During the 1920 campaign, this former alley served as an informal meeting court for Harding, staff, and journalists, where players stood at the same end and took turns pitching two horseshoes, aiming for a ringer by encircling the stake or otherwise landing within six inches of it, while shoes that struck outside the pit before bouncing in did not count and could be removed for that round; one scoring method awarded three points for ringers and one point for tosses within six inches, with play continuing to a preset limit of between 40 and 50 horseshoe tosses.