LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
| Ring A' Roses | [Frontispiece] |
| FACING PAGE | |
| All-up Relay Race | [45] |
| Buying a Lock | [58] |
| Catch-and-Pull Tug of War; a High School Freshman Class | [60] |
| Forcing the City Gates | [89] |
| How Many Miles To Babylon? | [108] |
| Jumping Rope on the Roof Playground of a Public School | [118] |
| Oyster Shell | [143] |
| Pitch Pebble | [147] |
| Prisoner's Base | [158] |
| Rolling Target as Played by the Hidatsa Indians, Fort Clark, North Dakota | [169] |
| Snow Snake | [182] |
| A City Playground | [200] |
| Flower Match | [220] |
| Skin the Snake | [252] |
| Draw a Bucket of Water | [263] |
| The Duck Dance | [276] |
| Balls | [297] |
| Captain Ball in a High School | [342] |
| Circle Stride Ball | [358] |
| Drive Ball | [375] |
| Ball Game on the Roof Playground of a Public School | [400] |
| Tether Ball | [409] |
INTRODUCTION
INTRODUCTION
PURPOSE AND PLAN.—This book aims to be a practical guide for the player of games, whether child or adult, and for the teacher or leader of games. A wide variety of conditions have been considered, including schools, playgrounds, gymnasiums, boys' and girls' summer camps, adult house parties and country clubs, settlement work, children's parties, and the environment of indoors or out of doors, city or country, summer or winter, the seashore, the woodland, or the snow. The games have been collected from many countries and sources, with a view to securing novel and interesting as well as thoroughly tried and popular material, ranging from traditional to modern gymnasium and athletic games. An especial effort has been made to secure games for particular conditions. Among these may be mentioned very strenuous games for older boys or men; games for the schoolroom; games for large numbers; new gymnasium games such as Nine Court Basket Ball and Double Corner Ball; games which make use of natural material such as stones, pebbles, shells, trees, flowers, leaves, grasses, holes in the sand or earth, and diagrams drawn on the ground.
The description, classification, and arrangement of the games have been made with the steadfast purpose of putting them into the most workable form, easily understood, with suggestions for getting the most sport and playing value out of them, and with means of ready reference to any class of games for use under any of the conditions mentioned. The series of indexes which accomplish this last-mentioned purpose make it possible to classify the games in many different ways, sparing the reader the necessity for hunting through much unrelated material to find that suited to his conditions. The index for schools is essentially a graded course of study in games.