. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. ^>i ?-â ' i c^^^^Tpff^^^^^iffilJ^^^g^ SAN" FRANCISCO. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 11, l«s6. Sporting Notes. Every Bport has in it; an element of danger, or, in. milder , an amount of risk which adds to its charms. Take the national game as an illustration. Look at the hands of a catcher; tne joints of every digit are drawn out of place. First basemen rarely play through an innings without receiv- ing some marks from the hard throws which they must stop. In battiDg, pitching and ordinary fielding the risks are lessened, but when it comes to base running,
. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. ^>i ?-â ' i c^^^^Tpff^^^^^iffilJ^^^g^ SAN" FRANCISCO. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 11, l«s6. Sporting Notes. Every Bport has in it; an element of danger, or, in. milder , an amount of risk which adds to its charms. Take the national game as an illustration. Look at the hands of a catcher; tne joints of every digit are drawn out of place. First basemen rarely play through an innings without receiv- ing some marks from the hard throws which they must stop. In battiDg, pitching and ordinary fielding the risks are lessened, but when it comes to base running, a man should be made of whalebone to stand the contusions of falling or sliding over the hard ground in making second and third. It is no child's play, and the men who take part in well-con- tested games, rarely come out of one without a liberal supply of bruises and scratches. The most serious hurts are such as are never noticed by the unthinking crowd of onlookers. But it is profitable; good salaries are attached to the most difficult positions, and money is a plaster that heals many wounds. Football is, of all outdoor games, the roughest. Bones are often broken, arms dislocated, shoulders badly scratched, hands temporarily crippled; the falls that come in a football match are often serious and the collisions are like blows struck by a trip-hammer. The popular delusion is that football players get badly kicked, but that is the smallest danger of the sport. A good football player will never kick an opponent, and only a bungler will do so by accident. The hard knocks come from collisions when players are tackled running at full speed; then both go to mother earth with a thad like a falling stone from a church steeple. The game should only be played by boys or men whose muscles are like india rubber, for falls must follow; there is no escape from them, and every honest player must bear a fair share of severe collisions. But, as in baseball, excitement carries football players
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