This absurd rule has been promptly discarded by the English Lacrosse Clubs, and should certainly be modified in Canada also.
Lacrosse, perhaps the most perspicuous and fascinating of all games to the impartial spectator, is, of course, chiefly played in Canada, but there is a Lacrosse League in the Atlantic cities of the United States.
Beers, a prominent player, suggested that Lacrosse should be recognized as the national game, and the National Lacrosse Association of Canada was formed.
See the official publications of the English Lacrosse Union; andLacrosse by W.
For this purpose a grand Lacrosse match was organized at each post, and the officers of the garrison invited to become participators in the game.
Pontiac and his attendant chiefs had, while the warriors and braves were engaged in the game of Lacrosse on the common, sought an audience of the governor of the fort.
I'm captain of the lacrosse team in the junior league.
Our lacrosseteam won the trophy in two consecutive years.
In the afternoon a visit was paid to the Lacrosse match between the Cornwalls and Ottawas and at night a state dinner was held at Government House.
At Cornwall, which was reached on the morning of October 16th, there were some four thousand people at the station, and Mayor Campbell presented the Duke and Duchess with a complete set of lacrosse sticks for the Royal children.
When the victorious lacrosse team came down the street, they were followed by a madly cheering throng.
I've been at every race that I ever was near enough to go to, or lacrosse match or baseball match, or anything.
THE great event of the Pioneers' Picnic was the lacrosse match between Millford and Hillsboro.
Everybody felt that the real business of the day had begun when the two lacrosse teams drew up on the field.
Even the lacrosse game was not a strong enough attraction to draw away all the crowd; the products of Walker and Seagram still held their own.
A cheer from the lacrossegrounds came like a voice from another world; the world of life and pleasure and action.
The game of shinney or "bandy" as it is called in England has been modified in this country by substituting a flat piece of rubber weighing a pound called a "puck" for the india rubber lacrosse ball, which weighs but four ounces.
Lacrosse sticks cost from two to five dollars each and are made of hickory with rawhide strings.
The players strive to hurl the ball into their opponents' goal by means of a lacrosse stick or "crosse.
The lacrosse field is a level piece of ground with net or wire goals at each end.
The usual uniform for lacrosse is a tight-fitting jersey and running trousers.
The netted rackets employed in the game of lacrosse were three and a half feet in length, straight at the handle but curved at the other end.
Hour after hour he would sit as an honoured spectator watching them play a hard-fought game of lacrosse that required fleetness of foot and straightness of limb.
The shape of the Indian lacrosse stick is shown in the sketch.
Lacrosse was an older game, and was confined entirely to the Sisseton and Santee Sioux.
South, who, with a lacrosse stick over his shoulder and an attire consisting wholly of a pair of flapping white trunks, a faded green shirt, and a pair of canvas shoes, had come out to join the lacrosse candidates.
The sticks used by the Sioux women were about like the ordinarylacrosse stick, only a foot longer and with twice as large a pocket.
It was really the original Indian game of lacrosse played in birch-bark canoes, and might be christened "water lacrosse" or "canoe ball.
Boys who have been accustomed to handle lacrosse and hockey sticks, develop arm and shoulder muscles that make the carrying and use of the rifle easy.
Did yer see the lacrosse match between the Easts and the Stars on Saturday?
Them lacrosse fellers is just attendin' strictly to business same as if there wasn't anybody in the whole province of Ontario but them.
Some one struck at him with a lacrosse stick, and then-- He found himself running alone.
He didn't know, of course, that the final lacrosse match of the season was going to be played that afternoon.
Polite society, to return to it, preferred the alternative of staying at home and mowing the lawn or drinking raspberry vinegar on its own beflagged verandah; looking forward in the afternoon to the lacrosse match.
These fellows of yours--for I know this lacrosse team has been one of the many ways you took of sapping your energy--do not think.
They want avenues of self-expression, and in lacrosse and hockey they find it.
Hertzberg's demonstration that the Indian game of lacrosse is probably the Norse "knattleikr" (pp.
Illustration:The game of Lacrosseamong the Menomini Indians (after W.
To have these, they must take good care of their health, and good lacrosse players are careful seldom or never to touch tobacco or strong drink, nor to eat unwholesome food at unnatural hours.
Lacrosse is a good game, because it cultivates courage in a boy, knocks the timidity out of him, gives him confidence and pluck, and teaches him to govern his temper.
So you see when you play lacrosse you are playing a purely American game, and a historical game too.
Lacrosse is becoming very popular among the young men and lads of the United States, and very properly, too, for it is a fine game, and one that is thoroughly American.
Lacrosse is a simple game, and easy to understand.
The lacrosse match proceeded all the same, though M.
There was a lacrosse match at Montreal that September, the Indians of Brautford against the Indians of Caughnawaga, at which that section of the community interested in sport, and now returned from the regattas of the coast, mustered strong.
For only the summer before, Harry had taken a Canadian lacrosse team around the world and had vanquished everything in Europe, Asia and Africa that dared to hold up a stick against them.
Under my diligent coaching, in which, knowing nothing whatever of shinny, I have striven to introduce something of the lacrosse method, our team got into really decent fighting trim.
All he can do is to potter at his old Canuck sports of paddling a canoe and swinging a lacrosse stick.
In fact gossip at the capital frequently stated that His Lordship would rather witness a good lacrosse match than eat a good dinner.
Like lacrosse it was prescribed as a remedy for sickness or in consequence of dreams, and the sufferer in whose behalf the game was played was borne to the cabin in which it was to take place.
Wherever we find it and whatever the form in use, whether simple or complicated, like games of lacrosse and platter the occasion of its play was but an excuse for indulgence in the inveterate spirit of gambling which everywhere prevailed.
When the Orillia lacrosse team took their trip to Australia, they said on their return that lacrosse was spreading all over the world.
The longest throw of a lacrosse ball is that made by W.
There is a lacrosse match on; but I want to drive these nails first.
And the big brother, whom Bobby had served so willingly all day, shouldered his lacrosse stick and went off whistling.
Bobby bounded out to the back yard in high glee, waving the lacrosse stick.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "lacrosse" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: checkers; chess; game; sport
