Boys' own book : a complete encyclopedia of athletic, scientific, outdoor, and indoor sports (1881)
Clarke, William, 1800-1838 · New York : J. Miller, Publisher · leaf 78
ion necessary for superior swimming,-especially with the arms and hands. The action of the legsmay be much better acquired by means of the plank, asthereafter directed. The best swimmers we have ever metnever made use of corks for this purpose, but stUl they maybe considered of advantage in the… … 68 BOTS OWN BOOK. ing progressively in circumference, are run, by a hole madein their centres, on each end of a piece of stoijt rope, whichis long enough to reach across the breast, and beyond thearm-pits; the same number of corks is placed at each sideof the rope, and they are kept from slipping…
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