FOR THE SCHOOL PLAY HOUR

Northern Advocate, 28 July 1934, Page 7

FOR THE SCHOOL PLAY HOUR

Here are some outdoor games that could be played in the play hour at school. I From ten to thirty players can play this game. It is a, rather strenuous game and affords opportunity for some very good exercise and sport.

A line is drawn across each end of the ' playground, beyond which the players stand in two equal parties, one at one end and one at the other. The players of one party clasp hands to form a fish not. The players in the other party are fish.

At a given signal both advance towards the centre of the playground, which represents a stream, the object of the fish being to swim across to the opposite shore without being caught in the net. To do this they will naturally dodge around the ends of the net.

Tho not should enclose or eneirelo any fish that*it catches. Tho fish so caught may not-try to break apart tho clasped hands forming tho not, but may escape only through tho opening whore the two ends come together. Should the net break at any point by any unclasping of hands the fish are all allowed to escape, and the players go back to their respective goals and begin over again. Any fish caught in the net thereafter are out of the game until all are caught. After the not has made one catch the sides exchange parts, those of the fish are are left forming the new net, and the first not crossing to tho other side and becoming fish. The two sides thus exchange places and posts until all one side are caught.

Tor a. large number of players it is bettor to have two small nets instead’ of one large one, the dodging being livelier and the progress of the game more rapid in every way.