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... A STOOL-BALL MATCH. GAME UNDER UNIQUE CONDITIONS AT BRIGHTON. (Special to the Westminster Gasette.l An interesting - event, unique in the lung nals of English •port, took place on Saturday in the Royal l'aviliod Gardens. Brighton. It took the form of ...
... the world. V M K.C.'s STRANGE HOBBY—Mr. W W. Grantham, K.C.. with some cf the stoolball bats he has collected from all parts of the world. He ha* played the game for years, using these bats during his trips all over ...
... FLETCHING. STOOLBALL. 2 Last Trek 'Asa Attenbornugh's XI. met Cowfold at Sheffield Park, when the visitors won by 50 runs. FORTHOONUNG FIELD DAY. On Saturday. the 25th July. a grand field day will be held at Sheffield Park, by invitation of the Right ...
... After an interval of two years Hillbro ok-road Senior Firls' School have regained the stoolba!l championship of London. Here is the team (left to right) : in front, Peggy Foster, Pegay Godbold; seated, Betty Thurston, Rosemarie Estgate, Lilian Robinson ...
... LLOYD AND SON'S PRICE LIST OF TEE FOLLOWING GAMES, &c., IS NOW READY:— CLIC-JUSTIN°. LAWN TENNIS. FISH' SG TACKLE. STOOLBALL FOOTBALL GOLF. All Clubs should see this List before ordering eleembere. Reduced Mem All goods In mock to select from LIST GRATIS ...
... Mr. W. W. Grantham, K.C., captained the AMen of Sussex in a game of stoolball with the Sussex Downsmen at Chailey Common. LEAPS FROM BLAZING STEAMER. PASSENGERS BURNED TO DEATH. BALTIMORE (U.S.A.), July 5. The steamer Three Rivers, with 350 passengers ...
... very high With girls at stoolball plays. H errick pleads , Lucia, let us play for ugar cakes and wine, and D'Urfey suggests an even more pleasant prize : All the lads and lasses met to be rnerrv, A match fol' kisses at stoolball to pia/ The upturned stool ...
... cricket, and also the ancient English game of stoolball, played by farm hands in the fifteenth century, with the players in costumes of the period, stools for wickets,” and the ball originally made of straw. Stool-ball was very popular, especially in Sussex ...
... her fattier, Mr. W. W. Grantham, K.C., keeps wicket, before a stoolball match yesterday. JAPANESE AT STOOLBALL.—Japanese at their Embassy in London have taken up the old game of stoolball, and are here playing Mr. Grantham's team in London. ...
... unstinted support. The office is at 164, Shaftesbury Avenue, London, W.C. 2. The Ancient Game of Stoolball \\/e have received an interesting pamphlet, Stoolball Illustrated and How to Play it (Speaight), by W. W. Grantham, describing this old English ball ...
... division. I think we'll children. be able to keep that Silver I'm fed-up with stoolball. Rose Bowl, all right. I hear nothing but stoolball in this store. I'm becoming a stoolball widower. A LL over Sussex, they in* tend to make that, prophecy come true ...
... side if they wore gloves, played fives. One 15th-century name for stoolball wa hand in and hand out. The ball was, as now, a leather sphere stuffed with leather. (In modern stoolball, it is merely a larger edition- not quite cricket-ball size, but 7 ...