Year: 1898

page_text: I, CHARLES FREDERICK STARKEY, 68, Oxton Road, Birkenhead, Journalist, do
hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
I use a disc or flat circular board of the shape or form of a roulette table and
by radial lines I part the circle into divisions or spaces at unequal distances.
The divisions may be of any number but preferably of twenty three (23) divi-
sions. In five of these twenty three divisions which I make wide I place
respectively the words one run, two runs, three runs, four runs, and the cipher 0.
I, in the remaining eighteen spaces which I make narrower, place respectively
the following words: bowled, caught, stumpt, leg before wicket, run out, played
on, hit wicket, handled ball, obstructing field, no ball, wide, bye, leg bye, five
runs, six runs, seven runs, eight runs, nine runs. The foregoing twenty three
words or terms each occupies a separate space on the disc and each word or
term and space may be duplicated. In the centre of the disc I fix a pointer or
spinner which I make to rotate from right to left or left to right. The said
pointer having been caused to move, will stop in the ordinary way opposite to
one of the divisions or at one of the radial lines. The disc may be made of
any material, but preferably of cardboard; the spinner may be made of any
material but preferably of cardboard or metal; and the circle, radial lines and
words on the disc may be written, printed, painted or engraved or produced
by means of wood or process blocks, and the divisions or spaces may be
increased in number to allow of the use of the cricketing terms beyond those
already mentioned, such as, for instance, the term caught in the slips, and the
like.
The game may be played by any number of persons. Assuming the game to
be played by two persons the one who has won the choice of innings, sets the
pointer in motion and records on a score sheet the result indicated by the pointer.
For instance, should the pointer stop, pointing at the space denominating one
run, he would score one run and would continue playing and scoring until the
pointer stopped in a space which indicated that he was out in one of the various
ways described in the spaces. His opponent would then proceed to play in
the same way and the one scoring the more runs would win the game. The
players may arrange to spin alternately. Should the pointer stop at a radial
line the player may spin the pointer again. Sides may be chosen and assuming
there are eleven players on each side, the side which has won the choice of
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page_text: innings continues playing until the pointer has indicated that ten players are
out. The game can be made to be contained in a fancy box of cardboard or
other suitable material, or folded flat like a draught board.
Dated this Seventeenth day of September 1898.
CHARLES FREDERICK STARKEY, 68, Oxton Road, Birkenhead, 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 follow-
ing statement:-
I use a disc or flat circular board of the shape or form of a roulette table, and
by radial lines I part the circle into divisions or spaces at unequal distances.
The divisions may be of any number, but preferably of twenty-three divisions.
In five of these twenty-three divisions, which I make wide, I place respectively
the words one run, two runs, three runs, four runs and the cipher 0. In the
remaining eighteen spaces, which I make narrow, I place respectively the
following words: Bowled, caught, stumped, leg before wicket, run out, played
on, hit wicket, handled ball, obstructing field, no ball, wide, bye, leg bye, five
runs, six runs, seven runs, eight runs, nine runs. The foregoing twenty-three
words or terms each occupies a separate space on the disc, and each word or
term or space may be duplicated. In the centre of the disc 1 fix a pointer or
spinner, which I make to rotate from right to left, or left to right. The said
pointer having been caused to move or spin, will stop in the ordinary way oppo-
site to one of the divisions or at one of the radial lines. The disc may be made
of any material, but preferably of card board, and the pointer may be made of
any material but preferably of card board or metal, and the circle, radial lines
and words on the disc, may be written, printed, painted or engraved, or produced
by means of wood or process blocks; and the divisions or spaces may be in-
creased in number to allow of the use of cricketing terms beyond those already
mentioned, such as for instance the term "caught in the slips," and the like.
The game may be played by any number of persons. Assuming the game to
be played by two persons, the one say who has won the choice of innings, sets
the pointer in motion, and records on a score sheet the result indicated by the
pointer. For instance, should the pointer stop pointing at a space denominating
one run," he would score himself one run on the score sheet, and would con-
tinue playing, that is spinning the pointer, until the pointer stopped opposite
a space which indicated that he was out" in one of the various ways described
in the spaces.
The opponent would then proceed to play, or spin the pointer,
in the same way, and the one scoring the more points would win.
The players
may arrange to spin alternately. Should the pointer stop opposite a radial line
the player may spin the pointer again. Sides may be chosen, and assuming
there are eleven each side, the side playing first would continue to spin the
pointer until it had indicated that ten players were out in any of the various
ways indicated on
For instance, if the pointer, after spinning,
stopped opposite the space containing the word "bowled," the player or spinner.
would be out.
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the disc.
The dise and spinner or pointer can be made to be contained in a faney box
of any material, or folded flat.

page_text: 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: -
The invention of a new and improved mode of playing parlour cricket, whereby
the results obtained in ordinary field cricket may be, and are, scored and
recorded in a similar manner.