Popular Science Monthly/Volume 24/March 1884/College Athletics II

At the club they call me ‘Left-at-the-Post.’ I never did a day’s work in my life; and I haven’t the heart to run over a chicken when I’m motoring. "Aren’t you afraid," asked Vuyning, "that I’ll call a cop and hand you over? And I’ll bet you a gold mine I’ve got $50 worth more gent’s furnishings on my frame than you have. "And I’ll be as frank with you. He saw the struggling mass of dogs, beggars, fakirs, slave-drivers and veiled women in carts without horses, the sun blazing brightly among the bazaars, the piles of rubbish from ruined temples in the street-and then a lady, passing, jabbed the ferrule of a parasol in his side and brought him back to Broadway. Five minutes of his stroll brought him to a certain corner, where a number of silent, pale-faced men are accustomed to stand, immovably, for hours, busy with the file blades of their penknives, with their hat brims on a level with their eyelids. Even Broadway that morning was a discord in Vuyning’s ears; and in his eyes it paralleled for a few dreamy, dreary minutes a certain howling, scorching, seething, malodorous slice of street that he remembered in Morocco.

Nobody objects to a man keeping his score, provided that he does not stand for some minutes by the hole while he is counting his strokes and putting them down in a book to the great inconvenience of those behind him; but what seems to me pernicious is the idea that a stroke, beautiful to look at and delightful to play, which has been part of the game ever since it was first played, should be sacrificed because it is in some cases hard luck to its victims and interferes with the score of others. Loren and I talked that matter over, and resolved upon the same thing," said Ralph. "Did Hastings tell you any thing about a George Prime who is down on them because they would not take his name before the Toxophilites? "Yours truly," said Emerson, sitting down again. "Seems not," said Emerson, politely. Snooker accessories include: chalk for the tip of the cue, to help apply spin on the cue ball; various different rests such as the swan or spider, for playing shots that are difficult to play by hand; extensions for lengthening the cue; a triangle for racking the reds; and a scoreboard, typically attached to a wall near the snooker table.

He laid Vuyning’s pocketbook and watch-the Vuyning 100-year-old family watch-on the table. Therefore, let it be known that the description of Vuyning’s apparel is germane to the movements of the story, and not to make room for the new fall stock of goods. The tip of the cue must only make contact with the cue ball and is never used for striking any of the reds or colours directly. Each player has a snooker cue (or simply a "cue"), not less than 3 ft (91.4 cm) in length, which is used to strike the cue ball. He seemed awfully white, but perhaps that was fancy; and said as if there was something in his throat choking him: "Go to a ball. No! I'd sooner rot as I stand!" Well, it isn't usual for a fellow to cut up like that when he's asked if he's going to a hop. There is a divan-a café over here that will do. The art playground, new aquatic center as well as over two hundred recreational facilities will likely keep everyone energized. It will not be the living power which it might be.

Vuyning made a pleasant reference to meteorological conditions, thus forming a hinge upon which might be swung the door leading from the thought repository of the other. That in itself was bad form, but what would they have thought had they known that a waiter's impertinence caused it! I have said that it is by no means clear whether modern improvements in clubs have made very much difference in scoring. This is, perhaps, an extreme illustration, but I am satisfied that in a lesser degree the want of fruit is responsible for much of the illness in the world. There’s a way to tote the haberdashery, and I want to get wise to it. "It’s bully of you to put me wise. I've told you he was an awful Beast-old even for a subaltern; but then he'd joined the Army late, and had knocked about the world a good deal. Then he turned on the youngster.

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