_Slice_: To draw the face of the club across the ball, sending it with a curve towards the right. _Socket_: That part of the head of iron clubs into which the shaft is fitted. _Sole_: The flat bottom of the club head. _Spoons_: Wooden-headed clubs of three lengths--long, middle, and short: the head is scooped or grassed so as to loft the ball. _Spring_: The degree of suppleness in the shaft. _Square_: When the game stands level, neither party being any holes ahead. _Stance_: The position of the player's feet when addressing himself to the ball. _Steal_: To hole a long unlikely "putt" from a distance, not by a "gobble," but by a stroke which just succeeds in getting the ball as far as the hole. _Stroke_: Any movement of the club which is intended to strike the ball. _Stymie_: When your opponent's ball lies in the line of your "putt"; from an old Scotch word, meaning "obscuring." _Swing_: The sweep of the club in driving. _Tee_: The pinch of sand on which the ball is placed at the teeing-ground. _Teeing-ground_: A space marked out within the limits of which the ground must be teed. _Third_: A handicap of a stroke deducted every _third_ hole. _Toe_: Another name for the nose of the club. _Top_: To top the ball is to hit it above the centre. _Two-more, three-more, etc._: See under "Odds." _Upright_: A club is said to be "upright" when its head is not at a very obtuse angle to the shaft. _Whins_, furze, or gorse. _Whipping_: The pitched twine uniting the head and handle. _Wrist-shot_: Less than a half-shot, generally played with an iron club--the old saying was "played from the knee." APPENDIX B THE ALL-ENGLAND CROQUET LAWS. 1897. 1. _Mallets._--There shall be no restriction as to the number, weight, size, shape, or material of the mallets; nor as to the part of the handle held. The ball must only be struck with either end of the head of the mallet. 2. _Size of Balls._--The balls used in match play shall be three and five-eighth inches in diameter, of even weight, each ball weighing not less than thirteen and three-quarter oz. or more than fourteen and a quarter oz. 3. _Choice of Lead and of Balls._--It shall be decided by lot which side shall have choice of lead and of balls. In a succession of games the choice of lead shall be alternate, the sides keeping the same balls. 4. _Commencement of Game._--In commencing, each ball shall be placed on the starting spot. The striker's ball, when so placed and struck is at once in play, and can roquet any other ball in play or be roqueted whether it has made the first hoop or not. 5. _Stroke, when taken._--A stroke is considered to be taken if a ball be moved in the act of striking; but should a player, in taking aim, move his own or any other ball accidentally, it must be replaced to the satisfaction of the umpire or the adversary, and the stroke be then taken. If a ball be moved in taking aim, and then struck without being replaced, the stroke is foul (see Law 25).