Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1904-11-15

tered, carrying a third whose leg was
so badly hurt that he could not toueh
his foot 10 the floor. A few SECONDS
passed when another pair entered
carrying another player apparently ID
a half fainting condition His shoulder
Rad been dlslocated Again few soc
onds elapsed and another pair OF tht
Nevada boys entered carrying COM
panon. whose right arm was VI
sling II had been broken near lne
shoulder and the victims race was
contorted with agony ,.,.
surgeons were summoned, the ionu'
lord assigned d call boy 20 Walt uPoh
those who we're attending 10 tne
wounded hot water was ordered, ana
two or three rooms in the hotel We're
suddenly transformed into hospi'ai
Nov comes an astonishing feature
of the affair A few minutes WtsI tu'
injured lads had been carrier w
steIrs the manager Of the Elko leam
entere8 the Office OF the hotel ana was
asked by the guest the nature OF men
iniurIes IN tone enN H',u'
ncp which he might have enl.
Moved had he been telling hVN
tbey had been struck with paper pa's'
w. n's ssi AZ one had wrenched hls lex an,
other had dlslocated his shoulder anu
the third had broken his arm heal Wy p
soeket The guest observed % Weu
ita In the game. les all right ] ussl ~
NAV football myself This guett looh-
ed IKE n business man Of at LEASE ora''
nary intelligence $500 h,,et
chat I had with aD Elko boy aInehsu
mo. Replylng TO my questions ne CON
armed The foregoing description oil .ng
INJURIES Of HIS companions. and addeu
sIgniacantly: But the ogden poys
dl6n't gel or with whole skins HOW
n,omy MI them we're hurtg ] askfd'
'TbrSe he answered, but / don't Know
how much They were hutl tyo pay w
play. And then came the lo'o"'"e
astounding sentiment .,,,.o
We didn't mind our poys SV''tn ,,,
hurt. we don't mind that az ull' ous
we're matched 20 play game
THANKSGIVING for the champlohshlp or
Nevada, and we've only got aDout ~
boys TO pick from to illl up our tenn
I'm afraid we can't win. m 90
"Thls young gentleman did nov
greet the fact that three OF hls com
panions were lylng IN their rooms, SUI
ferlng dreadful agony, ana pethaps
crippled for life he only regretted tnat
| they could not play another game az a
Thanksgiving celebration! Ana yet y
was plain that ne never even suspec,ty,u
that his sentiments were inhuman, he
| thought they we've brave ana many,
Later I was told that nine OF the
twenty two boys engaged In this game
we're hurt; three Of the ElkO team Sc
riouslv as above stated. three OF the
ogden boys so badly that they -1ad TO
stop playing. and tire others less Sc
rlously. Which team the latter De-
longed to / did not learn
"Perhaps half the audience that VII
messed the game, we're girls, ana a pref
tier, finer looking or more Intelligent
appearing crowd OF girls In their teens
Is aeldom seen. They applauded the
PLAYERS. and enjoyed the game I'M
| mengely. So ardently aid they enter
into the spirit Of II that they rushed
into the field and closely surrounded
the contestants. They shouted with en-
thusasm. while one player after an
other left or was carried from the
field. MANNED OF bleeding.
"To my mind this was the most de-
nlorablo feature that attended the car
nnge M the day. When the future
wlvc- .rd mothers OF our common
taught 10 view with delight
s,ici az occurred on this foot
BAH the resulting harm Is nea'
surelesi'
II may possibly be said that thl'
game was more than commonly brutal
but that does not prove that such spor
is not debasing 1t Is in the gam'
itself no matter how It is played as u
evidenced BY the fact that, In loca
game some time ago, the coach OF on
Of the teams actually shouted TO hi
charges. Hurdle EN- boys! XIII 'em'
while the contestlng team met the tao
tics thus enjolned with like tactics an'
typical game OF football was played
Football tends to call out ava
strengthen an that Is brutal and crue
I'M human nature 1t creates falls
standard Of right, and even OF duty
bv which boys Of immature judgnen
are led To honestly believe themselye
justified In the inhuman treatment o
each other. even to the extent Of MAIN
ing limbs and breaking bones. Tn
shirt OF the game forestalls remors'
or even regret at such occurrences, be
cause they are regarded as essentia
incidents Of the sport
4 large majority Of the people q
Utah entertain views upon moral an
religious subjects which are irrecor
, cilable with the spirit and effects
football. and when they come to b
fully informed upon the subject the
win ask their law makers to prever
such occurrences az are describe
above by penalties as severe as tho'
now provided for prize lighting
q street braNlng
, our understanding is that the tacu
ties Of leading educational Institution
4 all over the United States disappro'
/, OF football even II thev tolerate 1t
y response to the demand OF student
and as an advertisement Of their r.
spectlye schools, But the time mui
come when not a single educator
standing will advise his pupils to er
gage IN games In which fierce combs
AS between brutes-Is the first con
sldaraton, and the physical exercii
obtained only Of secondary importanc
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Those who ran best won I'm walk.