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STOOL-BALL AT NORTH MOLTON

... STOOL-BALL AT NORTH MOLTON. h* The North Molton Circle of been responsible for introducing the the game of stool-ball, which has been Kent and Sussex for 150 years. A played at North Molton between a side lalned by Miss M. Bramwell and jgM lamed by Mr ...

Published: Thursday 01 July 1937
Newspaper: North Devon Journal
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 136 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

STOOLBALL INTRODUCED TO NORTH DEVON

... STOOLBALL INTRODUCED TO NORTH DEVON The North Molton Circle of Friendship has been responsible for introducing to the locality the game of stoolball, which has been played in Kent and Sussex for 150 years. A game was played at North Molton between side ...

Published: Friday 02 July 1937
Newspaper: Western Times
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 144 | Page: 15 | Tags: none

FLAY STOOLBALL AND KEEP FIT

... FLAY STOOLBALL AND KEEP FIT K.C.’S ADVICE TO YOUNG AND OLD wild, inrtd game,” was how Mr. Justice Charles described the ancient game of stoolball a week ago. .. . But a few days he has become so captivated by the game that he lias consented to become ...

Published: Tuesday 04 April 1939
Newspaper: Gloucester Citizen
County: Gloucestershire, England
Type: Article | Words: 463 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

CRICKET

... CRICKET STOOLBALL. Thai Stoolball some form another was the progenitor cricket is beyond doubt. The former is now sometimes called cricket in the air, as the ball is bowled, cot the ground, originally,, the stool, but at board a foot square, fixed to ...

Published: Saturday 21 April 1923
Newspaper: Exeter and Plymouth Gazette
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 129 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

GIRLS REVIVE OLD CAME

... GIRLS REVIVE OLD CAME Stoolball, which, it is claimed by physical culture experts, is the idea! game for women, ifi being taken up by women all over the country in large numbers. Many girls' schools ere including in their summer games instead of cricket ...

Published: Saturday 21 May 1932
Newspaper: Cheltenham Chronicle
County: Gloucestershire, England
Type: Article | Words: 156 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

BIQ HONOUR FOR WEST SWIMMINQ OFFICIAL

... youngest members of the team. Their ages are 33 and 15 respectively. Play Stoolball, and 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 by the game that ...

Published: Tuesday 04 April 1939
Newspaper: Bristol Evening Post
County: Bristol, England
Type: | Words: 903 | Page: 21 | Tags: none

TEST FEVER-THIS IS HOW IT ALL BEGAN

... TEST FEVER-THIS IS HOW IT ALL BEGAN Stoolball, a game formerly very popular in England and commonly considered as the ancester of cricket. Is still played at Longlcvens Secondary School. The «' batsman Is out the ball strikes the wicket board, or is ...

Published: Tuesday 27 July 1948
Newspaper: Gloucester Citizen
County: Gloucestershire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 61 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

THE ORIGIN OF CRICKET

... three wickets. Long Won they played cricket our forefathers playsd stool-ball. which. as Dr. Johnson explains. was a game in which a ball was driven from stool to stool. At first stool-ball seems to have played with the hand and with me bat; the ball wit ...

Published: Saturday 12 April 1902
Newspaper: Swindon Advertiser
County: Wiltshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 167 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

-EARLY ..CRlcKrr

... far back as the 17th century to mean a kind of low wooden stool. There is a theory that the game cricket developed from stoolball. a game played by women*in the 16th and 17 centuries. ...

TOC H CAMP FIRE

... Wednesday. The party arrived by cars and soon had the fire built ready for boiling water for tea. Then came an exciting game of stool-ball ...

Coventry's favourite spectacle, the Lady Godiva procession, was again carried out on Saturday along an ..

... historical characters represented, and also a r.umber of interesting tableaux illustrating local episodes The old Sussex game of stool-ball is finding favour in the adjoining county of Surrey, and several clubs have been formed. On baturday a match was played ...

Published: Tuesday 21 July 1914
Newspaper: Western Daily Press
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 329 | Page: 7 | Tags: none