The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1891-10-10
our BOYS AND GIRLS.
MATTERS THAT WILL DE OF
I'M crest to THEM.
Description OF New Game for Doys
Resembling Base Ball--An
Intelligent Dog--FIghtlnG
the Moths--"How
DULL"
New Game for Boyo,

consisting OF seven players each
Their positions are similar to the
positions OF tn. infeld in base ball.
There are four bases. The home
plate is raised Mt least six inches
above the ground to allow the stick,
best made OF hard pine, thirteen in
ches and three and a half in circum-
ference, to rest against it.
The other bases are first, second and
third occupying the same places as
base ball bases do. The stick may be
either round or bevelled on the edge.
The latter is preferred, as it is easier
to catch this pattern.
| CTwelve innings constitute o game,
| with two men out to constitute side
out. Seven innings must be played
before the game can be called either q
defeat or q victory by the umpire,
whose duty it is to make all decisions.
The side that = out takes positions
in the field defined by the rules thus
1.-THE plate coverer should stand by
the home base.
1.-The front fielder must stand in
front OF plate, about half way between
the second and home bases.
1.-THE first baseman should stand
\ by his base, or q little way from it,
but so he can cover.
"The second and third baseman
should do the same.
1.-THE half-back must stand between
second and third bases, eitherin front
or little behind the base line.
"The back fielder should be station.
ell behind the bases, generally. behind
third base, but he has liberty to place
himself anywhere between first and
third bases. He must use his judy
ment in this.
The side which is in kicks the stick
in order. The stick is rested OH the
home plate, and it is the duty OF the
kicker to kick the stick toward the
outtield.
He should wear leather toe cap,
md is not allowed to take q prepara-
tory run OF more than fifteen feet. IL
lie does not kicl; the stick, that is,
kicks at it and misses it, he is out.
This corresponds to striking" in base
ball, and the boys say that many
men are put out in this way.
When the stick is once kicked the
object is for the fielders to get it and
touch whit either the base the kicker
is running for or the home plate. This
constitutes an out.
The plate coverer, who stands rear
the frame, must call out the base the
man is Huntington if he puts him ont.
There can be no playing off base in
only to touch the plate with the stick.
On the other hand he must be quick
enough to do this before the kicker
gets in his work
The stick is tielded as ball, and in
throwing rests on the wrist and palm.
1t is tossed and not thrown overland.
This insures its safe flight.
The foul lines are the same as in
base ball, and the same rules apply.
A fly stick may be caught, putting the
runner out, and a double play IS pos
sible just MS in the national game.
Each kicker is obliged to ruE for
himself and may overrun first base,
but none other. He may turn either
I o the right or left after overrunuing.
A tie is given to the runner, and cun-
ming ont OF the base line is out. When
n runner is hit by kicked stick Ls is
opt-
The hoys say that stick cma be
easily kicked sixty feet, and that there
are few home runs. A two taggci Is
about the longest stick.
"How Dul!'
Elsie Holt sat In hammock which
was hung in the porch of her fathers
cosnotry house. The afternoon was
wa7rs; the shadows of tho clouds
drifted lazily over the fields. Elsie's
bright face wore IN expressiort OF dis
cCsAtent, for the dressmaker hadfailed
to send home her new gown, and the
last pages were missing in the se,iled
paper novel which she held. Sheyawn-
ed dreariiy.
"How tiresome and dull the worid
Isl" she said.
Overhead pair OF birds were twit-
tering near their nest. They lad just
come from the far South. Thu story
OF their lives, their habits, their wan
derings, their enemies was more curl
o,rs than any novel ever Written.
Their calls, their love songs, their cry
OF warming their lulabys over their
young had no more meaning to her
thnn the rattle OF dry sticks together.
The woods were full of these mar
vellous winged creatures, each with
his own history, which she might have
read. She was blind to them all.
Close at hand grew countless great
trees, each of which had it's laws of
life. There was not weed nor q
blade of grass which had not some
peculiar significance. TO Elsie they
were dumb.
Below the grass the great earth lay,
with mystic meanings written on each
stratum of clay and rock. The mean
ings were plain, so that he who ran
might read. Elsie did not know one
letter OF their alphabet.
A common plant grew below the
hammock; her foot crushed it as she
swung to and fro. There was pow
erful microscope in the house. II sho
had examined the plant through it
she would have seen upon each leaf O