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 41
... give it to their own forwards , whenever they may be in a good position . Failing this they should so dis- connect their enemies that they fall an easy prey to their backs . One final direction . The eyes must always be fixed on the ...
... give it to their own forwards , whenever they may be in a good position . Failing this they should so dis- connect their enemies that they fall an easy prey to their backs . One final direction . The eyes must always be fixed on the ...
Side 58
... give the hands the required measure of hardness and insensibility . Another piece of advice , too , he will find valuable , —not to play too long or too hard the first few days . If he is in good general training he may , of course ...
... give the hands the required measure of hardness and insensibility . Another piece of advice , too , he will find valuable , —not to play too long or too hard the first few days . If he is in good general training he may , of course ...
Side 73
... give you a good chance of catching it . THROWING THE BALL . - Throwing the ball over the head of an opponent by a jerk of the wrist has already been mentioned in the chapter on running . The same movement may be employed in throwing the ...
... give you a good chance of catching it . THROWING THE BALL . - Throwing the ball over the head of an opponent by a jerk of the wrist has already been mentioned in the chapter on running . The same movement may be employed in throwing the ...
Side 86
... give any advice to the players , and he shall not give them any information except when either player shall appeal to or ask him for information . Each side may have an umpire . If there be two umpires , and they cannot decide , they ...
... give any advice to the players , and he shall not give them any information except when either player shall appeal to or ask him for information . Each side may have an umpire . If there be two umpires , and they cannot decide , they ...
Side 87
... give the standard to the opposing party . In measuring with a standard , the bowl first measured must be taken away ; and if the opponent can make the standard rest on his or his partner's bowl and jack , he wins the cast . If a second ...
... give the standard to the opposing party . In measuring with a standard , the bowl first measured must be taken away ; and if the opponent can make the standard rest on his or his partner's bowl and jack , he wins the cast . If a second ...
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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.