The Popular recreator. A key to in-door and out-door amusements .. (1873)
London, New York [etc.] Cassell, Petter & Galpin · leaf 714
Fig. 3.—DIAGBAM FOB fiest outeb square. -I ball rather past the centre pointof the lawn, andthen go yourselfinto the cornerdown by b. Theseare the reasons:your adversaryfollows, and if hehits his ball, hasno good gameopen to him; andif he misses it,which is moreprobable, at tenyards, he playsinto… … through the firsthoop, and comingup right alongsideyou; but eventhen there is theohance of his hit-ting against thewire of the secondhoop, and havingonly an eightyards shot, eis a favouriteof mine, and iscommonly calleda tyce. It hasthis merit, that ifyon try to hit yourfirst ball at E with your…
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