WHIPPING OR BINDING

Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 67, 19 March 1932, Page 2 (Supplement)

WHIPPING OR BINDING

FIRST AiD TO YOUR BAT OR

RACQUET.

School teachers, parents and bullock drivers are not the only persons who should know something about how to whip. But the kind of whipping we are going to describe is much more useful j than the other kind of whipping. When [the binding becomes loose on your bat. racquet or golf stick, you may want to [know how to put 011 a new piece of thread. The idea is also useful for keeping the strands of a rope-end together, and the method is most easily picked up by trying with a rope at first.

We will start with a piece of waxed thread long' enough to go around the rope a couple of dozen times. .Bend one end intuja loop, and lay it on the rope as jn (a); the free end i* marked A. Then o ive the thread a few turns around the rope over the loop, leaving a short part of the loop projecting. Next draw the short end (b) until the-short loop is hidden, and cut oil' B elose to the last turn of the thread, as in (c). Lay the other end (a) 011 the rope, and continue the whippingover it with the slack of the thread, as in (d). Finish by pulling A under the whipping until the slack is taken up, and cut it off elose to the point where the thread comet; out, and it should looiv as neat as at (e). In the case of the handle of _ a cricket bat, the linishing-off process is altered slightly. When the binding is almost complete a small loop of very line (string is laid on, so that it projects a littli beyond where the last turn of the bindin" will come. When the binding string has been cut off, thread the end through the loop, and draw it under the binding by pulling both ends of the loop, and cut the thread off close to the handle.