Amarillo daily news. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 19??-current, 1914-12-18
TOLLS Of SPORT
FOR WHOLE YEAR
ONE HUNDRED AND FIFrN.NINE
KILLED MT OVER fOrR
THOUSAND HIR1
season of 1911

CHICAGO. M. Dee Tho tp,l
Of life and limb c@ctci hy sport
declining. Careful records Kept %
the three major sports for the sc1
son Just closed show that Americans
are attaining a more s.ie ANA -An'
policy on their many playground
and In the forests or the million
Of red-bloodod American men o'd
boys who have gone into the wood
with tho rifle. played the rrcal u"-
tional game OF baseball and rn'
their muscles 90 the strcnu0u. test
of football only li9 have met doa..
this year The igjurio that iH'
tabulators clHEscd a. SERIOUS ioi.'
4.OSU. and oi thi uumh,r lnlly N.ll
have entirely recovered
When one s'ops 90 think at o..
many who crraec in these thr
great pgstimD folly lU.UOu.uUn ~.
the least estimate. ihc toll or deaths
and injuries does NOT aUcm 30 iorri
nle IN fact IL Is believed that ~.
same numb,a oi men end boys. 30
engaged during the same number "t
hours iu work or in travel, vorI
meet with injury and death boz nr"
portion mlly as great ae hoy did DO
their fayOri'o -portH.
The hunting a'aliiie. OF the yr7t
It,,l of from l}a lar yc.r alttoH'1
the injuries Jumped from 10 90 TO-.
The comparison elbows % s1iiailc'o'y
laiu for some huutinl \ rump9igI
. -. a.. D..
the IS states from which tho i.r'r'
are drawn. Wisconsin lost 35 nup
crs. Michin1n % Minnesota o..
/ Michigan had o. injured huri.mcu
/ Wisconsin 30 ana Wa hinpton 'n.
| From the tati-iic. Of tho game Do
ccnsc bureaus. q g. estimated 'hai
| 10000 hunted deer during the op'1
/ season
Baseball In which nearly evo-y
boy IN America INDUCED. and fnlE
one ifth ol American men took pari.
besides the numhorio.s professional
aud semi-profes. ional player make
la remarkably good showing with
only 80 deaths attributable 90 iu
/ jurlcs received iu the game. o. this
J IWNiNfI w Nflf III' Nh Iii'' .'N N ''..
| q were struck with bats, . over
cVcrted themselves. was hurt Sill.
| inr 20 base. aud one wa killed in ,
/ fight OF tho alS injuries record I'D
as apparently serious. 5ll were 0t
+. broken limbs. IS had c0ncueeiou of
the brain. la hsd thcir skulls frl
. urcd. . wore pullvled - roco.S, !
al .NH.. ..HaH|
recoived fractures. were odt OF 800
.tunUnp hr dislna,iions, aud 900 w0'c
victims OF torn ir3mouis lu Gle
minor leagues, nc were injured b.
iir American League. CO. National
League. Co. Federal League. &C..
md ON 6ollc"o teams.
Football the most strenuous ot
mcrican cameo evacts remark.
. ably lirm toll mi. wear OF 'pur
the death l.t oi O.. docs not cor
|s'y the FUN .r.O1snDs. oi the game
Among thn uiur, z. nud ia,.
mrny constant thar thcy could 1900.
'll Doe accurately .hu'ai0l many
sr0 permanently injured Consider
iu. the great number of school
teams. college tc.ms. and bows N"o
took part BOO 90, gam, this year. au
he opporuniii,. for rough worl
which are Away present in $3.50
game the wonder jg th9t inc dcnfI
'l.et is 20 small This s. auribni
Doe rau io tHo ihoroughN train,
condition oi the school Iut collie.
teams ana the careful erlcrtiuu u
the most hardy youths 90 mah" n.
'ro teams only Two 90. iho fatal
Ties wore mon, COLLEGE, men. one o
} those dicd .rom heart dIsna am
, the other from iu'Ur.. Boo 90.
same Tho uth,rH H,r. members r
uirh school preparatory .hool oI
Ire, lance team. Nouc of tHo boy
.cro over 90 years uf asc T1rE'u
ECO. the principal cause oi the iH
iur.o. that resulted Foo death n
the four thousand and more ra .o. o
. injury noted. folly hrli 9r. known
to hove entirely recovered. ana 81
Do estimated faai tho rDgo.or.c. Ni
roach fHrt urrfgru Of H.t mum ls"