The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-12-16
PART THREE

compare with these two other forms Of
outdoor pleasure! In that period III
mountaineers lost their lives, 30 auto
mohilists and - huntsmen.
Hunting. indeed, ranks clearly third
IN the annual sporting deaths Wis
consin seems To have the blackcst por
ton of the list TO show. for her first
day 5 record tells OF 80 casualties, l3 OF
| them fatal, but Maine reported for the
| FIRST fortyeight hours of the season 5
killed and Z wounded. so thot the
4 CHASTITY total, Of - fatalities and ~
other casualties. for the entire country,
exhibits reasonably divided responsi-
bility
Most of the States figure in the list
| Allen Bradbury of Ncwburyport. Mass,
was killed ''by accident -; s. j. Buell.
! of Constable, n V, was mistaken for a
deer and fatally shot; Herbert Bradley
| of Eagle Rock, \. j., Yas gored to death
| by maddened stag; and James Aldrich
of Pottsville. Pa, trying to frighteu q
camp mate by bowling ike n wolf out
side his tent, was killed instantly by
| the charge which was sent into the
! bushes whore ne had concealed himself.
Baseball Kills Eight.
The death roster. in so far as its items
fall below football s IL, is headed by
fatalities which have befallcn ON the
these. two were spectators. struck in the
one case by ball and in the other by
a bat, which had slipped from the bats
man s hands on swing-Thomas Bar
low and Frank Wilson, both of Philadel
phia. Pitched bail, again, accounted
for the deaths of five players-C Casper
Musseman Of Allentown. Pa; Thomas
T. Burke Of Boston; Teller Marina of
Brooklyn; Charles Mcdonald of Cam
den and Jesse Robertson, a sailor in
Uncle Sam q navy, who was playing
al Norfolk. Va. The death of +. r.
Mckee near Rolla, Mo-, In October, was
due TO n collision with another member
of his team. while both were running
for foul ball,
Motor cycling has killed FIVE this
year; two spectators at race near
Paris, France, dying (October) of in
iuries received from an uumanageable
machine, while in this country, April,
May and November each brought n ia
tality to n cycle rider Edward X. Wal
lace. a student at Yale. was thrown
while racing with an automobile, frac-
turing his skull: Harry Lynn Of New
York City was injured similarly in r
collision with n touring car on the old
Rye pike. and 4. P. Bull. Jr.. of Eliza
beth, \, j.. met death under the wheels
of a wagon, where he had been thrown
by q collision.
On the Water and the Track.
The motor boat disaster of 1906. when
Henry Odinei and John Ferry were
drowned by The capsizing of the We
suvius, during race IN the Hudson,
off lnwood, seems more properly TO
fall with marine sporting accidents
than with the far longer list OF
motor vehicles on land, Added to this
September mishap, the drownings of
Charles Hendrickson of FAIR Haven, n. |
j.. in February, while yachting; and |
of Frederick Becker of Rochester. \. Y. |
in March, while canoing on the |
Gcnesec, leaves the fatalities of the |
twelve month s water sports at four.
In horsedom this years two fatalities |
compare favorably with the 13 Of 1905.
l., e. Sewell, the Jockey up on LIGHT
mas in one Of the Aqueduct track
races, was killed by n fall i'll No
vember. and Bertrand Freirhon was,
in September, thrown and trampled to
leath by his mount, Joe Levy,
at Grayeseud
In boxing and wrestling 1906 has
recorded -four deaths, two in each sport.
Harry Strathcamp of Harrison. n. Y,
died from the effects of heart blows re-
ceIyed in the (fricndly) amateur ring;
and Frank Powell of Middletown, -
Kemp of the University of
had their necks broken
while wrestling.
The Square Deal-aud Checkers.
Such facts and figures have been
gathered with no thought of bringing
liscredit upon any of the sports referred
%. nor has there been any intention Of
bolsterlng up the much-talked of
football record by dwelling upon the
iazard Of other sutdoor games. The
element of danger in sport exists
wherever there is fascination or popu- Y
arity. 1t exists more markedly for the0
,allow boy than for The man of ex
)crience,, properly trained to meet the
conditions in question, And it w0hld
cem only fair that the critical bub-
ic should bear something Of thiS sort
n mind, i'll commenting upon one sport
n the other-shouId have some/cye for
he whole field, and so spcaR with
Jew TO all the facts.
reform Will continue it's
work, 1t is even suggested that it may
he thousands. Could Not some of its
vicious features he modified! E!
70 which good end/it is respectfully
uggested that: (lVThe king row be
!bolishcd: that g9) the jumps be
lmIted to one many given direction:
minimum age limit Of % years for each
player.
Besides, t9 close where one began.
With football, il has lust taken root I'm
,hina and Cuba, Is it wise to reform
he game foo much until IT has worked
ut It's manifest destiny?
\ Triennial Record Of Sporting Fa-
talites.
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