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Identifier: indoorgamessocia00bake (find matches)
Title: Indoor games and socials for boys
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Baker, G. Cornelius
Subjects: Games Boys
Publisher: New York (etc.) Association press
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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half of one color and half of another.Appoint leaders to choose the boys for their re-spective sides. There should be an even numberon each side. The opponents face each other^with the leader at the head^ having all the bagsof one color at his side. The bags are to be passed 1st, with right hand 2d, with left hand Sd, with both hands 4th, with right hand over left shoulder 5th, with left hand over left shoulderPlay a trial game before the contest. At a given signal, the leaders begin and passthe bags as rapidly as possible down the line, ob-serving all the directions. The last one places themon a chair, until all have been passed, and thenhe sends them back, observing the same rules, untilall have reached the leader. 30 INDOOR GAMES The side that passes them back to the leaderfirsts and does so successfully^ is the winning side. (1)BLOW RACE / Stretch two wires or strong strings^ running through paper cones^ across the entire width ofthe room^ parallel to each other and some distance
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BLOW RACE apart. Divide the group of boys into teams. Theobject is to blow the cones from one end of thestring to the other. The team that accomplishesthe feat first wins. — C, E, V. Nathanialsz. COMPETITIVE GAMES 31 CIRCLE BALL The players, arranged in a large circle, keep alawn tennis ball flying back and forth, aiming atone in the center. The boy in the center tries toremain in as long as possible without being hit.If he catches the ball in his hands, it does notcount as a hit. Whoever hits him with the balltakes his place. The player who remains * in longest wins. (32) END-TO-END BEAN BAG The players, divided into two sections, andstanding close together, form in each section twoparallel lines, A and B, five feet or more apart.At a given signal the first player in line A runshalfway across to the first player in line B, andtosses him the bag; line A moves up to fill thespace vacated by the first player. Meanwhile the bag is passed along line B untilit reaches the last player, wh

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