To be successful, a
horseshoe club should have some type of weekly organized competition. The most
satisfactory is a team league, with the teams playing a round robin schedule
of matches. Smaller clubs or groups can organize their competition on an
individual basis playing either doubles or singles, but larger clubs should
organize the competition with teams represented by three or more players. It
is better to keep the number of players on a team to a minimum and thereby
have more teams. The greater the number of players per team the harder it is
for each captain to have his full strength available for each match, due to
unavoidable absences.
The league schedule should be drawn up at the start of the season and
all rules and provisions of play listed. Once rules and provisions are agreed
upon they should be adhered to or the league will disintegrate in the
bickering that can follow when rules are not enforced properly and fairly.m
Your first set of rules may not cover all contingencies. You should
establish an executive committee composed of your officers and teams captains,
who will rule on any disputes. When you first get going you may even empower
one person to act as commissioner to make final decisions. Of course, you will
later incorporate these or similar rulings into your league by-laws.
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