Horseshoe pitching is a healthful, stimulating, and skillful recreation, which affords the finest pleasure and fellowship for all participants. Organized Horseshoe pitching in the past has never been able to enroll more players and grow in numbers. Knowing that there are thousands of pitchers participating in the game. We of the American Horseshoe Pitchers Association, having made a survey and experimentation in Indiana and Ohio, have found, that under the point system (which will be further defined in this article) is an idea that executives, public relations people, recreational directors of large corporations, as well as small business, endorse and are advising their employees to enroll and participate.

This new science of horseshoe pitching under the point system, brings into being a new revelation in scoring and with the equality it affords the game, hundreds of men, women, and children participate. After working hours, under flood lights in city parks, the major accomplishment of the point system is its standardization of the game.

To standardize the game, a regulation game of horseshoe pitching consists of 25 innings. An inning consists of two shoes pitched by each player (two shoes times 25 innings equals 50 shoes pitched by each player per game). The first pitch is alternated each inning. Each player whose shoes are in count to score shall be entitled to the points earned, provided that the shoes are fair ones. The player scoring the most points for the game (25 innings) or (50) shoes shall be the winner of the game. Total points in one game or a series of games decides the winner.

In the operation of the above, known as the “COUNT-ALL-SYSTEM”, we have found that each player is happier and contributes more to the success and building of the game. Games can start and stop on a time designated...delays are avoided. Skill becomes predominate and endurance is eliminated. Horseshoe pitching becomes more competitive. The end results are greater league enrollment, pitching courts modernized, pitching shoes kept up-to-date and above all a true champion emerges.

The American Association is making progress and it is their purpose to rightfully place the game of horseshoes among other sports, therefore, to make the maximum progress in the right direction and for the importance of understanding the A.H.P.A. official rules and regulations are as follows:

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