... about stoolball, which is apparently to be included in a forthcoming Pageant of Sport on some Surrey dump or midden, will by now have received a dusty answer or two from Sussex, where we hold performing-rights in this unnerving game. Stoolball, a kind ...

... actor-comedian, and poet of a sort, in 1765. The evolution of cricket proper is ascribed to a variety of ball games, such as stool-ball, club-ball, tipcat, and cat-and-dog; but it was not until the beginning' of the eighteenth century that our national game ...

... were such), as club- ball and stool-ball and handyn and handoute down to the doings of the Parsee eleven and the Maori players. Whatever creag men tioned in the Wardrobe Account of 28th Edward I., may have been, stool-ball was women's cricket, and is ...

... good citizen by reason of his occupation, a remark which also applies to the cricketer and the Sussex landowner who plays stool-ball. Golfers, if we are to believe our ..modern authors, make complacent husbands the game of darts is beyond the pale because ...

... young men who dish up the obvious for our daily consumption, will explain that a wayzgoose is a summer outing, and that stool-ball was a game once played at Sheffield Park. Possibly, in another twenty years, rounders and French cricket will be dragged ...

... pack train of provisions is making its way through the gateway of one of the great houses, a group of 'prentices is playing stoolball or a primitive kind of cricket, foreign merchants are walking towards the quays below the Bridge for there is only one bridge; ...