Outdoor Sports and Games

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Title: Outdoor Sports and Games
Author: Claude H. Miller

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The Library of Work and Play
OUTDOOR SPORTS AND GAMES
by
CLAUDE H. MILLER, PH.B.
Garden City New York Doubleday, Page & Company
1911

[Illustration: A Boys' Camp]

[Illustration: Title Page]

CONTENTS
I. Introductory
The human body a perfect machine--How to keep well--Outdoor sleeping--Exercise and play--Smoking--Walking.
II. The Boy Scouts of America
Headquarters--Purpose--Scout Law--How to form a patrol of Scouts--Organization of a troop--Practical activities for Scouts--A Scout camp--Model Programme of Sir R.S.S. Baden-Powell Scout camp.
III. Camps and Camping
How to select the best place to pitch a tent--A brush bed--The best kind of a tent--How to make the camp fire--What to do when it rains--Fresh air and good food--The brush leanto and how to make it.
IV. Camp Cooking
How to make the camp fire range--Bread bakers--Cooking utensils--The grub list--Simple camp recipes.
V. Woodcraft
The use of an axe and hatchet--Best woods for special purposes--What to do when you are lost--Nature's compasses.
VI. Use of Fire-arms
Importance of early training--Why a gun is better than a rifle--How to become a good shot.
VII. Fishing
Proper tackle for all purposes--How to catch bait--The fly fisherman--General fishing rules.
VIII. Nature Study
What is a true naturalist?--How to start a collection--Moth collecting--The herbarium.
IX. Water Life
The water telescope--How to manage an aquarium--Our insect friends and enemies--The observation beehive.
X. The Care of Pets
Cats--Boxes for song birds--How to attract the birds--Tame crows--The pigeon fancier--Ornamental land and water fowl--Rabbits, guinea pigs, rats and mice--How to build coops--General rules for the care of pets--The dog.
XI. The Care of Chickens
The best breed--Good and bad points of incubators--What to feed small chicks--A model chicken house.
XII. Winter Sports
What to wear--Skating--Skiing--Snowshoeing--Hockey.
XIII. Horsemanship
How to become a good rider--The care of horses--Saddles.
XIV. How to Swim and to Canoe
The racing strokes--Paddling and sailing canoes.
XV. Baseball
How to organize a team and to select the players--The various positions--Curve pitching.
XVI. How to Play Football
The various positions and how to select men for them--Team work and signals--The rules.
XVII. Lawn Tennis
How to make and mark a court--Clay and sod courts--The proper grip of the racket--Golf--The strokes and equipment.
XVIII. Photography
The selection of a camera--Snapshots vs. real pictures--How to make a photograph from start to finish.
XIX. Outdoor Sports for Girls
What to wear--Confidence--Horseback riding--Tennis--Golf--Camping.
XX. One Hundred Outdoor Games

ILLUSTRATIONS
A Boy's Camp
A Child's May-day Party
Fishing is the One Sport of Our Childhood that Holds Our Interest Through Life
The Moth Collector and His Outfit
The Exciting Sport of Ski-running
Swimming is One of the Best Outdoor Sports
In Canoeing Against the Current in Swift Streams a Pole is Used in Place of the Paddle
Photographs of Tennis Strokes Taken in Actual Play
How an Expert Plays Golf

I
INTRODUCTORY
The human body a perfect machine--How to keep well--Outdoor sleeping--Exercise and play--Smoking--Walking
Suppose you should wake up Christmas morning and find yourself to be the owner of a bicycle. It is a brand-new wheel and everything is in perfect working order. The bearings are well oiled, the nickel is bright and shiny and it is all tuned up and ready for use. If you are a careful, sensible boy you can have fun with it for a long time until finally, like the "One Hoss Shay" in the poem, it wears out and goes to pieces all at once. On the other hand, if you are careless or indifferent or lazy you may allow the machine to get out of order or to become rusty from disuse, or perhaps when a nut works loose you neglect it and have a breakdown on the road, or you may forget to oil the bearings and in a short time they begin to squeak and wear. If you are another kind of a boy, you may be careful enough about oiling and cleaning the wheel, but you may also be reckless and head--strong and will jump over curbstones and gutters or ride it over rough roads at a dangerous rate of speed, and in this way shorten its life by abuse just as the careless boy may by neglect.
It is just so with the human body which, after all, is a machine too, and, more than that, it is the most wonderful and perfect machine in the world. With care it should last many years. With abuse or neglect it may very soon wear out. The boy who neglects his health is