No. 136 Hockey
This sport is also called Shinny. The ball is struck on the ground with a bent stick, the object being to drive it over the enemy’s line. The game is much played on the ice, as has been the case from the oldest times in the North; for this is doubtless a descendant of the games with bat and ball described in Icelandic Sagas. The name of “Bat and Ball,” also given to this sport, indicates that in many districts this was the usual way of playing ball with the bat.