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 84
t the cork goes BEAN BAGS 75 BELL AND HAMMER foremost, for the same reason that avane points toward the directionfrom which the wind is blowing.The Germans call this game Feder-ball (Featherball). As they play it,he who lets the Shuttlecock fall losesa point, and when thirty points havebeen lost… … Battledores and Shuttelcocks. feet. Badminton, a game playedalso with Battledores and a Shuttle-cock, is noticed at the end of thearticle on lawn tennis. History. The game was playedat least 500 years ago. In the 17thcentury it was a fashionable game.In a comedy printed in 1609 occurthe words, To…
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