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.

Q

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

Quarter-strap

[See HIP-STRAP.] [DRIVING band running from the same point underneath the horse. The reins run through rings upon the top of it. Shafts…

Quail

It may be doubted whether any game bird has so extensive a geographical as the so-called common quail range (Coturnix communis). The red…

Quiebro – Quoits

Act of enticing bull from fallen man with cape. The object at which the hawk is flown.

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