—Nearly 1000 years ago the Aztecs and _ some of the previous -peoples of Mexico played a game very similar to the present-day basket ball. They built great stone ball-courts with curved stone rings at each side,’, through t which . the ball had - to he put, One still survives at Chichen Itza.-in Yufcatan,.and the:game is still played among natives of the Western Mexico mountains. They call 'it “hip ball,” because the ball is commonly driven by a blow of the hip. —Houses built for £IOOO nine years ago are now let for 7s a week at. Bulkington. m Warwickshire, England.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 20642, 14 February 1929, Page 13
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99Page 13 Advertisements Column 5 Otago Daily Times, Issue 20642, 14 February 1929, Page 13
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