The sports and pastimes of American boys. A guide and text-book of games of the play-ground, the parlor, and the field. Adapted especially for American youth by Chadwick Henry 1824-1908

Author:Chadwick, Henry, 1824-1908
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Sports, Games
Publisher: New York, G. Routledge and sons
Published: 1884-03-25T05:00:00+00:00

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These ft'e held in the hand of the player so that their edge may strike the ground first, the method of holding them being as shown in Figs. 2 and 3.

They are tossed so as to strike the ground, as shown in Fig. 4. When tossed so as to fall on the ** hob," the quoit should be pitched so as to just pass over the

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"hob," as shown in Fig. 5- K tossed so as to strike the "hob," the chances are that it will rebound back or to one side, as shown in Fig. 6.

When the sides have been chosen, the first player stands level with one of the hobs, and taking a step forward with his left foot delivers the quoit by a swinging movement of the arm from behind him to the front. The quoit must fall and remain with its convex side uppermost, either imbedded in the earth or clay, or else lying fiat with the concave side on the ground. If it rolls along the ground and then stops, it does not count, unless the cause of its rolling was a collision with some other quoit already delivered, or unless, after having been properly thrown,

it is knocked out by another afterward played. The proper rule is that each player should play his two quoits in succession, and then be followed by the adversary ; but in a party of four it is usual for each player to have only one quoit When all the quoits are thrown the score is taken by measuring the distance from the hob to the nearest part of the nearest quoit, and the side which has thrown best scores one or two, according as his one or two quoits are better than any one thrown by the other side. But every "ringer" or quoit, which falls over the hob and remains with the hob inclosed within its ring counts two.

The distance from hob to hob is eighteen yards for large-sized quoits and twenty-one for the small size. The hobs are driven into the clay circle so as to stand out of the ground at an angle of forty-five degrees toward each other, and they must not pro-ject out of the ground more than two and a half inches. In the regular match-game-rules for prizes " ringers" do not count any more than they do from being nearest the hob.

SHUFFLEBOARD.

SHUFFLEBOARD is a game somewhat similar to the Scotch winter sport of curling, and it is very popular with Scotchmen in consequence. The game consists of sliding iron weights along the surface of a long board which is sanded so as to facilitate the sliding of the weights. " Points" or " aces" are scored according as the weights are near a certain line. The player who leads endeavors to slide his first weight as near the line—called the deuce line—as possible. If his opponent does not knock this weight off the board, the first player

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