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English Channel
but failed; in the same month, however, M. Blériot accomplished this great feat. Aeroplane races at Rheims, Berlin, Blackpool, &c.; many…
Efficiency
As regards an engine: refers to the relative value of the heat put into it, and the work got out of it. The higher the compression the…
Exhaust Valve
The valve through which the spent gases can pass away. It should open and close quickly, and provide an ample opening. Explosions in the…
Entrada
Entre-barreras.-Between the two barriers round arena. Garrocha. - Heavy wooden lance with short iron tip.
Ettle
Fill the ice or port. - To play a stone so as to block an opening which lay between two other stones, and thereby to guard a position…
Eccentric – Essex
One method of converting rotary motion to reciprocating motion. - When the round of the bases is made without the help of a fielder's…
Eights (Were not allowed to compete)
were not allowed to compete. Contrary to expectation, the event proved a failure, very few entries being annually received. It was…
Eventually
the process ends in the survival of the fittest, and the two eights finally chosen are matched against each other over a two-mile course at…
Elbow – Eton
The backward bony projection from a horse's fore-leg just below the junction of leg and body. The horny excrescence just at the fetlock…
Exeter
King's Lynn Champion Course, 2 2 miles Prince of Wales' Course, miles. Kingston on Thames, Long Ditton Ferry to Raven's Ait, 7 fur.
Eights (Name of the bumping races)
The name of the bumping races at Oxford in May, lasting for six days, between the members of the various colleges in eight-oared boats with…
Equipment
i. 54 History, i. 42 Hooks, Eyed, i. 47 Lines, i. 53, 55 Literature, i. 43, 57 Minimum Sizes, 1. 57 Nottingham Method, i. 54 Paternoster…
Easy – Edge
O., iii. 205 Eclipse (race horse), iii. 390 Richard, The History of Travayle in the West and East Indies, &&c., i. 418
Edinburgh – Elephant Kraal
T. A., i. 161 Edmi (Gazella cuvieri). i. 256 Captain, ii. 111 Edwinson-Green Three-Barreled Shot Gun, ii. 396, 397 Eel (Anguilla vulgaris)…
El Gordito – Esnault-Pelterie
Elk Skooting in Russia, ii. 179 See also i. 234, 235, 265 "Ellefsen" Binding (ski-ing), iv. 190 Philip, iv. 436 El Wakidi (Historian), ii…
Eclectic Competitions
ii. 331 "Follow Through," the, ii. 337 Grip, the, ii. 333 Grips, Overlapping, ii. 333 Handicapping, ii. 330 Handicapping, Match Play, ii…
Espartero – Exhaustion
i. 361, 369 Essays on Sport and Natural History, iii. 349 Sir Henry, ii. 151 Professor, ii. 426