TWO OUTDOOR GAMES.

Taranaki Daily News, 7 December 1929, Page 24 (Supplement)

TWO OUTDOOR GAMES.

Here are two games with stones to keep your throwing arm in good condition. Of course, the first thing is to make sure the stones will do no harm.

Anti-aircraft.—One player commands the enemy air base, a space fortified by rocks or fences. He has a supply of tin can for aeroplanes and Zeppelins. The other players defend' their “city,” a space ten feet square, marked by sticks, at least twenty paces from the enemy air base. The air base commander tosses his. aerocraft and tries to make them land, in the city. They are counted as “destroyed” if they are hit by the defenders or if they touch anything, outside the city. The city is captured when any number of aircraft agreed on have landed in it. Blockade Runners. —Go to a creek and choose sides. Also pick a referee. The blockade runners go upstream and gather a fleet of sticks to be used as ships. The coast artillerymen build .“forts” by marking out- spaces from which to throw at the ships as they pass. After an agreed signal, the • blockade runners may send down their ships. A* ship is “sunk” when it is hit by a stone. When a ship passes the forts without being hit, one of the coast artillerymen must cease firing. The game continues until a number of ships have been sunk, or until all the coast artillerymen have been put out of action. GEOGRAPHY FROM THE AIR. Sir Alan Cobham —do you remember he was one of the first airmen to fly all tfie way from England to Australia—has thought of a perfectly new, wonderful way of teaching geography. He is going to take hundreds and hundreds of children and their teachers up in a great airship, and show them the country from the air. They will fly all over Great Britain from the Isle of Wight to the very topmost part of Scotland, and will see for themselves the rivers, the mountains and cities that are only wiggley lines or little black specks on the maps in their atlases. Won’t it be easy to remember geography when it is taught that way? A special aeroplane is beings built for these tours. It, is really a huge air liner, and is to be called “The Spirit of Adventure,” and some very generous person who won’t:, let his name be known, has promised to. pay all the expenses, so that the flights can be. free. Sir Alan Cobham himself is going to act as pilot, .and he will take as many as 10,000 boys and girls with him on these tours of.the British Isles. And there, are only two conditions *r-every little boy or girl must be over thirteen years old, and must have got permission from his mother and his father before he can take’ his place in the big air liner. It all sounds most exciting, doesn’t it?