Excerpt from The Book of Athletics, Out-of-Door Sports: Containing Practical Advice and Suggestions From College Team-Captains and Other Amateurs, on Foot-Ball, Base-Ball, Tennis, Rowing, Golf, Sprinting, Bicycling, Swimming, Skating, Yachting, EtcThe descriptive article on Knots, Hitches, and Splices has been included as a valuable adjunct to the paper on Yachting.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.