Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1914-12-21
One Hundred and Eleven
Persons Killed During
1914 While Hunting =
More Baseball Tragedies
Than Football Last Year.
SEASON OF 1914

The toll of life and limb exacted by
sport is declining. Careful records kept
of the three major sports for the sea-
son just closed show that Americans
are attaining Il more safe and sane
policy on their many Fairgrounds and
in the forests. OF the millions of red
blooded American men and boys who
have gone into the woods with the rifle,
played the great national game of base
ball, and put their muscles to the siren
uous tests of football, only 1853 have met
death this year. The injuries that the
tabulators classed as serious total 1880,
and of this number fully half have en-
tirely recovered.
When one stops to think of the many
who engage in these three great pas
times, fully 100000 at the least esti-
mate, the toll of deaths and injuries
does not seem so terrible. In fact. it
is believed that the same number of
men and boys, if engaged during the
same number of hours in work or in
travel, would meet with injury and
death in proportion fully as great as
they did in their favorite sports.
The hunting fatalities of the year fell
off from 135 last year, although the
injuries jumped from 125 to 1862. The
comparison shows a satisfactory gain
for sane hunting. A campaign of worn
ing was waged in each of the IS states
from which the figures are drawn.
Wisconsin lost SO hunters, Michigan q,
Minnesota IL. Michigan had AZ injured
huntsmen, Wisconsin So and Washing
ton 20. From the statistics of the game
license bureaus, it is estimated that
10000 hunted deer during the open
season
Baseball, in which nearly every boy
in America INDUCED, and fully one-fifth
of American men took part, besides the
numberless professional and semi-pro-
fessional players, makes remarkably
good showing with only 35 deaths at
tributable to injuries received in the
game. OF this number 20 were hit by
pitched balls, were struck with bats,
4 over exterted themselves, 1 was hurt
sliding to base, and one was killed in
fight OF the 91S injuries recorded as
apparently serious, 314 were of broken
lllDDS, 10 ma tDItuSSfon vi tllt aDTdlIi,
10 had their skulls fractured, were
paralyzed, 81 received serious sprains,
26 were spiked, II received fractures,
were put cut of the running by dislo-
cations, and 10 were victims of torn
| igaments. In the minor leagues. 116
were injured; in the American league,
GO; National league, 81; Federal league,
| Sc; and on college teams, s.
| Football, the most strenuous of
American games, exacts a remarkably
| light toll this year. OF course, the death
list of 10 does not convey the full SER
iousness of the game. Among the in
| jured and they so many and constant
| that they could not all be accurately
| tabulated, many are permanently in
| jured. Considering the great number
| of school teams, college teams, and the
| boys who took part in the game this
| year, and the opportunities for rough
work which are always present in the
game, the wonder is that the death
| list is so small. This is attributed in
/ part to the thoroughly trained condi-
| ton of the school and college teams,
and the careful selection of the most
hardy youths to make up the teams.
Only two of the fatalities were among
college men; one of these died from
heart disease and the other from in
| juries in a class game. The others
were members of high school, prepare
tory schools or free lance teams. None
of the boys were over 20 years of age.
| Tackling was the principal cause of the
/ injuries that resulted in death. OF the
four thousand and more cases of injury
noted, fully half are known to have
entirely recovered, and it is estimated
that the recoveries will reach three
quarters of the number.