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L O W L A N D S - L * 23 June 2006 * Volume 03
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From: 'Mark Dreyer' <mrdreyer at lantic.net> 
Subject: LL-L 'Sports' 2006.06.23 (01] [E]

Dear Theo, Ron & All

Subject: LL-L 'Sports'

Folks,

I now seem to remember vaguely that in one version of the game, until the
opponent catches the flung pointed stick (or "missile"), the flinger has to
run
up and down a certain area, the runs being counted. So in this regard it's
similar to cricket, baseball, softball, etc.

> I really have to rummage in the farthest recesses of
> my mind to remember
> this game. You use a short stick that is pointed at
> both ends. You lay
> it across another stick (of any length) on the
> ground. Underneath the
> raised shorter pointed end there must be a slight
> dip in the ground.
> With another stick you hit the raised shorter end of
> the pointed stick
> and thus cause the stick to be flung. The farther
> you cause it to be
> flung the better off you are in the game.

This game was called 'Kennitjie' in my early school-days, it was an
Afrikaans game. Even the English boys played it in Afrikaans. It is not a
game for wusses. I recall it was banned, when after some really close
fielding the 'tolling' 'stokkie' took a boy's eye out. We carried on
playing, though, on the far side of the latrine block, with one man picked
for lookout. Only we did thereafter put a moritorium on a certain
'toertjie' - & close fielding.

Yrs,
Mark

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From: Sandy Fleming <sandy at scotstext.org> 
Subject: LL-L 'Sports' 2006.06.23 (01] [E]

>From: Wesley Parish <wes.parish at paradise.net.nz>
>Subject: LL-L 'Sports' 2006.06.22 (02 [E]
>
>distribute your players marking man-to-man with the opponents' players. And
>you don't have an off-side rule, either, so you can get things done, instead
>of having the inevitable and invariable stop-work meetings Rugby players and
>American Football payers contend with. Another major difference is that you
>
This is true of Rugby Union rather than Rugby League, which is a form of
the game played mainly in "the North" of England. As a Rugby Union
player I was always knackered (sporting term) after a game of Rugby
League - they just have to keep going for a solid 90 minutes or whatever
it is. Of course, people who follow Rugby Union will say that these
frequent breaks for tea and crumpets are necessary because the sport is
so hard it would be impossible to play for 90 minutes solid. Muckle jessies!

I've played a lot of sports, but I find it extremely boring to watch
sports being played, though sometimes if friends are playing I'll watch.
The only football (aka soccer) I follow is the Gothic United vs Whitby
Albion match which occurs twice a year (I always forget the scores but I
believe the goths won last year for the first time), and I did go to see
the Bristol Deaf vs Taunton Police match last year, but didn't see
anything because I spent the whole time signing to people (I was told it
was 1-0 to the Police). I've only played the game once, in goal, for our
village in Scotland. We won, but I think the fact that the other team
didn't turn up may have influenced the result. I have submitted a team
for our workplace's World Cup Fantasy Football this year, though only
because I thought "Ferranti Undead" might win in the Most Imaginative
Team Name category, not that I've any hope of actually managing the team
properly. I worked for Ferranti for 17 years (I think) before it went
toes up, but I suppose nobody down here will realise that Ferranti
United were a big team in Scotland at one time, and are now called
Meadowbank Thistle.

My favourite sport (to play, of course) is field hockey - it's fast and
there's a lot of technique. Apart from the stick, the main difference
from soccer is the rule that you can only score from within the D (the
semicircle centred on the goalnet), which I thought made for a much
better game, as it meant that you had to get the ball down the field
first, but as soon as it crossed the D the stakes were suddenly raised
and everything got "very exciting" as they say in the States. There was
talk of abolishing this rule, but I don't know if they did. That would
seem to me like the stupid "opening in an envelope" rule that plagues
draughts (aka checkers) - rules being changed not to make a better game
but to please those who don't appreciate the game properly by jazzing it
up a bit. Of course we know that a thousand years from now baseball will
have suffered so much from this that they'll have to change the name to
blernsball.

Now that I'm getting older of course I've had to take up gentler
pastimes, so today I went down to Exeter and bought a mountain unicycle.
It's almost ten years since I've unicycled, so I'm hoping it's just like
riding a bike.

Sandy Fleming
http://scotstext.org/

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From: 'Stellingwerfs Eigen' <info at stellingwerfs-eigen.nl> 
Subject: LL-L 'Sports'

Ron wrote:
> In prehistoric times, when I was a kid, there was this game/sport we
called
> _Kippelkappel_. I once asked about it, being curious as to how far into
the
> Lowlands (and into time) it extends. So far I got a response from Theo
(in whose
> neck of the woodsit is/was called _pinkelen_). Anyone else?

Never heard about the name kippelkappel but _pinkelen_ is also known as
katrieken, piggy, tip cat, cat raeken and in Stellingwarf we call it
_tiepelen_. If it is played from freehand (not from a slice the ground) than
it is called _rosteren_. It also seems to be played in Indonesia and
Ireland(?). You can play it at your own (only the distance is important
than) or with a whole bunch. You can draw a playingarea where the _pengel_
(or tiepel or roster) has to drop down after you hit him with a
_pengelstok_. If you play with more, than one is the player (tiepelder) and
the other(s/)one has to catch the pengel in that area. If the fieldman
(catcher) catches the pengel or if the pengel is hit out of bounds then the
catcher and the player (tiepelder) change their places, or count a point and
change after f.i. 10 points. You can hit the pengel from a slight dip in the
ground (et tiepelgat) or use two stones or just another two short sticks to
address the pengel on. The pengel is appr. 12, the pengelstok (stick) about
80 centimetres. A roster is a bit longer as a pengel, appr. 25 cm. Both,
pengel and pengelstok are made of wood (mostly just for that game, cut off
from a tree nearby).

It's all written down in our Stellingwarfs Woordeboek:
pengelstok = stokje waarmee men een kleiner houtje, de pengel, wegwerpt bij
het tiepelen
potties = the first fase in a tiepelgame (address the pengel or tiepel
across the dip in the ground)
roster = a short stick (ca. 25 cm) used for freehand tiepelen
rosterties = second fase (toss and hit de roster with the tiepelstok)
rosteren = do the second fase
appeltsje-poep-in-'t-hemd (!?!) = third fase in a tiepelgame (the flight and
drop or catch)

Mit een vrundelike groet uut een 'tiepelzinnig' Stellingwarf,
Piet Bult

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