I am not sure how many people we could get interesred, but my memory was prompted about a similar game I think is still played Sunderland or some such place called "nurd and spell?"and I am not sure if the nurd is the bat and the spell is the piece to be hit, but the piece hit is lauched by a device like a spring there may be examples of it in some book?.
I think its knurr and spell bob.
