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... STOOLBALL There been revival of the old game of Stoolball, which is mentioned by Herrick the Jacobean poet; At Stoolball, Lucia, let us play, For sugar cakes and wine; Or for a tansle let us pay, The losse or thine, or mine. In Sussex the ancient game ...
... STOOLBALL An Old Game Again Coming Into Fashion, ...
... SCHOOLGIRLS’ STOOLBALL Lockwood C. of E. School again met Beaumont Street Senior Girls’ School at Moorend last evening in the final of the Schools’ Stoolhall’ Competition. Lockwood have been unsuccessful against them in many previous finals, , Beaumoent ...
... STOOLBALL REVIVED. Stoolball was revived in London at Lord's on Friday after an interval of about 200 years. It was played by wound id convalescent soldiers and a team of lawyers damaged age. The game the parent of cricket, but the bowler between the ...
... STOOLBALL EXPERT Mr. W. W. Grantham, K.C., who has just been appointed a Deputy-Lieutenant Of the City of London, is an authority on stoolball, a game which but for his energy and interest would have died out long ago ¢« Onlooker ”’ remarks in “The Daily ...
... ?STOOLBALL* AT LORD'S. An interesting experiment was tried Lord's yesterday afternoon, a match at the old game of stoolball being piayed. It is stated that the game bad probably not been seen In London for two hundred years. The match was got Major ...
... WOMEN STOOLBALL. Ye ancient game of stooiball is the most popular woman's game in Sussex today, following an enthusiastic revival a few years ago achieved mainly through the energies of Mr. W. W. Grantham, of ...
... ROTHER VALLEY STOOLBALL At Tbrybergh yesterday, Thrybergh Senior Mixed Girls beat Sunnyside Council Girls by 78 rone 57. For Ihrybergh Stamps 26 not oni. Addy 21; lor Sunnyside. E Holme? 13. ...
... Stool-Ball Revival. Can it that the erase for snorts creating its own reaction? Certainly it is curious that stool-ball, which the modern generation might have been expected to regard as dull, spreading rapidly.in popularity in the South. The exertions ...
... Cricket is merely an off-shoot of stoolball. a stoolball expert explained to-day. Stoolball was reterred to in the Domesday Book and it was certainly played in England more than 400 years ago Cricket grew out of stoolball and has now become rather like ...
... level. The two wickets sixteen yards apart. Modern stoolball rules clos* those of cricket. All bowling, underhand and full pitch, with to over. The bowling between tho wickets and Only apart. ~ Stoolball admirably lends itflPvj by either sex on village ...
... “At stoolball, Lucis, let us play, ~ For lu?rv-oaku or wine, Or for » Tansy let us pay.” The tansy referred to in the above “old lines™ was a cake flavoured with tansy. s bitter aromatic plant with small yellow flowers, that was made and eaten at Easter ...