ROOF RACE.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 17, 21 January 1933, Page 3 (Supplement)

ROOF RACE.

Mere is a. good game for the playground. Chalk large scjiim ros fairly close f.ogellier, to represent blocks ol buildings, 1 ] 1011 make mws of rings or squares, placed liirrgle;iy-1 1 ! gg'°d y here nrl there. These arc the lops ol' fhe chimney iof=?. Some of I lie vows should hp only a few inches apart others a foot or 1 Sin, and some so far distant that one mir-t take a Ion;; leap in order to get Irom nil's to the other. One player stands in (he centre of the playground, whilst the re? i luun a line, on one side of it. This player advance-, walks along tlie line, I i-n mi'Mi'l'iv touches someone, and makes a <lui I :»r a convenient chimney pot. The others give chase. each stepping only on the chimney -pot-. They move from riii'i to ring. the one in front dodging liere and ihere in order to avoid his' pursuer. Then, unless he is very careful, lie will lind' himself at the end of a row which leads (o a very wale yap. Nothin.tr remains hut to leap it. or to siav and be caught. fie leaps wildly, ami if he lands sately with one loot, jn a chimney pot across the uap all is well, and lie has earned liberty t.o go "home"; if not, he must drop out or When a placer i- caught. he ln-r-t Vemai'i on hi ■ chimney poymtil _! he dillieult for * ~ io avoid pnrsinr, The player who ..till remains at liberty at tiie end of the game is the winner.