HOW TO PLAY BAR-BALL.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20252, 11 May 1929, Page 5 (Supplement)

HOW TO PLAY BAR-BALL.

One day a friend of mine was playing with a cricket ball and throwing it to mo to catch. You know sometimes you get that tired feeling, as though you would like to play, some new game. Well, this ball happened to bounce over a fence, and that gave me the idea of a new game. The game is this. A girl or boy stands ono on each side of a fence and throws the ball in turn on to the top o£ the bar so that it bounces over on to tho other side. If it strikes the bar and falls back to the thrower's side, he has another throw. If ball misses bar altogether, the ono on the other siije has his turn. Every bounce on top of bar and so over into opponent's den is counted as one point toward its thrower. First person to procure six points wins. At an equal distance 011 both sides from the wall is put a line so that each player has no advantage in distance. My friends just try it —it is not so easy to play as it seems, and not very tiring, and I have called it Bar-ball, because of the bar on which the ball bounces. If you have not a suitable wall, procure two fruit cases and lay a bit oi old piping across the top of them. It will do just as well. (.Namo and address of sender wanted).