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Games and Pastimes for 1874. | BEADLE AND ADAMS, PUBLISHERS, NEW YORK. DIME BASE-BALL PLAYER : (THIRTEENTH ANNUAL EDITION) whe long-established and accepted authority in Base-Ball circles on all Rules. Laws and Usages of the Game; and the Sranparp Sour . | Averages, Club Reports, Professional Records, ete., containing a Brief History of -Base-Ball, Rules for Forming Clubs, Instructions for Scor Terms used in the Game, Insiructions for Managing a Cl fe Averages, List of Professional Players, Noted Club Records f or 72-8, Club Averaves for 1878, and the New Code of Playing Rules for 1874. Edited by Heury ‘Chadwiek. -, s HAND-BOOK OF ‘CROQUET. A complete Guide to the Principles and Practice of the Game. This popular pastime has, duriug the few years of its existence, rapidly outgrown the first vague -wnd imperfect rules and regulations of its inventor so. as almost every house at Which it is played adopts a different code of laws, it becomes a difficult matter for a bls assimilate his play to that of other people, It is, the: desirable that one uniform system should be gener adopted, and hence the ob- ject of this work is to establish a rec nized metl od of playing the go me. ii A desirable Cricketer’s Companion, containing complete instructions in the elements ‘of Bowlin x, Batting and Fielding; also the Revised | aws of the game: np ite ne i SE ees Crick : Remarks on the Duties of mpires ; the Mary-le-] | U4 | Regulations ; Bets, etc.. ete. Bv Hmnry Cuapwiok, author of “* Base-Ball Piayer,’ = | YAUnTiNG AND ROWTI | ! This volume will be fognd very complete as a aa the conduct of watercraft, and full of interesting information alike to the amateur and the novice. ‘The chapter referring to the recent great povrng sate of the Oxford and Cambridge ‘labs, on the Thames, will be found particular +s yinteresting, RIDING AND DRIVING. | A sure guide to correct Horsemanship, with complete directions for the road and fleld; and a specific section of directions and information for female equesirians. Drawn largely trom ‘ Stonehenge’s” fine manual, this volume will be tound all : bout the horse, and bis manage- that can be desired by those secking to know alla Ment in harness and under the saddle. ~~ QUIDE TO SWIMMING. : Purp Pereuson. Comprising Advisory Instructions; Rules pon entering th nes Gemasel rou ona Tans wimming : Diving; how to coves ty the eur Swimming on the Back ; how to § wim in ‘Times of Danger; * -bath eho Tnanage the waves, the tides, etc. ; a Chanter tor the Ladies «4 Spe Swimming-School; how to manage cases of Drowning; Dr, s'rank Swimmers. SS ROE Kage «. HAND-BOOK OF PEDESTRIANISM. . Giving the Rulee ‘or Training and Practice in Walking, Running, Leapt ‘Vaulting, etc., etc. Edited by Henry Chadwick, " pel. 9) ipa ~ DIME BOOK OF 100GAMES. ~- = ecimen Fen in's “Code”. cs Comprising Out-door and In door Summer Gases for Tourists and : vamiltes (Sm | the Country, Picnics, etc. ; Kee For sale by all Newsdealers and Booksellers; or wi'] be sent singly or in packages he. BEADLE AND ADAMS, Publishers, Free | 9S \William street, New York s* 7 arefore, highly . et Club Rules and- Embracing all the rules of the art for both sexes, Illustrated. vsy op rale De for Bae COMMGCIOO<Saolany oad