The Billboard 1913-03-22: Vol 25 Iss 12 (1913-03-22)

“4 e ' The Billboard MARCH 22, 1913. Mr. Park Slanager and Concession Man Would You Care To Eat Porterhouse Steak For Every Meal, You wouldn't. since your park first opened. Day In And Day Out? That’s the reason the amusement park game has been on the decline. You MUST WAKE UP and give them something new, something that will revive that old interest, something that will amuse, fascinate and interest them, if you expect to get the money this season. THE NEW IMPROVED “PLAY BALL MACHINE” is one of the meritorious amusement devices that will help put the park business back where it belongs. Remember, it is far better to install a few legitimate amusement devices that will get the money, than a lot of “DEAD ONES” that won't even pay operating expenses. Neither does the public care to be fed the same old rusty amusements you have been feeding them every season =, * oo It Is Just Impossible To Make A Failure With The New Improved Play Ball Machine, because just as long as Baseball continues to be the World’s Great Game, will the PLAY BALL MACHINE continue to create interest and fascinate the millions. “THE PLAY BALL PARLOR” is the one best proposition offered in years. Three or four “PLAY BALL MACHINES” installed in a park or in any store-room where the people pass, will pay large returns on the investment. Why not a place where the baseball, fan can drop in and play a game”of ball? The billiard, pool and bowling fans have their places and the baseball fans out-number them by the millions. The picture show idea was laughed at a few years ago but it got the money for the wise ones who came in on the ground floor. We see a great future in the “PLAY BALL PARLOR” and have designed our machines for either indoor or outdoor use. A machine that can be operated at parks, fairs and picnics at so many strikes for 5 or 10 cents giving only the players BATTING AVERAGE; or for use in the PLAY BALL PARLOR, BILLIARD HALL, BOWLING ALLEY, PENNY ARCADE, ETC., where a regulation game of baseball can be’played. Height Over All, 10 Ft. rf ie : 7 4 4 « i ; . PETER EBE BEE] BREPEETSSSSSREeasER AE Ue ry ; 4 § F + : . Pe Decorated Fully covered by patents. SPECIFICATIONS OF THE NEW IMPROVED PLAY BALL MACHINE Built of steel, best of workmanship guaranteed; handsomely decorated. required, 8x8 feet. Illuminated; entirely adjustable. Can be trans apart and assembled in Jess than half hour by one man. Improv direction regardless of the direction ball is struck. Handsomely 13 ‘ It is not necessary to educate the public to play the game as all the world has the “BASEBALL BUG” and with a machine that makes possible the playing of a reguler BL, of base 1, how can failure be possible? With the NEW IMPROVED PLAY BALL MACHINE we have perfected a novel scoreboard with a “Miniature Baseball Diamond” thereon, the plays made on the machine are recorded on the ‘‘Miniature Diamond’”’ by means of pegs. For an example: you strike “First Base” on the machine, you place a peg on “First Base’? on the “Miniature Diamond.” Suppose the next strike you make is 170: corresponding number on the “Miniature Diamond” reads (“Double Play,”’ put batsman and man on base nearest home out). Each number on the machine has a corresponding number on the “Miniature Diamond” with instructions directly opposite the number which shows the batter in an instant just what play he has made on the machine. You can readily see how interesting and fascinating the game is, it being necessary to use science, skill and judgment as well as physical strength to make or avoid certain plays just as would be necessary in a regulation ball game. Our Booklet, “The Play Ball Machine”’ and “The Play Ball Parlor” Gives full details regarding our proposition. It is yours for a postal card. Height, 10 feet over all; weight complete, less than 300 pounds; ground spac rted completely assembled, with the exception of removing diamond, or can be taken ball, can be batted right or left, indicator traveling around the bases in the proper PRICE OF MACHINE COMPLETE, $10 F. O. B. AURORA, ILL., Including Specia! Score Board, Bats and Crates. Cash with order, $25; balance C. O. D. if desired. THE PLAY BALL MACHINE CO., Fox Theatre Bldg., AURORA, ILL. (NOTE—Owing to a large Chicago order already booked, shipments are not promised before April 15th, ‘1913. Order now.)