Leap Frog.
The boys are divided into two teams, each team forming a circle, everyone down on all fours. At a signal, a designated leader in each circle starts leapfrogging his way around the circle. When he has leaped ever the last one he gets down again on all fours and slaps the one in front of him who starts to leapfrog around the circle. When he has gone all the way around, he too squats down, slaps the one in front of him and he starts his little journey. The circle whose last leapfrogger first reaches his former place gets the prize.
The Human Wheelbarrow.
There are two on a team in this Wheelbarrow Race but there is no wheelbarrow. One member of the team is a boy and the other a man. The boy is the wheelbarrow, and the man the driver. The boy gets down on his hands and knees, the driver takes hold of his feet, and when the signal to start comes, lifts the feet off the ground so that the boy is walking on his hands alone.
The course, about twenty-five feet in length, should be on a grassy plot. Let a driver’s sense of humor get the best of him, as it usually does, and the wheelbarrow goes flat on his face!
The Penalty.
The usual three-legged race is put on with only two teams competing. Just before they start to run, tell them that the losers will be made to get down on all fours, the winners placed on their backs and that they will be forced to carry the victors the full length of the course, with all “accidental” tipping positively forbidden!
Housewives’ Race.
A large space is cleared with the onlookers forming a very close circle around it. Contestants are all women of not less than twenty-five years of age. A chicken is turned loose in this open space and the woman who catches it may have it. None of the onlookers may help her beyond seeing to it that the chicken does not get outside the circle.
You and I know that the chicken’s freedom is not in such very grave danger!