PETERiHENDERSONf& CO., NEW YORK.— LAWN ESSENTIALS. 



A Fascinating 



New Lawn Game, VlCktory. 



THE NEW LAWN QAME OF "VICKTORY" 



Is more scientific than Croquet, yet easily learned and is intensely fascinating clear to the end of the game, for no 

 matter how much lead one player or side may have gained, one miss stroke, on the leading side, or one good strike 

 from the losing side, may entirely reverse the commanding lead. Consequently the game is absorbingly interesting 

 throughout. 



" Vicktory " has several other advantages over Croquet: it is adapted to lawns which are too small for Croquet, 

 requiring a space only 24 feet by 30 feet, though great variation in the size of the ground is possible, the shape 

 of the court being octagonal. 



The court can be laid out and the game piayed on any level plot of grass of 

 sufficient size, or on smooth, hardened, bare ground, sanded ; the latter of 

 course being preferable for very scientific playing, or the game can be played on 

 the floor of a house. 



It is a game of vicissitudes, the object being to get your own and your part- 

 ner's balls into the ring and put out or keep out your opponents. When two 

 persons play, each has six balls ; when three play each has four balls, and when 

 four play the two alternate players are partners and each side has si.x balls, each 

 player having three balls which he calls his own. The balls are so marked that 

 this variation in the number of players is possible. The balls are marked, four 

 with red stripes, four with blue stripes and four with white stripes. The four 

 white balls are ajso cross ringed, two with a red and two with a blue stripe. When 

 only [WO players use the game, one has si.x red and the other six blue balls-. 

 When three play there are four red, four blue and four white balls. When four 

 play there are four combinations of colors— red, red and w hite, blue, and blue 

 and white. In starting the game red places his ball in the "striker's box," a 

 mallet's length from the stake, and strikes his ball, trying to make it enter the 

 ring. If he succeeds he starts a new ball, and so continues until he misses or 

 fails to "ring" his ball. Blue now starts a ball and endeavors to ring it, or if he 

 prefers, may try to hit the red ball. If he succeeds in the latte move, he may 

 croquet his opponent to any part of the ground, and then have a shot from his 

 new position for the ring. If he succeeds, he takes out one of his opponent's 

 balls, if any are in the ring, and every ball that is " ringed " entitles the player 

 to take out one of his opponent's balls. All balls so taken out must be started 

 over as though they had not been played. 



When three persons play, one ball cf each of the opponents is taken out for 

 every one a player rings. When four play, only one ball is taken out (or each 

 ball ringed, and not any for ringing a partner*s ball. 



The person who gets all his balls in the ring wins the game. When four play, 



the side which rings all six balls wins. 

 " Vicktory " is 7tot made cheaply, only the best ''rock maple"' stock beirtg used, it is handsomely finished and finely boxed, 



PRICE : (f . o. b. N.Y.) |3.75, or with wickets and extra stakes so it can be used for Croquet, 14.00. 



