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Message: Emoticon Listing HTML Help	[quote]It should be a worthy topic to stir up a few memories. To start things off, Stick n Peggy, Coppice Drive style. Get as many lads together as possible, the lasses were too genteel for street games. Two bricks, a tennis ball and stick for wellying the ball. You agreed the "batting order" and off you went. The idea was to place the bricks side by side so they supported the tennis ball with the stick between the bricks. The batter lifted the stick raising the ball and the ball was struck before reaching the ground. the batter then ran to a peg ( jumper/coat ) marker to score a run. If the ball was caught or reached the peg before the batter then the batter was out. The usual six and out in a garden rule applied to all. the winner was the one who scored the most runs.[/quote]
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philfred

Street Games
replied on: 5/9/2005 7:34:48 PM

It should be a worthy topic to stir up a few memories. To start things off, Stick n Peggy, Coppice Drive style.
Get as many lads together as possible, the lasses were too genteel for street games. Two bricks, a tennis ball and stick for wellying the ball. You agreed the "batting order" and off you went. The idea was to place the bricks side by side so they supported the tennis ball with the stick between the bricks. The batter lifted the stick raising the ball and the ball was struck before reaching the ground. the batter then ran to a peg ( jumper/coat ) marker to score a run. If the ball was caught or reached the peg before the batter then the batter was out. The usual six and out in a garden rule applied to all. the winner was the one who scored the most runs.

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