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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Row Over – Raddle

Row Over

- If in a heat or race a boat has no opponent to meet, it is compelled to row over the course in order to claim a victory. Hence, a row over is used of a heat in which there is no opposition.

Rowlock

The frame in which the oar is placed in order to do its work. It consists of a base, or sill, on which the oar rests, and two tholepins, called the rowing-pin and the stopping-pin.

Rudder

A piece of metal or very thin wood, depending from the stern, by which the boat is steered.

Red Deer

iv. 15

Riding

iv. 31

Rifle-Shooting

iv. 46

Rowing

iv. 87, 88

Ruff

iv. 88

Rabbits

iii. 383-389 Beating, iii. 386 Increasing Stock, iii. 384 Keeping under, iii. 384 Laying out, iii. 387 Packing, iii. 387

Radcliffe

Col. Delmé, ii. 181, 183, 443; iii. 2 Noble Science, ii. 442

Radclyffe

Capt. C. E., i. 245

Raddle

Professor, i. 325

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