The Garden Magazine, August, 1919 



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The game of badminton is very like tennis save that it 

 uses shuttlecocks instead of balls. It takes a court thirty 

 feet wide by fort\' feet long. Garden hockey is an amusing 

 adaptation of the strenuous field sport of the same name. 

 It is played between side lines that are but three and a half 

 feet apart and usually twelve yards in length. For more 

 than four players the length may be increased as desired. 

 As no hard hitting is allowed by the rules of the game and 

 clubs are never raised more than eighteen inches from the 

 ground under penalty, it is not by any means a violent game 

 — though it is decidedly exciting. 



Variations on golf that adapt its principles to the space of 

 a garden take two forms — the small-area game known as 

 clock golf and the larger and more like golf combination 

 called golf-croquet. This utilizes wickets which, irregularly 



placed as the lawn's contours or outlines may suggest, be- 

 come the "holes" of the golf "links" thus created. 



Roqueis a game that is on a par with tennis in many ways — 

 and may be passed with just a brief mention therefore. It 

 is a highly scientific and delightful game but the difficulties of 

 it ma)- well give pause to the merely casual installation of a 

 court. It is a game for the enthusiast only. 



Not exactly a game and yet coming within the general 

 classification of games, is another old-time lawn diversion 

 that the use of the garden may restore and that may help in 

 bringing about the use of the garden — namely archery. 

 Most picturesque and delightful of "gentle" sports, its re- 

 quirements are the simplest while the space may be more or 

 less, according to that available. The customary range in 

 matches is sixty yards for men and fifty for women. 



FAULTLESS HARMONY BETWEEN THE MATTER AND THE MANNER 



The extravagant and finished loveliness of pantomime found its most appropriate shrine when given by the Washington Square 

 Players within the airy, festooned peristyle of this outdoor stage on the estate of Mr. Benjamin Stern, at Roslyn, N. Y. 



