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Source: Games For The Playground, Home, School And Gymnasium
Category: BEAN BAG AND OAT SACK GAMES





_10 to 60 players._

_Schoolroom._

The class is divided into two teams. Each team is divided into two
lines, which stand facing each other, as shown in the diagram.

A waste basket is placed on the teacher's desk or hung higher if
possible in the front of the room. Each team has one bean bag.

Player No. 1 holds the bean bag in each team.

At a signal each No. 1 tosses his bag to No. 2, No. 2 to No. 3, and so
it continues to pass in a zigzag line till it reaches No. 14. No. 14,
on receiving the bag, tries to throw it into the basket. If he misses,
he runs forward, picks up the bag, runs back to his place, and tries
again; he continues trying until he or his opponent gets a bag in,
which event finishes the inning.

The team in which No. 14 first receives the bag, scores three points;
and the team making the goal first scores one; so one team may score
four, or one three, and the other one, point. The team wins which has
the highest score at the end of the playing time.



If the distance from the basket seems too long, No. 14 may come
forward a given distance to a chalk line and throw from that.

In order to pass around the privilege of throwing goal, the goal
thrower in one game passes down to the other end of the line, the line
moves up one place, and the next player in order throws for the goal
in the next game. When every one in one line has thrown for goal, the
privilege passes to the other line.

Sometimes it is necessary to have umpires to watch for fouls, such as
skipping a player in passing the bag.

This game was originated by Dr. J. Anna Norris and received
honorable mention in a competition for schoolroom games
conducted by the Girls' Branch of the Public Schools Athletic
League of New York City in 1906. It is here published by kind
permission of the author, and of the Girls' Branch, and of
Messrs. A. G. Spalding & Brothers, publishers of the handbook
in which the game first appeared.




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