... REVIVAL OF STOOLBALL. A worker on Mrs. Harrison Bell's poultry farm at Welwyn, Herta, making friends with four champion birds. Photopress. Stoolball, the forerunner of cricket, is rapidly returning to popularity. In Sussex Mr. Benjamiu Hallam, aged 96 ...

... W 0 ibIIALL. Stoolball is a seep old game which has this merit about it -that eterytiod es envier in it. even those !to more or les. disabled or who ,re too old for footh il l, lard rrieket. Moir 'ter. ali e n the la.l ro.etioned pastime.. are inconrenient ...

... districts, are given instruction in sport on a playing field instead of unexciting physical exercities in a school yard. Stool-ball. tennis and basket-ball, for girls ; cricket for bop. Plenty of comfortable seats should he provided for elderly folk, who ...

... and only woman to swim from England to Prance? 7. What name do we give the game known Ls • Clubball. Cat and dog and Stool-ball' in tyegone days? 8. Who was the utsn to nold the heavyweight boxing championship of the world for the longest time? 9. ...

... H. C. Milner. On the girls' side tho winners are the Red House (Capt., Eileen Deasy). Tho competitions include,' hockey, stoolball, netball, captain ball, tennis, agility exercises, relay races. swimming. The football, cricket and hockey tea ms played ...

... have this sport :surviving as tossing the caber at the Highland Games.) There were people applauding a vigorous game of stoolball. And all about was fun and frolic. It was healthy enough and harmless enough. goodness knows, but the Governor's face was ...

... Boys 440 Yards Handicap.—lst, T. James; 2nd. E. George . Girls' and Sloon Race.—let, 0. Jones; and. E. Wheatcroft. Throwing Stoolball (Girls).—lst, S. Davies; and. M. Edwards. Boy,' 110 Yards Scratch.-Ist, W. Forward; and. G. Watkins. Girls' Freak Race.—lot ...

... rprcu reporter visited the park, he found over 350 children playing various which included football, netball, rounders ' stoolball, padda-tennis, volley ball and tentkort. The children take part in any type ' of game they wish, and as they are split up ...

... which category the game was placed!). It is supposed that the modern form of the game traces its ancestry back to club-ball, stool-ball tar cat-and-dog, the Scotch favourite in the sevenmend' century. Some contend that ' the name originated in the Anglo Saxon ...

... B. Jones and E. Morgan, M. Lewis . rind 0. Lewis. , Goal-shooting, girls, senior: Betty !Lewis, M. Lewis, A. Edwards. [Stoolball—Bowling for Girls: Dead heat M. Smith and E. Morgan, M. Davies, D. Bird. Obstacle Cycle. Boys in Fancy Dress : J. lnittwell ...

... Fields wrestling went on every evening in summer. Tothill fields were visited by those who wished to practise the longbow and stool-ball ; bear and bull-baiting went on in other parts of the city. ...

... Scotland football is still known as kicking-camp. Was not cricket in Vlicabethan times, known as camp-ball du well as stoolball ? In any case, the name remained down to quite recent times. It certainly existed in 1b54. Queen-street is the most modern ...