to Indoor Games.
Year: 1898

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Improvements in and relating to Indoor Games.
I, BEAMISH BARTER, Major, Lincolnshire Regiment, of Oakleigh, Court Road,
Eltham, Kent, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The game to which my present invention relates comprises a board upon which
is depicted a golf links, with tees, greens, and hazards complete. The course
will be divided into any desired number of "holes," say 9, and will be furnished
with stations or posts, each marked with a number. The numbers nearest the
tee are the lowest, and they increase as the green is approached.
The "holes" will be of different lengths, as in the real game, and the numbers
will be arranged accordingly.
In the centre of the board according to this invention, I arrange, so as not to
cover or interfere with the picture of the links, a box divided into numbered
compartments, for instance, from one up to six. Into this box, from a fixed
distance, the players attempt to flick counters, and according to the number of
the compartment into which the counter falls, the players take up a position at
a similarly numbered station on the course, the position being marked by any
sort of removable indicator, which may be set down where required.
The stations on the course are set variously, some being in a hazard, and some
upon smooth ground. The object of the player therefore will be, by the skilful
manipulation of his counter, to get himself into a position on the smooth ground,
for if, by chance, he gets a number which lands him in a sand bunker, whins,
or other hazard, he will be penalized, and have to go back one or more stations,
thereby putting himself further from the hole for which he is playing.
The game may be played as a match between two or three individuals, or
between two pairs, or it may be played as a stroke competition or medal round,
as in the real game of golf, which is well understood.
The counters used in the game are ordinary discs of bone or other suitable
material, and they are flicked or projected from the board whereon they lie, into
the box, by means of other discs pressed down upon their edges.
A skilful player will be able with tolerable accuracy to project his counter into
any of the compartments of the box he may desire, so as to secure whatever
number may be necessary to give him the most advantageous position or station
on the links, and enable him to reach the green and the hole in the fewest
number of strokes possible.
Dated this 22nd day of December 1898.

page_text: Improvements in and relating to Indoor Games.
I, BEAMISH BARTER, Major, Lincolnshire Regiment, of Oakleigh, Court Road,
Eltham, Kent, 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 game to which my present invention relates comprises a board upon which
is depicted a golf links, with tees, greens and bazards complete. The course
will be divided into any desired number of "holes," say nine, and will be furnished
with stations or posts, each marked with a number. The numbers nearest the
tee are the lowest, and they increase as the green is approached.
The "holes" will be of different lengths, as in the real game, and the numbers
will be arranged accordingly.
In the centre of the board according to this invention, I arrange, so as not to
cover or interfere with the picture of the links, a box divided into numbered
compartments, for instance, from one up to six. Into this box, from a fixed
distance, the players attempt to flick counters, and according to the number of
the compartment into which the counter falls, the players take up a position at
a similar numbered station on the course, the position being marked by any
Fort of removable indicator, which may be set down where required.
The stations on the course are set variously, some being in a hazard, and some
upon smooth ground. The object of the player therefore will be, by the skilful
manipulation of his counter, to get himself into a position on the smooth ground,
for if, by chance, he gets a number which lands him in a sand bunker, whins
or other hazard, he will be penalized, and have to go back one or more stations,
thereby putting himself further from the hole for which he is playing.
The game may be played as a match between two or three individually, or
between two pairs, or it may be played as a stroke competition or medal round,
as in the real game of golf, which is well understood.
The counters used in the game are ordinary discs of bone or other suitable
material, and they are flicked or projected from the board whereon they lie, into
the box, by means of other discs pressed down upon their edges.
A skilful player will be able with tolerable accuracy to project his counter into
any of the compartments of the box he may desire, so as to secure whatever
number may be necessary to give him the most advantageous position or station
on the links, and enable him to reach the green and the hole in the fewest
number of strokes possible.
Having now described and ascertained the nature of this invention and in what
manner it is to be performed, I declare that what I claim is: -
A game to be played on a board on which is drawn a picture of a golf links;
the supposed strokes of the players being made by flicking counters from a fixed
distance into a centrally placed receptacle which is divided into compartments
of varying values; the moves on the board being made with removable indicators
to the stations corresponding to the value of the compartments the counters
lodge in.
Dated this 22nd day of September 1899