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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 470

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d of play, must be ten feet apart, andwhen the water is over five feet in depth, thecross bar must be placed three feet above thesurface ; but when the water is less than fivefeet in depth, the cross bar must be placed eightfeet from the bottom. In baths the goal postsare provided with flat metal… … Goal-posts for Baths. braced to the end of the bath by means of ironback stays and thereby made rigid. In open water, in cases where the water is toodeep to allow of the uprights being wedgedfirmly in the bottom, a different plan has to beadopted. Then a floating platform about twelvefeet in width…

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