This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1908 Excerpt: ... now happily repressed. We must forbear to touch further on this subject, however, for it is with the implement of play rather than the play itself that we deal. Tip-cat, though not exactly a ball game, is played in a way so resembling the ball games we have been Balls, describing, that we must include it in this ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1908 Excerpt: ... now happily repressed. We must forbear to touch further on this subject, however, for it is with the implement of play rather than the play itself that we deal. Tip-cat, though not exactly a ball game, is played in a way so resembling the ball games we have been Balls, describing, that we must include it in this chapter. Two Ball-play, figures of children engaged in this pastime are frequently and other' represented in the woodcut initial letters used in some Games. of the smaller books which were issued from the Gioldo press at Venice during the first half of the sixteenth century. Like hop-scotch, or Scotch hoppers, as the old name reads, tip-cat is played by native children in India, where it was introduced by the Portuguese. The stick or cudgel held in the hand of the child is used to strike one end of the shuttle-shaped "cat," which is about six inches in length; this causes it to rise into the air with a rotatory motion; it is then beaten away by the stick. Sometimes a ring is drawn upon the ground and players measure the distance with the eye; sometimes a more elaborate game with several holes, each occupied by a player with his cudgel, is played. The game of marbles was originally played with nuts, small stones, or spheres of pottery; these latter have been excavated with other toys of antiquity. Taw, the best-known form of the game, can be played by any number of boys who aim at marbles placed within a ring, using other marbles as ammunition, and shooting with the fingers, the thumb being the ejector; he who succeeds in beating most of his opponents out of the ring is the conqueror. There are many other variants of the game, "nine-holes" and "hit" and "span" being the best known. Span and counter is a game l...
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