Games And Sports: Being An Appendix to Manly Exercises And Exercises for ...
Games And Sports: Being An Appendix to Manly Exercises And Exercises for ...
Donald Walker
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d by Google ARCHERY. 209 Those who wish to know more of archery, may refer to "The Archer's Guide/' published by Mr. Hurst, of St. Paul's Church Yard. To that work, to Mr. Waring's excellent Treatise on Archery, to Moseley's Essay, and to Roberts's Bowman, I am here chiefly indebted. N. B. — Bows, arrows, and every article necessary in the practice of archery may best be had at Mr. Waring's Archery Ware-room, Caroline-street, Bedford-square. t2 d by Google 210 {Those depending on Direction and ...Speed,) HURLING. Hurling was played by the Romans with a ball called harpastum, a word probably derived from harpago, to snatch or take by violence. The contending parties endeavoured to force the ball from each other, and they who could retain It long enough to cast it beyond an appointed boundary were the conquerors. The inhabitants of the western counties of England have long been famous for their skill in the practice of this pastime. Its modern name is derived from hurling a ball of wood about three inches in diameter, plated with silver, sometimes gilt, and having commonly a motto, " Fair play is good play." There were two methods of hurling in Cornwall, at the commencement of the seventeenth century, d by Google HURLING.
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