Ball Passing Games and Diversions
For Basket Ball; also to be played with Oat Bags.
(Mind and Body, Vol. IV., No.. 42, p. 141.)
I. The players are divided into two parties. Each party then arranges itself into two ranks facing each other. The ranks are from two to five paces apart, as space will permit, and the two parties are two or three paces apart. The ranks in each party are numbered 1 and 2. All being ready, a ball is given to the first member of Rank 1 in each party. He throws to the member of Rank 2 just opposite him, who throws it to the second member of Rank 1, and so on. When the ball gets to the last member by the same zig-zag path, the party which returns the ball to the first member first, wins the game. (See figure.)
2. The players are arranged in four ranks, numbered 1, 2, 3 and 4. (See figure.) Ranks 1 and 2 face ranks 3 and 4. Ranks 1 and 3 constitute one party and 2 and 4 the other. Hence the ball must be thrown over one rank each time. Otherwise the game is like No. 1.
