Answers: Football, skating, hockey, cricket, baseball, lacross, wrestling, rowing.

From The Children's Newspaper, 1935.

A pagan word find from The Faeries' Lamp, 1988. 

From The Children's Newspaper, 1927.

Answers: HARD, CARD, CART, CAST, COST, LOST, LOFT, SOFT

From Wee Wisdom, 1952.

From The Children's Newspaper, 1928.  Answers: FISH, WISH, WISE, WINE, WIND, BIND, BIRD.

Answers: steel, shadow, spike, shake, coddle, garden.

Answers - BALL, BALE, BARE, BARS, BATS.

From The Children's Newspaper, 1928.  Answers: MOON, MORN, MORE, MIRE, WIRE, WISE, RISE.

From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1908.

Answer: TRAIN.

From Wee Wisdom, 1937.

From The Children's Newspaper, 1927.

From The Children's Newspaper, 1936.  Answers: Carthorse, orchestra; garden, gander; slipper, ripples; stream, master; rats, star; organ, groan; lance, clean; loaf, foal; stone, notes.  

This scrambled word puzzle is from Force cereal, hence the first answer.  From The Children's Newspaper, 1933.

From Wee Wisdom, 1924. 

Answers: artist, target, rattle, travel.

From The Children's Newspaper, 1928. 

Answers: LONE, LINE, FINE.  

From The Children's Newspaper, 1928. 

Answers: Chrysanthemum, Amaryllis, Geranium, Fuchsia, Daisy. 

From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1907.

Answers: STRAP, TRAP, RAP.

From Spell/Write by Sack, O'Rourke & McAuliffe, 1978.

From Wee Wisdom, 1934.