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<p>From Gomme, 1898, page 217:</p> <p>"Mr. Kinahan, who describes this game, adds a very instructive note, which is worth quoting.</p> <p>'These games I have seen played over half a century ago [earlier than 1850, if he supplied this text to Gomme in the 1890s], with a lob-stick, but of later years with a ball, long before a crlcket club existed, in Trinity College, Dublin, and when the game [cricket, presumably?] was unknown in a great part of Ireland. At the same time, they may have been introduced by some of the earlier settlers, and afterward degenerated into the games listed above; but I would be inclined to suspect that the Irish are the primitive games, they having since been improved into cricket. At the present day these games nearly everywhere are succeeded by cricket, but often of a very primitive form, the wickets being stones set on end, or a pillar of stones; while the ball is often wooden, and very rudely formed.'"</p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p>
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