Only a few students of games have in a greater degree taken up the study of Battingball games

Only a few students of buy fifa 15 coins games have in a greater degree taken up the study of Battingball games and some are of opinion that these games are of compara- tively recent date. Nobody knew that such a game was played in Africa.

Now Professor Corrado Gini, chief of an Italian expedition for demo- graphic investigation in Libya, has brought to light a Berber Battingball-game, which proves that the games in question date a long way back.1 In the follow- ing paper I shall give a short account of these games specially as played in N. Europe, their home.

The implements used in the games in question are the bat and the ball (fig. 1). A bat may be simply a round stick, 30 to 115 cms. long, 2 to 6 cms. thick, but often flattened below the handle, and then as a rule broader there. Generally a curved bat is not used. It is held with one hand or with both.

The ball, now as a rule made of leather or rubber, has a size of 6 to 8 cms. Formerly a ball of woollen yarn was generally used or instead of that a billet or a “cat” (a double conical piece of wood) or a piece of horn.

Plain batting consists in cheap fifa 15 coins striking the ball with the bat, the ball being held in the left hand, then tossed into the air and struck with the bat when it is fall- ing, but before it reaches the ground, or, still more simply, the ball is struck at the moment the left hand leaves hold of it, as used also in Tipcat.2 In other cases a special player, the “pitcher” tosses the ball, the batsman only strikes at it. In others again the pitcher stands at a distance and throws the ball for bat- ting or to get it into a hole in the ground or to hit a goal which the batter has to defend.