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

Kob

Crawshay's, and the Abyssinian and Western Defassa, are found in Central, which differ from most other species; it is to be met with in…

Kings of the Queensberry Realm

Naughton (The Continental Publishing Co., Chicago), 1902; Self-Defence, R. G. Allanson- Wynn and C. E. Walker (Lawrence and Bullen), 1903…

Kennel Club's Stud-book

he has settled down as the Airedale terrier, and, by careful selection in breeding, all the hound properties have been eliminated, and he…

King James VI

and I., the latter of whom prohibited under substantial penalties the killing of otters other than by hunting them with hounds, and…

Kletterschuhe

[See SCARPETTI.] Moraine. The débris on a glacier, the downward movement of which carries the stones, &c., in long lines. Lateral moraines…

King Edward's Minoru

one of half-a-dozen colts leased from Colonel Hall Walker, M.P., beating Mr. Raphael's Louviers by a short head, with Lord Michelham's…

Kirkland

WINNER OF THE GRAND NATIONAL, 1905. there can be no sort of question that it has more than once or twice been won by much inferior riders…

Key – Kennedy

A wheel, or lever, is said to be "keyed" to its parent shaft when it is maintained in place by a slip of metal, which fits a coinciding…

Kennel Club – Kinloch

Rev. J., The History of Curling, ii. 20 Harry, ii. 154 Mrs. Locke, i. 156 R., ii. 57 King's Prize (Bisley), iv. 42

Kinsdale – Kob

Rudyard, With the Night Mail, iii. t9b F. Vaughan, i. 244 David, iv. 435 Thomas, ii. 148 Kite (artificial), iv. 143

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