Show GAME OF BOLO IN FAVOR NoV Form of Amusement That Hns Become Popular The world and his uife and children havo found a new toy and they have gone crazy over It It Is halo Rather an odd narnr Old and young alike have become Us willing victims The extent to which this novelty Is becoming popular popu-lar outstrips all records of previous games Its Bolo for breakfast t bolo for lunch Bolo for dinner ami tea Bolo for always and when Im asleep Bob Im earning of thco Fashionable folk hoe taken up the game with a vengeance It has become the correct afterlunch enterlalnmeriL with the smirt a L everywhere Billiards Bil-liards cards bridge whist music hooks and the childrens games have all had to take a hack scat In favor of this latest society craze Hostesses at all functions place It forcmosi among the features of the occasion Enthusiasts rich and poor high and low follow It with an eagerness and delight that Is Juvenailng to behold Its I greatest charm lies In the fact that It Is neither too violent exercise nor too dull and slow to hold ones attention It strikes a decidedly happy medium No one is barred from playing It even grandmother grand-mother JB not too old for a hand In It Statistics prove that a good bolo player can make a 2ii per cent bettor marriage than other people and after al marriage Is the ulterior object inmost in-most of those Fcemlngly innocent recreations recre-ations Mothers with wealthy or beautiful beau-tiful daughters are safe In looking on the brilliant player of bolo as a dangerous dan-gerous adventurer he can even eclipse the military man and thc successful grocer There In already said to be a professor vlMtlng society houses all the mornlniv to glve expert Instruction in boloL subject now rightly given us prominent a place In the intellectual curriculum of finishing a young lady I as bridge skirt dancing or skating The great advantage of bolo Is th tIt t-It does not wreck the happiness of peaceful homes like dangerous pastimes such as > gulf and croquet A husband does not stay out and neglect his work from Jl till halfpast 7 and then come 1oine tired and angry Nor docs a wife absent herself from her young family every afternoon at it whist party or the like Coin ran be played at home and really has a tendency to unite households formerly at variance for If one member of a family takes to It they all do Prodigal sons have discovered discov-ered unsuspected beauties In the pa rorilu characters over a friendly game and humbly make a solemn declaration lo turn over a new leaf Estranged husbands and wives at a holo court have found a subject of conversation for the llrst time t in months The origin of the game seems to be In doubt It 1 Is known however I that avery a-very similar game was played In France during the reign of Louis XIV There has been some change In the game ns played by the subjects of this ancient King nearly three centuries ago No sooner had It reached our shores than Yankee Ingenuity began to Improve It and shortly It tt tS Introduced Into all the fashionable city and country clubs And now to the game Itself First of all everyone can afford to have one If you are unable to buy it or If you live In the country beyond the reach of the stores you can make a sjl l The materials ma-terials required are the simplest possible pos-sible I Any boy can rig up a game of It In no lime It Is played on a space of level ground only fifteen feet square A grassy plot if the grass Is cut short makes the best field or court but It should be pcrfectb level and smooth A good game of bolo cannot be played on a rough piece of ground A court covered with line sand also does very well If you should have a set of croquet cro-quet mallets sricl balls these will an scr You should have at least eight balls and as many maliilt as players but the number of mallets Is Immaterial as a player can borrow his opponents mallet I The next thing Is the netting This you will probably have to buy It should be fifteen feet long and twelve Inches wldc and It requires four nets Most any athletic store will supply you A stake about twentytwo Inches long made from an old broom handle should be fastened to each end of the nets and also one In the ccntci to keep the net from sagging The stakes should be driven into the giound three or four Inches and the nets stretched tight The nets vhtn properly set up should forma form-a llejd or court fifteen feet square and at each of the four corner an openIng open-Ing of four Inches wide should be left You arc nOw ready to play The object of the game Is to drive more of the balls off the court through the openings open-ings at the corners than I your opponent 1 Place all of the balls except the red bull In a bunch in the center of the field 2 Draw Jots to see who plays first The first player then places the med hall on the field at a point three feet from cither cornerS corner-S Strike hue I red ball with a mallet I and drive it against the halls In the center Jf a ball Is hit with the red ball the player then places the icd hall against the I ball hit1 Tie then strikes the red ball endeavoring to drive the other ball out 01 the field through t the opening at either corner of the field If he succeeds in putting the ball out he continues to play by shooting at any ball on the Held wherever he finds It A hall is I not out until at least half of It Is past the slakes If he falls to put it out the next player then continues the play 1 1 If ihc I led ball Is driven out the player doing so loses his turn and must forfeit i a bnll to the field no a i penn pen-n It J 1 e he must put a ball back on the I field If he has not put out any balls he owes the field and must pay as soon as he has balls to pay ii No person but the one shooting Ij J allowed on the field C The person who puts out the most balls wins the game but all the halls imibt bo put out before the game is ended 7 When the red hall Is driven ou lIt l-It Is placed back on the field at a point throe feet from the corner It was putout put-out and the play continued S If tho red ball or any other Jumps tho net 1 e If a player drives a ball over the net he loscs his turn and must forfeit it ball besides the ball that jumps the net 9 A player forfeits a ball If he falls to hit a ball with the red ball when making a shot |