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TUt CHILDREN PL^ljED Thjj> -6e.qu^nce cL^nXZcZe^ AeAu£te.d ^-n.om an i,nt2A.\jd,0M) Vougtcu> {UoJX, tko, conto^nt 0^ (A}ki(ik waJUL be pabtUhzd latoJi. He ^uAnd^he,d the. oA^cle. on Knobbd.eA, Vavd.d i^yition 60W aX and commented on Peggg - LofUch pMomptzd me to iaj^aXh on thu Catgahj^ ve.AAton. Tkun tt oc.cjjAA2.d to me tkat Ma. MacVougaLt'6 anttcte, might be avaltabta, M a /i2mM thoAQ, OJVL appoA-^nt c.ontAadlc.tloyu>, iMhlak 6ome. o{^ you may iA)lA>k to /Le6o^ve. WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO PEOGY •? By J. Inn2yi> MaaVougaZt R^-pAlnt^d ivlth peAjnli^lon {^Aom the. Bank o{^ B.C. "VlondOA Umi>" kpAlZ-Uay 19 S3 Whenever I see mothers dashing from arena to dancing school to playing fields with carloads and their own and the neighbour's children, or hear fathers bemoaning the high cost of lessons and playing gear, I can't help thinking about Peggy. Peggy, you see, was a pre-depression game which required only a short stick, a long stick, an empty lot, a hole in the ground and two or more players. In the mid-twenties, you had to walk warily across any empty lot to avoid tripping over small oval shaped holes. Even school grounds were unsafe unless the principal, who in those days had that kind of authority, had banned the game. As far as I know, no one everstandardized the rules or the equipment but there were some accepted ways to play. To begin with, the peg had to be about six to eight inches long and the bat some two or three feet. (I refuse to translate into metric!) A bit of broom handle would do nicely in each case. Some individuals went to the trouble of tapering the ends. The hole in the ground was about six inches long, three wide and four deep, but nobody ever measured. The game proceeded by stages with the batter trying to run up a score before being caught or put ou-t. Memory becomes a bit dim, but here is the way I recall it. Maybe some reader can set me straight. I'll have to use terms from other sports because I don't believe we had names for equipment or play-n ing positions. In the first stage, the batter laid the peg across the hole and flippeci it out with the bat. He then laid the bat across the hole. The fielder could get the batter out by catching the peg in mid-air or by throwing it so as to hit the bat or land in the hole. If he missed, the batter scored by counting the number of bat lengths from the hole to where the peg landed. In the second stage, the peg was placed as before but batted out after being flipped into the air. The same play sequence followed, Assuming the batter survived, get into the big scores by the Here the peg was of the hole, hit then batted out batter used the he could third stage, propped up at the front of so as to spin upward and ' This time the lucky peg as a counter when mea- suring the peg to hole distance. I'm sure this was a terribly hazardous game. There were no gloves, no masks, no helmets and of course, no cost. In those days when families stayed together (without having heard that they must play together), I don't remember any adult participation. In fact, the only parental involvement occurred some mother broke up the game by insisting that the batter come home to dinner. (Can you imagine the furore that would cause during a little league game?)... Consequently, with players on their own, disputes were settled without reference to some rule book, usually because the participants were interested enough in the game to want it to continue. The game had at least one off-shoot -Double Peggy. This variant was played to generously interpreted cricket rules using two sticks, two holes and a peg for a ball. Need you ask? The locale was Victoria.