The reliable book of outdoor gamesContaining official rules for playing base ball, foot ball, cricket, lacrosse, tennis, croquet, etc . fault, as if it had fallenoutside of the boundary lines. In all other re-spects with regard to the players and the faults,the same rule guides badminton as lawn shuttlecock falling on tbe lines in services iatermed a fault, and two faults produce handout. BATTLEDORE AND SHUTTLECOCK. This is a game suitable for the playground,the lawn, or the parlor, but it is best played ona lawn. The best materials for the game arethose sold at the sporting goods sto


The reliable book of outdoor gamesContaining official rules for playing base ball, foot ball, cricket, lacrosse, tennis, croquet, etc . fault, as if it had fallenoutside of the boundary lines. In all other re-spects with regard to the players and the faults,the same rule guides badminton as lawn shuttlecock falling on tbe lines in services iatermed a fault, and two faults produce handout. BATTLEDORE AND SHUTTLECOCK. This is a game suitable for the playground,the lawn, or the parlor, but it is best played ona lawn. The best materials for the game arethose sold at the sporting goods stores; buta common battledore can be readily made witha hickory stick and a piece of hoop, and a shut-tlecock with a cork and a few short form of the battledore and shuttlecock is | shown in the appended illustration The gameI is played by two players, each having abattledore, and each bats the shuttlecockfrom one to the other, the player failing to re-turn it when it is batted to him within possiblereach, losing a point in the game. A game con-sists of twenty points, and the best two out ofthree games gains the 48 THE RELIABLE BOOK OF OUT-BOOB GAMES. MINIATURE YACHTING.


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