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How to
Play Soccer - Joe Hulme
NOTHING can stop the footballers of other days - those who have
grown too long in the tooth - from having their moments of real
enjoyment out of the game. They fix their carpet slippers: fill up
the old pipe, and as the smoke curls upwards they dream of a
wonderful time - somewhere in the past: when football was football,
and that sort of thing. From time to time I have enjoyed myself on
those lines, thinking aloud, with other former footballers around
me, about how much better the game used to be than it is now.
I have finished with that idle chatter about old times, however.
When I find myself among a party living in the glories of the past,
I now include myself out - pretty quickly. In general I think
football is as good as ever it was. In many respects it is
considerably better.
That isn't to say that it can't be improved still further. One thing
which delays the further improvement is the fact - and it is a fact
- that in the first-class game to-day there are too many round pegs
in square holes: too many fellows playing in positions other than
those to which their play, their ability, is best suited.
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Baseball
For BOYS - John M.
Rosenburg
The young player of today is smartly uniformed and fully equipped. He plays on a
miniature Big League diamond ruled by uniformed umpires. He often plays before
large crowds and occasionally gets his name in a newspaper. The professional
recreation people say all this represents a commendable contrast to the pre-war
kid baseballer who did most of his playing in a vacant lot, or cow pasture, with
a ball that was more friction tape than ball. They add, however, that the
diamond programs have mushroomed so rapidly that baseball "education" - the
teaching of individual and team play-has, unwittingly to be sure, dragged
behind.
Since there has been a dearth of written material about the subject, it has been
the objective of the writer to produce a manual that will provide player,
manager, fan and father-coach with the kind of useful, practical informa-tion
that can be applied to amateur baseball, especially to those programs for 8 to
18 year-olds.
Most of the book is devoted to individual and team play with these two major
groupings broken down and presented in logical fashion and also in the order of
importance. For example, the three major skills-batting, running and throw-ing-are
given first. The specialized skills, such as pitching and catching, follow. Team
play, of course, is divided in two parts-offense and defense.
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BOXING
Simplified - John J. Walsh
TThe following chapters deal with organized and supervised boxing as conducted
today in colleges, high schools, and recreational centers. They are in no way
concerned with professional fighting, with which amateur boxing should at no
time be confused. Professional fighting is a business conducted for monetary
gain. Amateur boxing is a competitive sport or recreation. These distinctions
should be kept in mind at all times.
We are directing our instructions, advice, and suggestions to the coach
supervising boxers individually or in groups; to the boy who, motivated by a
desire for competitive or recreational activity, wishes to learn the
fundamentals of boxing; and also to the father who acquiesces to the urge to
teach his son the art of boxing.
We intend to be very fundamental in our approach, and thus to enable even an
inexperienced coach to put across readily an effective instructional program to
his boys. We want to make it possible for the boy to whom personal supervision
is unavailable to teach himself. We also hope to save the father lacking in
boxing experience the ignominy of receiving a "shiner" as he attempts on bended
knees to impart to his son the principles of the "manly art."
We believe that too often the fundamentals of boxing are overlooked in favor of
complicated punches, series of maneuvers, and fancy footwork. Just as
fundamentals such as tackling and blocking pay off in football, so it is the
properly executed left jab, straight right, and an occasional left hook that
bring victory in the boxing ring.
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WRESTLING
ILLUSTRATED: An Instructional Guide
- Raymond E. Sparks
This guide presents the fundamentals of effective wrestling in a
progression specifically designed for efficient learning. From the
numberless holds, counters, and blocks that constitute skillful
Wrestling, this book explains and illustrates in detail 65
maneuvers, arranging them in 38 sequences and drills.
The sequences teach the basic wrestling techniques through
step-by-step instructions, with each step given in full detail and
keyed to an accompanying illustration. In learning the various moves
and holds, the wrestler uses them in combinations that progressively
develop his skills in a sure and logical manner.
The basic positions and movements are practiced in the warm-up and
conditioning activities, and are then followed by the sequences. The
holds and maneuvers are also listed in summary according to the
usual categories of take-downs, rides, pins, and reversals. An
outline for 30 lessons suggests a scheme for individual or class
instruction.
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Kite Making and Flying
- Harold Ridgway
IN the first section of the book (Chapters 1-8) instructions and
diagrams are given for making 19 different kites. It will be found
that some are easy to make; others require more time and skill.
Again, there are several sizes which range, for example, from the
'Small Fish' kite to the large Box kite. This selection is offered
for certain reasons. One is to help the beginner to progress from
the simpler to the more complex forms. In this way he will gain
skill in making and handling many different kites, and at the same
time he may build up a collection of which he can be justly proud.
Another and related reason is that many people do not know how large
the scope is in kite design. These chapters will reveal something of
that scope, and so may serve to correct the idea that kites are
limited to the Box and Pegtop styles. Literally speaking, dozens of
different styles could be made, and they would fly, if certain rules
were kept. From the large number available, a selection has been
made in which the reader may find much that is of interest and
satisfaction to him.
The rest of the book
(Chapters 9-13) is concerned with a number of important things, each
of which forms a part of kite-craft. They may serve to prove that
this hobby opens a door to a variety of interesting activities and
studies. The writer's intention has been to present in as simple a
way as is possible the obvious and less obvious factors in kite
making and flying. It is earnestly hoped that the book may succeed
in attracting many new friends to a hobby which can be of absorbing
interest to all who take it up.
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SURF-RIDING:
It's Thrills and Techniques
- O.B. Patterson
To know fully the thrills of life one must live! Life, being
identical with activity, both mental and physical, brings us to the
realization that the full-ness of living can only be experienced
through coordination and harmony of body, mind and spirit. Such
fullness of living, the surf-rider feels and knows. He gazes out
over the open sea in search of mountainous waves and, on sighting
one, tosses his board onto the surface of the water. Step-ping onto
the board with effortless sureness he soon drops full length upon
its deck and with a few deep strokes into the tropical water he
glides away from the shore out into the breakers that come crashing
over the coral reefs.
When you see him finally speeding along the surface of the wave
cutting across the swollen crest like the blade of a knife, racing
ahead to keep his board from being swallowed up by the ever-pursuing
breaker which speeds towards the shore, you will realize that you
have witnessed a superb exhibition of grace, rhythm, and
co-ordination. All phases of pleasant living call for this
harmonious adjustment, for without it we miss much of the beauty and
happiness that comes from knowing and doing the things worthwhile.
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Manual of Ski Mountaineering
THE WIND HAD A MEAN EDGE on it as it curved to
cross the crest of the Sierra Nevada and found us there, two thousand feet above
the site of the Donner Party tragedy, trying to find out how to camp in deep
snow. It was deep snow that caught the Donners' immigrants back in 1846.
Thirty-six people died from cold and starvation, and more would have starved,
probably, but for cannibalism.
Our exposed spot on the crest was not where you would expect to find a father
pushing fifty, much less being pushed by his two teenage sons. But there we were
anyway, and by plan. We knew that California has come (or gone) quite a distance
since the Donner Party's ordeal. Skiing technique has progressed quite a bit too
since Snowshoe Thompson carried the trans-Sierra mails in the late 'fifties (the
eighteen-fifties, that is) on his eleven-foot skis and since his contemporaries
set 85-mile-per-hour speed records in the earliest American ski races on record.
More relevantly, we also knew that California has gone a fair distance in making
a sport of the best of what the Donners and Thompson learned-how to survive in
snow and how to ski safely through rugged, untracked terrain. The ice-edged wind
found us looking at the very peaks upon which that new sport, ski
mountaineering, had been adapted to California terrain by the Sierra Club and
then exported to help the armed forces in World War II...
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Ski-running - Katharine Symonds Furse
The first introduction of Skis into Switzerland,
which I have been able to trace, was by the monks of St. Bernard, who obtained
some pairs from Norway in 1883, thinking that they might be useful in their work
of mercy, rescuing pedestrians who were in difficulties on the Pass. About 1887
Colonel Napier came to Davos bringing with him a Norwegian man-servant and a
pair of Skis. Mythical tales were told of the way this man slid down the slopes
from chalet to hotel, carrying a tea tray on his shoulder.
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Outdoor Sports and Games - Claude H. Miller
Suppose you should wake up Christmas morning and
find yourself to be the owner of a bicycle. It is a brand-new wheel and
everything is in perfect working order. The bearings are well oiled, the nickel
is bright and shiny and it is all tuned up and ready for use. If you are a
careful, sensible boy you can have fun with it for a long time until finally,
like the ? One Hoss Shay? in the poem, it wears out and goes to pieces all at
once. On the other hand, if you are careless or indifferent or lazy you may
allow the machine to get out of order or to become rusty from disuse, or perhaps
when a nut works loose you neglect it and have a breakdown on the road, or you
may forget to oil the bearings and in a short time they begin to squeak and
wear.
Lawn Tennis for Ladies - Mrs. Lambert Chambers
A good lawn tennis racket is indispensable; indeed,
to use a weapon of inferior make is to court failure from the start. You cannot
be too particular to have a really well-made racket. Fortunately there are now
so many good makers that it is a player's own fault if she is not suitably
equipped. It may be a little more expensive to buy a really first-class racket;
but the few extra shillings are well worth while if you mean to take up the game
seriously, and to get out of it all the enjoyment you can.
The Art of Lawn Tennis
- William T. Tilden
Always dress in tennis clothes when engaging in
tennis. White is the established colour. Soft shirt, white flannel trousers,
heavy white socks, and rubber-soled shoes form the accepted dress for tennis. Do
not appear on the courts in dark clothes, as they are apt to be heavy and hinder
your speed of movement, and also they are a violation of the unwritten ethics of
the game.
Squash Tennis - Richard C. Squires
Squash Tennis is one of the few racquet and ball
indoor sports that can be termed honestly and strictly ?American? in origin,
whereas Squash Racquets has its roots in England going as far back as the 1850s.
The game spread to America in the 1880s and the first real organized Squash
Racquets play was in 1882 at St. Paul's Prep School, in Concord, New Hampshire.
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