Indoor Golf.

Gisborne Times, Volume VIII, Issue 518, 15 September 1902, Page 3

Indoor Golf.

Pin> r -pong, or parlor tennis, is re sponsiblo for a good deal. _lt has startedan irresistible-desire to bring all sorts of outdoor sports into tho parlor. liorseracins seems to bo safe, for tho present at least, but golf has been captured by means of tho billiard-table. in many of the clubs and billiard-rooms in Chicago, and other parts of tho United States, tho most popular game at present is called pool golf. Its devotees are many-, and it is growing in popularity all the

game is oxtremoly simplo, but none the less seems to be fascinating. It is played on any pool-table. Two calls are used, tho white ball and one colored ball. To begin tho gamo tho two_ balls aro spotted on the table, as shown in the cut. Then the first player endeavors to pocket the colored ball in tho lower left-hand pocket in as few shots as possible. _ p Every shot he makes counts against W m If ho gets the colored ball m tho wrong pocket it does not count against him, but is merely taken out and.spotted, and ho proceeds as before. But if ho drives the whito into a pocket be is bunkored, and he must add three to the score against him After the ball is pocketed it is taken nd spotted, and tho second player Ms opportunity. All six pockets are played, and the player who has gone around the course, or rather tho pool-table, in the fewest number of shots Wins the paatobr-Chicsgo Tribune.