GLOSSARY FA: Football Association, the governing body of association (soccer) football GAA: Gaelic Athletic Association MCC: Marylebone Cricket Club, governing body of international cricket RFU: Rugby Football Union, the governing body of rugby football RSPCA: Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals RYS: Royal Yacht Squadron, prestigious yacht club headquartered on Isle of Wight W. G.: W. G. Grace, the great cricketer Ashes: annual cricket match between England and Australia, from 1882 athletics: track-and-field sports, such as running and long jump bathing machine: seaside dressing-room cabin on wheels, to be rolled into the water battue shooting: shooters walking in a line towards a covert of game birds blood sports: sports that involve the maiming or killing of animals bowler: the cricket player who, with a straight arm, propels the ball, usually on a bounce, towards the batsman bowls: an outdoor lawn game, in which balls are rolled towards a target bull-baiting: combat between tethered bull and specially bred fighting dog (‘‘bulldog’’) coursing: the pursuit of game, most commonly hares, by greyhounds covert: covered underbrush haven for game birds curling: Scottish team sport played on ice Derby: most prestigious English horse race, run annually at Epson Downs, near London field sports: hunting, usually on horseback and with dogs shooting, usually on foot in pursuit of game birds angling (fishing)
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