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The interest to the spectators and players alike enters in when the touch-down is accomplished after a series of zigzags toward the outer line, where force meeting force in a counter direction results in a tangent, when the goal is reached by the subtlety of a diagonal. A cushion carom is an artistic thing; a set-up shot is the beginner’s delight.
"Oh! look! they're going on the field, girls!" exclaimed Adelaide just then, and all minor matters were allowed to rest while they watched the opposing players run out and start to take their positions.
She gathered in the whole stage and players and people in one wide impression, and absorbed it and enjoyed it. She laughed at the comedy and wept she and the gaudy woman next to her wept over the tragedy. And they talked a little together over it. And the gaudy woman wiped her eyes and sniffled on a tiny square of filmy, perfumed lace and passed little Mrs. Sommers her box of candy.
He felt quite well satisfied to look on, and from time to time he thought he might risk a criticism of the players; but though he found his own position regular, he never quite understood that of John Hay.
Although the salute is a mere piece of sword drill, of no use for practical purposes, it is still worth learning, as being the preliminary flourish common at all assaults-at-arms, and valuable in itself as reminding the players that they are engaged in a knightly game, and one which insists on the display of the greatest courtesy by one opponent to the other.
In the first of the long string of matches which have been played between Sheffield and Glasgow, dating back to 1874, Mr. Wotherspoon was one of the players; and it may be mentioned that, in the same contest, the Glasgow representatives were made up entirely of Queen's Park and Clydesdale men, and that each city scored a couple of goals. ~James J. Thomson.~
If that queen were free, I could finish everything." "Oh, oh I've told you it's a stupid game with stupid rules and it makes its players " She did not complete that, but went about on another tack with the danger note in her voice. "Just now I overheard your caller say a thing " "Ah, I feared you overheard." The arrogance of the gesture with which she interrupted me was splendid.
Major Clayton, Bowdoin, the Murdochs, Stirlings, and Howards all persons of the highest quality inaugurated a series of chess tournaments, the several players and those who came to look on to be thereafter comforted with such toothsome solids as wild turkey, terrapin, and olio, and such delectable liquids as were stored in the cellars of their hosts.
"I've thought of that, too," answered Sydney readily. "And I don't believe we er you have." "Well, then I think our play's dished at the start." "Why, not a bit, sir. Call the players up, explain the thing to them, and tell them you want a man for that position." "Ah, ask for volunteers, eh?" "Yes, sir. And you'll have just as many, I'll bet, as there are men!" Mills smiled.
They were always conscious of their audience in their way of speaking, walking, smoking, reading a paper, carrying their heads, looking, bowing to each other. Such players' tricks are natural to young people, and the more insignificant that is to say, unoccupied they are, the stronger hold do they have on them.
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