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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Footer

The square cloth or mat set by the place from which the jack was thrown. Each player must have one foot upon it at the moment of delivery. Also known as Trig. [See Hob.] Fore-hand (also Open-hand). The righthand side of a right-hand player and vice versa. Used in description of a shot in such direction, with the bias on the left side of the bowl.

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