Popular science monthly . The Gun Consists of a Wheel Constructed of Aluminum andMounted on a Frame and Rotated at Hish Speed by a CopperMotor Checkers as an Out-Door Sport. Dr. A. GcofRC GoMstcin Illustrntingthe Moves and the Ordinary Rulesfor Playing Out - door Checkers The Dark Squares Are Patches of Grass ShowingThrough Cut Out Holes. The Checker DisksAre Shoved from One White Square to Another A RECENTLY invented game calledLawn Cliockcrs, which is sponsored? by Christy Matthewson, is beingpopularized at the Prospect Park TennisCourts, in Brooklyn, N. Y., and tour-naments are being a
Popular science monthly . The Gun Consists of a Wheel Constructed of Aluminum andMounted on a Frame and Rotated at Hish Speed by a CopperMotor Checkers as an Out-Door Sport. Dr. A. GcofRC GoMstcin Illustrntingthe Moves and the Ordinary Rulesfor Playing Out - door Checkers The Dark Squares Are Patches of Grass ShowingThrough Cut Out Holes. The Checker DisksAre Shoved from One White Square to Another A RECENTLY invented game calledLawn Cliockcrs, which is sponsored? by Christy Matthewson, is beingpopularized at the Prospect Park TennisCourts, in Brooklyn, N. Y., and tour-naments are being arranged by Cieorge Goldstein. The game isplayed on a i2-foot canvas boardstretched out on the lawn. (]uares are the size of an ordinarytable napkin, and the alternate colorsare green and white. The greensquares are simply square holes cutout of the can\as at the properinter\als. The checkers are red andi)hie aluminum disks, one side of each be-ing adorned with a star to represent theking or (|ueen. The disks are sho\edfrom one square to another by means ofa long bamboo stick. Teams of from two to twenty may playmatches, each pla>er being allowedthirty seco
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