Sport: Tiddlygolf

If the accident rate rises in suburban U.S. communities this fall because citizens are hit by flying sticks, insurance companies can blame a game called Kangaroo Golf. Invented and patented by internationally famed Composer-Organist Pietro Yon, virtuoso at Manhattan's St. Patrick's Cathedral, it has the same object as golf and can be set up in any good-sized yard (see cut).

In the game, wooden pegs (kangaroos) are used instead of balls and they are driven from a portable, slope-topped wooden teeĀ—the projecting end of the kangaroo is struck with a sharp downward chop to send it jumping as in tiddlywinks. A...

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