Sentence:  A more recent conjecture traces a connection between it and the game still, or not long ago, played at New Year with <WSD>yetlings</WSD> or balls of cast iron on the sands near the Skilleys of Wemyss, in which, as in the North German Klotschiessen, the player who drives the ball to the goal in the fewest number of strokes wins. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  (Scotland) A small cast iron ball.