The Encyclopaedia of Sport and Games

Every sport and game of the Edwardian world in four volumes — from angling and ballooning to yachting — written by the people who did them, Theodore Roosevelt on big game among them.

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Cage

Two hoops crossed at right angles in the centre of the ground, as in the Eglinton Castle setting.

Climbing on the Scapegoat.-Said by Captain Mayne Reid to be a technical term for "roqueing a ball into a better place for the player to croquet it, so that the roqueing ball may get in front of its own proper bridge, or obtain some other advantage of position." Equivalent to rush (q.v.).

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