Cricket
    Croquet
    Curling
    Dixie’s Land
    Duck on the Rock
    Equestrian Polo
    Fat
    Feather Race
    Foot-and-a-half
    Football
    Garden Hockey
    Golf
    Golf-Croquet
    Hab-Enihan
    Haley Over
    Hand Ball
    Hand Polo
    Hand Tennis
    Hat Ball
    Hide and Seek
    High Kick
    Hockey
    Hop Over
    Hop Scotch
    Hunkety
    Hunt the Sheep
    Intercollegiate Amateur Athletic Association of America
    I Spy
    Jack Fagots
    Jai-A-Li
    Japanese Fan Ball
    Kick the Stick
    King of the Castle
    Knuckle There
    Lacrosse
    Lawn Bowls
    Lawn Bowling
    Lawn Hockey
    Lawn Skittles
    Lawn Tennis
    Last Tag
    Luge-ing
    Marathon Race
    Marbles
    Mumblety Peg
    Names of Marbles
    Nigger Baby
    Olympic Games
    One Old Cat
    Over the Barn
    Pass It
    Pelota
    Plug in the Ring
    Polo
    Potato Race
    Prisoner’s Base
    Push Ball
    Quoits
    Racquets or Rackets
    Red Line
    Red Lion
    Roley Boley
    Roque
    Rowing Record
    Rubicon
    Sack Racing
    Scotland’s Burning
    Skiing
    Soccer
    Spanish Fly
    Squash
    Stump Master
    Suckers
    Tether Ball
    Tether Tennis
    Three-Legged Racing
    Tub Racing
    Volley Ball
    Warning
    Washington Polo
    Water
    Water Race
    Wicket Polo
    Wolf and Sheep
    Wood Tag
    Yank

While all the games and sports described in this chapter are not absolutely confined to outdoors, almost any game in which violent physical exercise results is better if played in the open air rather than in a house or gymnasium.  In fact, we should only play indoors when the weather makes it impossible for us to be outside.

There are very few indoor games that cannot be played in the open air with proper apparatus or rules.  It is also equally true that many of our outside sports may be played indoors with certain modifications.

ALL-AROUND ATHLETIC CHAMPIONSHIP

This contest was instituted in America in 1884 to give athletes an opportunity to demonstrate their ability in all-around work.  The contest is rapidly becoming the blue ribbon championship event in America for track athletes.  The following ten events are contested for: 

100-yard dash High jump Long jump Vault Throwing 16-pound hammer Putting a 16-pound shot Throwing 56-pound weight 120-yard hurdle race Half-mile walk One-mile run

The system of scoring in the All-around Championship is complicated.  Each contestant has his score made up independently.  The world’s best amateur record is taken as a basis and 1,000 points