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- William Ewing
The accompanying cut of Ewing is an excellent representation of a batter, in the act of hitting. He not only swings the bat with the arms, but pushes it with the weight of the shoulders. The position is a picture of strength. In hitting at a high ball the bat should be swung overhand, in an almost perpendicular plane, and so, also, for a low ball, the batter should stand erect and cut underhand. If the bat is swung in a horizontal plane the least miscalculation in the height of the ball will be fatal. If it strikes above or below the centre line of the bat, it will be driven either up into the air or down to the ground. Whereas, if the bat is swung perpendicularly, the same mistake will only cause it to strike a little farther up or down on the bat, but still on the centre line, and if it misses the centre line it will be thrown off toward first or third, instead of up or down. - We’ll Enter to Win, Boys!
- We crossed the home-plate within three feet of each other
We crossed the home-plate within three feet of each other - Waiting to bat
Waiting to bat - Turning an error into an out
Turning an error into an out - Trying to steal home
Trying to steal home - Tilting at the Ring
At the commencement of the seventeenth century, the pastime of running at the ring was reduced to a science. Pluvinel, who treats this subject at large, says, the length of the course was measured, and marked out according to the properties of the horses that were to run: for one of the swiftest kind, one [Pg 125]hundred paces from the starting place to the ring, and thirty paces beyond it, to stop him, were deemed necessary; but for such horses as had been trained to the exercise, and were more regular in their movements, eighty paces to the ring, and twenty beyond it, were thought to be sufficient. The ring, says the same author, ought to be placed with much precision, somewhat higher than the left eyebrow of the practitioner, when sitting upon his horse; because it was necessary for him to stoop a little in running towards it - Throw to first
Throw to first - Third baseman intercepting the slide of a runner from second
Third baseman intercepting the slide of a runner from second - The umpire did not see Gardner at all
The umpire did not see Gardner at all - The Umpire
The Umpire - The old woolen costume
The old woolen costume - The Manager of the team
The Manager of the team - The hockey player's costume
The hockey player's costume - The football uniform
The football uniform - The Crowd went wild
The Crowd went wild - The Coming Game - Yale versus Vassar
- The Catcher
The Catcher - The Catcher
In catching a high ball the hands should be held in the position shown in the following cut of Bushong, the fingers all pointing upward. Some players catch with the fingers pointing toward the ball, but such men are continually being hurt. A slight foul-tip diverts the course of the ball just enough to carry it against the ends of the fingers, and on account of their position the necessary result is a break or dislocation. But with the hands held as in this cut there is a "give" to the fingers and the chances of injury are much reduced. For a low ball the hands should be held so that the fingers point downward, and for a waist ball, by crouching slightly it may be taken in the same manner as a high ball. - The body protector and Catcher's mask
The body protector and Catcher's mask - Termination of the Combat
When many combatants fought on each side, it was called a tournament. Such sports were sometimes played in gorgeous costumes, but with weapons of lath, to make a spectacle in honour of a festal occasion. Sometimes the tournament was with bated weapons, but was a serious trial of skill and strength. And sometimes the tournament was even a mimic battle, and then usually between the adherents of hostile factions which sought thus to gratify their mutual hatreds, or it was a chivalrous incident in a war between two nations. - Swing and a miss
Swing and a miss - Stopping a grounder
- Standing High Jump
Standing jumps are either high or broad, the latter being the most common. The secret of making a high standing jump consists in standing sidewise to the bar or tape, and throwing the body over as if vaulting with one hand, arching the back inward as much as possible. The best standing high jumper on record is E. W. Johnson, a Toronto man, now keeper of the Baltimore Athletic Club Gymnasium. He jumped a bar 5 feet 3 inches high, at the Caledonian Games, at Baltimore, May 27, 1878. - Sprint Runner
Sprint running is only an exaggeration of the system displayed in long-distance work. The arms rise as in fast walking, and for the same reasons, till they are doubled up. The work, being fast, requires that the lungs be kept expanded, therefore the arms are kept stiff and rigid to aid the chest muscles in holding out the walls of the thorax to give room to the lungs. The distribution of weight, on account of the rapid motion, comes to be much the same as in fast walking, but the knees are bent of necessity; because in running the progression is made by springs from toe to toe, instead of heel to heel. The same cause admits of the upper part of the body falling forward, though the elevation of nose and hollowing of back is even more important than in long-distance work, inasmuch as the exertion is more severe while it lasts. - Sliding to base
- Skating outside
Skating outside - Skating
- Skaters on the Reservoir at La Villette
- Signaling from the dugout
Signaling from the dugout - Shutting off a runner at the Home-plate
Shutting off a runner at the Home-plate - Short-Arm throw, the end
Short-Arm throw, the end - Short-Arm throw, the beginning
Short-Arm throw, the beginning - Saint Liedwi, Of Scheidam, Holland, A. D. 1396
The First known skating Illustration - Running to first base
Running to first base - Racing
Racing - Quarter-back taking the ball
Quarter-back taking the ball - Putting the shot
Putting the shot - Practising throwing with the 'spool'
Practising throwing with the 'spool' - Playing a trick on the base-runner
Playing a trick on the base-runner - Pitching a 'Drop' Ball
Pitching a 'Drop' Ball - Pitcher at practice in the 'Cage'
Pitcher at practice in the 'Cage' - Out!
Out! - On the alert
On the alert - Misjudged the ball
Misjudged the ball - Making sure of a catch - left-fielder catching
Making sure of a catch - left-fielder catching - Making an opening for a runner, under the old rules, by using the arms
Making an opening for a runner, under the old rules, by using the arms - Looks like a home run
Looks like a home run - Looking at the Race
THE national love of horse-racing, which is growing in intensity year by year, finds nowhere a better ground for development than in Chicago. There are in active operation in this city during the months of summer and autumn three admirably equipped race tracks, where the fleetest horses in the world are entered in daily contests for fat purses. - Laying out an amateur field
Laying out an amateur field - Lamar dodging the Yale tacklers
Lamar dodging the Yale tacklers - Lamar after passing Yale's Twenty-five-yard line
Lamar after passing Yale's Twenty-five-yard line - Kicking the football
Kicking the football - Justing.—XIV. Century
The figure is a representation of the just, taken from a manuscript in the Royal Library, of the thirteenth, or early in the fourteenth century, where two knights appear in the action of tilting at each other with the blunted spears. - John Clarkson
The next point is to acquire a correct position in the "box," and an easy, yet deceptive, style of delivery. The position is, to a great extent, prescribed by the rules, and so much of it as is not can be learned by observing the different pitchers. The position which seems most natural should be chosen. The ball should be held in exactly the same way, no matter what kind of curve is to be pitched. Being obliged by rule to keep the ball before the body, in sight of the umpire, any difference in the manlier of holding it will be quickly noticed by a clever batter, and if for a particular curve it is always held in a certain way, he will be forewarned of the kind of ball to expect. Some batters pay no attention to these little indications; but the majority are looking for them all the time, and once they detect any peculiarities, they will be able to face the pitcher with much greater confidence. The correct manner of holding the ball for every kind of delivery is between the thumb and the first and middle fingers, as shown in the accompanying cut of Clarkson. - Jack
Baseball player - It was a Massive Silver Cup
- Ice Hockey
Playing ice hockey - Hunting
Hunting - How a crossbowman should approach animals
How a crossbowman should approach animals by means of a cart concealed with foliage.