There's also that strange game played once a year in Stromness in the
Orkneys--can't remember what it's called. Takes a full year for the injured
to heal and the dead to be buried.
At 07:11 PM 4/7/2005, you wrote:
>This side of the Pond, we call baseball "rounders", and it's usually played
>on a sandy beach in the middle of a Scottish summer.
>
>On the other hand, ice shinty has possibly the highest death-rate of +any+
>sport ever created -- cross American football with shinty (Irish rules),
>soccer, rugby, girl's hockey, ice hockey, and crocket, and you're damn lucky
>if even fifty percent of a team survives to the end of a match.
>
> A singularly unforgiving game.
>
>Enid Blyton
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