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

Yorkshire

and one of its earliest exponents was the then famous Bradford Club. Where the practice of heeling back first came from it is difficult to…

Yachting – Young

Ice, iv. 439-444 In America, iv. 443 In England, iv. 439 Yak (Poëphagus grunniens), iv. William, British Birds, ii. 411; i i. 349, 380

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