Lion
Roley Boley
Roque
Rowing Record
Rubicon
Sack Racing
Scotland's Burning
Skiing
Soccer
Spanish Fly
Squash
Stump Master
Suckers
Tether Ball
Tether Tennis
Three-Legged Racing
Tub Racing
Volley Ball
Warning
Washington Polo
Water
Water Race
Wicket Polo
Wolf and Sheep
Wood Tag
Yank

While all the games and sports described in this chapter are not
absolutely confined to outdoors, almost any game in which violent
physical exercise results is better if played in the open air rather
than in a house or gymnasium. In fact, we should only play indoors
when the weather makes it impossible for us to be outside.

There are very few indoor games that cannot be played in the open air
with proper apparatus or rules. It is also equally true that many of
our outside sports may be played indoors with certain modifications.

ALL-AROUND ATHLETIC CHAMPIONSHIP

This contest was instituted in America in 1884 to give athletes an
opportunity to demonstrate their ability in all-around work. The
contest is rapidly becoming the blue ribbon championship event in
America for track athletes. The following ten events are contested
for:

100-yard dash
High jump
Long jump
Vault
Throwing 16-pound hammer
Putting a 16-pound shot
Throwing 56-pound weight
120-yard hurdle race
Half-mile walk
One-mile run

The system of scoring in the All-around Championship is complicated.
Each contestant has his score made up independently. The world's best
amateur record is taken as a basis and 1,000 points are allowed for
it. For example, the best record (amateur) for the 100-yard dash is
9-4/5 seconds and for each 1/5 of a second more than this that the
runner in the All-around Championship contest makes in his trial 42
points are deducted from this score. The same method is used in all
the events. In the ten events the maximum score where the contestant
equalled every world's record would be 10,000 points. The contest was
won in 1909 by the remarkable score of 7,385 points.

ARCHERY

Archery is the art of shooting with a bow and arrow. It is especially
adapted as a lawn game for ladies and gentlemen, but boys and girls
can practise archery and become proficient with bows and arrows just
as the Indians were or the boys in England in the days of Robin Hood.
Of course the invention of gunpowder h