New ideas for work and play; what a girl can make and do (1902)
Beard, Lina, Beard, Adelia B. (Adelia Belle), 1857-1920, joint author · New York, Scribner's · leaf 379
will be a race ofsome kind. There is no fixed number of players for the Hoop Race Game Still it is better not to have more than eight. In determin-ing the couples who shall race together, eight slendersticks or broom-straws are used, making four pairs ofstraws, each pair of a different length. A… … Fig. 602 a straw and found her partner, who has its mate, the twoholding the longest straws roll their hoops from the givenstarting-point to the goal previously determined. The dis-tance should not be more thanthree or four hundred feet.The two players having thenext two longest straws takesecond…
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