this section appeared in the early Yardline publications.
Just some of the entries that caught my attention…
…….. that it is a tradition of the game that the lower handicapped player tosses the coin at the beginning of the game.
……. that Ray BAKER of the Hollywood club was the first man to play in a Western Australian team. That was in 1964!
……… in the 60s, Floreat Park Club asked if they could revert to chalk lines instead of string as one of their ladies had a fall at Victoria Park. Council decided against it – saying that is was carelessness!
….. what a Riggall is? To Riggall someone is to peg them out or to Riggall one off is to peg-out ones own ball. Named after Leslie Riggall, a late South African who wrote on the disadvantages of pegging-out one ball when its partner ball has not yet finished the course of hoops
