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From: Luc Hellinckx <luc.hellinckx at gmail.com>
Subject: LL-L "Games"

One game of chance that used to be played around here for gambling purposes
until the middle of the 20th century was "Anker en Zon" (Crown and Anchor in
English). Illegal nowadays, but apparently some variations of the game
(chuck-a-luck in the US, hoo hey how in China, bau cua ca cop in Vietnam)
still survive.

Kind greetings,

Luc Hellinckx

PS: Pigeon racing still happens, but is not as popular as it used to be (
http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duivensport). I was once told that the best
pigeons are sold for an awful lot of money to the Japanese.

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From: Mark Dreyer <mrdreyer at lantic.net>
Subject: LL-L "Games" 2008.04.18 (01) [E]

Dear Elsie, Roger,

Subject: LL-L "Games"

Hey, Elsie, 'Vyf van die Beste' seems to have been par for the course round
here for stopping at a cock-fight, not so much for the cruelty to the birds
though that was always a consideration, as the vicious ways of the people
that indulged & betted at these occasions. You seriously didn't want your
sons to keep that kind of company (I don't say the cock-fighting fraternity
is viscious across the board, only that it was certainly the case here).

In Pretoria it was on the west side of town in my Father's day. When he was
a prefect in High-school he had occasionally to be sent to round up truants,
among them sons of the highest in the land, at just such celebrations. In
the old days discipline was largely left in the hands of the senior
scholars. They seem to have managed it better.

I missed out on this sort of opportunity, having brought up in the Outer
Reaches of Darkest Rust der Winter, between the Springbokvlaktes &
Jakkalsdraai. My father however grew up on Garsfontein outside
Pretoria, riding distance from Town.

Ron, we were a country with vast distances & a well established & serviced
rail-system. Every week you could rail your 'krat' of 'duiwe' to the
uttermost reaches of the country with a note to the local stationmaster to
release the pigeons on arrival & telegram you. It was justabout the
definitive pastime of every railway employee, so you got comradely concern &
interest in the result. It was also practically the only common interest
of all classes of English & Afrikaner, rustic & urbanite. I think it was
the Cornishmen that came to our gold-mines who brought the sport - in
contrast with cock-fighting, a gentlemanly, humane & amiable pursuit. Our
Afrikaans agricultural journal the 'Landbou Weekblad' & Radio Pretoria
too regularly devotes ample space to the sport. Pigeons had (for all I know
still have) the same domestic status as dogs & horses. Only unregenerate
parvenus would stoop to eating the noble bird. Don't you have chickens?

Yrs,
Mark

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