24 JULY 1976, Page 17

Stick and bulger Sir : I think I can enlighten

MS. Celia Haddon. A doyenne of hockey stars—Miss Marjorie Pollard—has found advertisements in issues of the Hockey Field, dated,25 October 1906 and 26 October 1905, which refer to the 'Demon Bulger' hockey stick and the 'Bulger' hockey stick, respectively. The former is described as the best stick for ladies' and it cost 7s 6d (i.e. 370).

Peter David Flinn

2 North Parade, Ripon