GB147412A - Improvements in or relating to apparatus for playing games resembling golf - Google Patents

Abstract

147,412. Wilton, G. March 11, 1920. Outdoor games.-For playing a game on a lawn or carpet with golf clubs and a golf ball, a series of obstacles are provided, over, through, or at which the ball has to be played. The following are obstacles which may be employed. A channelled loop having an inlet b, Fig. 1, and a hole or box d; a ramp having side ledges m, Figs. 5, 5<a>, and a box d; a board having a playing hole q, Figs. 7, 7<a>, and provided with a ramp p, and a box c; a coned-shaped pocket 13, Fig. 13, suspended from a runner 14 mounted on a wire 11; a dial 15, Figs. 14 and 14<a>, mounted on a stand 16 at the base of which is swung a disk 17, a balanced hand 23 being adapted to be moved over the dial when the disk is struck. In other instances, the obstacles take the forms of an inclined stand having ledges with depending bells, a gate pivotally mounted on a frame, a ring mounted in a net, a ball mounted on a tee, a parapet provided with a shoot, a board pivotally mounted on a stand, a double ramp with a space between the ramps, and skittles arranged in front of a not.