Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1899-05-16
In THE KHYBER PASS
A SNAPSHOT AT THE OFFICER On
THE QUEEN IN GAME OF "Rrc.v
SPORT UNDER STRANGE CONDITIOyS
Interesting to Speculate On a..
Demons of the Hills "a n
Watched Their Enemies Fighto,
FierceIy for the Ball.
CFor the Dlspatch5

An epigrammatic description of .t,
In which the various European r.,-...
tatives engaged in the great esr,.
grab in China are employing The linn.
tho several slices of territory Will, ....
has obtained a f0othoid, says th.. ...'
Germans are laying out parade-er...., 4.
the Russians building forts and Ma. r,-
lish fixing up crlcket-helia The a......
ton displays the national charct.r...'
OF each-the pride Of the German ,y..
his great military machine. the R..s....'
distrust OF friend and foe aud his ar,...,
10 put up a wall behind which 90 .t...
and the sublime confidence Of the p,...
pursuing sport as though there v.r.
thing 20 be feared in The wh.l. ,-
world so much as a defeat on the e-.,t..
ground or the loss Of game OF f...-t..,
with dangerous foes an ar0urI ,t'.-
and death in every wind that i.o. .
British soldiers will take a. ks.,
interest in their national game .t..-.
playing TO select gathering 40 I.-3'
Ground, In London.
team OF British officers p.g-, ....
ball in the Khybcr Pass. t..t -.
pathway 10 India. where the bona, III
many gallant soldiers OF the ot.,
buried. IS shown in'the photogrsra.. r'.
tration which This newspaper .....
publish to-day. The picture ds.0..s..
football players engaged in l.... s.--.
mage IN an open valley of tla kr,.-
where the British forces had Temperate.
camped during the last frontier toeue.
In description written for ibis news.
paper, Lieutenant b. T. Ready. assistant
superintendent OF the army signaling
force. Second Battalion. Welsh R,em.rt
says: THE game was gotten up h. D.n.
tain Pcndcrgast. Twentieth Puuab Dr..
fantrN and tho thirty players were au
officers Of the British army. selected
from the First Royal Scots FusWor
First hampshire Regiment. Ninth Guilha
Rifles, Thirty fourth Regiment Ponce
some Royal engineer officers. and mys
/ do1't suppose another game or Rugby
football Will ever be played there. FIR
the British troops have all left the Khy-
ber and the hrst football game W.l
probably De- the last"
10 must have been strange sight ID
the hostile trihesmen who gathered ODD
the gaunt hills around the scene al tas
-oot-ball match to watch the British
among themselves as though
llNNl liAA nllAlt ll0A bAnE'l WNN III
amp The bearded Afghans probably
pat on the ground with DISCUS, at OIL.
bought OF having been beaten SD ot'..
~ men who turned out swordlos- dr...-
u I'm scanty costume, and devoid 0fcy..y
cstige OF dignity, TO Wrestie and neLt
or the possession Of an inflated piece o,
Gather. The fierce sharpshOoter NJ tLe
ills perhaps stayed the shot that Le
lnged TO send from his rifle. out of pee
pect for the feeling that the British
we're engaged I'm some sort of religious
xercises, the bali being a god whose
assessor would be sure OF paradise.
Whatever their thoughts. the photo.
rapher who sends us this strange -ulr-
hot from the other end OF tho 1rl
tates that the tribesmen remained n
eclusion behind the rocks and boz their
iding-places. and ther, was no occasion
uring the progress on che game t0 pee
erve order by Smelling tho SPECTATORS
The British could scarcely have chosen
more out-of-thc-way corner for tho
anne than that shown I'm the illustration.
he Khyber Pass has been again alI
gain the scene Of bloody battles o.-
ween the Afghans and troops OF British
ndia. This being the most pracu.bs
+ the four openings through which
on can be conveyed between the la.r
I Peshawur, on the right bank 0f .as
pper Indus, and the plain of Je.t..hii.
! Northern Afghanistan. il hl. always
cen chosen as the route ot tl. march
f British expeditions agair-- ta. 1O.-
zen. IL is 80 miles IN length being hero
nd there merely narrow rfFine De-
ween almost perpendicular rocks of az
EAST coo feet I'm hr.cht 10 may Dee SAID
D have been the key ~ the adjacent i'-
ions I'm either direction from the Gays
t Alexander the Great 30 the Afghan
-ars OF 1892. during which b. was twice
breed by a British army, iu spite oI "-
Estimate defence By the natives l.t
rst fighting in the Afghan war of lsis-."
as i'm forcing an entrance INTO ih7 pass
ince then there has been more COB .e-s
ghting going on there between tnc i.-.
.ss and warlike hillmen and the Ar-
lo-Indian troops sent into the pas I'D
unish them for impertinence The pass
as been made the scene 81 kip.i
lmous stories, and the football s'ru'
ace shown In the Photographic picture
ustrates the lives led by the old bows
the British public schools. when they
10 seek death or glory on the INal
ontier One day they are in th.
rho OF n fierce fight with the demons
the hills, and the next they are .'.A.i
a struggle with each other f0r -1-
.emacy at the good old game fhcr r''-
at Eton. Harrow. Rugby. Wool" A
Sandhurst. The restless ,u.rg '
nglo-Saxon must find something to -r
q with and 10 fight for. or D." "Jue
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