Publisher's Synopsis
This early work is a fascinating read for any sports enthusiast or historian but also contains much information and anecdote that is still useful and practical today and is thoroughly recommended for inclusion on the P.E teachers bookshelf. In this book will be found the rules for games suitable to every reasonable time and place. There are games for the very young, for the big and strong, for indoors and outdoors, for winter and for summer, for many and for few. There are games suitable for girls as well as for boys, and every one of them was played and proved by the author, who made games the study of a lifetime. Contents Include: Astride Ball, Bottle Dodging, By Numbers Run, Captain Ball, Carry the Log, Cat and Mouse, Christians in the Arena, Crossing the River, Crows and Cranes, Dodge Ball, Duck Stone, Filling the Gap, Fire on the Mountain, Foot Wrestling, Four Corner Square Tug, Fox and Geese, "Give Me a Light" Goal Ball, Hand Ball, Hand Pressing, Hand Tug of War, Heads and Tails, Heave the Sack, "Here Goes up for Monday", Hop Charging, "I Crown Thee, Caesar", Jumping the Swinging Rope, Leap Frog, Long Back, Market, or By Numbers, Mounted Wrestling, My Bear's Loose, Net Ball, Pass Ball, "Post Comes", Prisoner's Base, Puss in the Corner, Racket Dodge Ball, Rackets, Ranks and Files, Relay Races, Return Ball, Ring Ball, Rockers, Rounders, Skinning the Snake, Skip and Run, Stepping Stones, Straphanging, Tanks and Trenches (1), Tanks and Trenches (2), Tower Ball, Towers and Tunnels, Tug and Run, Tunnel Ball, Tunnel Football, Two Dogs and a Bone, Twos and Threes, What Shall we do with the Drunken Sailor?, and Zig-Zags. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
