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... to cecido Mr. Hutchinson starts a specula- tiot -o the effect that but for gutta-percha ir.f.ight be as dead a game as stool-ball no knurr-and-spell. The game has how- ever, established itself in England with every -cnis' of remaining-; and the fact ...
... 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 ...
... course lost in obscurity. ' Asl a fzar as wve can ascertain, says the writer of this paper,| >; ricktwasevolved out of stool-ball and tip-ret; froma the former we have the custom of* bowling the ball to theE |striker, from the latter we borrow that part ...
... Early forms of cricket in some of the old English t games known by such names as club ball, handyn and I handouts, stool-ball and Cat and Dog, and in these he thinks there is suffioient proof that cricket existed long before the Revolution, although ...
... of stool bell, ?? cat closely resembled eaun other, and may be consicered to be ?? same game, slig~stly variad in formn Stool-bal, which wa generally played by yeung wcmen in tbe country, is gone out; the others are still extaut. Cat is the ?? street ...
... hand, if I could believe that I had a son that would ever do as much for me. Those I have are good for naught but golf and stool-ball. Wherein by his hasty words be did his honest, silly lads much wrong. CHAPTER XVI. GREYBEARDs AND DIMPLE CHINS ONE Sabbath ...
... ihe ArAt Journal. CRICKET AND ITS FoR eNERS.-Now, as fat as we can ascertain, cricket seems to have bsou evolves olt of stool-ball, aud tip-cat, or, as it was catied, c5 and dog. From stool-hall wlas borrowed the prisnitlv wicket-a stool, or cricket-wbich ...
... thtus there were3 bride-ales, clerk-ales, give-ales, lamb-ales, Icet-ales, Mlidstim- moe-ales, Scot-ales, and several more. Stool-ball andi barley- break were, also, Whitsun sports: in 11ancient tymes, too, Whitsun plays were acted: at Chester, thley were ...