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 105
... horse show signs of being alarmed , the bicyclist , unless requested to dismount , according to the byelaws , had far better ride as slowly as possible , speaking to the horse to reassure it , as a sudden dismount frequently frightens a ...
... horse show signs of being alarmed , the bicyclist , unless requested to dismount , according to the byelaws , had far better ride as slowly as possible , speaking to the horse to reassure it , as a sudden dismount frequently frightens a ...
Side 124
... prolonged and more severe than with us , this game is , under various names , one of the most popular recreations for all classes and all ages . Coasting is simply sledging without horses . The sledges are 124 MINOR OUTDOOR GAMES .
... prolonged and more severe than with us , this game is , under various names , one of the most popular recreations for all classes and all ages . Coasting is simply sledging without horses . The sledges are 124 MINOR OUTDOOR GAMES .
Side 125
... horses . The sledges are taken to the top of a hill , and allowed to slide down , the force of gravitation doing the work that horses are required to do on the level . For all the purposes of the game the sledges may be of the most ...
... horses . The sledges are taken to the top of a hill , and allowed to slide down , the force of gravitation doing the work that horses are required to do on the level . For all the purposes of the game the sledges may be of the most ...
Side 126
... horses . TURNPIKES . - A very good game ; as is also the following , when hoops are less plentiful than players . Supposing ten players with only five or six hoops : lots are drawn for the hoops , and those who fail to get them become ...
... horses . TURNPIKES . - A very good game ; as is also the following , when hoops are less plentiful than players . Supposing ten players with only five or six hoops : lots are drawn for the hoops , and those who fail to get them become ...
Side 127
... horse , rush- ing and bounding down the slope like a veritable live thing , and leaving its master toiling a long way behind . The sight of the hoops in their impetuous course is exciting enough , but still more so is the headlong rush ...
... horse , rush- ing and bounding down the slope like a veritable live thing , and leaving its master toiling a long way behind . The sight of the hoops in their impetuous course is exciting enough , but still more so is the headlong rush ...
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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.