slightly sanded to hold the balls. The game may be
played on turf, dirt, or “made” ground.

When the ground will admit of it the stakes .

should be placed 72 feet apart; the first arch seven
feet in front of the starting stake; the second, seven
feet from the first; the third fourteen feet to the
right of, and one foot in advance of the second; the
fourth on a line with the first and second, and
twenty-two feet in advance of the second; the re-
maining five at the same relative distances; thus
there will be five arches in line between the stakes,
and four wing arches.

General Directions for Playing

The game can be played by eight persons, four
on each side. Six or four, however, make a better
game, and if there are only two players, each can
use two balls and have a capital game. Hight players
may be divided into two sets, both playing on ths
same ground. At the commencement the players
divide into sides, which, if not even, may be made
so by one of the players taking two balls. Each
player takes a mallet and ball of the same color.

The game commences by the leader of one side
placing his ball about a mallet’s length in front of
the starting stake, and endeavoring, by striking it
with the head of his mallet, to drive it through the
first arch. If he succeeds, he then tries to drive it
through the next arch, and so on. As soon as he
misses going through an arch his turn is over. If,
however, at his first turn he does not send his ball
through the first arch, he gives his place to the next

player. The leader of the other side then plays; and .

the others in the order of colors on the starting-
stake.

The aim of each player is to drive the balls from
the starting-stake through the seven arches to the

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