The boy's own book of indoor games and recreations : a popular encyclopædia for boys (1890)
Stables, Gordon, 1840-1910, Hutchison, George Andrew, 1841-1913 · Philadelphia : J.B. Lippincott · leaf 27
vements, they may be practisedwith light dumb-bells. 32 GYMNASTICS, The pupil having passed through the preHminaries, and moulded himself alittle into shape, we now proceed to describe the exercises with apparatus. Thoseon the horizontal bar being among the most strengthening of… … FlG. I. Fig. 2. ance, we give a draw-ing of it (Fig. I). The bar or poleshould be of ash, dia-meter 2 inches, length6 feet. The more ex-pensive bars have asteel core runningthrough the middle,in which case the dia-meter can be reduced to ij inches, and thelength
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