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A BOXING BOUT ON A U. S. TRAINING SHIP 



Fuegians attained a low visibility by 

 daubing themselves with mud and clay. 

 Florida Indians donned skin and horns 

 of deer to enable them to approach their 

 prey. 



Ways of setting traps for animals and 

 of poisoning spears were known thou- 

 sands of years before Christ. The 

 sportsmanlike Greeks shrank from use of 

 poisoned darts in warfare for the same 

 reason that they regarded archery as a 

 savage practice in combat. Even in 

 war they declined to use instruments 

 which would give one side an unfair ad- 

 vantage. 



It was long before the horse, ridden 

 so skilfully by the Arab and the Moor, 

 became either a beast of burden or man's 

 plaything at the races. And whatever 

 the civilized opinion of bull-fighting, that 

 sport is a far cry from either the combat 

 to death of human beings or the lack- 

 sport diversion of watching two animals 

 tear each other to pieces. The Span- 

 iard will defend his national pastime by 

 citing that the matador runs a far 

 greater risk than the hunter of the big- 

 gest game, with the advantage of his 

 firearms. 



Horse-racing is another sport that 



