Show and curling the game that was for a long time furtively indulged in here by a few braw laddies has been placed on a substantial footing with numerous well organized teams and well contested tournaments handball has been wrested from the monopoly of a few professionals and today a handball court is a popular feature of every well equipped athletic club discus throwing that the grecian youths excelled in at the olympian games has recently become a regularly scheduled feature of all big athletic meetings more recently the royal and ancient game of golf has been transplanted from the hills of scotland but hurling is far more ancient than any of these the scotchman proud of the antiquity of golf points to the time stained documents carefully preserved in edinburgh showing that as early as 1457 the game was distracting the attention of the scottish youth from more serious things and to this day hurling has continued through all tho centuries the popular game of the irish people brooklyn eagle |