# Rule 15 Rest between games in a prize match (Spalding Four-Wall Rules, 1886, historical)

> **Historical rulebook: not the current rules.** The current rules are here: https://handball.theperfectship.com/rules/four-wall/

In a match for a prize the contestants are allowed one minute for refreshments at the expiration of each game before commencing another. The one failing to respond to the call of time loses the match.

## Mentioned here

- [Game, match, tiebreaker](https://handball.theperfectship.com/game.md)
- [Clock](https://handball.theperfectship.com/clock.md)

How this rule changed: [wording in every rulebook](https://handball.theperfectship.com/rulebooks/clause-history/code-fourwall-american/16.md)

## Relationships

- No link to the other terms shown: Clock, Game, match, tiebreaker.

Rulebook: [Spalding Four-Wall Rules, 1886](https://handball.theperfectship.com/rulebooks/spalding-fourwall-1886.md)

Source: "Hand Ball", in [George H. Benedict, comp.], Spalding's Hand Book of Sporting Rules and Training (Chicago and New York: A. G. Spalding & Bros., 1886), pp. 45-46 (Library of Congress copy, LCCN 05029206; Internet Archive spaldingshandboo00bene); reprinted, numbered and abridged, in the Houston Daily Post, 13 March 1898, p. 15 (sn86071197). Public domain.