The young folk's cyclopædia of games and sports ; (1899)
Champlin, John Denison, 1834-1915, Bostwick, Arthur Elmore, 1860-1942, joint author · New York, H. Holt and company · leaf 661
various distancesare given in the appendix. In 1886 the National Skating As-sociation was organized, and it hassince held annual contests for the Germany, Holland, and the United championship in or near New York SKATING 652 SKATING City. The events in these contestsare races for one hundred… … Skate-sailing.—Fig. i.ting the wind blow the skater along, on both sides, or carry an open um-brella; but to get back, it is nec-essary to skate against the wind.If the skater carries a frame fittedwith a sail, so that he may turnit at an angle with his course, hemay with practice tack back likea…
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