Show HALL TENNIS q Pun Fun In a n Toy Balloon and a Piece of Cord CordAll CordAll CordAll All that is required is a cord and a atoy atoy toy balloon Fasten the cord to opposite opposite 5 I site walls walla or ends of the hall hail and have havethe haveS S the tha cord about the height of the shoulder shoulder shoulder der Now use the toy balloon as the tennis ball bail and the right ri ht hand as the lacquet Tho The balloon may ma be struck twice so 50 as to get it H in good position p 1 I before the serve nerve over the line Tho The game then consists in returning the I balloon as aa long Iong as possible A failure I I to return constitutes the gain of one point for the opponent and four points S make a game Now the whole thIng thins seems very simple but as Professor r rn Boys n ys a distinguished lecturer before the tho royal Institution says fays in speaking cf of the game garie Try it and see The S game is tho the Invention of the well scientist Professor Oliver Lodge of Liverpool who by the way wa reserves no rights In the matter and many man Lon London London LonS London don children c from 8 to 80 SO are taking takingS S S to the game since its introduction by Prot r Boys Its simplicity and cheapness should recommend It to many nalY and only a fair trial will reveal the possibilities for exercise ind ors Muck q on the way the balloon balloonS la is struck A stroke on the under side c S will In send sd sen the balloon spinning upward above your r opponents head and a stroke sending the ballon balloon so 00 that the under sid will just touch the string sends fiends tho the balloon curling downward out of the reach of the opponent and back to its it starting place If the bal balloon balloon loon doGS does not pass over the string the point Is lg lost loet to the one who gives the stroke Of or course there are also many man other artful ways of striking the bal balloon 1 loon so as to send it out of your op opponents opponents reach a ad id to quote quota Professor Pr fessor Boys Bos again one can get very warm in itt a 3 very short time There Is more fun In a toy balloon and anda a piece of cord than one would im imagine Imagine imagine agine |