He would dump out the flowers and tie the basket to his hand with a string and go play with it. Pee who used his mother’s curved flower basket. He added a strap to secure it to his hand.Īt around the same time, there is a story about a 13-year old Basque boy named Juanito Dithurbide from the town of St. He later picked up his farm basket and cut it out into a sort of a basket glove. It took a lot of effort to throw the ball to the front wall and off a sidewall. He wore a heavy and expensive leather glove on his right hand that was reinforced with iron. He dreamed of beating his neighbor on Sunday afternoons when everyone in the village came to see the men compete in games. Pee-sur-Nivelle scooped potatoes from his field with a deep curved shovel and flung the shovelful into a harvest basket. One theory is that a potato farmer named Gantxiki Harotcha in the French Basque town of St. “The game of Jai-alai evolved over the years in the Basque region”