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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Jet – John

Jet

The orifice through which the petrol issues, drawn out by the suction of the engine.

Jerkin

Male of the ger-falcon.

Jerk

To play a ball so that the club-head strikes into the ground after hitting the ball.

John

Henry VIII., Queen Elizabeth, and

Jammed

Of a chimney (q.v.) blocked by a fallen rock.

Jackal Hunting

iii. 88-90

Jackson

Hon. F. S., i. 453,455 Peter, i. 338 Jaguar (Felis onca), iii. 90-92.

See also i. 242, 243; 111. 137 James I., i. 409, 418; ii. 71, 103, 139, 182, 410; iii. 1, 56

James

Wiliiam, i. 126 Jameson (Scottish Dictionary), ii. 97 F. B., iv. 402 - J., iv. 388, 390 William, iv. 347

Jamsetji

iv. 4

Jaquet

E. W., ii. 93

Jardine

Alfred, iii. 328, 329

John

i. 432 - Sir Robert, i. 421, 435

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