Two Hundred-Yard Drives inYour Parlor 



"Fore " you yell, as of old, and hit 

 the golf ball as hard as you like 



PARLOR golf would, in theory, seem 

 to have all the benefits and thrills 

 of parlor baseball, as both games 

 are supposed to 

 require much 

 room, but you can 

 make no inventor 

 believe this. 



The very latest 

 endeavor to har- 

 ness down the 

 game to the con- 

 fines of the largest 

 apartment in your 

 residence, is a ma- 

 chine which lets 

 you whack the ball 

 with all your 

 might and which 

 indicates not only 

 the length of the 

 drive, but also the 

 elevation and de- 

 flection, so that 

 you can judge 

 what the ball 

 might have done 

 in the open air, un- 

 tethered to an un- 

 romantic contrap- 

 tion of springs and 

 things. 



The machine 

 consists first of a 

 plunger working in 

 a stout tube and 

 compressing a coil- 

 ed spring as it is 

 drawn out. On 

 the tube are grad- 

 uations represent- 

 ing yards of drive. 

 The ball is har- 

 nessed to the end 

 of this plunger by 

 a stout bit of wire 

 rope, then it is 

 teed or whatever 

 is the preliminary 

 necessary to 

 smacking it clear 



The machine indicates not only the length of 

 the drive but also the elevation and deflection 



Golf ball wire 

 fastened to this end 

 lndic3tor6 tor 



tength of flight 



When the ball is struck, the plunger is forced 

 out and compresses a coiled spring, causing 

 the pointer to register the length of drive 



Gelf ball ts struck 

 nOirectiori shown 



Lateral and vertical scales show the 

 elevation and deflection of the ball, which 

 is fastened to the plunger with wire rope 



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out of the county, and the golfer soaks 

 it with all the malice he would display 

 in an attempt to reach a green two hun- 

 dred difficult yards 

 away. 



The blow yanks 

 out the plunger 

 against the force 

 of the coiled 

 spring. By the 

 construction of the 

 tube, the plunger 

 is held out at the 

 point where it 

 stops, lest the re- 

 turning spring 

 smite the golfer 

 with the ball. A 

 pointer indicates 

 on the tube the 

 number of yards 

 the ball would 

 have gone in a real 

 game. 



Also, as the bar- 

 rel containing the 

 plunger is free to 

 swing upward or 

 sideways, there are 

 provided lateral 

 and vertical scales 

 to show whether 

 the ball would 

 have gone straight, 

 and whether in* 

 elevation it would 

 have endeavored 

 to emulate the cow 

 that jumped over 

 the moon. For- 

 tunately, no pro- 

 vision is made for 

 measuring the 

 strength and flu- 

 ency of the lan- 

 guage used in case 

 the ball is missed 

 or topped as it is 

 semi-occasion ally 

 indoors as well as 

 outdoors. 



Wire to golf ball which may 

 be laid on tne floor some 

 distance av.ay from machine 



