The sports of the world, with illustrations from drawings and photographs . ts measurements, and this1-. ai 1 ordingly done. In the other sense, a rink consists of a teamof four players, who are said 10 form a rink. 192 THE SPORTS OF THE WORLD. In the ordinary game, and in all competitionsbetween clubs, whether in friendly matches orfor medals, in provincial bonspiels or in the matchNorth versus South of Scotland, two such rinksof four players are opposed to each other. Thenumber of rinks which may be so opposed isunlimited. In each rink there are the leader (or first player),the second, third
The sports of the world, with illustrations from drawings and photographs . ts measurements, and this1-. ai 1 ordingly done. In the other sense, a rink consists of a teamof four players, who are said 10 form a rink. 192 THE SPORTS OF THE WORLD. In the ordinary game, and in all competitionsbetween clubs, whether in friendly matches orfor medals, in provincial bonspiels or in the matchNorth versus South of Scotland, two such rinksof four players are opposed to each other. Thenumber of rinks which may be so opposed isunlimited. In each rink there are the leader (or first player),the second, third, and fourth (or skip, for thoughit is not compulsory, it is usual—and, indeed, allbut universal—for the skip of the rink to playfourth). He has thus the direction of the playof the three who are subordinate to him, througheach end, and only surrenders the direction ofthe game to his third man while he proceeds tothe opposite end of the rink to play his own pairof stones. The action of the curler in playing—or, incurling phraseology, - delivering --—his stones is. JUST TEE HIGH WEIGHT (p.(Photo : A. Brown & Co., Lanark.) simple in the extreme, but it is not easy to placing himself on the crampit alreadymentioned, he stands facing the tee with the leftfoot in front, and stoops down to lift his , after receiving the direction of his skipas to what shot he is to attempt, he fixes his eyessteadily on the object at which he is to aim, anddraws the stone off the ice slowly backward andupward. His body is now raised a little, and hisweight distributed over both feet. In the earlypart of the swing his centre of gravity ought tobe over his right foot ; but as he delivers his stoneit is moved forward until, as his stone leaves hishand, his weight is transferred to the left the meantime,the stone has been brought forwardto touch the ice about in a line with the playersleft foot, so that on being released from his handit moves away easily and lightl
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