# Rule 2 Single and double games (The Sun Four-Wall Rules, 1889, historical)

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

A game to be played by two persons shall be called a single hand game, by four persons a double game.

## Mentioned here

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

How this rule changed: [wording in every rulebook](https://handball.theperfectship.com/rulebooks/clause-history/code-fourwall-american/2.md)

## Relationships

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

Rulebook: [The Sun Four-Wall Rules, 1889](https://handball.theperfectship.com/rulebooks/sun-fourwall-1889.md)

Source: "Following are the set rules of the game", in 'All About Handball', The Sun (New York), 17 March 1889, p. 7 (Chronicling America, sn83030272); reprinted in the Wichita Daily Eagle, 9 April 1889, p. 3 (sn85032490). Public domain.