CONSTRUCTION NOTES 



and should be outlined by wooden joists two by four inches, which should 

 not extend above the level of the ground. The pitcher's box should be 

 filled with a stiff clay thoroughly rammed while moderately wet (as in 

 quoits) to a depth of six inches 

 for at least eighteen inches 

 around the stake. When de- 

 livering the horseshoe the con- 

 testant may stand anywhere 

 inside the pitcher's box, and 

 when finished he should stand 

 back of a line even with the 

 stake and out of the pitcher's 

 box. The pitching distance for 

 women in contests and tourna- 

 ments is thirty feet. When 

 several courts are being con- 



PLATE No. 123. HOW TO SET STAKE 



The above diagram illustrating the method of setting a 

 stake for horseshoe pitching has been prepared by J. R. 

 McConaghie of the Bureau of Municipalities, Harrisburg, 

 Pennsylvania. 



structed, they should not be 

 closer than eight feet, i.e., from 

 stake to stake. 



Hand tennis (see Plate 

 119, page 304). The playing 

 area is 40x16 feet. The net divides this area latitudinally into equal 

 parts, the net being two feet in depth and hung with its bottom two feet, 

 six inches from the ground. Foul lines are drawn parallel to the net, one 

 on each side, at a distance of three feet from the net. Each playing court 

 is then divided longitudinally into two equal parts; this line does not ex- 

 tend through the area between the foul lines and the net. In seasonable 

 weather the game is best played on a clay court, but it may be played on a 

 turf court. Cement and asphalt courts are sometimes used. 



CONSTRUCTION OF BOWLING GREENS 1 



Bowls or outdoor bowling is played upon a level lawn area. The bowl- 

 ing green is divided into alleys or rinks about no feet long by 14 feet wide. 

 In practice the greens vary from 96 to 120 feet in length and may be greater 

 than 14 feet in width. A small green for two rinks may be of the form 

 shown by figure I, Plate 124. Where the bowling green is frequently used 

 the green is often made square, as in figure 2, in order that the rinks may 

 be laid out in more than one direction. When the turf is worn, the line of 

 the rink is changed to a new position perpendicular to the former. The 

 nature of the game does not require any especial orientation, so that the 



1 Albert D. Taylor in Landscape Architecture, April 1925. 



