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Tonight, we'll read excerpts from Healthful Sports for Boys by A.R. Calhoun,

also known as Alfred R. Roquefford, born in 1844, Calhoun was an American soldier, author, journalist, and critic.

He served in the Union Army during the U.S. Civil War.

He was born in Kentucky and died in Brooklyn in 1912. Let's get cozy. Close your eyes.

Relax your body into the softness of your bed.

now take a few deep breaths. How sides are chosen in games.

When teams from different clubs or schools or places meet to try their skill in some game requiring skill and

endurance. There is no occasion to choose sides for that has to be done in advance. But when boys of the same school or

association meet for a game, it's necessary that the leaders should be

decided on in advance, as also the means by which the respective

sides must be chosen.

When two boys are contesting, one may pick up a pebble and ask, which hand is it? If the

guess is right, the boy making it is it. Drawing straws is another method for choosing sides and it is often used as a game in itself.

From a handful of grass, one of the boys selects as many pieces as there are to be players.

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