The goal is made into a cage form 3 feet 6 inches square.  At the beginning of the game the ball is placed in the centre of the playing surface and the players rush for it.  The umpire in hand polo is a very important official and calls all fouls, such as tripping, catching, holding, kicking, pushing, or throwing an opponent.  Three fouls will count as a goal for the opponents.

HAND TENNIS

A game of lawn tennis in which the hand is used in place of a racket.  A hand tennis court is smaller than a regulation tennis court.  Its dimensions are 40 feet long and 16 feet wide.  The net is 2 feet high.  The server is called the “hand in” and his opponent the “hand out.”  A player first scoring twenty-five points wins the game.  A player can only score when he is the server.

A foul line is drawn 3 feet on each side of the net, inside of which play is not allowed.  In all essential particulars of the rules the game is similar to lawn tennis.

HAT BALL

This game is very similar to Roley Boley or Nigger Baby except that hats are used instead of hollows in the ground.  The ball is tossed to the hats and the first boy to get five stones, or “babies,” in his hat has to crawl through the legs of his opponents and submit to the punishment of being paddled.

HIGH KICK

A tin pan or wooden disk is suspended from a frame by means of a string and the contestants in turn kick it as it is drawn higher and higher until finally, as in high jumping, it reaches a point where the survivor alone succeeds in touching it with his toe.

HOCKEY

Hockey is usually played on the ice by players on skates, although, like the old game of shinney, it may be played on any level piece of ground.  The hockey stick is a curved piece of Canadian rock elm with a flat blade.  Instead of a ball the modern game of ice hockey is played with a rubber disk called a “puck.”  In hockey, as in many other games, the whole object is to drive the puck into your opponents’ goal and to prevent them from driving it into yours.  Almost any number of boys can play hockey, but a modern team consists of five players.  Hockey skates are of special construction with long flat blades attached to the shoes.  The standard length of blade is from 14-1/2 to 15-1/2 inches.  They cost from three to six dollars.  The hockey player’s uniform is a jersey, either padded trousers or tights, depending upon his position, and padded shin guards for the goal tenders.

HOP OVER

All but one of the players, form a ring standing about two feet apart.  Then by some “counting out” rhyme some one is made “it.”  He then takes his place in the centre of the circle, holding a piece of stout string on the end of which is tied a small weight or a book.  He whirls the string about and tries to strike the feet or ankles of some one in the circle, who must hop quickly as the string comes near him.  If he fails to “hop over” he becomes “it.”