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YANK GAMES AMUSE THE ENGLISH Much diversion has been created in Hyde Park by frames all of them new here played by American soldiers In hustle ball two teams compete the men in each standing In single file with their heads bent down as iu leapfrog The ball is passed down the file between the mens legs until it reaches the last man who runs with it to the heal of tli file and starts it afresh down the nuik Tlie team that exhausts its rank first is the winner Roars of laughter greeted the ele ¬ phant race in which the competitors are coupled iu acrobatic fashion one man holding the others feet A variant of this is the bout race in which the couples with locked arms and legs rock tliem eIves rowingThe forward with a resemblance to rowing The most spectacular game was skinning the snake which caused shouts of merriment The teams stand in file as in hustle ball each man holding a hand of the man in front and iu rear of him between the legs The leading man falls back ¬ ward onto his rear man and eacli repeats tiic proc ¬ ess till the whole file is prone Without un ¬ locking hands the pile has to rise again to its original position and in the effort to dp so fre ¬ quent breaks occur in the chain putting the players out of court Badminton Magazine
