... lag emaderaces asappearing d Gleamy, leaping, pitehing the bar, aid stool-ball (a direentarq jorm of cricket), as suitable recreation. He woad doubtless. Dr. &Made he chided bicycling, hewn beanie. and golf had they hese whams of hie day. Now Wen ...

... seems to have been evolved out of stool-ball and tip-cat, or, as it was called, cat and dog. From stool-ball was borrowed the primitive wickst—a stool, or cricket—which (perhaps) gave its name to the pastime. From stool-ball, too, we have the custom tossing ...

... have been evolved out of stool-ball and tip-cat, or, as it was called, cat and deg. From stool-ball was borrowed the primitive wicket—a stool or cricket—which perhaps gave its name to the pastime. From stool-ball, too, we have the custom ...

... Lillywhite's Scores and Biographies, Miami's Cricket Notes, and other authorities. _ . .. Rounders, hockey, club-ball, stool-ball, a game analogous to cricket, played by women of the past generations in the south of England, with a wooden battledore ...

... follows: 1. The prehistoric age, when cricket was dimly struggling to evolve Itself out of rudimentary forms cat and dog and stoolball. 'A About the end tbe century it was mainly boy's game. 3. the game was matter of heavy bets, and acutes began recorded. ...

... brother’s garden. The young lady is devoted to country pursuits, and is captain of a stool-ball team, stool-ball being a ladies’ game that has long been popular in Sussex. Stool-ball resembles cricket, but is supposed originally to have been the recreation of ...

... Lord's Day. Thus, at that early date, distinction was already taken, even by a Puritan who was sportsman, between cricket and stool-ball. Then hear—l really don't know on what evidence, but all ti:e cricket books give tiie story—of crickitt played by the ...

... football, and the maid+, with whom we children commonly mixed, being not pro ,1 for the turbulence of the other party,to stoolball and such running games as they knew. And all this without mixing men and women, as in dancing with fiddle, but apart.—The ...

... he erred, at all events be would err in good company. Bltop Sanderson instanced archery, leaping, pitching the bar, and stool-ball (a rudimentary form of cricket), as suitable recreations. He would doubtless have included Licycling, lawn tennis, and golf ...

... the story with much glee. Cricket and its Forerunners. —As far can ascertain, cricket seems to have been evolved out of stool-ball, and tip-cat, or, as was called, cat and dog. From stool-hall was borrowed the ' primitive wicket stool, or cricket —which ...

... But that not certain, and it is best think ** clubball as the ascertained beginning of cricket, and of stool-ball a further development— 4 * stool-ball including stools as wickets, and being especial favourite in Sussex, where it is still played by boys ...

... seems to have been evolved out of stool-ball, and tip-cat, or as it was called, cat and dog. From stool-ball As borrowed the primitive wicket—a stool, or cricket—which (perhaps) gave its name to the pistime. From stool-ball, too, we have the custom of tossing ...