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Show MAGNETIC GAME FOR PARLOR tsskstball May Be Played Upon Table With Two Upright Screens, a Ball and Bate. A parlor game of baaketball played upon a table wtth two upright screena. a ball and beta. Is the subject ef a patent Issued to Lencra II. Jones, Sedgwick. Kansas. The ball In constructed of magnetizable magnetiz-able material, while the bat, called a long, contains a permanent magnet, as shown, with a handle. The object of the game Is to pick p the playing ball with the long through the magnetic action snd deliver de-liver It with a quick Jerking motion Into the basket, as shown, at the left ef the party In play, says the Popular Electricity. Thla la done only by the player atandlng next to the basket; the other player or players on the Magnetic Baaketball. same side simply paas the ball along ! the table with a light tap of the long, j The opponent attempts to prevent a , player frutn scoring by guarding the basket and by knocking the ball from . his opponent's tong by lightly striking strik-ing the latter on the top with his own. Each playing ball delivered in I the basket may count two points and the first side scoring ten points ahall ! be the winner la the game and the side first winning five games shall be the final winner. |