MOUNTED BASKETBALL
ACTIVE GAMES AND CONTESTS «= Mason and Mitchell

Basketball on horseback is a very interesting game pro-
viding the horses are equipped with stock or western saddles<-<
the game is not possible with saddles of other types. It is
excellent as a means of developing confidence in the abies.
Girls are particularly fond of ite

Two standard basketball goals and backboards are erected
ninety to one-hundred feet apart, and the side and end lines of
the court are marked oute A basketball is used, Five players
constitute a teame The referee is not mounted.

The game is started with a toss-up between the two mounted
eenters, who stand their horses side by side so that their right
sides are toward each others ‘The play follows the general plan
of Basketball except that the players may carry the ball at will.
If the ball is dropped the referee secures and gives it to the
player who touched it lest, or, if +e cannot determine this,
tosses it up between the two sain opponents. Rough and dan-
gerous riding is a foul. the rules of Basketball apply whenever

possible.