The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-05-13
Increasing Interest in the
Game Of Lacrosse.
DUST FROM THE DIAMOND
At thelTTack-A Disciple of Isnac Wal
tOn-BAsebAn ProspeCtS-
Improvements

fair to grow exceedingly popular. In
deed, there is no reason Why it Should
not Wherever it has beenqntroduced
it has proven great drawing card.
infringes on no other sport, but fills
field peculiarly its own. In conversa-
ticn with Mr.. Fred w. Scarf, who wa,
the fi7st to move in the matter of its
lowilS concerning the game: "It
originated" said mat gentleman, with
the Ojlbway Indians, under the name
of Baggatsway,' and was introduced
in Montreal by the Caugbnawagus
frog iOis Indians. If you have any de.
sire TO read of the struggles that used
to take place at this old Indian ball
play when nation contended against
nation. 500 and 600 players in one
grand scram ole, just read up Ca,lin g
North American Indians. There you
will view the game in its primitive form.
The Canadian game is simplicity itself.
Twenty-four players, twelve on a side,
each side having field captain, whose
duty it is to instruct the men, but who
does not play. There are two goals
lbs yards apart-one to def nd, the
other to attack, each goal consisting of
two poles six feet Ugh and six feet apart;
an India-rubber ball; each player with
lacrosse sick, referee and two UNI
pires, one at each goal, and there you
are ready to start.
The game is governed by rules, but
no doubt, if you have ever witnessed a
game, you will think that some of the
rules are not very strictly OBJ, erved"
/ "One would imagine it to be very
rough and dangerous game"
80 it is. quite rough and sometimes q
little dangerous, but so are all athletic
sports, and because a man gets finger
broken playing baseball, or a person
gets drowned boating, yon would not
be in favor of abolishing those sp rts,
would your Just so in lacrosse. The
more bruises man gets, the more ex-
citing the game. See that scar over my
eye? See that vacancy in my jaw where
two or three teeth ought to be? we'll, !
those are soma of the beauties of the
game"
''Do you think the game will .becoms
popular here?"
Eyes, sir. 1t is bound to. Every
body who sees it likes it. bat the great |
rouble lies in getting psople into trim,
tor man should be in q thorough con-
iition TO stand hard game"
blow many players have you?"
1--WE had sixteen out the other night,
md have had as high as twenty-five.
Yes, We have thought something of |
living an exhibition game, but here is
where the main trouble lies. look !
Ipon training a lacrosse team the slme
8 rehearsing people for the stage. If |
he game goes with a vim and dash.
hen success is sure to follow; but if
Fou go before the public, and one half
he players cannot pick up the ball.
Thy then the whole game gets black
ye.' 1 have an article in my posses
ion, and l would like to read little of |
: to you. 1t is the description of a
anne between q team OF Indians and /
Fhites:
An EXCITING CONTEST.
1.-THE referee places the ball and |
anne begins: The Indian captain has
made some change in the disposition of
lis men. They have recovered from
1eir nervousness. Imagine nervous
Foquois, if you can, but there you see
Relve of them, and a nervous captain.
hey remember the days, not many
ears old, when they could show the
ALI TO their rivals, and carry victory
it'll the lacrosse stick into the whites
oal, as their sires swept it with the
1 0mahawk among the Hurons See
acre the ball is off again, and just as
Indian is catching it, down comes
ale-faced checker on his Uranium. as
he had intended to split him from
roWn to chin. Foul, roars the Indian
1ief. Up runs the referee. The red
Kin makes no accusation of intentional
)ul; the hall is faced where the foul
ccurred, and off it flies again. What
. olendid endurance! What real codr-
ge and skill! See how the fellows leap
1 nd twist and turn, as if they were on
brings. Whacki comes a redskin
leOker on pale-face shoulder blade.
own goes the white; up dash the two
GERS who were near; desperate body
a-body struggle; muscle and skill VS..
4uscle VS.. skill: no yielding one side
) the other; in slips wary pale7face,
,cks out the. rubber, and carries it past
b opponent: but as he is about to
brow loo, lit to swift checker, who
.nds it back as straight as die to the
ale.face's goal. But it is a grounder.
20 far away. In q second it is $50
ards up field again. The redSkln
.tches it, and takes shot at the pale
ce's goal. The ball strikes one of the
)les. The umpire has his hand nearly
Used to declare the game but the goal
seper sWipes the rubber to one side-a
ose scriHmsge. Then the ball dances
front of the flags. The goal-keeper
Rtches it like cat. Half-a dozen
mes it is tipped straight for game;
ilf-a-dez n times it is Blocked or
ruck back. For minute-a whole
Kty seconds-the fate of the game is
ing fought out within the goal crease
a space of six feet square. Is it not
ie some military assault where the
tile has been waged up TO the very
ties of the enemy, and the forlorn
spe is then to do or die? How the
Hence roarsl Not a player speaks.
9TH fortunate trip, one of the play
lifts it over the goal-keeper's
builder. clear through the flags. Well