In this strip from the early 1950s, the kids are playing some bizarre game the origins of which being long lost to time. It appears to involve throwing several "horseshoe"-shaped objects (themselves artifacts from some activity or process now unknown to us) towards a stake stuck in the ground in an attempt to score a "ringer."
Judging from their progress, it seems likely that the kids must still be playing their game today.
I still see horseshoe pitches in public parks. Usually right next to the lawn bowling greens.
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