Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-03-08

call "Yo." This is INDUCED In prob
ably the most of all their outdoor
games. 1t closely resembles the hand
ball with which American pugiiists pile
on muscle and develop wind and sup
pleness before their big fights, at Maud
Junction, say.
The Mexicans have no other goal of
glory before them than the winning of
the one game at hand. They are not
preparing for any other encounter of a
fistic nature. However, they pitch into
this contest with all the vim and en-
ergy of an American rush lineY in the
merry month of November, when the
side lines are sprouting Cardinal or
Purple. and the yell of the rooter is
heard in the land.
This game is played in courts, an
other feature similar to the American
handball game. There are two of these
courts near the Bethlehem home, at
Alameda and Also streets.
Italians Have Their Pastimes
The italians have two games. one
outdoors and the other played indoors,
which are quite popular with them.
The first, or outdoor game, is played
with rather heavy leather-covered ball,
something like the medicine BALI of
an American gym. This game consists
of three stakes four feet long with a
wide bulge In the center, so that the
ball will oarrom and knock down tie
second and third stakes. This contest,
therefore, includes good deal of skill
as well as a magnificent perspiration
on the part of the participants.
Then they have another game which
they call "Bocie," pronounced "Bochie.
This game resembles bowling a good
deal and is played often in Italian
saloons in Los Angeles. If the saying
be true that Napoleon was more italian
than French, then the Little Corporal"
may have taken his turn at "Bocie,"
and the "carom shots of the other pas
time of that land when he was as yet
unknown to the firing line" of Europe
or to the dreaded squares" of the
island.
The Japanese colony around the
Also, Alameda and Vignes street
neighborhood have a game which Is
'sblood kin" to the American game of
checkers. One little maid of the mi
kado's race yesterday, when asked
what they called 1t, said:
Japanese Have "show-ge"
81 no play. Oller people play. They
call I'm Show-gie."
The game has been called "go-bang,"
the word "go" being five in Japanese,
and the idea being to get five men on
the checker board in row before the
opponent checks the moves.
However" said the Rev. DR.. Bart
lett, 1.-The Japanese in this country seem
to take we'll to American pool and so
do not need their own game so much"
The Greeks and the Slavs, particu-
larry the Balkan races represented at
the Bethlehem institute, enjoy a pas
time which can sue the American
varsity event of putting the shot" for
infringement of copyright. For this
game OF the Europeans is much more
simple. and was copied by the shot
putter," without doubt.
The young fellow shown in the ac-
companying illustration is the cham
pion Of the Slavs in this rock heaving"
contest. He is a Montenegran and has
splendid muscular development. His
game consists of taking a running
start as long as his judgment and
wind dictate and then when he reaches
the mark he hurls the stone the great
est distance possible.
The rock he has poised in his hand