Automatic Age

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• We have no quarrel with those who wish to enter this field. However, for your own good,
we hope that no one makes a gambling device out of this wonderful game but that they
will produce a well constructed, high class piece of equipment which will lend credit to
the industry and the game.
• However9 we have not licensed anyone to manufacture or distribute this game or any
similar bowling device. Through the acquisition of the National Skee Ball Company we con­
trol the original “Skee Ball99 patents and copyrights for the name “Skee Ball99 and “Skee
Roll99. iVo other manufacturer can rightfully imitate this game and call it “Skee Ball99
(Reg. U. S. Pat. Off.) or “Skee Roll99 (Reg. U. S. Pat. Off.) either in advertising , corre­
spondence or verbally.
• In acquiring the National Skee Ball Company, we also had another motive— namely to
eliminate guesswork and experiment . . . to build the kind of game that experience has
taught is essential to the operators’ success.
• We learned that electrical operation destroys the essentially athletic character of the
game. This is why everything about “ Skee Ball” except the lighting is mechanical.
• When the player pulls the knob to release the balls— when he bends slightly because
our game is made bowling height, he gets the mild exercise which is the basis of this game.
• When he sees his scores mechanically recorded after each ball in white numerals on a
black field, he sees it in a form that he is accustomed to seeing scores at baseball games,
football games, etc.
• When the player rolls the balls he wants the alley to feel solid— just as in bowling.
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