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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Pitch – Pink

Pitch

The highest point to which a hawk rises when waiting on.

Point

The perpendicular rising of a hawk over the place where its quarry has put in.

Pounces

The claws of a hawk.

Put in (of the quarry). To take shelter in cover.

Put over (of the hawk). - To digest by passing the food from the crop to the pannel, or lower stomach.

Par

The par of a hole or round is the total number of strokes which should be required for them without mistakes, two strokes being allowed on each putting-green.

Press

To put an extra amount of force into the stroke.

Pull

To play a ball so as to make it curve to the left.

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Putt

A stroke played with a putter on the putting-green with the object of playing the ball up to or into the hole.

Pack

The hounds employed in hunting. [See KENNEL.]

Pad

The foot of the fox.

Pad-groom

The groom who rides the hunter to cover, and brings back the hack. Also COVERT- LAD.

Pate

The fox's head. Also MASK.

Pink

The scarlet coat worn by fox-hunters.

Point-to-point.-A straight run. Most hunts now have point-to-point races during the season.

The course is not flagged, and the competitors take their own line.

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