St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-01-14

he pictures hung up side by side with
those of the greatest events of all time.
From the chariot races of King Solo
mons time down to the age when old
Plutarch and some of those old boys put
up not games between the husky Gre
clan lads of the period and the wild and
untamed beasts of the forest, games of
skill have been in vogue. Coming down
TIL line we find hanging conspicuously
Oh the walls of history accurate and
life-sized photographs of Spartacus
fighting
AGAINST MAN AND BEAST
for tn e delectation of the Romans of
that period. These pictures are large
and gaudy, and display great amount
of human gore and mangled lion in the
foreground, while the middl distance
and background are filled with haugh ty
sciOnS of the empire, who with a
languid motion of the thumb decided
the destiny of the prone gladiator.
All of the ancient sports were prac-
ticed III the indolent atmosphere of the
South, were replete with the savage in
stincts of the brute and the depraved
passions of man. In modern days the
same elements of the baser sports
attract and entertain the residents
of the balmy South, with its
bull fights, cooking mains and prize
fights. In the North the air is loaded
with health-giving ozone. that goes
tingling through the veins, and stim-
ulating every one into vigorous action.
As a result, our sports keep pace with
our physical development, and they
must necessarily be full Of life and
action. 1t is to be seen on the bosom of
our lakes and rivers in rowing contests;
on the green SwardiD tennis and cricket
matches; on the college campus in foot
bali. and, last Of all, III
THE WINTER GAMES,
which require the very acme of skill
and endurance, skating and curling.
Hail, Scotland, Wi thy ancient play,
When winter cleeds the PLAIN;
Thy buirdly race shall ne er decay
While curling doth remain
COasting, skating. snowshoeing and
curling are essentially games of the
North, and while there are other cities
that lay claim to all the facilities neces-
sary for the indulgence and deyeIop.
ment of winter sports, none of them
have any greater advantages than st.
Paul.
Without discoursing on the eompar-
atIye merits of any OF the above out
door sports. we can safely say in praise
OF any and all of them that they Illus
trate the national character, and also
play very important part in its healthy
development. This is especially true of
urling, aud if SO, then the history of
the game has an intimate connection
with the history of our people.
''BRETHREN OF THE BRooM'
will bear out the claim that The gram
auld roarin' game" is as truly national
game as any other, Notwithstanding the
fact that it came to America from bon
ME Scotland, but as many of themselves
came from the land of the thistle and
the heather they will cheerfully sub
scribe to the sentiment expressed in
ma game sac forges friendships link.
We're brlthers n upon the rink;
Tory or Grit. tbs a the same,
Playing the gran auld roarin' gamep
1t is somewhat difficult matter to de-
termine exactly the antiquity of curling,
for most Of the records of the invention
and progress OF this popular recreation
seem to have been lost in the shuttle.
However, all the authorities seem to
have agreed that IL Is quite an ancient
game, dating back perhaps 400 years.
AS one writer remarks, how
ever, while it may have been
played as long ago as that time, it
was only about the middle of the last
century THAT it took Oh the dignity of a
national game" The same authority
continues: Unlike its neighbor-golf,
which, barring the gutta, has been
played in much the same method from
the beginning, and
UNLIKE LAWN TENNIS,
which IS simply the revival of a game
played centuries ago, in form which
required as much skill as the present
curling has so~developed out of its an
eient mode that it is only by the help of