A game played by two teams of four players each. The ball used is a
regulation polo ball. A wicket polo surface is 44 feet square, in
which sticks or wickets are set up. The object of the game is to
knock down the wickets of one’s opponents by a batted ball and to
prevent them from displacing our own. A crooked stick 4 feet in length
and a little over an inch in diameter is used. Each player has a fixed
position on the field or surface.
WOLF AND SHEEP
In this game “it” is the wolf. The sheep choose a shepherd to guard
them. The wolf then secures a hiding place and the sheep and shepherd
leave the fold and endeavour to locate him. When this is done the
shepherd cries, “I spy a wolf!” and every one stands while he counts
ten. Then the sheep and shepherd scatter for the fold, and if tagged
before they reach it the first becomes wolf for the next game.
WOOD TAG
In this class are also “iron tag,” “stone tag,” and “tree tag.” They
are all simply the game of tag with the additional rule that when a
player is in contact with iron, stone, trees, wood, and so on he is
safe from being tagged by the one who is “it.” The game of “squat tag”
is similar, except that to be safe the one pursued must squat quickly
on the ground before “it” catches him. In cross tag, “it” must select
a victim and continue to run after him until some one runs ahead and
crosses his path, when “it,” who may be breathless by this time, must
abandon his victim for a fresh one, who may soon be relieved and so on
until some one is tagged, or “it” is exhausted.
The Country Life Press, Garden City, N.Y.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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