Sid G(eorge) Hedges (1897-1974) was a British

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 author

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 of books and articles on swimming, game

Game

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s and hobbies for young people. He also wrote young people's fiction.

Life and works

Sid G. Hedges was a prolific author of books and articles on swimming

Swimming (sport)

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 and diving

Diving

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. He also authored numerous books on indoor and outdoor game

Game

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s, home entertainments, hobbies, handicrafts, party games and tricks and several handbooks for youth club

Youth club

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 leaders.
He contributed articles, short stories and serials to the Boy's Own Paper

Boy's Own Paper

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, Chums, Scout

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, the Girl's Own Paper

Girl's Own Paper

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 and St. Nicholas Magazine

St. Nicholas Magazine

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. His fiction includes Tol the Swimmer, The Weir Boyd Mystery, Boys of Pendlecliffe School, The Pendlecliffe Swimmers and Tom Thumb Tales with Morals if You Want Them.

He was a Christian

Christian

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and wrote Is There Anybody There? The Voices of God (1971). He also compiled Down to Earth and up to Heaven: Prayers for the Youthful (1964).

Selected works

• The art of badminton (with N. Ferrers-Nicholson) (1934)
• The book of stunts and tricks (1949)
• Children's party games (1955)
• Christian youth, the alternative to Hitler youth (1942)
• Club games and activities (1940)
• Club games for outdoors (1945)
• The complete swimmer (1950)
• Crawl and butterfly swimming (1954)
• Games for small lawns (1933)
• Games for your home (1951)
• The Home Entertainer n.d.
• How well do you swim?: one hundred lessons and the Hedges standard swim tests (1936)
• I write for a living (1946)
• Ice-rink skating: an easy way to waltzing and the bronze medal (1932)
• Junior club work (1946)
• Knowledge for the growing boy (1941)
• The Malta mystery (1932)
• Modern party games (1952)
• Our senior class (1931)
• Outdoor and community games (1935)
• The Pendlecliffe swimmers (1931)
• Plague panic (1934)
• Seeing Europe cheaply (1932)
• Self-help for the violinist (1925)
• Social fun and games (1955)
• Swimming and diving: a manual of modern strokes and dives (1945)
• Swimming and watermanship (1933)
• Swimming in 12 lessons (1952)
• Tales of Pendlecliffe School (1930)
• Tol the swimmer (1952)
• The universal book of hobbies and handicrafts (1935)
• With one voice: players and thoughts from world religions (1970)
• A youth club band (1946)
• Youth club games and contests (1942)
• Youth club work (1960)