The age-herald., 1898-09-13
A French Game New to Us.

A northen paper gives the following bit of news on new game that will probably rival the now almost national game of golf:
 With four or more players it becomes more intricate.
 The necessary outfit for this new game consists of disks similar to talnbourine, except that the rim is solid and devoid of jingiing cymbals, and solid little rubber balls, trifie larger than those now used for golf.
 The players dispose themselves opposite each other a little over a hundred yards apart. If two are playing the game it consists of sending the ball backward and forward, and catching, poising and pitch ing it the greatest number of times without letting it fail on the ground.
 If the game includes more than one couple greater 6exterity is required, as the players throw the bali criss-cross, and one has to be constantly on the watch to know which is your ball coming among the three or four crossing each other. As in tennis, every miss counts many points against the score and so many catches so many in it's favor The score may be 100 or 20J or even 300 points, according to the skill of the players.
 The olsk is held by the rim and used as bat to send the ball, as racket to re- ceiye 1t. To the uninitiated it appears al- most impossible to acquire the necessary dexterity for the successful manipulation of that disk and small rubber ball.
 Paume volante is bound to become popu- lar among the rapidly increasing number of girls who are taking the opposite stand to the bachelor girl: These new girls are embracing enthusiastically all the .fasci- hating posing and languid graceS of their grandmothers, and with the introduction of 1S3O-40 and 50 styles it is necessary to adopt the games which were in vogue in those days. It is likely to be popular for another reason also, and that Is, that it can be played on the lawn, before or after dinner, when mademoiselle has donned her dainty lawns or organdieS.
 As paume yolante is not so athletic as either golf or tennis, and capable of num- berless pretty poses, the dinner costume is suitable for the sport. So many girls have so tired of the short skirts and thick boots de rigueur for golf that the new game will doubtless gain many new adherents.
 The bachelor girl has been so derided in the papers," said a paume enthusiast, and the men Ghose who have taken the trouble) have so extolled the beauties and attractiveness of the old-time woman, that tidal wave seems to have set in in favor oA thc idtteT. therefore, IL IS easy to pre- dict, coming as it does, at the turning of the tide in favor of everything essentially old fashionedly feminine, that the new jeu de la paume Volante will be on the crest or popularity among outdoor sports at a not very distant date.''
 At the beginning of last spring, when the weather was such as to invite and encour- age outdoor sport, some few of the extrem- ISIS introduced game called "Le Jeu de Ia Paume Volante," which can only be translated as "shuttlecock tennis"
 The game is built on the lines of both Its sponsors, but 1t is unlike shuttlecock, as its disk is different, and unlike tennis, as It requires no net It is played oh the smooth, velvety lawns of summer cha teaux and among. the ''villageiatures' of the upper middle classes.
 ngit, may be played by two-'.un jeu deux, as sentimental Frenchman puts it-or it may have four, six or eight play CTS. One ball is required for each couple. With two the game resembles nothing so much as the old-fashioned "battedore and shuttlecock."