The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-02-18
Imagine Fellow Being Handi-
Capped at Start in Lifc's Race
With Busted I7ibula.
Especial to The Timcs-Bispatcio
av GYM BACiL


NEW YORK, February 1--WE arc get
ting there all right, 30. We are being
whitfield down to a point 80 fine by civ
,lizatlon that We may have to wear lead
tads to keep us from blowing awey.
And how much better 1t is that way.
There was n timc-oi, the sadness OF
that timc!--when We had brutal prize
lights and brutal football and other brt-
tai sports not quite SO brutal. But not
any more.
The cry OF the mild has been heard in
the land. and now everything is as gentle
as a joust Mt Prospect Park rogue.
They have reformed foct-ball in some
quarters and wiped IL off the map in
others. And 1t certainly was time. The
doctors showed that awful game np In a
horror OF words to be found only in the
medical dictionary
Is II any wonder that rraInma and papa
siiuddered at the fate OF their pet when
they were told that lie might have super
imposed on Ills person q fractured hhula
or have his tcnasynovitis or his tendo
Achilles put ont OF commission?
An American youth. just budding forth
Z in the race for the presidency OF his coun-
try-tliey all start, You know-being ham
dicapped at the post by the wrong KIND
OF a iibula, would meyer do, And how
could he loo, his fellowman in the face
It's couldnt br depended upon? Or i'm
sginc him taking up fathers lif. work in
the pork packing oratorlum with his XII
phcid cartilage tripping him AT the high
places?
What would become of bright futures
il they were TO be dulled at the first crack
out or the boN BY having their traumatc
yaigns pointing in the wrong direction or
their zygona minus some Of its buttons?
IT may lie all we'll enough to talk of the
heroes Of tho football field and the grit
and the courage of good old Yankee stock,
and have the girls In the grand stand
shower smiles no less npon the vanquished
than the yIctors, which the sanle proves
the beauty blending OF the Yankee girl.
her pride and her sympathy may be
all to the blood tinglc, but what consola-
ton is there in it all to the young man
who tho next dag has to advertise for his
missing acromial claTicle2
And what does 1t matter " the youth
doesn't care tinker's tink III his aero
rnial never comes back, or would give
whole Job lot OF traumatic vaiguses for
one of those gl;irces from under the pic
tnre hat? Don't his elders know best?
Don't they know wliat'a good for him?
Don't the doctors know the value OF
synoyitises and things?
IL is Broadway TO sweat shop that
he doesn't know what a synor;tis is tt
wish some one would put INC nextD But
too much learning. Ike too much foot
ball, is IL dangerous thing.
The bib and tucker committee of the
colleges has forcgathereh and made some
new rules that are intended to lessen the
dangers of the game. Just exactly what
these rules arc is hard TO determine from
the committees statement of them. The
language is somewhat involved. much on
the rhetorical layout of the ibula and
zysom;l report.
But II seems there are to be handles
on the ball, and when a player is carry
ing it down the field 1t may not be
taken away from him without his con-
sent. But moral suasion looking toward
that end may be used. indeed it is even
advised. The player with the ball is not