Word: pelotas
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...fastest game in the world, and one of the most interesting is Pelota, the Spanish game," contends Big Bill. "My gawd! Do they sling that ball! If it ever hit anyone it would kill him," he exclaimed. "No, I don't play it," he added. "It is usually all fixed before the game starts...
...sports which most foreigners identify with Mexico are second-rate bullfighting and revolutions. This is a gross injustice. Proud, excitable and much less torpid than they are reputed to be. Mexicans are ardent sportsmen, although they have invented no game of their own. Mexican boxing matches draw big crowds. Pelota (jai alai) gave rise to the game of fronton tennis, played with rackets instead of cestas. Yale's football coach, Reginald Root, got his experience coaching the first Mexico City University team which was good enough last year to hold Louisiana to 30 points. Mexican soccer and basketball teams...
...English Who's Who lists his recreations as: "Regretting the Bourbons, Repartee, and Tu Quoque." Once an inveterate golfer and left handed cricketer, he now, according to his own statement has "abandant all other athletic interests in order to urge the adoption of new sports, such as, pelota, kif-kif and the pengo. (Especially the latter.)" He possesses the original manuscript of Bishop Heber's famed hymn, "From Greenland's Icy Mountains." Other books: Argonaut and Juggernaut, Who Killed Cock Robin?, Discursions on Travel, Art and Life, Be fore the Bombardment...
...marked into divisions by lines and trod by leaping black-haired men-such was the game the oldtime Aztecs played and drew pictures of on the rock walls of Central American amphitheatres. Hernan Cortes took it back to Andalusia, whence it penetrated the Pyrenees and the people called it pelota (ball). The game became the main diversion of so many festivals that the Basques gave it another name, now mispronounced all over the world, meaning "merry festival"-jai alai (pronounced high...