Language: English

Published: 1918

Author: Ralph Henry Barbour

Language: English

Published: 1916

Author: Jessie H. Bancroft

Language: English

Published: 1909

This book aims to be a practical guide for the player of games, whether child or adult, and for the teacher or leader of games. A wide variety of conditions have been considered, including schools, playgrounds, gymnasiums, boys' and girls' summer camps, adult house parties and country clubs, settlement work, children's parties, and the environment of indoors or out of doors, city or country, summer or winter, the seashore, the woodland, or the snow. The games have been collected from many countries and sources, with a view to securing novel and interesting as well as thoroughly tried and popular material, ranging from traditional to modern gymnasium and athletic games.

Author: William Martin

Language: English

Published: 1852

The prime object of this book is to induce and to teach boys and girls to spend their hours out of school in such a manner, as to gain innocent enjoyment while they promote their own health and bodily strength. The Author has never lost sight of this object, considering it to be what properly belongs to a Book of Sports.

Author: Various Authors

Language: English

Published: 1920

It is only by getting into the game with the children and encouraging them to play naturally, permitting them to get all the joy there is in the performance hereof, that games may be made of greatest service. The effects of such play cannot fail to dispel the artificial atmosphere which for various reasons permeates many of our schools today, and to establish, in its place, wholesome and natural conditions, that will challenge the child's best efforts and render school life pleasant as well as profitable.

Language: English

Published: 1909

he games, pastimes and entertainments described herewith were collected, remembered and originated respectively with the view of pleasing all of the children, from the tiny tot to, and including the "grown-up," each according to their age and temperament.

An excerpt from ''The Game of Go''

Author: Arthur Smith

Language: English

Published: 1908

or, The Athletes of Riverport School

Author: Allen Chapman

Language: English

Published: 1913

Language: English

Published: 1913

The game of Auction, or Auction Bridge, as it is generally called ("Auction Whist" is perhaps a more appropriate title), has been so completely and so suddenly revolutionized that books written upon the subject a few months ago do not treat of Auction of to-day, but of a game abandoned in the march of progress. Only a small portion of the change has been due to the development of the game, the alteration that has taken place in the count having been the main factor in the transformation. Just as a nation, in the course of a century, changes its habits, customs, and ideas, so Auction in a few months has developed surprising innovations, and evolved theories that only yesterday would have seemed to belong to the heretic or the fanatic. The expert bidder of last Christmas would find himself a veritable Rip Van Winkle, should he awake in the midst of a game of to-day.

Author: Morgan Scott

Language: English

Published: 1911

Author: Ring Lardner

Language: English

Published: 1914

Letters written by Jack Keefe, a professional baseball player, to his friend Al, at home, give a blow-by-blow account of Keefe's tribulations in the big leagues. Originally bought by the Chicago White Sox, he is sold to San Francisco, re-bought by Chicago, and eventually passed on to the New York Giants. Through it all Jack complains, boasts, makes excuses, talks too much, and thinks too little.

Author: Ring Lardner

Language: English

Published: 1915

or The Struggles of the Young Cadets

Author: Edward Stratemeyer

Language: English

Language: English

Published: 1920

or, The Young Oarsmen of Riverport School

Author: Allen Chapman

Language: English

Published: 1913

Author: Clarence Squareman

Language: English

Published: 1916

Author: Talbot Baines Reed

Language: English

Published: 1887

Author: Talbot Baines Reed

Language: English

Published: 1887

Author: Jack London

Language: English

Published: 1911

Author: Ralph Henry Barbour

Language: English

Published: 1914

With the Origin, History and Explanation of the Game

Author: John M. Ward

Language: English

Published: 1888

Language: French

Language: English

Published: 1860

Being the Personal Experiences and Reminiscensces of Adrian C. Anson

Author: Adrian C. Anson

Language: English

Published: 1900

Author: Zane Grey

Language: English

Published: 1911

High school senior Ken Ward is on top of the world--he's popular, a somebody. But as a freshman at Wayne University, Ken quickly discovers he's a nobody who's treated like dirt by upperclassmen. When Ken can't stand the harassment anymore, he bursts out of his gloom by slugging a sophomore bully--who turns out to be captain of the varsity baseball team. It looks as if Ken's dream of making that team has gone down the drain... until in a moment of wild excitement he proves himself with, of all things, a potato! And Ken keeps on proving himself until the last out of a heart-pounding league championship game.

or A Week's Delight: Games and Stories for Parlor and Fireside

Author: Emily Mayer Higgins

Language: English

Published: 1886

Author: Donald Ferguson

Language: English

Published: 1919

Author: William H. Edwards

Language: English

Published: 1916

Language: English

Author: Archibald Williams

Language: English

Published: 1900