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 tee—the projecting end of the kangaroo is struck with a sharp downward chop to send it jumping as in tiddlywinks. A set costs $12.50. There are four different-shaped kangaroos: the Turtle (for distance), the Speeder (for an accurate second shot), the Flash (to get over a high obstacle), the Torpedo (for a stop-dead approach or putt). Players carry their kangaroos in a canvas pouch not unlike a carpenter's apron.
Composer Yon, who thought up the game five years ago while summering in his native Italian Alps, has shot 9 holes in 19, claims to be world's champion by virtue of victories over such experts as Cinemactor Roland Young, Tenor Giovanni Martinelli, various members of the Italian royal family.