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The Public School Word-book

John Stephen Farmer

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Book Excerpt: 
. . .Stonyhurst: obsolete).—A kind of HANDBALL (q.v.) once very popular.

1887. Stonyhurst Mag., July, p. 18, “Stonyhurst in the Fifties.” Second bounce, a variety of handball played with small balls most artistically made of strips of indiarubber, and covered with the best kid-leather. These balls had to be taken to pieces and remade after every match, and they had to be quite freshly made when used. Their seams required to be frequently rubbed over with wax, some of which was always smeared on the handball wall for the purpose. For a game of SECOND BOUNCE a whole side of one of the big handballs was required, and it was played by eight players, four a side. The “over-all” of ordinary handball was the “over line,” and the bulk of the players stood out yards beyond it. He whose “hand” it was bounced the ball, and with a long strong swing of his arm hit it up against the wall, whence with a sharp smack i. . . Read More