Games for boys - Tapa blanda

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1920 Excerpt: ...try to poke the " rabbit " or ball out of the center hole and outside of the circle. The man who is It tries to keep it in its hole with his staff, at the same time trying to: get his staff in the hole of one of the other players. If he succeeds, the one whose hole he takes must now be It. Reading Maps A mysterious message is concealed at a point several miles away and its exact location marked on several duplicate U. S. Topographical Maps. Several patrols compete in finding the message and getting it back to the leader. The message is in duplicate, one for each patrol. It is permissible to signal the message back if the patrol is clever enough. The first correct message back wins for the patrol that brings it. The message is so located that it is advisable to go after it cross-country. It may be well here to state, however, for the benefits of city boys, that tall grass in the country is hay, and it is wise to go around it rather than through. Rival Despatch Bearers One of the best Scouting games given in the Canadian Scout Handbook, and described here by special permission, is The Rival Despatch Bear / RIVAL DESPATCH BEARERS ers. Two groups or patrols are selected and each group appoints a despatch bearer. The Scoutmaster takes up a central position while one despatch bearer starts two miles north of him, say, and the other two miles south of him. Each starts at the same time to deliver the message, but the remaining men of his group try to intercept the rival runner and hold him. The two opposing cordons of men cannot come nearer than 200 yards either to the Scoutmaster or to the starting points of the runners. The group wins whose runner first delivers the message to the Scoutmaster. If the runner tries to make too great a detour he may lose o...