Something Positive: Forgotten Centuries-Old Ball Game Making a Surprise Comeback After 50 years | An Encouraging Development

Something Positive: Forgotten Centuries-Old Ball Game Making a Surprise Comeback After 50 years | An Encouraging Development

Why this story matters: Behind the headlines, stories like this show how real-world solutions are taking shape. Quick summary: This story highlights recent developments related to leisure, showing how constructive action can lead to meaningful results. – credit, Iconic Media, via SWNS A long-lost sport once feared dead is being dusted off and played again in the villages where it was born. “Knurr-and-spell” was once played widely in pubs across England’s South Yorkshire, but had all but vanished by the 1970s. The quirky ball game which bears a similarity to golf sees players hit a clay ball with a specially fashioned stick. The winner is the person who can hit the ball—called the knurr or “pottie”—the farthest. The knurr sits on a stressed iron rod, which is triggered like a catapult by a quick tap of the player’s stick to throw the ball up in the air, at which point the player takes a swing at it. Would you like to read more good news about Leisure , Golf , Fun , Sports , Britain , and Uk ? Boz …