An Athletic Primer, Vol. 8

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Excerpt from An Athletic Primer, Vol. 8: January, 1903The first requisite for athletic sport is a track. Many new clubs are unable to procure grounds and build a path during their first year, and are obliged to make temporary provision for their Opening games. Any field large enough for a base ball match is large enough for an athletic meeting. The committee should mark out a path of such size and shape as the limits or the grounds will allow, not trying to lay it out of any uneven circuit, but making it of the best attainable dimensions, no matter how much or how littleit may measure. Then mark the outer and inner borders of the track by rows of toy ¿ags, or, better still, by ropes and stakes, measure carefully and mark plainly by whitewashed lines the start and finish of each distance which any contestant must travel, and erect one or two tents, furnished with a plentiful supply of wash-bowls, water and chairs. These arrange ments may seem rude and primitive, but there have been occasionally, in America, and frequently in England, meetings given in such man ner, which were well managed, interesting to spectators, and satis factory to both promoters and contestants.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.