Tiddlywinks Bibliography

"Tiddlywinks No Game for Sissies"

• "Tiddlywinks is a game for four players, those who play opposite each other being partners. The aim of the game is to flick the winks into the pot"
  
  In the quick wake of the sceduling of the tiddlywink match between the undisputed champion of the British Isles, Cambridge University, and the University of Chicago, a number of significant reactions have been recorded in the Windy City.
  
  For one, the university's student paper has devoted a half page of its paper to printing the international rules of tiddlywinks—from which the aforementioned definitoin of the game is taken.
  
  At the same time, Rochelle Dubnow, editor of the paper—The Maroon—hinted at the type of unexpected opposition the Cambridge aggregation may have to face here next September.
  
  "We find nothing in the rules that prohibits young women from taking part, Miss Dubnow said.
  
  "Although sporting codes are customarily thrown to the winds in tiddlywinks competition," she said, "we suspect the long tradition of British gallantry toward womebn may prove too much for even these battle hardened veterans.
  
  "And one show of gallantry may cost them the match."
  
  At the same time the university's director of athletics, Walter L. Hass, scoffed at the idea that tiddlywinks is a "sissy's sport." He grimly pointed out that there were "split thumbnails, flying winks which threaten players and spectators alike." He said that "thse are the considerable hazards of the game."