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... Revival of the Ancient Game of Stoolball A wild, mad game, was how Mr Justice Charles described the ancient game of stoolball a week ago. But in a few days he has become so captivated bv the game that he has consented to become vice-president of the ...
... After adjudication at Deal Quarter Sessions yesterday Justice W. W. Craneham. K.C.. revived the ancient game stoolball by playing a match in the Victoria Park, Deal, between teams representing the Law, captained himself, and tho Mayor and Corporation ...
... interest was aroused by a photograph in recent issue showing Morgan Academy girls playing stoolball, a game new to the district. It is a little early to say whether stoolball has any real chance of becoming popular in Dundee, for it has many well established ...
... many 12-sided Shreepenny pieces have been struck this \ year I 2—Who was Tusitala? here the widgeon found 4—Of what game is stoolball the f ancestor ? Mars ''° ng * year 0n 'SSdr DundBe ratj squ « on paga S.) ...
... games. Stoolball still has one or two adherents in the country, but it is recognised now as being merely a matter of historic interest, for who would be tempted to play stoolball when he can play cricket? We still have, of course traces of stoolball in our ...
... cricketer's garb aiight afford an interesting subject for the historian of costume. One of the earliest pictures of players at stoolball (aboriginal cricket) we possess in a fourteenth century manuscript in the Bodelian—-depicts them in cowls like monks—as perhaps ...
... afterwards given tea in the riding School. Cigarettes from Princess Mary were handed round, and afterwards concert was given. Stoolball, cricket, and other games were played, and boats were taken on to the lake. To-day ISO wounded men will given an afternoon ...
... for it cays as far as we can erems to have b-en evolved cat of stool-ball, cat, or, as it was called, cat From: rend wes borrowed the on the ericket—which gave its name tc time. From stool-ball, too, we have the c OF i most and dog we borrow that part of ...
... minded Saxon youths amused themselves vvith various games vaguely suggestive of the first principles of cricket, such as stool-ball and club-ball, while irreverent antiquaries have dared to hint that the world-famed pastime is mere development of tip-cat ...
... Bourchier as Cricketer. A New-Old Sport. If you had a-kccl ten day- ago the words stool-ball conveyed to me. should have asked if wasn’t some English village game, supposed to be an ancestor of cr oket. but as dead ancestor- usually arc. The National ...
... Pyeroft, Lillywhite's Scores and Biographies, Bolland's Cricket Notes, and other authorities. 44 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 ...
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