Handbook of athletic games for players, instructors, and spectators, comprising fifteen major ball games, track and field athletics and rowing races (1916)
Bancroft, Jessie Hubbell, 1867-, Pulvermacher, William Dean · New York, Macmillan · leaf 438
m the net. A served ball must fall within this line.Singles. A tennis game in which one player is pitted against a single opponent.Stop-volley. A stroke that stops the progress of the ball and makes but feeble attempt to return it, so that the ball will barely drop over the net.Striker-out. The… … POLO (EQUESTRIAN) GENERAL DESCRIPTION. — Equestrian Polois the most picturesque and beautiful of the majorball games. It is played by two mounted teams oftwo, three, or four players each, — usually four.The ball is played entirely with long, wooden sticks, ormallets, with which the players attempt…
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