The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-07-14

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Of heavy weight champions. the portent-
Gus bruiser was disciple of the Pytha-
gorean sect-with their preference for a
strictly non-stimulating bill Of fare. On
a similar diet the Turks raise those rOuSt-
aDouts OF the STEAMBOAT levee who aston.
Ism the foreigners by picking up bales
OF hay and bundles of sundried hides and
marching up the steep landing with a firm
step and without the least symptom OF
discomfort In the harbOr of Trieste 1
once saw a gang OF lOngshoremen unload
barge from Beyrout and pull out a
coll OF ropes as endless as the silver con-
troVersy and soaked from the effects of
a recent gale. They had contrived TO roll
~ up IN something like a compact bun
de but at every attempt to move IL the
con slipped Till Syrian sailor got hold
OF II and after rolling it along the ground
for couple of minutes shouldered IL
alone and walked up the slope without
any appreciable sign of repentance. The
tribes of 1ndios mansos, or vegetarian red
skins of Spanish America, produce SINH
lar champions, and the author of An
Economic Study Of Mexico states that
they actually compete with the transpor-
tation rates of the Mexican railway lines
For 30 cents day they will carry bur-
dens of 50, 80 and even more than 100
pounds across mountains that would test
the climbing talent of a North American
billy goat. and a syndicate of these two
legged beasts of burden will take con-
tract to transport such objects as an iron
safe or boxed up piano.
Our quartermaster of the Macmillan
army hired them to carry commissary sup
plies at % cents a day and government
rations enough for two frugal meals,
! and calculated that they did more work
at less expense than pack-saddle mules.
For the ground coffee of their purveyor
they had no use and returned it If they
could rot sell it. but their baboon jaws
masticated the hardest navy biscuit, and
an admixture of chips in their supply
OF dried apples was accepted without
comment, like an assortment of suspen-
der buttons in a contribution box.
Yet the ancestors of those copper-col-
ored stoics were probably mere bush apes,
compared with our own fOrefathers, and
| those of the northern Semites. Modern
cities of the Old Testament have come
to the conclusion that the story of Sam
son is something more than sun myth,
and less than 200 years ago Thomas Top
ham OF Surrey, England. shouldered a
sentry box containing a stove, a bench
and dead drunk Waterman and carried
ii to a neighboring cemetery.
A warrior of Tiascalla, Mexico, broke
the helmet of one of Cortzs troopers
with common stone, and then killed the
! horse by smashing its skull, and the
Jalisco Indians of the Pacific slope could
repeat the exploit of the Spartan athlete
who pierced the shield and body of Ep-
aminondas with a jaVelin.
They fling their short heavy spears with
amazing force, and old Gruzo, a squint-
eyed chief of that tribe, once watched
our soldiers pass an idle afternoon by
throwing clubs on the Scotch hammer
plan, and every once in a while INDUCED
in a derisive chuckle. What are you
laughing about you ghostly old s.nner?''
growled one of the soldiers; there, pick
out one of these sticks and try your own
luck, If you think you can beat u.s."
Like Perkins's able-bodied Elder on the
night after camp meeting, old Gruyo felt
| that his chance had come. Selecting the
longest and straightest club, he poised II
like a spear and landed it at least 30 feet
beyond the maximum distance of former
attempts.
Spear-throwing and arrow-throwing
were practiced together in the same drill
shed of the military palaestras, but only
archery stands a chance of revival:
"Of two such lessons why forget
The better and the manlier one?"
And hammer throwing, too, will soon be
one of the lost arts, though hammer hit
ting is too practically useful to be super
seeded by lighter pastimes. In many of
our metropolitan gymnasiums there are
machines that record the force of a ham
mer stroke, and in primitive cantons Of
Switzerlands where these contrivances
are unknown, the stout young rustics
! amuse themselves by getting a lot of
wedge-like stakes and trying who can
knock them out of sight with the least
number of blows. They use a sort of
| ground, reasonably free from stones, an
expert needs only a few seconds to drive
a three-foot stake to the level of the
grass roots.
The best ANCIENT high leapers were
found among the lightweight champions
of the south but in the bold use of leap
ing poles the Teutons had no rivals, and
in the battle of Adrianople they forced
| the fight by vaulting over the triple. line
of Roman spearmen. The Roman legion
aries were drilled to meet every magma
| bic evolution of a hostile force by supe-
rior tactics for this peculiar trick, and,
like the Austrian. opponents of the French
sansculottes, probably complained that
! their savage antagonists had won the
battle by disregarding all the establish
ed rules of scientific warfare.
Leonardo da Vinci, the most versatile
man of the middle ages, often amused
his visitors by jumping to the ceiling
and knocking his feet against the bells
of a glass chandelier; and Joe Ireland
a native of Beverley, in Yorkshire, would
have been engaged by the Forepaughs
on his own terms if it is true that he
| could "leap over nine horses, standing
side by side, and clear the head of man
seated on the middle horse"
Among the ancients leaping was a sub
ordinate exercise of the pentathlon, and
few feats of that kind are recorded as
specially memorable, with the exception
of a young Spartan's running jump of
50 feet an exploit so prodigious, even for
that zenith period of athletic accomplish
ments, and was fnallyshrdl shrdl shrdhh
agog, and was finally made the starting
point of new chronological era as the
most remarkable event of the millennium.
For the last thousand years the world
has produced no rival of that champion,
and his closest modern competitors can
probably be found in Northern Hndoos-
tan, where exercises of that sort have for
generations been encouraged by the prize
offers of sport loving native princes.
WILL SUPPORT THE TICKET.