Judge — June 28, 1924 — page 12: what you’re looking at

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The New Game of Loggats HEREVER you go in England these days you are sure to be asked if you can play Loggats. The whole country has gone crazy over the game—particu- larly the upper classes. As everybody knows, there has been a marked decline in popularity of Cricket this season in England owing some say, to the breaking up of the old estates, the excessive tax on tea and the movies, so that it appears to have been nothing short of miraculous that the Earl of Neohampton (pro- nounced Flint) should have discovered in a disused gunroom at Slewsley a com- plete set of Loggats used by the first Earl to celebrate winning the Marsley Flitch in 1643, after the Restoration. ‘The papers have been full of the Ear! romantic find. There was a bit of a set- back to popular enthusiasm, however, shortly after the Earl's discovery when it was disclosed that no one living knew the rules for Loggats, but as luck would have it, Sir Mallory Bustle, Curator of Philology at the Tillersley Museum, searching for proofs of Shakespeare's birth, ran across an old manuscript, written in Queen Elizabeth’s reign, which the Times reprinted; and before the week was out, the leading sporting goods manufacturers of Great swamped with orders. To play Loggats, or rather at Loggats as Sir Henry Hanmer says, is the very Britain were eamweon. “It's more dangerous above the fifty- third story.” “Huh?” “You might not hear the whistle blow for quitting time.” acme of simplicity; it is the scoring that is rather intricate, at least at first. The striker stands inside the Court with the Flenge upraised. When ready to Gilse, his opponent hurls the Cloish toward him and if it fails to retard the stroke it counts as one. The four Chits count three each if the striker Grimmies, Lessee of Summer Cottage—Now, you kids, shut up or you'll have to go in the house, where it’s wet! but not unless. But, of course everything else, constant pri enable you to overcome these difficulties. Thirty-one points make a game, though some favor forty and even forty-five. Played singly, the points are “liberated,” but in the Double Feint they count just the same as in plain Loggats. placed before each player advances to the Crease—not after—and you go back six if you don’t give the signal to Gilse before you deal. In this brief space there has, of course, been no attempt to explain the finer points of Loggats. with will Bets are The sole aim has been to give an outline sufficiently clear to whet the interest of the reader. Further par- ticulars may be obtained by writing to our Loggats Editor in care of this pub- lication. Rosert CoNWELL. _A Tough One Lucille—Do babies really come from heaven, mother? Mother Why, ves, dear. Don’t: you Tm concerned—but to as pretty hard Harold.” it’s swallow about tittle eee whose white leghorn pullet laid 213 eggs in 2. consecutive weeks.— The (British Columbia) Evening Sun Vancourer Up in the great open spaces where hens are hens. comicbooks.com