The Boy's Modern Playmate: A Book of Sports, Games, and PastimesJohn George Wood Frederick Warne and Company, 1891 - 816 sider |
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Side 11
... perform each function of cricket , and a wrong way , or perhaps I should rather have said , innumer- able wrong ways . Now , this right way will hardly come of itself : cricket , by the light of Nature only , would be a prodigy indeed ...
... perform each function of cricket , and a wrong way , or perhaps I should rather have said , innumer- able wrong ways . Now , this right way will hardly come of itself : cricket , by the light of Nature only , would be a prodigy indeed ...
Side 24
... performing these three functions - whether the player be far out in the field or close in to the bat - his action and attitude will be , and must of necessity be , the same . A short general summary , therefore , of the various methods ...
... performing these three functions - whether the player be far out in the field or close in to the bat - his action and attitude will be , and must of necessity be , the same . A short general summary , therefore , of the various methods ...
Side 74
... performed with a short swing and a half jerk . Of course the left is the natural side to throw past in all these cases , but it is good to practise with the right as a means of baulking an opponent by an unexpected throw . A good ...
... performed with a short swing and a half jerk . Of course the left is the natural side to throw past in all these cases , but it is good to practise with the right as a means of baulking an opponent by an unexpected throw . A good ...
Side 106
... performed with the bicycle upon the road . One hundred miles between Bath and London has been ridden in 8 hours 23 minutes with an adverse , and in 7 hours 18 minutes with a favourable wind . 107 Two riders rode in 1880 from Land's End ...
... performed with the bicycle upon the road . One hundred miles between Bath and London has been ridden in 8 hours 23 minutes with an adverse , and in 7 hours 18 minutes with a favourable wind . 107 Two riders rode in 1880 from Land's End ...
Side 107
... performed upon the bicycle , and in these boys and youths generally excel , as it depends so much upon activity and quickness . The rider quickly learns to dismount by the treadle , as it is the easiest and most useful of all methods ...
... performed upon the bicycle , and in these boys and youths generally excel , as it depends so much upon activity and quickness . The rider quickly learns to dismount by the treadle , as it is the easiest and most useful of all methods ...
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Side 625 - These simple machines are the lever, the wheel and axle, the pulley, the inclined plane, the wedge, and the screw.
Side 61 - ... the right and left courts. On each side of the net, at a distance of 21 feet from it, and parallel with it, are drawn the service lines.
Side 766 - Italian player oi some eminence. Walker says this may be classed as the most brilliant and critical opening known, and recommends the student to play it at every opportunity ; he also throws out the warning that an incorrect move may irrecoverably lose the game. The defence is most difficult to discover in actual play.
Side 48 - In all match games, lines connecting the liome and first bases, and the home and third bases, and also the lines of the striker's and pitcher's positions, shall be marked by the use of chalk or other suitable material, so as to be distinctly seen by the umpire. The...
Side 765 - WHITE. BLACK. 1. P. tO K. 4. i. P. tO K. 4. 2. P. to KB 4. 2. P. takes P. 3. K. Kt. to B. 3- 3- P. to K. Kt. 4. 4. KB to QB 4. 4. K. Kt. P. advances.
Side 7 - When there shall be more than four players on a side, there shall be no bounds. All hits, byes, and overthrows shall then be allowed.
Side 650 - I can take it into another room and there fire spirits of wine with it. If while it is electrifying I put my finger, or a piece of gold which I hold in my hand, to the nail, I receive a shock which stuns my arms and shoulders.
Side 66 - ... decide similarly for the second game. The partner of the player who served in the first game shall serve in the third; the partner of the player who served in the second game shall serve in the fourth, and so on in the same order in all the subsequent games of a set.
Side 5 - Or, if with any part of his person he stop the ball, which, in the opinion of the umpire at the bowler's wicket, shall have been pitched in a straight line from it to the striker's wicket, and would have hit it.