Sport At Home And Abroad Vol 2 Of 2 Classic Reprint

Author : Finch Mason
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780259482611
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (826 download)

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Download or read book Fore's Sporting Notes Sketches, Vol. 2 written by Finch Mason and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-04-28 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Fore's Sporting Notes Sketches, Vol. 2: A Quarterly Magazine; Descriptive of British and Foreign Sport; 1885-1886 Then who does not remember the day when he first trundled the leather P When in a man's lifetime can the old fire be said to be extinct in the football player Watch that veteran at the ropes, whose war-scars testify to many a hard-pushed maul in battle; and see how he is kicking with his old wooden stump, as in the days when he dropped a goal forty years ago, quite forgetful of the fact that he left that leg and foot in the trenches at Sebastopol. Still a boy in spirit, he would like to join in the game yet; and - yes - if you ask him he will inform you, that entering the drawing-room the other evening with an old comrade, and catching the boys just home from school in a scrimmage over a sofa pillow, he dropped it neatly with the old stump right through a mirror behind, midst the cheers of the juveniles. But you must not say I did it at home, ' he says, or ha ha! I'll be kept in.' The youth, too, of St. Andrews or North Berwick never for gets his favourite pastime of golf, no matter the miles he has travelled or the years he has lived. From the first moment he has 'swiped' a ball cleverly with his 'driver' across a well-known dangerous sand bunker, or taken himself out of difficulties with a cleverly played shot with his 'cleek, ' he is booked to tramp the links, it may be for many a pleasant round. Rheumatism may truss him with sharp, stiffening pains, and gout fasten like the lower tendrils of the ivy round his feet; but summer, winter, spring, or autumn, he will be found on the links. Many an old Scotch officer has prayed while serving abroad that his next home station may be in Old Scotland, where there is a good golfing-green; and the wise-looking lawyers of the Court of Session have been known to hurry through cases in order to have a friendly round on the links of Musselburgh. And so they follow the ball till the turf almost rises and closes over them, the last wish of some being that their graves might be in the centres of 'putting greens, ' with the round hole into which they wish to play the ball cut above their breasts. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.