Efforts are under way to bring a historic ba’ back to Orkney, as it goes up for auction. The current bid is £1,000, ahead of auction day which is set to be Wednesday, August 19. “He said that he hadn’t seen a ba’ since 1908, the year after he won this ba’.” Pat won the lads’ ba’, with the boys’ going to John Muir and the men’s to William Garrioch. Now, 120 years on, Pat’s ba’ is up for grabs, with the estimated value of between £300 and £500 already being exceeded.