THE GEOGRAPHY OF GAMES 



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Photograph by R. R. Sallows 

 THIS SPORT WAS TOO BIG FOR ANY SMALL BOY TO RESIST 

 The prospective victim being the largest man in Goderich, Canada, who weighed 460 pounds. 



"Every well-constituted republic," he 

 said, "ought, by offering prizes to the 

 conquerors, to encourage all such exer- 

 cises as tend to increase the strength and 

 agility of the body." He advocated State 

 provision for teaching girls to dance and 

 the use of arms for self-defense. 



THE PLAY SPIRIT AS A PIONEER EOR 

 PROGRESS 



A Hawker sets out to fly across the 

 xAtlantic as a sporting proposition and 

 helps chart the course that soon will be 



plied by air carriers of work-a-day com- 

 merce. Y\ nirring motors churn about a 

 banked speedway as thousands sense the 

 zest of a breathless and death-defying 

 game, but the play spirit which the con- 

 test arouses — the spirit that ever drove 

 men to higher attainment — generates the 

 stimulus for bringing nearer to perfec- 

 tion man's new-found servant, the auto- 

 mobile. Benjamin Franklin, employing 

 a boy's familiar plaything, snatched from 

 the clouds a secret that outdoes the 

 pranks of a magic carpet. 



