The young folk's cyclopædia of games and sports ; (1899)
Champlin, John Denison, 1834-1915, Bostwick, Arthur Elmore, 1860-1942, joint author · New York, H. Holt and company · leaf 60
Egyptian Ball. of carrying it within their own. TheGreek epikoinos (common ball) wasof this class, as are the modern Hurl-ing and FOOT-BALL. The former,which is an Irish sport, consists intrying to carry by hand a large ballacross the opposite boundary, which … Roman Ball. may be distant by several rmles. Thestruggle for possession of the ball isoften severe and the game is veryrough. No ball game played with astick, like HOCKEY, polo, or CRO-QUET, was known in Ancient Greece or Rome, and this kind of gameseems to have originated in the East.The bat and…
Games · Sports · Card games
Internet Archive · Library of Congress · Public Domain Mark 1.0. Free to use for anything.
