Coin Machine Review (& Pacific ...)
Issue: 1949 June - Page 17
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prizes announced include $500 for the
winning team, $250 for the second place
team, $150 for the third, $100 for the
fourth, and also $50 for teams in the fifth
to eighth places. There will be trophies
and plaques also. .
A good preliminary buildup for the Illi-
nois tournament was staged by National
in the form of a 10-week schedule of league
and team contests in Chicago, ending fate
in April. The program was sponsored by
the National Shuffieboard Co. of Chicago
and about $1,700 was awarded in prizes to
teams and individuals. The firm's director
of league activities, Pete Rozgus, guided
in the general arrangements and will also
guide the state tournament plans and pro·
gram. He says the state meet will be some-
thing worth ~,.e ing'.
One of the things he said had been
learned in tournaments was that individual
prizes are important, as well as prizes for
winning teams. The reason is that teams
which fall behind early in a tournament
would get discouraged and probably drop
out, unless there is still hope of award
for individual players. This keeps doubles
pairs in the game to the finish.
National has been very active in a wide
area around Chicago in promoting league
and tournament play and all this will help
to build up the state meet. Even the smaller
cities have shown great interest in con-
tests, and holding the state tournament at
Springfield gets away from the big city
and will give greater encouragement to
leagues and teams in smaller centers.
The Standard Meet
The Standard Shuffieboard Congress has
announced its four-state tournament for
June 16 to 19, and to be held at the im-
mense Coliseum in Chicago. The states
that will he represented are Illinois, Indi-
ana, Michigan ahd Wisconsin. This is the
biggest territory to be represented _ in a
JUNE, 1949
Phone: 3-6404
shuffieboard tournament thus far in the
trade's expansion, and thus shuffieboard
history will be made. Final deadline for
entries was set for May 27.
The prizes to be awarded in this tourna-
ment indicate its magnitude, reaching a
total of $15,000 in cash awards. The prizes
include $5,000 for men's teams, $2,100 in
men's -doubles, and $2,500 for men's singles.
For women's teams, $2,500; • women's
doubles, $1,050, and women's singles $1,250. •
There will also be appropriate trophies to
award all skill.
Sponsors of the big event proudly say
it will be the biggest thing yet in shuffie-
board history. All that good planning,
money and talent can do is being put
into making it an assured success. Dean
E. Douglass, executive secretary of the Con-
gress, says this will really be a beginning
of sky-rocketing shuffieboard into a na-
tional sport. He said his organization has
been formed to function as an over-all
agency "to promote and standardize the
playing of Standard Table Shuffieboard
throughout the country."
The four-state tournament is the first
big step on its permanent program and
extensive study and research has been
given to the standardization of playing
and scoring, the selection of playing equip-
ment, and to the organization of tourna-
ments and leagues. All of the information
and ideas gained in such wide planning
and work is available to Standard Shuffie-
board players, leagues, etc. The Congress
is actively working to organize city, state
and national championship tournaments
and important announcements will be made
from time to time.
At the Coliseum, 48 playfields will be
used in the contests which will include
100 teams, 128 doubles and 256 singles in
the men's division, and 50 teams, 64 doubles
and 128 singles in the women's division.
Long Beach, Calif.
Standard has been very active for many
months in the Chicago •area in organizing
and conducting leagues, teams and con-
tests in shuffieboard, probably the most
complete job of planning and organizing
in an amusement field ever staged in this
city. Aid has been given all along by
officials of the Rock-Ola Manufacturing
Corp. The promotional plans for the big
tournament have been a credit to the men
who have made them.
Standard has already used radio and
other publicity mediums, paid newspaper
space and also news in the sports pages.
The nationally known public relations
firm of Howard G. Mayer & Associates has
been employed to direct the publicity and
one of the first steps was to entertain the
radio and press at a special conference.
In promoting attendance and entry of
teams at the tournament, state organiza-
tions·, leagues and workers have been put
into action in each of the four states that
will be represented by teams. Reports have
shown a growing interest and shuffieboard
is being widely advertised and boosted in
all territories.
These are big things and they come at
a time of year when the trade can well
use such boosting. The timing of the tour-
naments will also capitalize on the vaca-
tion season and may prove to be an innova-
tion. While these tournaments will be in
the spotlight during June, at the same time
shuffieboard is spreading over the country
and local plans for boosting play is going
right ahead. The sale of scoreboards for
coin operation also continues to make gains
and is spreading fast into new territories.
As such big tournament plans transpire,
the radio and newspaper publicity that
results will be the point to watch, will
suggest the future possibilities for shuffie-
board, will build up much wider interest
among the people.
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TROUBLE-FREE
~e94/
ELECTRIC SCOREBOARDS
NOW ON LOCATION
HERE'S WHY THE COUNTRY'S TOP SHUFFLEBOARD
OPERATORS PREFER REGAL . . .
Regal is built for quick, easy servicing on location ... Players can see the score at all
times from long distances without squinting or straining because the figures are large
and easy to read ... Cabinet is all-hardwood construction ... Full length piano hinges
insure sturdiness and long life.
Unconditionally guar-anteed 60 days
Guar-anteed 1 year- against defective par-ts ( coin chute excepted I
IMMEDIATE DELIVERY
~~u((le6c11,-q IJt11nu(11ctuJ-eJ-J:
Let Us Design and Manufactur e Your Scoreboa rd
to Your Specifications. Quantity Prices on Request.
We Believe We Have the Only Cheat-Proof Scoreboa rd Using the Slide Type Coin Chute
BRUMMETT ENTERPRISES
Specializing Only In Scoreboard Manufacturing
1200 "Redondo Ave.
prizes announced include $500 for the
winning team, $250 for the second place
team, $150 for the third, $100 for the
fourth, and also $50 for teams in the fifth
to eighth places. There will be trophies
and plaques also. .
A good preliminary buildup for the Illi-
nois tournament was staged by National
in the form of a 10-week schedule of league
and team contests in Chicago, ending fate
in April. The program was sponsored by
the National Shuffieboard Co. of Chicago
and about $1,700 was awarded in prizes to
teams and individuals. The firm's director
of league activities, Pete Rozgus, guided
in the general arrangements and will also
guide the state tournament plans and pro·
gram. He says the state meet will be some-
thing worth ~,.e ing'.
One of the things he said had been
learned in tournaments was that individual
prizes are important, as well as prizes for
winning teams. The reason is that teams
which fall behind early in a tournament
would get discouraged and probably drop
out, unless there is still hope of award
for individual players. This keeps doubles
pairs in the game to the finish.
National has been very active in a wide
area around Chicago in promoting league
and tournament play and all this will help
to build up the state meet. Even the smaller
cities have shown great interest in con-
tests, and holding the state tournament at
Springfield gets away from the big city
and will give greater encouragement to
leagues and teams in smaller centers.
The Standard Meet
The Standard Shuffieboard Congress has
announced its four-state tournament for
June 16 to 19, and to be held at the im-
mense Coliseum in Chicago. The states
that will he represented are Illinois, Indi-
ana, Michigan ahd Wisconsin. This is the
biggest territory to be represented _ in a
JUNE, 1949
Phone: 3-6404
shuffieboard tournament thus far in the
trade's expansion, and thus shuffieboard
history will be made. Final deadline for
entries was set for May 27.
The prizes to be awarded in this tourna-
ment indicate its magnitude, reaching a
total of $15,000 in cash awards. The prizes
include $5,000 for men's teams, $2,100 in
men's -doubles, and $2,500 for men's singles.
For women's teams, $2,500; • women's
doubles, $1,050, and women's singles $1,250. •
There will also be appropriate trophies to
award all skill.
Sponsors of the big event proudly say
it will be the biggest thing yet in shuffie-
board history. All that good planning,
money and talent can do is being put
into making it an assured success. Dean
E. Douglass, executive secretary of the Con-
gress, says this will really be a beginning
of sky-rocketing shuffieboard into a na-
tional sport. He said his organization has
been formed to function as an over-all
agency "to promote and standardize the
playing of Standard Table Shuffieboard
throughout the country."
The four-state tournament is the first
big step on its permanent program and
extensive study and research has been
given to the standardization of playing
and scoring, the selection of playing equip-
ment, and to the organization of tourna-
ments and leagues. All of the information
and ideas gained in such wide planning
and work is available to Standard Shuffie-
board players, leagues, etc. The Congress
is actively working to organize city, state
and national championship tournaments
and important announcements will be made
from time to time.
At the Coliseum, 48 playfields will be
used in the contests which will include
100 teams, 128 doubles and 256 singles in
the men's division, and 50 teams, 64 doubles
and 128 singles in the women's division.
Long Beach, Calif.
Standard has been very active for many
months in the Chicago •area in organizing
and conducting leagues, teams and con-
tests in shuffieboard, probably the most
complete job of planning and organizing
in an amusement field ever staged in this
city. Aid has been given all along by
officials of the Rock-Ola Manufacturing
Corp. The promotional plans for the big
tournament have been a credit to the men
who have made them.
Standard has already used radio and
other publicity mediums, paid newspaper
space and also news in the sports pages.
The nationally known public relations
firm of Howard G. Mayer & Associates has
been employed to direct the publicity and
one of the first steps was to entertain the
radio and press at a special conference.
In promoting attendance and entry of
teams at the tournament, state organiza-
tions·, leagues and workers have been put
into action in each of the four states that
will be represented by teams. Reports have
shown a growing interest and shuffieboard
is being widely advertised and boosted in
all territories.
These are big things and they come at
a time of year when the trade can well
use such boosting. The timing of the tour-
naments will also capitalize on the vaca-
tion season and may prove to be an innova-
tion. While these tournaments will be in
the spotlight during June, at the same time
shuffieboard is spreading over the country
and local plans for boosting play is going
right ahead. The sale of scoreboards for
coin operation also continues to make gains
and is spreading fast into new territories.
As such big tournament plans transpire,
the radio and newspaper publicity that
results will be the point to watch, will
suggest the future possibilities for shuffie-
board, will build up much wider interest
among the people.
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