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Scratch Line – Steering Wheel

Scratch Line

- The mark from which the length of any race is measured.

Scratch Man

- The competitor who gives starts, but receives none from any. Often called simply "Scratch."

Scratch Race

A race in which no competitor gives or receives a start.

Shot.--Another name for the Weight.

Shot

A man is said to be "shot on the post" when a competitor just dashes by him as he eases for the finish, or fails from exhaustion.

Side Stride

The common method of taking the High Jump, which consists of running from the side and getting one leg over before the other.

Spin

A practice run.

ATHLETICS]

Standard

The time or distance assigned to each event at a championship meeting, by beating which a competitor becomes entitled to a medal.

Side-slip

A term applied to the undesirable and fortuitous slipping of a car on a bad holding surface. It must be differentiated from "skid," which is caused entirely by injudicious application of the brakes.

Silencer

In order to absorb the violence of the noise of the exhaust, a device, the silencer, is interposed between the engine exhaust pipe and the atmosphere. It contains a series of baffle plates which, more or less, break up and dissipate the noise of each exhaust.

Skid.-[See "SIDE-SLIP."] Sparking Plug.- [See text.]

Speed Gear

[See text.]

Spindle

The shaft which forms the axis about which a wheel, or other part, revolves.

Spray.-[See "JET."]

Steering Wheel

-The meaning is obvious.