The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1919-04-24
From Twelve to 200
Can Be On a Team
BY EDWARD M. THiERRY,
N. e. A. staff Correspondent.

W. - ~ SkoIt WI SoHOuOSuks
Ever play "doughboy"? Probably
MOTOR the game was only invented
recently in France.
It's a medley of football, basket
ball and indoor baseball. It's an
American.made game. devised by
Brig. Gen. A. w. Bjornstad, U. S. A.
The new game has been played by
soldiers at every camp Uncle Sam
has in France and the occupied Sec
ton of Germany. It's popular, too,
The unique thing is that teams num-
bering anywhere from 81 to 200 can
play "doughboy.' The game, carried
back to the United States by. the re-
turning A. E. F., probably will spread.
1t ought to be popular as part of
school and college athletics.
Here's the way the game is played
and the sort OF field it's played on:
Sides are divided into two or more
squads, numbered serially. Squads
contain not less than nor more than
Is men, including squad leader. Each
squad is divided into offense and de.
Tense. platoons; the former, called the
gang, has a gang leader, and the lat
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The smallest field possible for play
is made like this: Trace two parallel
lines OF whitewash so yards apart,
each line, Sc yards long. At each end
Of each line place;%a. target-,-a padded
pole 1!2 feet high. Place similar tar
gets along each line, at eight-yard in,
tervals, making eight on either side.
Around this rectangle trace white
wash line, making an outer rectangle,
leaving an open strip 20 yards wide on
every side. 4 -.
SIMILAR TO
BASKETBALL GOAL. -. 81,
At the top OF eacile target place: d
board, II inches square and below it,
like q basket ball goal, a hoop "a in
ches in diameter. Hanging from the
hoop should be;a net closed at the
bottom SO as to retain a. ball failing
into it. 49,. ~
The targets are numbered serial!y
each bearing the same number on the
upper square board as the target Op
posite. IN
The ball should be a canvass OIL
in diameter. Each squad side-call
| it the Elacks-has balls painted black
| with white number. The opposing
team-say the Whites-has white
balls: with black numbers.
| Each squad has its own target and
its own ball. each numbered accord
ing to the squad number. Thus or
the 56-yard field each opposing team
I would have eight squads: If six to {
: squad, As men In all. If there are
only twelve men to team and thus
only two squads, then only two tar
gets are used.
+ The game is divided into nine in
!: nings OF three minutes each, with ont
minute interval between innings.
The object Of the game is for tn
attacking gang of each squad of tn
! Black team to try to get its own bal
into the White target net bearing tn
!: same number as its own ball. Vic,
versa for the White team. Meanwhile
the defensive guard of each squad en-
deavors to prevent the opposing al
lacking gang from getting its similar
ly numbered ball into the similarl,
numbered target being defended.
When a gang passes, throws o
kicks its own ball into the target o
the same number-say Blacks No.
ball into No. l target that the Whit
team is defending-a butt is scored
Bulls count as runs do in baseball
The team scoring the greatest mum
Der of "bulls'-including all it
squads-wins the game.
But when ball goes into the tai
get net it must remain there unit
the end of the inning. The ball is ais
out of play for the rest of the innin
if the ball, say Blacks No. 1 ball, b
}. accident or design. strikes any par
of the target Blacks No. / squad i
defending. However, if Blacks No.
ball goes into any Of White teams tai
gets other than No. target the un
pire throws it into the center of tn
field. The same is done il ball zoe
out Of bounds, outside the outer. rel
tangular line of the playing field
LOSERS LEAVE FIELD
4 FOR INNING.
target the defense guard of the Of
posing squad-has lost and the d,
tenders leave the field for the balanc
of the inning. When the defense ha
driven the ball back by accident or d.
sign it strikes the opposing squad
own target-Black's No. l ball stril
ing the target Blacks No. l squad
defending-then the offense- tn
gang" of Black No. I squal-has los
and the attacking gang leaves til
field for that inning.
But when q squad gang has sht
its proper target the gang leader {
guard leader can direct what Otht
gang or guard Of his squad his me
shall, reinforce The various squa
leaders and the team captain can' :
all times play either the balls OF t.,e
Town squads9sand team or Of eae1
squads and teams.