Lacrosse.
This ganie being now taken up all round the colony a description as to how it is played may be useful, especially if it supplants football. It is a game of ball played by two parties of players, twelve on each side, on a level plot of ground, at each end of which is a goal through which the players strive to hurl the ball., The ball may not be touched by the hand, but is carried in a lacrosse-stick which each player has, and with which he' throws the ball toward the opponents' goal, or passes it to one of his own side when he is on the point of being caught. The side which succeeds in making the -most goals within a certain time wins. The game is of Italian origin, and is much played in Canada. In Palmerston a club has just been formed, the fee for membership of which is only five shillings, and the la-croase-sticks cost about eight or nine shillings.
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Manawatu Herald, 14 April 1898, Page 3
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167Lacrosse. Manawatu Herald, 14 April 1898, Page 3
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