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The encyclopaedia of sport (1897)

Suffolk and Berkshire, Henry Charles Howard, Earl of, 1833-1898, Peek, Hedley, Aflalo, Frederick G. (Frederick George), 1870-1918 · London : Lawrence and Bullen · leaf 464

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cal plane, above and beneath the trunk, andnot on either side of it, as in the breast stroke;but with regard to the legs the movement isdifferent, for these are worked in the horizontalplane. The extremities and the body are con- swimming] THE ENCYCLOPAEDIA OFj SPORT 423 sequently employed in the… … OvEK-AR.M Stroke.—I. the fourth always moves in the opposite direc-tion to the other three. The limbs which movetogether are the legs and over-arm ; as the latteris advanced, the legs are drawn up and all threeare forced backward with energy and rapidity,communicating to the body a forward…

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