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 69
... course , with superiority of condition , one team excels another . The goals are placed from 100 to about 150 yards apart , the longer distance being for the best twelves ; and the twelve players are divided into defence , field , and ...
... course , with superiority of condition , one team excels another . The goals are placed from 100 to about 150 yards apart , the longer distance being for the best twelves ; and the twelve players are divided into defence , field , and ...
Side 70
... course scoring when made from the front only . The ball is started from the centre of the field of play , and when falling into the possession of a player , it is permissible for any opponent to strike the crosse carrying the ball with ...
... course scoring when made from the front only . The ball is started from the centre of the field of play , and when falling into the possession of a player , it is permissible for any opponent to strike the crosse carrying the ball with ...
Side 71
... course ) ; if hard , block it with the crosse inclined forwards , so as to throw the ball straight down on the ground : catch on the rebound . As to catching the ball when coming in the air , there is not very much to be said , except ...
... course ) ; if hard , block it with the crosse inclined forwards , so as to throw the ball straight down on the ground : catch on the rebound . As to catching the ball when coming in the air , there is not very much to be said , except ...
Side 72
... course . With the light crosses used here one hand is sufficient . ( Perhaps there will be a one - handed versus two - handed controversy some day , as there is now in croquet . ) Steadiness and watchfulness are required to keep the ...
... course . With the light crosses used here one hand is sufficient . ( Perhaps there will be a one - handed versus two - handed controversy some day , as there is now in croquet . ) Steadiness and watchfulness are required to keep the ...
Side 74
... 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 swinging side throw along the ground is often effective ...
... 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 swinging side throw along the ground is often effective ...
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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.