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Feb. 29 HAXEY CELEBRATES ITS 800 YEAR OLD HOOD GAME? At the Lincolnshire village of Haxey local people and visitors watched or took part in the 600-year-old Haxey Hood game, said to have originated in a whim of a lady of the manor, who, when local yeomen had recovered the silk hood after a long chase in the wind, promised each of them land if they could invent a similar game to be played on every January 6th. It has been played every year since. The Committee of the Hood is composed of the Lord, two chief Boggins and 9 lesser Boggins whose job it is to see fair play. The Hood is sewn up in a long cylindrical shaped leather case and teams representing all the local inns in the Village fight for possession of it. The team which gets the hood to their pub first is the winner and that pub keeps the Hood in its possession until next year's game. This year's winner was The Duke William which game all the contestants free drinks after the game. The action of the game closely resembles a rugger scrum and began in a field ankle deep in mud. Only the youngest and fittest can survive the Haxey Hood Game. - The hood in its leather case is taken from the Inn where it has been kept for a full year and held aloft for examination by leading figures in the annual scramble. They are (L to R) The Fool, Walter Skelton; a tractor driver; Chief Boggin, Bob Wilson, a coalman; The Lord, Harry Cooper, local blacksmith and Boggin Roland Whitehead, a farmer's merchant, in the bar at the King's Arms, the Inn which won it last year

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