- credit
- Karl Knickerbocker — Design
- ipdb.corporate_entity_name
- Stoner Manufacturing Company
- ipdb_id
- 2671
- ipdb.image_urls
- ["https://www.ipdb.org/images/2671/Cabinet.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/2671/Information_card.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/2671/Overall_view.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/2671/Playfield.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/2671/image-1.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/2671/image-2.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/2671/image-3.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/2671/image-4.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/2671/image-5.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/2671/image-6.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/2671/image-7.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/2671/image-11.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/2671/image-9.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/2671/image-10.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/2671/image-8.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/2671/image-15.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/2671/image-14.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/2671/image-12.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/2671/image-17.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/2671/image-18.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/2671/image-16.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/2671/image-19.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/2671/image-13.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/2671/image-24.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/2671/image-23.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/2671/image-22.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/2671/image-21.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/2671/image-20.jpg"]
- ipdb.notable_features
- 'Turf Champs' was advertised as a "one shot - 5 balls" game. Five balls are shot simultaneously so as to simulate a horse race. Up to 7 selections could be made prior to shooting the balls into play. Each selection cost 5 cents, therefore one play could cost up to 35 cents, shared by any number of players up to seven. Odds were randomly selected by the machine.
- ipdb.notes
- One of the "Aristocrat" series of games.
An Electropak was standard equipment.
A Ticket Unit was $10.00 extra.
Serial numbering began at 100.
See U.S. Patent No. 2,093,293 (GAME APPARATUS), application filed July 6, 1936, granted September 14, 1937 to Harry B. Stoner and Karl Knickerbocker, Inventors.
For more cabinet pictures of this game, see Stoner's 1936 'Close Finish'.
- player_count
- 7
- technology_generation
- electromechanical
- theme
- Sports
- theme
- Horse Racing
- year
- 1936