Beadle's New Dime Novels, No. 49 — page 99: what you’re looking at

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; OF GAMES AND PASTIMES. BEADLE AND ADAMS, PUBLISHERS, NEW YORE, DIME BASE-BALL PLAYER FOR 1878. Con the Individual] Club Records of the Internati Alliance Clubs of 1877, including all the Single Weare Banus eee ~ Re s > togethe r with the ts) TAN the League and International Championship Records of 1877; Model Contests of the Season, both in the Amateur and also chapters on pla the several ti special Ly playing positions, on scoring, etc. Edited By Henry HAND-BOOK OF CROQUET. A Complete Guide to the Peinerpee and Practice of the Game. This popular pastime has, during the few years 0 its existence, rapidly outgrown the first vague and imperfect rules and reguintions of its inventor; and, ag almost every house at which it is played adopts a different code of laws, it becomes a difficult matter for a stranger to assimilate his play to that of other people. It is, therefore, highly des e that one uniform system should be generally adopted, and hence the ob- ject of this work is to establish a recognized method of playing the game, DIME BOOK OF 100 GAMES. Out-door and in-door SUMMER GAMES for Tourists and Families in the Coun- try, Picnics, etc., comprising 100 Games, Forfeits and Conundrums for Childhood ard Youth, Single and Married, Grave and Gay. A Pocket Hand-book for the Summer Season. CRICKET AND FOOT-BALL. A desirable Cricketer’s Companion, containing complete instructions in the ele- - also the Revised Laws of the Game ; Re- “wents of Bowling, Batting and Fieldin ry-le-Bone Cricket Club Rules and Regu- marks on the Duties of Umpires; the lations ; Bets, etc. By Henry Chadwick. HAND-BOOK OF PEDESTRIANISM. Giving the Rules for Training and Practice in Walking, Running. Leaping, Vaulting, etc. Edited by Henry Chadwick. YACHTING AND ROWING. This volume will be found very complete as a guide to the conduct of watercraft, and full of interesting informacion alike to the cinaeur and thenovice. The chap- ter nolecring to the great rowing-match of the Oxford and Cambridge clubs on the es, will be found particularly interesting. RIDING AND DRIVING. A sure guide to correct Horsemanship, with complete directions for the road and field ; sole specific section of directions and information for female equestrians. Drawn largely from “ Stonehenge’s * fine manual, this volume will be found all that can be desired by those seeking to know all about the horse, and his manage- ment in harness and under the saddle. GUIDE TO SWIMMING. Comprisi Instructions; Rules upon Entering the Water; General Direct one for Srinmiods Diving: How to Come to-the Surface ; Swimming on the Hock: How to Swims 50 pear 10 Danger ; Surf-bathing oe male Swimming tc. § r for the es; a : TIE eee ieenane uate of Drowning; Dr. Franklin's Code for Swimmers; etc. Illustrated. By Capt. Philip Peterson. Ge For sale by all <~- heap gid or sent, post-paid, to any address, on receipt of price—TEN CENTS each, j BEADLE AND ADAMS, PUBLISHERS, 98 WILEAM TFT