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 ix
... ROPES , POLES , ETC ... 266 BOATS 325 THE ART OF ROWING .. 328 GYMNASTICS WITHOUT APPARATUS- BOAT - RACING 334 THE THREE CHAIRS 268 SAILING .......... 336 KICKING THE CORK ........ 263 SWIMMING 354 THE STOOPING STRETCH STILTS 269 ...
... ROPES , POLES , ETC ... 266 BOATS 325 THE ART OF ROWING .. 328 GYMNASTICS WITHOUT APPARATUS- BOAT - RACING 334 THE THREE CHAIRS 268 SAILING .......... 336 KICKING THE CORK ........ 263 SWIMMING 354 THE STOOPING STRETCH STILTS 269 ...
Side 68
... rope stays have been for a considerable time discarded as being liable to catch the feet , and the iron stay propping up the post from the inside , or the long foot which has the same effect , only leads to its being drawn out of the ...
... rope stays have been for a considerable time discarded as being liable to catch the feet , and the iron stay propping up the post from the inside , or the long foot which has the same effect , only leads to its being drawn out of the ...
Side 143
... rope , pretend to start off in one direction , and then come back with a swing in the other . The branch to which the cord is attached should be some considerable height from the ground , or there will not be play enough in the rope ...
... rope , pretend to start off in one direction , and then come back with a swing in the other . The branch to which the cord is attached should be some considerable height from the ground , or there will not be play enough in the rope ...
Side 146
... ropes , or over some luckless companion who has come to grief in labouring after the jingler , or a hundred other devices equally effective and amusing . Perhaps the most absurd scenes occur when two or more blind men rush into each ...
... ropes , or over some luckless companion who has come to grief in labouring after the jingler , or a hundred other devices equally effective and amusing . Perhaps the most absurd scenes occur when two or more blind men rush into each ...
Side 149
... rope is tied round the waist of the bear , who is chosen by lot , leaving a loose end about four feet in length . His Keeper holds this in one hand and a knotted handkerchief in the other . Thus prepared , the bear goes down on his ...
... rope is tied round the waist of the bear , who is chosen by lot , leaving a loose end about four feet in length . His Keeper holds this in one hand and a knotted handkerchief in the other . Thus prepared , the bear goes down on his ...
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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.