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...persists in ungentlemanly conduct in playing. An effectual provision was made against any repetition of the block-game, which nearly proved so disastrous to the foot-ball interests. Formerly a club could mass its players before the goal, and with an almost solid wall of crosses and men easily prevent a goal from being thrown. Thus the play would be protracted and an uninteresting game would be the result. Now the ??? is empowered when darkness comes on to give the game, in case of a tie, to the side which has shown the best play. This, perhaps, may seem...
...poles from 4 feet to 3 feet 6 inches. This will favor placing along the side lines. Another change is that the server is required to have one foot inside or on the base line and the other foot outside the base line and on the ground. This will prevent the possibility of standing entirely outside of the court when serving. A further amendment requires the umpire to transfer players from one end of the courts to the other at the end of every game in case one court for any reason is preferable. Formerly players were so changed after...
...this desire are not universally the same but vary in different countries. But, unquestionably, tobacco is the most prominent of the narcotic substances and is the most generally used, especially with the civilized world. A curious fact in regard to tobacco is that wherever means have been taken to prevent its use, it will be found to have acquired the stronger hold. Noticeably is this so in Russia, where formerly the punishment for the first offence was a whipping, for the second, death; and in England, where the most strenuous efforts were made to prevent its introduction a movement which...
...would like to offer to its notice one or two suggestions. There is no apparent reason why a man's payment should be deferred ten days or more after the sale of his second-hand books or furniture, and we are unable to see what is to prevent the payment of the money as soon as the article is sold. Everybody knows when it is likely to be bought, and there seems to be no necessity at all for waiting a week or so to send a postal card. The society might keep a book in which every article sold...
...changes made by the convention in the constitution of the association and in the playing rules of the game were in the main excellent. The new regulations in regard to umpires will, it is hoped, prevent a good deal of needless bickering and fault-finding and will assure honest, impartial decisions in games...