So thickly massed were the men who snatched at the cable, and so eagerly did they grab for it, that the simile of a hot handball scrimmage flashed into my thoughts.

The Van Court scientific handball course.

Handball players.

The Van Court scientific handball course.

Handball players.

Lawn-tennis, cricket, and golf we play, and play well; to rowing many of us are enthusiastically devoted; and at handball our young menand some not so youngare signally expert.

The champion handball player has always been of Irish blood.