The Boy's Modern Playmate: A Book of Sports, Games, and PastimesJohn George Wood Frederick Warne and Company, 1891 - 816 σελίδες |
Άλλες εκδόσεις - Προβολή όλων
The Boy's Modern Playmate: A Book of Sports Games and Pastimes John George Wood Προβολή αποσπασμάτων - 1906 |
Συχνά εμφανιζόμενοι όροι και φράσεις
acid adversary allowed ammonia angle bait ball base batsman bird boat body bottom bowl called catch centre colour corolla course cricket diameter distance draw edge fair ball feet fern fingers fish foot four fronds give glass ground head hold hole hook hoop horse inches keep kick kind king leaves left hand legs length lower mandril marble move object opponent ovary pass piece plate play player position practice quoit right hand ring rope roquet rowlock Rugby Union sail score screw shoulder side spore-cases squail square stamens stand stick straight striker string stroke surface taken teetotum thick throw thumb tierce top-mast touch trick tube turn umpire ventriloquism ventriloquist weight wicket wicket-keeper wind wire wood yards zinc
Δημοφιλή αποσπάσματα
Σελίδα 625 - These simple machines are the lever, the wheel and axle, the pulley, the inclined plane, the wedge, and the screw.
Σελίδα 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.
Σελίδα 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.
Σελίδα 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...
Σελίδα 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.
Σελίδα 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.
Σελίδα 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.
Σελίδα 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.
Σελίδα 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.