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two to three inches deep, and of uniform thickness. A two-inch surfacing, 

 if it is properly laid and the preparation of the subgrade has been well done, 

 is all that is to be desired in firmness and binding quality, with the added 

 advantage that it dries out much more quickly after a rain, so that the court 

 is in a serviceable condition much sooner than a court which had four or five 



inches of surfacing mate- 

 rial. A clay-sand mixture 

 such as used on a clay 

 tennis court, as described 

 in the April 1922 issue of 

 Landscape Architecture, is 

 often used with satisfac- 

 tory results. 



Quoits (see Plate 

 122). A quoit rink should 

 measure 80 x 25 feet; 

 these measurements leave 

 ample room outside of 

 the actual pitching dis- 

 tance. Two circles three 

 feet in diameter are ex 

 cavated 54 feet apart 

 to a depth of about 12 

 inches. These circles are 

 refilled with a stiff clay 

 thoroughly rammed while 

 moderately wet. In the 

 center of each circle a 

 steel pin or mott, 40 

 inches long and one inch 

 in diameter, is driven 



QUO/TJ 



PITCHING 



ALBERT D. TAYLOR 



PLATE.- G 



PLATE No. 122 



into the ground until the 

 head is flush with the 

 clay. The player, in 



throwing, stands on a line through the mott perpendicular to the line be- 

 tween motts and not more than four feet, six inches from the mott. 



Horseshoe pitching (see Plate 122). The grounds should be as level as 

 possible. The stakes are of iron, one inch in diameter, driven into the 

 ground and inclined one inch toward the opposite stake, eight inches 

 remaining above the ground. The stakes are forty feet apart. The pitcher's 

 box extends three feet on either side, to the rear and front of the stakes, 



