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

Origin of Coursing Clubs

Clubs then sprang into existence, the first of these in stitutions being located at Swaffham, in Norfolk, with Lord Orford as its founder…

Ostramanch

There they rest, and the keeper, who has been waiting for them, makes a wide circle around them in his snowshoes, crossing their track but…

Odds

To play the odds, at a given hole, is to play one stroke more than the opposite side. One off two, one off three, &c. - When the opposite…

Orange Free State

or the Southern Transvaal, in a country where the cold is much more severe in winter) then in any part of South Africa where lions exist…

Officers

Members, or otherwise, conduct itself in such a manner as, in the opinion of the Committee, is prejudicial to the interest and good order…

Owner's Pony's Colour

Bibliography. - The following books and periodicals constitute the chief modern works on polo, outside of the information to be obtained at…

October

and the Houghton. The two Summer Meetings, the First and Second July, are held on another course, familiarly described as "Behind the…

Offside – Oldfield

The right-hand side of the road, vehicle, horses, or driver. Opposition point. - Keeping a strain on the right reins when turning a corner…

Ollivier la Marche – Orford

Earl of, ii. 151 Oorial (Ovis vignei), iii. 269-70. iii. 270 Australian, iii. 272 Opossum and Raccoon Hunt= ing, iii. 270-73

Oribi – Otter Hound

i. 84 Abyssinian (Oribia montana), i. 258 Cape (Oribia scotaria), i. 258 Haggard's (Oribia haggardi), i. 259 West African (Oribia…

Otter Hunting – Owen

Dr., i. 127 Ouananiche (Salmo trutta), iii. 278-280 iii. 281-2 O. ammon, iii. 281 O. hodsoni, iii. 281; see also Argalis

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