The sports of the world, with illustrations from drawings and photographs . WfL. THE INTERNATIONAL MATCH AT BERLIN. BANDY. 2 39 shoot at him when he could not otherwise keepus from making goals? On another noted oc-casion two teams, by mistake, appeared to play,and G. W. -Meadow captained one Bury Fen team, Tebbutt got up another, and theydefeatedboth the visiting teams 01 Swavesey and Chatteris. In those good old days the young men of thevillage would as lief be without their bandy asan Irishman without his shillelagh ; and if thevillage carpenter came across an arm of a tree—ash prefe
The sports of the world, with illustrations from drawings and photographs . WfL. THE INTERNATIONAL MATCH AT BERLIN. BANDY. 2 39 shoot at him when he could not otherwise keepus from making goals? On another noted oc-casion two teams, by mistake, appeared to play,and G. W. -Meadow captained one Bury Fen team, Tebbutt got up another, and theydefeatedboth the visiting teams 01 Swavesey and Chatteris. In those good old days the young men of thevillage would as lief be without their bandy asan Irishman without his shillelagh ; and if thevillage carpenter came across an arm of a tree—ash preferred—bent to the right curve, hewould soon be pestered by buyers and critics,and during a long frost any stick with a pre-tence of a bend commanded a ready sale. When hockey or bandy-on-land became popularin the South, and a game of skill and under fixedrules, the players kept themselves fit during asevere frost by playing on the ice; then, underthe encouragement of one or two long frosts,matches were played, until in 1879 we find VirginiaWater the centre of play, and the
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