Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1899-01-19
FRENCH GAME THAT IS NEW.
II is Called Shuttlecock Tennis and
Has Many Devotees in Paris.

What bids fair to become an active
and vigorous rival to the now almost
national game of golf has appeared in
Paris this season, and is now enjoy
ing almost absolute supremacy in the
way of outdoor sports among our
French cousins.
At the beginning of last spring,
when the weather was such as to in
vite and encourage outdoor sport.
some few of the extremists introduced
game called "le jeu de la paume
volante," which can only be trans
lated as ''shuttlecock tennis"
The game is built on the lines of
both its sponsors, but is unlike tennis.
as it requires no net 1t is played
on the smooth velvety lawns of sum-
mer chateaux and among the will
lagiatures' of the upper middle
classes.
It may be played by two-"un jeu
deux," as a sentimental Frenchman
puts tor it may have four, six or
eight players. One ball is required
for each couple. With two the game
old-fashloned, "battledoor and shut
tlecock;" with four or more players
it becomes more intricate
The necessary outfit for this new
game consists of disks similar to a
tambourine, except that the rim is
solid and devoid of jingling cymbals
and solid little rubber balls, a trifle
larger than those now used for golf.
The players dispose themselves OPP
posite each other a little over 100
yards apart. If two are playing the
game it consists in sending the ball
backward and forward, and catching,
posing and pitching it the greatest
number of times without letting it
fall on the ground.
If the game includes more than one
couple greater dexterity is required. as
the players throw the ball 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 so many points
against the score and so many catches
50 many in it's favor. The score may
| be 100 or 200 or even 500 points, ac-
cording to the skill of the players.
The disk is held by the rim and
used as bat to send the ball, and as a
| racket to receive it. o the uninitiated
onlooker it appears almost impossible
to acquire the necessary dexterity for
the successful manipulation of that
! disk and small rubber ball.
Paume volante is bound to become
popular among the rapidly increasing
number of girls who are taking the
opposite stand to the bachelor girl
These new girls are embracing en-
Enthusiastically all the fascinating pos
ing and languid graces of their grand
mothers, and with the introduction
of 1S30-40 and so styles it is neces-
sary to ADOPT the games which were
in vogue in those days 1t is likely
to be popular for another reason also,
and tina is that it can be played on
the lawn, before or after dinner, when
mademoiselle has donned her dainty
| lawns and organizes.
AS paume volante is not so athletic
as either golf or tennis, and capable
Of numberless pretty poses, the dim
ner costume is suitable for the sport
SO many girls have so tired of the
short skirts and thick boots de rig
ueur for golf that the new game will
doubtless gain many adherents.
THE bachelor girl has been so de-
rded in the papers" said paume en-
thusiast, "and the men Chose who
have taken the TROUBLED have so ex-
tolled the beauties and attractiveness
of the oldtime woman, that a tidal
wave seems to have set in in favor
Of the latter. Therefore it is easy to
predict. coming as it does at the
turning of the tide in favor Of every
thing essentially old-fashioneuly femi-
nine, that the new jeu de la paume
yoante will be on the crest of pop
ularity among outdoor sports at a not
very distant date. New York Her.
aid.
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