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Alfred Rochefort Calhoun (1844-1912), who also wrote as Alfred Rochefort, was an American author, journalist and artist. He was the author of: How to Get on in the World: A Ladder to Practical Success (1895), Healthful Sports for Boys (1910) and Business Hints for Men and Women (1910). [C:UsersMicrosoftDocumentsCalibre Library]

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Title: Healthful Sports for Boys

Author: Alfred Rochefort

Release Date: July, 2004 [EBook #6129][Yes, we are more than one year ahead of schedule][This file was first posted on November 17, 2002]

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Language: English

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Healthful Sports for Boys

by

Alfred Rochefort

CONTENTS
SPRING
CHAPTER I
MARBLESHOW PLAYED

Marbles: Where and how made; different games; terms of game; how togain skill.

CHAPTER II
WHIP TOPS AND TOP GAMES

Whip tops, peg tops, and some other tops; how they are played; topgames.

CHAPTER III
KITES AND HOW MADE

About kites; how made; their practical uses; flying contests.

CHAPTER IV
HOOPS, WHEELS AND BUZZERS

Hoops, wheels and buzzers; stilts, different kinds; how used and howprocured.

CHAPTER V
LET'S GO A-FISHING

"Let's go a-fishing"; bait of many kinds and how to get it. Fishingoutfit; its care.

SUMMER
CHAPTER VI
BOATING AND CANOEING

Useful hints on boating and canoeing. "Don'ts" to be observed.
Definitions.

CHAPTER VII
SMALL SAIL BOATS

How to make and manage small sail boats.

CHAPTER VIII
HOW TO SWIM

Can you swim? How to learn. Confidence.

CHAPTER IX
STYLES OF SWIMMING

Styles of swimming; floating, diving; water games.

CHAPTER X
THINGS BOYS SHOULD KNOW

How sides are chosen in games of contest; some things all boys shouldknow.

CHAPTER XI
CURIOUS RHYMES FOR GAMES

Curious rhymes in counting out games.

CHAPTER XII
TAG AND BULL IN THE RING

All about the good old game of tag, and bull in the ring.

CHAPTER XIII
ALL ABOUT LEAP FROG

Do you know all about leap frog?

CHAPTER XIV
DUCK ON THE ROCKCAT

Dead Turtle; Duck on Rock; Brick Skittles; Tip Cat; Country Cat;
American Cat.

CHAPTER XV
BALL, BAT AND RACKET

And now for ball! Some good games that can be played with ball, batand racket. Town ball; two old cats; hand ball.

CHAPTER XVI
AMERICAN BASEBALL

The great American game of baseball. Some things every player shouldknow. Rules.

AUTUMN
CHAPTER XVII
ALL ABOUT FOOTBALL

The strenuous game of football. How to lay out the ground. Pointersfor players.

CHAPTER XVIII
MUMBLY PEGHOP SCOTCH

Mumbly peg; jackstones; Hop Scotch.

CHAPTER XIX
HOW TO CAMP OUT

How and where to prepare camp. A delightful way in which to spend avacation, if you know the way.

CHAPTER XX
BICYCLES AND LASSOES

Can you ride a bike? Information on wheels. How to throw a lariat.

CHAPTER XXI
GOLF, HOCKEY AND SHINNY

The old Scotch game of golf, hockey and shinny.

WINTER
CHAPTER XXII
SKATINGSKIINGSNOW SHOEING

On the ice and snow. The royal sport of skating. Some hints on skiingand snow shoes.

CHAPTER XXIII
COASTINGTOBOGGANINGSLEDS

Coasting. How to make sleds. The bob sled. The toboggan. Snow games.

CHAPTER XXIV
GENERAL ATHLETICS

Walking, Running, Jumping.

CHAPTER XXV
CRIESSHOUTSCOLLEGE YELLS

Battle cries, hailing shouts, and college yells.

CHAPTER XXVI
CLEVER TRICKS

Vanishing feats. Curious illusions. Various deceptive amusements.

CHAPTER XXVII
SLEIGHT-OF-HAND

Balancing. Juggling. Transformations.

INTRODUCTION

Among the many good and wise things said by the great Lincoln wasthis: "Give me the boy with promise of the man in him, and give me theman with the memory of the boy in him, and both can sit at my table,and if they sit together, we'll have all the better time!"

This book of out-door games for boys will make better boys, andthey'll get a lot more joy out of life and be the better men in time,for having read it and carried out its rules as to wholesome, honestsport.

The boy who plays an honest game will do an honest business, and he'llwin over "the sneak."

If you are "a grown-up," read this book, and in doing so live overagain the joyous, gladsome days of your boyhood, and you will sigh, aswe do while writing this: "Would I were a boy again!"

We want the mother, as well as the father, to read this book, for itwill recall the brothers of far-off days, and bring her into closersympathywe must not say "love," for that is already strong enoughwith the exuberance of her boys.

And the girls? Why, bless you! They, too, should read every scrap ofthis book, for they will find in it many of their own games, and notone that they could not play and enjoy, if circumstances permitted.

And the grand-parents? God bless them! Why, they'll enjoy it quite asmuch as the young folks.

SPRING
CHAPTER I
MARBLES: WHERE MADE; TERMS OF THE GAMES; DIFFERENT GAMES; HOW TOACQUIRE SKILL

Each season has its own particular work for the farmer, and he doeshis work without direction from or consultation with his neighbors orany one else. Each season has its own particular games for the youngfolks, and they take to them without any suggestion from outsiders,just as young ducks take to water, without any instructions from themother bird. The seasons in the south temperate zone are just theopposite to those in the north. Some years ago I spent the months ofJuly and August in New Zealand, and great was my surprise to find theboys down at Dunedin snowballing on the Fourth of July, while thesleigh-bells made music through the streets. In the following October,which is the spring month in Victoria, Australia, I found theyoungsters of Melbourne playing marbles, just as the boys in New Yorkhad been doing when I left it the previous May.

MARBLES

We have reason to believe that the first marbles were fashioned frompebbles on the ocean's shore, or ground into roundness by the actionof river currents. We do not know when or where marbles originated,but of the antiquity of the game we are very sure. Egyptian boysplayed marbles before the days of Moses, and marbles are among thetreasures found buried in the ruins of Pompeii, which you willremember was destroyed by an eruption of lava from Vesuvius in thefirst century of the Christian era. To-day marbles are played in everycivilized land under the sun, and with slight differences, the methodof shooting and the games are practically the same.

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