The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1907-01-03
D mans, French, Austrians, English,
| Italians and Americans

ana steady morse mas a good zeal 10 De
blamed for During September, for
instance, Of thirty-eight fatalities in
the streets of London; only four were
due to motors yet that British capital
has to bear its own generous shore of
the 1906 auto accidents. OF the entire
list, the worst occurred near Crawley,
the London suburb, when. ON July y,
a motor bus ran away on hill killing
10 i'm the crash that followed.
That same month saw in Buffalo the
sudden death before a great touring
car of Prof II. A. Ward, the Chicago
naturalist, and in June, Mrs. James
Tanner, wife Of the commander in chief
of the Grand Army of the Republic,
had been similarlyTun down and killed.
, In March. the italian Countess of Cor
sini, wife of King Nictor's master of
horse. met sudden and horrible death
beneath a car that broke through the
parapet of a bridge and fell into the
ravine below,
THE AUTUMN MONTHS.
Assuming that the football season
covers the entire thirteen weeks of
September, October and November,
ven deaths compare with these two
other forms of outdoor pleasure. In
that period forty-one mountaineers lost
their lives, thirty-five Automobiles
and seventy-two huntsmen!
Hunting, indeed, ranks clearly third
in the annual sporting deaths" Wis
consin seems to have the blacklist por-
ton of the list to show, for her first
days record tells of thirty-nine casual
ties thirteen of them fataD; but Maine
reported for the first forty-eight hours
of the season six killed and seven
wounded, so that the ghastly total of
seventy-twO fatalities and seventy
seven other casualties for the entire
country exhibits a reasonably divided
responsibility.
| Most of the states figure in the list
Allen Bradbury, of NewburypOrt, Mass
was killed "by accident; 5. ]. Buell.,
of Consctable, n. Y, was mistaken for
deer and fatally shot; Herbert Brad
ley, of Eagle Dock, n. j., was gored
to death by a maddened stag, and j.
Aldrich of Pottsville, Pa trying to
brighten a camp mate by bowling like
wolf outside his tent, was killed in
stantly by the charge which was sent
into the bushes where he had concealed
himself.
BASEBALL KILL EIGHT.
The death roster, in so far as its
items fall below footballs II, is headed
by fatalities on the diamond field of
the national game. OF these, two
were spectators, struck in the one case
by a ball and in the other by a bat,
which had slipped from the batsman's
hands on a swing; Thomas Barlow and
Frank Wilson, but of Philadelphia.
Pitched balls again accounted for the
deaths of five players; Casper Mussel-
man of Allentown, Pa; Thomas F.
Burke of Boston; Teller Marina, of
Brooklyn; Charles Mcdonald, of Cam
den and Jesse Robertson, a sailor in
Uncle Sans navy, who was playing at
Norfolk, Va. The death of F. r. Nc
Kee, near Rolla, Mo, in October, was
due to a collision with another member
of his team, while both were running
for a foul ball
Motor cycling has killed five this
year. two spectators at race near
Paris, France dying in October of in
iuries received from an unmanageable
machine, while in this country, April,
MAY and November each brought
fatality to a cycle rider. Edward Is.
Wallace, student at Yale, was thrown
while racing with an automobile, frac-
| turing his skull; Harry Lynn, of New
York city, was injured similarly in
collision with a touring car on the Old
Rye pike, and A. p Bull, Jr., of Eliza
beth, n. j., met death under the wheels
of a wagon, where he had been thrown
by a collision.
| ON THE WATER AND THE TRACK.
The motor boat disaster of 1906 when
Henry Odinet and John Ferry were
drowned by the capsizing of the Vesu-
vius during a race in the Hudson off
| Inwood, seems more properly to fall
with marine sporting accidents than
with the far-longer list of motor We
hicles on land Added to this Septem-
Der mishap, the drownings of Charles
Hendrickson, of Fair Haven, n. j., in
February while iceyachtng, and of
Frederick Becker, of Rochester, n. Y.
in March while canoeing on the Genesee
leave the fatalities of the twelve
months watr sports at four.
In horsedom the years two fatalities
compare favorably with the 10 of 1905.
L, r. Sewell, the Jockey up on LIGHT
mas in one Of the Aqueduct track races
was killed by a fall in November, and
Bertrand Ereishon was in September
thrown and trampled to death by his
mount, Joe Levy, at Gravesend.
In boxing and wrestling 1906 has re-
corded four deaths-two in each sport
Harry Stothcamp, of Harrison, N. Y,
and John Bergen of New York city,
ddied fro mthe effects of heart-blows
received in the (friendly) amateur ring
and Frank Powll, of Middletown, and
Alexander Kemp of the University OF
Pennsylvania, had their necks broken
while wrestling.
These facts and figures have beer
gathered with no thought Of bringing
discredit upon any of the sports re-
ferred to, nor has there been any intn-