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...certain vague opprobrium is attached to all 5? games played indoors by seedy sportsmen. That the pin-game has been able to evade the consequences of this is due to the fact that it is not essentially a form of gambling. Whenever he indulges in it, a pin-game player is sure to lose a nickel. Last year, however, when the novelty of plain pin-games began to wear off, shrewd operators devised the idea of rewarding high scores with prizes. "Sportlands" (of which there were soon 60 in New York) are pin-game parlors which give to their customers...
Though organized fox-hunting is 50 years old in the U. S., the sport is still on the defensive. Nonhunting, non-Anglophile sportsmen are apt to see something silly in the expensive preoccupations of the "manure set," while plain citizens are apathetic if not hostile. The hunting set itself, impregnably self-sufficient as it tries to appear, is uncomfortably aware that they order these things better in England. This popular U. S. attitude toward fox-hunting is reflected in the jolly apologias emitted from time to time by U. S. foxy grandpas. Latest view-halloo was sounded by Harry Twyford...
...every weekend. Skiing started in prehistoric Scandinavia. Long practiced for utility, it became a sport in 1879, when the King of Norway promoted a tournament between skiers of Telemark & Christiania. The sport of skiing was introduced into Switzerland a few years before the turn of the Century by English sportsmen who had picked it up in Norway, correctly considered the Alps ideal skiing terrain. In the U. S., the first skier on authentic record was the Rev. John L. Dyer, a Colorado Methodist preacher, who used skis to carry mail to his parishioners in the early 1850's. Norwegians...
...found that they have denied the right of competition of Jewish athletes, but our case rests on an even firmer basis. The Naxis-have discriminated against Catholic sports organizations and dissenting Prostestant groups in a way which is mild only when compared with the treatment accorded the Jewish sportsmen. I refer specifically to the alternative which the Nazis have presented to their political and religious opponents: either practise under the supervision of our "Fuehrers" or don't practise at all. You know, for example, that the Deutsche Jugendkraft with a membership of over 100,000 throughout Baden was dissolved...
With every member shooting, the Pistol Club will hold its first meet of the season in the Memorial Hall gallery tonight, firing shoulder to shoulder against the Framingham Sportsmen's Association team...