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Updated: May 20, 2025
Football, baseball, shinney, circus, things like that." "I don't mean sports, Miss Crown. I was thinking of those wonderful boy and girl games, such as 'playing house, 'getting married, 'hide-and-go-seek, all that sort of thing." "Yes, I know," she admitted.
The name "bandy" is sometimes applied also to shinney or shinty and in England it is also applied to our American game of ice hockey. The national game of America. The positions are pitcher, catcher, first base, second base, third base, shortstop, right-field, left-field, centre-field. The first six positions are called the in-field, and the last three, the out-field.
"Have you ever heard of Tommy Collingwood?" "Wasn't he baseball captain a good many years ago?" "Yes, and used to row in the boat. Well, Tommy was a good deal better at spinning top on Academy steps than doing lessons, and a deal fonder of playing shinney than writing letters.
The game of shinney or "bandy" as it is called in England has been modified in this country by substituting a flat piece of rubber weighing a pound called a "puck" for the india rubber lacrosse ball, which weighs but four ounces. The best hockey sticks are made of Canadian rock elm.
I visited the old church; but the good Rector was gathered to his fathers. It was all a day-dream; it was like going back to a former incarnation. Along the road on my way home I discovered the most intimate friend of my boyhood the boy with whom I had gathered faggots, played "shinney" and gone bird-nesting. He was "nappin'" stones.
She could spin tops, play “cat” and “shinney” as well as any of the boys. And as for jumping rope—if two little girls would swing for her, Rosie could actually waltz in the rope. The strangest thing about Rosie was that she did not always go to school like the other children. The incident of the dog happened on Thursday.
Hockey is usually played on the ice by players on skates, although, like the old game of shinney, it may be played on any level piece of ground. The hockey stick is a curved piece of Canadian rock elm with a flat blade. Instead of a ball the modern game of ice hockey is played with a rubber disk called a "puck."
Lawn hockey is an excellent game and is really the old game of "shinney" or "shinty" played scientifically and with definite rules. From a stout pole which is firmly fixed in the ground a heavy ball is suspended by means of a rope fastened to the top of the pole. Two flat pieces of stone or concrete are placed on opposite sides of the pole.
Horace was not strong enough to play baseball, and his mamma had forbidden him to play shinney, so he always stayed with the girls at recess, which was often very inconvenient when Elizabeth and Rosie wanted to teeter by themselves or stay indoors and tell secrets. Then, too, John and the Pretender teased her unmercifully. They called her beau "Booby" Oliver and said he should have been a girl.
"At early sunrise he arrived there and peeked down into their house, which was like a big kiva, and there were the two boys playing shinney. "The grandmother received the man kindly and told the rough, unruly boys to stop their playing and be quiet. But they don't stop their playing, so she picked up a big stick and hit the boys a good lick across the legs.
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