A print from a disbound book of the British Empire published 1897. With an unrelated picture on the reverse, this has been trimmed from the original page size to fit boarded envelope, scan shows the trimmed page being sold.
Suitable for framing, the average page size is approx 10.75" x 8.25" or 27.5cm x 21cm, including text and border.
Average image size approx 8.75" x 6.25" or 22.5cm x 16cm
This is an antique print not a modern copy or reproduction and can show signs of age or previous use commensurate with the age of the print, please view the scans as they form part of the description.
1897 is the printing date, the original date of creation can be earlier.
All prints will be sent bagged and in a boarded envelope for maximum protection.
While every care is taken to ensure my scans or photos accurately represent the item offered for sale, due to differences in monitors and internet pages my pictures may not be an exact match in brightness or contrast to the actual item.
Text description beneath the picture (subject to any spelling errors due to the OCR program used)
LACROSSE IN VICTORIA, BRITISH COLUMBIA.
If cricket be the great game of England and Australia, and baseball of ths United States, lacrosse is undoubtedly the indigenous product of Canada. The scale of our illustration does not permit us to note the peculiar form of the- crosse," or bat with 'which the players are provided, and which is peculiar to the game. Enough, however, appears in the picture to convince us that a lacrosse match as played at Bsacon Hill, Victoria, is an attractive and popular exhibition. Lacrosse, indeed, has now crossed the Atlantic, and has begun to make its own way by its own merits even in a land where cricket and football have hitherto held undivided sway. Only those who have actually witnessed the sport can realise how much skill and activity are shown by the devotees of the game—a game which they claim to be superior to all others.