The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-07-14
HEROIC EXERCISES.
.rs WHICH THE FUTURE MAY
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AthIetes-An
charest-
-,-, the Cincinnati Enquirer
-. s1efeut city OF Bucharest, where
,5 crescent meet. an Austrian
CO. .,-respondent a few weeks ago mad
.-.s-viaw with a couple Of Turkish
-z Who had been canvassing the 10
--srker with their samples OF per-
-,. and Oriental drugs. They were
,---..s.t7g the Armenian question ana
mar i'm the Soudan, and expressing
- -spret at the fate Of the shah Who'
ee.,-7irr 10 their account had been
go. promoter of commerce, and hao
.-+s5 them several audiences during
their visit to Teheran.
r-,,p the arrival of a stage eoach the
-s-orter left the room for few minutes
n look at his mail, and when ne returheu
=. found the whole assembly in STATE
10 u,roarious merr.ment A Hungarian
a. in treating his friends to selee-
$50 from a Vienna sporting paper. had
s seross a column of comments on
~. nous from Texas, where psalm
SINGING governor, in spite OF numerous
svr,asfulations and against the pIoteSt
~ bis own wife had convened the statS
Ss.is-1,ra to protect the country against
~ visit of TWO unarmed men solh6 -
snas ge in a match Of fstcuHs: Inc !eau
er had dropped the paper IN III III vi
.ouvulsiye mirth. MusS ulIlldhs anu
CTristians Of half a dozen different sects
LAUGHED till they cried. "Ihat governor
ought 10 be clapped into pellcUa - -, Sii -
turn over the Office 10 ms WIFE, CltSu
TT,ngarian He ought 10 wear hdio'
instead Of a hat" Then to the uIhs.
,'Excuse me for forgetting the snah, Dut
this story is a ne plus ultra. 1 eo s ., MY
and bigotry can really go no IurlheI' ~.
But who knows if they cannot9 adIo-
crowed LEGISLATURES are still at work, ana
a time may come when crOquet anu la"l
tennis will be denounced as DIutdi sPol =
and when billiard rooms VIII De closeu On
Saturday afternoon to force the ulcoh-
verted to prepare for the Solel'hhtles OF
the impending holy day. an,
The Old passion for athletic sports stun
fingers in many parts OF the old Worlu'
hut the trouble is that in the most pro-
gressive countries the current OF tenden-
cies is on the whole, in the opposite d.
rectiop. our societies for physical cul-
ture are forced into constant compromises
with the dilettanteism OF their patrons
and had their eyes opened when their
supposed world champions were pitted
against unframed rustics in the land or
the old Olympic festivals. TWO French-
men, one Englishman ana kWo OF three
American delegates were far behind Wheh
the three victOrs of the Marathon foot
race reached Athens in hve-mlnute inter-
walls. Greeks every one OF them, dusky
and painting, OF course put by no means
worn out into positive collapse, Ike one
OF the French runners, who dropped IN
the middle of the road and reeied from
side to side when his friends tried 10
help him on his legs again. The winners
the three first prizes were able-bOdled
young fellows but, with one exception,
by no means professional sprinters. Their
leader had not run regular foot race
for six yeats. He was a vineyard Ia
bOrers, cutivating a little truck farm OF
his own on a hillside, where he had
steeled his muscles by carrying muck
up in baskets, but had not much time
for training, though he admitted to have
been a hrst-class runner in his boyhoOd
e years, swhen the youngsters of his native
village INDUCED in aquatic sports and then
raced along the river shore to run them
selves dry-in the blest absence of the law
and order spies, that would have arrested
them in ninety-nine of a hundred Ame-i-
can pleasure resorts.
And you say you have never trained
in the last six years?" one of the foreign
visitors asked him.
NO, sir" he said, except by way Of
experiment during the last few weeks
before this Marathon match. l felt anx,
tous to try when l heard of the prize or
fered but l hesitated to enter my name
as candidate without first making sure
mat l could run a distance like that
tabout twenty-eight English miles in one
neat without stopping. SO | tried once
or twice, and found l could"
Then you never ran that far before?
what Is the greatest distance you ever
tried in former years?''
Ten or twelve miles in trottin1 alone
Win a lot OF fruit on my way to market
for snort distances, of course we try il
every holiday, l and my brother and cous-
ms Nhen the evening gets cool we are
always at it, running and leaping or
uhslhg stones a mark" just like the
Ahglo-Saxon yeomen in Robin Hoods
c oime, before game laws and Hudibras
crusades had bulled them out of their
love for trials of strength.
wrestling has gone almost out of fash
ION IN America; in Yorkshire and West
britain 1t is kept up by special associa-
uons, but their merits have loHt the nat
fonage of their aristocrats and ii mighr
be doubted if the Cornish champions or
lheT Northland rivals could hold their
own against the Schwingers of the Swiss
mountain hamlets, where young and old
1ock TO the outdoor palaestra as s,1re
as sunday afternoon comedies with
anything like fair weather The patrons
VI NOSE wrestling rings are too poor to
oller prizes but do what they can, ana
even the honor of a district chamnion-
snip would suffice to attract competitors
rom hundreds of neighboring highland
sne Wearer of the prize belt and his sec
yhu ana their successor-apparent are
oU Iu 10 defend their prestige against
b b,i T0oIiheTS; they cannot dodge challenge
tlther prove their prowess or renounce
'nef claim in favor of contestant
constant series of combats has tbus
hepl up the old-time standard of nrof
SIsncy, and many of the poor alm-berders
VINO TOSS their jackets in the ring co,,id
serve as models for the statue Of Milo
anu Folydamus. To be vanuuished at All
'oIlts IS digrace so much dreaded that
~ candidates for the honors of a district
pflze enter the ring without the exnerience
u years OF private training-so private in
ueeu, and persistent in many cases that
ene pretensions of a raw competitor are
53oIuetlInes unsupported until he tbroU,S
uo"h the gauntlet and beats a series oF
netSIdns at their own tricks-the ,no
,,ioIudoie preliminary of an encounter viii
ne redoubtable belt-wearer. Thai ,,iot 10.
vi perhaps 100 bouts may dislike the nrosl
- OF a set-to with novus homo ~ -,
eeaInot neIp himself; his seconds have ben nc
iiens PROSTATE, and 100 bettors and nor
t ti9ails expect him to uphold the honor &c
the community "S Hohor OF
IN the dollar-and-eents sense -
STU such exercises profit but Iittie liz LIZ
10y sWeeten the dry bread of daiitl G,,, 9u'
of prevent moral dryrot nv f6a s4ie.
~ a. eAcllement, and do more to count S p,,
tn iGpGrance than can loads Of tracis
me, Schwingers, including nearl,, 49, 49,:
lnaIe native of i6 and upward tal[a ioaYel,g
IL OF their health, and the snacta ' 80