Ogden's A.B.C of Sport is a set of trading cards released in 1927, the set featured 25 cards with the letters X and Z combined in to 1 card to complete the set. The cards feature a number of sports popular in the 120's which perhaps would not get a look in today. I combined the pictures in to a YouTube slideshow which can be seen below with each individual image shown below that with what I personally consider would be the modern alternative sport featured.
Angling.. Modern alternatives would include Athletics, Archery, American and Aussie Rules Football. |
Boxing.. Modern alternatives Basketball, Badminton, Baseball and Base Jumping. |
Cricket.. Alternatives now would include Cycling or Canoeing |
Deerstalking Hunting would be frowned upon now and replaced by Darts, Diving, Dressage, Decathlon. |
Elk (Hunting) which like deerstalking would be frowned upon, alternatives would include Eventing or the modern E-Sports. |
Football or Rugger as its referred to here. Football being the more common version of "Football" now that would feature for F. Other sports include Fencing and Figure Skating. |
Golf.. Go-Karting, Gaelic Football and Gymnastics. |
Hockey then and probably now but alternatives may include Heptathlon, Hand Ball and High Jump. |
Imbecile (House hunter), not sure why that's thought of as sporting, and until I read the the summary I thought the picture was referring to a gambler. Proper sports would be featured here now probably including Ice Hockey, Ironman or Ice Dancing. |
Jockey, still a tough and respected sporting activity. Alternatives for J, Javelin, Judo, and Jogging. |
Kudos, sporting alternatives for modern cards include Kabaddi, Karate and Kick Boxing. |
Lacrosse, Lude is the only modern I could think of |
Motorist, whilst not sporting Motor Sport is, Other alternatives could include Mountain Biking and Miniature Golf. |
Nap (Card Player), Not sure if I class cards as sporting but that's my opinion only, Netball or Ninjitsu today. |
Ounder of Otters, not sure what an ounder is, at a guess it's someone who forcers otters out of their secure places to be hunted. Not my idea of sport, alternative sports to feature in a modern set Open Water Swimming and One Day Cricket which has a number of differences to Five Day Cricket to allow it to be different. |
Pinger or Ponger is a term for Ping Pong Player. Still popular today, alternatives for inclusion are Pigeon Racing, Pole Vault, Power Boat Racing and Pole Dancing. |
Quoiter, refers to a player in the game of Quoits a game where the players toss rings at a stake trying to land the ring with the stake through the middle. Quidditch now, as much as I don't like or understand Harry Potter people who do tell me this is now a proper sport played by teams. |
Runner, the modern sport choices would probably be Rugby League which I much prefer to the other code and which I put here because instead of the other code as it's first World Cup was in 1954, a full 33 years before the alternative. |
Ski-er, I'd go with any of Surfing, Sailing, Softball or Sumo in a modern set. |
Tennis is still a world wide popular sport now, Track and Field, Tug of War. Ten Pin Bowling and Triathlon could all feature now. |
Umpire, still needed and still vilified when decisions go against the team they are not in favour of. Sporting alternatives for now Ultimate a type of Frisbee sport, and a number of underwater competitive sports. |
Villikins, Despite googling it I have no idea what it's supposed to be. I'd offer up Volleyball and Vault Gymnastics for a modern set. |
Wrestling would probably still occupy this card, Weightlifting, Water Polo and Wheelchair versions of Basketball, Football or Rugby may also feature. |
X here refers to ex champions of various sports, actual sports that could feature Xare and Xing yi Quan. I had to google those and Xare is popular in South America and played with a racket and ball in a trinquete. Xing yi Quan is a Chinese martial art. |
Yachting features for Y and Yo-Yo is the only alternative sport- pastime I can think of. - - Z is for Zest, I'm guessing that's for enthusiasm for sport in general. Google again offered some alternatives which were Zourkhaneh a Iranian Martial art and Zui Quan which is drunken Boxing. |
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