Back Improved Sportsman ("Huck Finn")

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  1. By IPDB
    credit
    Cliff Dumble — Design
    ipdb.corporate_entity_name
    O. D. Jennings and Company
    ipdb_id
    6918
    ipdb.image_urls
    ["https://www.ipdb.org/images/6918/image-1.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/6918/image-2.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/6918/image-3.jpg"]
    ipdb.notable_features
    10 balls for 5 cents.
    ipdb.notes
    Same game as O. D. Jennings' 1935 'Improved Sportsman ("Sportsman")' except the playfield art is a fishing scene and not a hunting scene. At the very top of playfield is a depiction of Mark Twain's Huck Finn instead of a hunter pointing a rifle. The styled legs on the one example pictured here are probably original but we have no other examples or manufacturer's picture ads of this Huck Finn version with which to compare. The Encyclopedia of Pinball Volume 2, page 73 indicates that this Huck Finn version was out by the spring of 1935 along with a non-payout version, O. D. Jennings' 1935 'Sportsman (Non-payout)'.
    month
    5
    player_count
    1
    technology_generation
    electromechanical
    theme
    Fishing
    theme
    Sports
    year
    1935