Duchesne Record | 1911-05-05 | Page 7 | Three Novel European Tops

THREE NOVEL EUROPEAN TOPS Top-Spinning Top Is One of Oldest Games None None Will Stand as Much Battering Battering Bat Bats as American Top-spinning Top Is one of the oldest games In the world It has been played played played play play- ed for thousands of oC years and there are few even of the savage nations of Asia and Africa who dont don't play the game with some sort of top Long before Columbus sailed for America he the Indians knew a good deal about tops ops and top spinning The Sioux whittled them out of bits of wood something like the tho one on-e shown in the picture In Ceylon Slam Siam and China nearly all the tops are so fixed that they hey whistle or sing when they spin The ordinary top used by the AmerIca Amerlean Amer Amer- lean Ica can boy Is probably bly the most popular In n tho the world It is 13 extensively used to In n Engl England nd and In all of or her colonies H TOP GRMA HM l HUMMING TOP Three Queer Tops The German top is larger and more expensive and the French top Is 15 quite different In sh shape pe None of or them will stand the tho pegging and battering of the stubby tubby little American top