ce run for
the ball and try to kick it over the heads of their opponents.

RULES AND POINTS OF PLAY.--The players on the line-up may intercept
the ball only with their hands. They may not grasp or kick the ball,
but merely bat it with the hands. At no time may they leave their
places on the line.

SCORE.--A point is scored whenever a kicker succeeds in sending the
ball beyond his opponents' line-up. Players then exchange fields for
the next round. Ten points win the game.

HOME RUN

_10 to 60 players._

_Schoolroom._

_Gas balls or bean bags._

Arrange the players so that all the rows are filled and the same
number in each row. No. 1 in each row has a bean bag or ball, and at
the word "Start!" stands and throws the bag or ball to No. 2, who also
stands at the word "Start." No. 2 throws it back to No. 1 and sits
down while No. 1 throws the ball to No. 3, who stands up as soon as
No. 2 is seated. No. 3 throws it back to No. 1 and the game continues
until No. 1 has thrown the ball to the last player in the row. When
No. 1 receives the ball from the last player, he lays it down on the
desk and runs to the seat of the last player, while all players move
up toward the front one seat. No. 2 in the row then becomes No. 1, and
tosses the ball as his predecessor did. The game continues until the
original No. 1 reaches his original place and calls "Home run!" thus
scoring a point for his row and starts again. The row scoring the most
points during fifteen minutes becomes the winner.

This game was originated by Miss Amy A. Young of Cleveland,
Ohio, and was submitted in a competition for schoolroom games
conducted by the Girls' Branch of the Public Schools Athletic
League of New York City in 1906. This game was one that
received honorable mention, and is here published by the kind
permission of the author, and of the Girls' Branch, and of
Messrs. A. G. Spalding & Brothers, who publish the handbook in
which the game first appeared.

LINE BALL

_10 to 60 or more players._

_Schoolroom._

_Gas balls; bean bags._

For this game a line should be drawn on the floor across the front of
the schoolroom, a short distance in front of the blackboard. One
player from each row of seats takes his place toeing this line.
Another line is drawn at the front of each aisle even with the edge of
the front desks. The game consists in a tossing of the ball from the
leader on the forw