Judge — March 3, 1923 — page 10: what you’re looking at

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A Page of Indoor Sports for Indoor Sports THIS WEEK'S GAME Rainy Day Baseball by James W. Egan Ladie-e-e-s and Gentleme-e-c-n! Intro- duci-i-ing Mister-r-r James W. Egan! Pitching to-day for the Jence team! (Of echo) Yeh! Bo! Getcha Red Hots Getcha Red Hots! Hereya! Get a Ice-cold drinks! Ceegars, Cig’- rettes! As Mr. Egan cannot be with us this evening, he has asked me to say a few words for him, which reminds me of the story of the Englishman who told a_ riddle Anyway, we'd like to say that we're tried this game of his, and outside of yelling ourselves hoarse, had the time of our young lives. The Yanks lost in the sixteenth inning because the wife insisted on throw- ing all my straw hats around the room! We will now tune the radio in with Jacksonville, Fla., and let Mr. Egan tell us how his game is played. Thank you. B playing this game for a regular diamond, required is an ordinary deck of and the muscular effort necessary lift them and turn them face upward. One or two persons may play the game—or it possible to have two sides. Let us suppose you are going to play a gi takes red, and you take 4 To make the match more inter- esting he can be “Chicago” and you “New York.” Actual line- ups can be used, and a score card which will show runs, hits, errors kept. The writer developed the game until could p a complete box score, but probably most of those who read aren’t this nutty. Here’s the way it goes: If of t deuce triple, stage here! Horton! bats, gloves, and even fair weather are. as unnecessary ALL as nd Jones me. He bk ur color is black, th : hue is a single, the double, the trey a nd the four the old Hornsby. A five spot is a base on balls, the six base on an error. Any of these numbers in the opposite color are outs. Seven eight are cards, So is nine. The “out” writer by Norman Anthony uses this for a double play when possible. Ten ix an outfield fly—likewise out. is There may seem to be plenty of “outs,” but it works out ig All face cards usually look pretty good in this frolic, You play it like a real game, three men out to the inning, and nine innings a full game. More, if tied. Some combats will run 13 or 14 innings ul end 2 to 1, or 3 to 2. Any small score, usually. outs, so pitchers st for illustration, Jones, with red for his color, starts the first. inning Chicago. The deck is shuffled and « thing is set. The cards are dealt one by one. Jones is unlucky. He draws a king of spades, queen of diamonds and three of spades. All outs. You play now and get asingle. (Place the first base.) We'll say Witt. diamonds. as ry- off that was Whitey Joe Dugan takes down eight of He’s out and Witt goes to Ruth up and the next card is a four of clubs. A home ‘Tun, and two Pipp draws a ten spot and is the Meusel dies on a deuce of scores, ond out. hearts. In case you use the joker in your deck, let it be a home run for either side when it comes. Adds a thrill. Fact is, about all the pleasure of telling the umpire terrible robber he s is the what a THAT KELLY POOL GAME When your ball’s in front of the pocket. 8 By LL Harr, the well-know Judge’s PUNG- CHOW Column Also known as MAH JONG srity on the Chinese game High Scores offer more suggest sults at the same time.— Axawer: Ir of this kind, where every hand i different from th and so much depends upon the draw ry difficult to lay down specif rules to attain the best results. There are, however. few points which if ind, during the play of { two. group fa hand such as Dr double the value set out and pla ter of luck pla they can be and aed only whe n he doubling combi doubling v or his own W Following this, a player will upon turning up his original hand a e it into suits, wee gait Gf thet Linen mats aultee amboor Click Characters) he will proceed to discard one tile of it for every tile he draws of the other two suits or his honor suit will usually give him several discards, during which what the other players are discarding and rence discover what the strong suit of each may This information will assist him in the selection of h he should choose to play. Fe if a player has two Honors, four Bamboos, four Characters and two Circle tiles, his procedure should be to discard the Circles in return for ws which may help his hand will be of the Bamboo, Char nor suits i this he has an opportunity of studying the other players discard. He sees that one player is building up a hand of Circles, because be dhecards Bamboos and Characters that another player is also playing for Circ! for the same reason, and that the third player is working for Characters, because he already one exposed, which he com: pleted by of the early discards 20 he decides bet ween his two strong. s, Bamboo and Character. The next step in playing his hand, after having decided on Bamboo as his strong suit, is to clear his all his other suits except the Honor This he does by discarding one of his ters every time he draws a Bamboo, or this process he gathers a hand consisting only of Bamboo and Honor pieces the proportions varying according to the draw He must now decide whether he will attempt the filling of an all Bamboo hand, which ill permit of doubling his score three times or fll the Prospective Honor sets which he has in his hand already and complete his band with a mixture of Bamboo and Honor sets, In this decision he will be influenced by: 1. The condition of his own hand. (Continued next week)