cambuc

Updated: May 29, 2025

For many centuries no bat was known, but in those games requiring the ball to be struck, the hand alone was used. In France there was early played a species of hand-ball. To protect the hands thongs were sometimes bound about them, and this eventually furnished the idea of the racquet. Strutt thinks a bat was first used in golf, cambuc, or bandy ball.

John Montgomery Ward - Base-Ball : How to Become a Player, With the Origin, History and Explanation of the Game