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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17 entries in this part of The Encyclopaedia of Sport and Games.

In America

especially, the reel is an affair of complicated and delicate works, very beautiful to look at, delightful to use, so long as its intricate…

Ireland

By the Act for the Protection of Freshwater Fish (Mundella's), passed in 1878, a close season is established in public waters from March…

Inertia

Is the propensity of a body, or more correctly its "mass," to resist a force which tends to change either its state of rest or…

In Getting Back

the right foot is moved to the rear, about the above-named distance, followed by the left foot. In this and the preceding case the distance…

In-Fighting

We have so far dealt with what is termed "out-fighting," and have now to describe what happens when two men come to really close quarters…

Inns

No one playing less than a dozen completed innings is taken into consideration. GLOSSARY OF TERMS. a Analysis (Bowling). - The record of…

Inwicking

A stroke which reaches the tee, or object stone, by rebounding from the inside edge of another stone lying to the side. Also as verb. Also…

India and Ceylon

is described in a separate article. There are, however, representatives of this rusine deer which have not been elsewhere dealt with, and…

Irish Terrier Club

been passed, the date being after December, 1889. Dew Claws. These may be removed or allowed to remain; they are, however, unsightly and…

III

the credit of being the first Plantagenet New Forest. Walhampton. who rode to his hounds and thus hunted at force.

Ignition – Ice-fall

The modern motor possesses electrical system, the object of which is to explode the compressed charge by causing a periodical spark in the…

Isinglass

whose stud career is now regarded as rich in promise. Already it includes a winner of the St. Leger in Swynford. La Flèche and Orme were…

Inrigged Boats

A boat whose rowlocks are set directly upon the gunwale. Keel. The main timber running from stem to stern along the bottom of a boat…

Irving Brokaw

K. OLLOW (ST. PETERSBURG) AT THE CHANGE OF EDGE. really figure-skating as we understand it now, or whether it was merely a mode of…

Implements

I. The balls shall be not less than 21 in., and not more than 2% in. in diameter; and shall not be less than 24 oz., and not more than 2…

Ice-wall – Ibn Saoud

Of rocks, worn and polished by the movement of ice upon them. ii. 392 Mechanical Development, ii. 392 Repeating, ii. 398 Single-trigger…

Ice-axe – Isard

See Yachting Illingworth Casting reel, iii. 335 or Pallah (Aepyceros melampus), i. 81, 82, 83, 258

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