Spaldings Manual Of Roller Skating PDF Download

Excerpt from Spalding's Roller Skating Guide Twenty years ago roller skating was popular throughout the United States and Canada. Every town of 2.000 or more inhabitants had its rink, while the larger cities supported from two to six or eight. Clubs were formed and the sport bid fair to enjoy a long reign of popularity, but there was something lacking and the attendance at the rinks dropped of if by degrees until it became a non-paying institution. Several efforts were made to revive the sport, but little or no success attended the efforts, and the promoters gave up the project in disgust. It was not until the spring of 1905 that the general public gave any indication that the time was ripe for a revival. Many of the big cities in England had, in the preceding year, started a revival which met with generous support from the public, and America quickly followed the lead with the result that success has attended the experiment far beyond the most sanguine expectations of the promoters of roller skating rinks. Where one hundred persons attended the sessions twenty years ago, fully ten times that number can be seen on the floors of the rinks in all the big cities, while the percentage of increase is correspondingly great in the smaller towns. A number of reasons can be advanced for this remarkable condition of affairs. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.