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Spear Fights

This is an in-door game with out-door weapons. The soft-headed, eight foot spears of the tilting-match are used. The contestants stand on barrels eight feet apart. Each tries to put the other off his barrel. It is well to have a catcher behind each player to save him if he falls.

Games are for seven, eleven, or thirteen points.

  • Type: game
  • Traits: Not stated in the source
  • Source: Ernest Thompson Seton, Boy Scouts Handbook: The Games (1911)
  • Printed pages: 302
  • Digital edition: Digital edition · Source record
  • Open the edition at the relevant page: p. 302
  • Read the automatic translation: bsh-014