Show MONKEYS o 0 AT FOOTBALL they ukwa iley cricket ant kot according to elul travelers in south africa have noted tho fact that where monkeys congregate in largo numbers they also indulge in games of a certain kind two of abeso games fiacro to resemble cricket and football abo cria tot is of a primitive order about a dozen monkeys stand in a circle or whatever is akin to the simian idea of a circle two of them advance from different extremities of abo circle and stop about 15 yards apart facing each other the monkey at the southern end of the circle has a in bis hand he is the bowler the monkey at the other end does not as you might suppose wield n full cano bat his business is to dodge the which tho bowler aims at his head the delivery of the ball is tremendously fast full pitched and fraught with dire results if it touches abo spot when it docs happen to touch the spot that is any part of the monkeys body that monkey is very much out and even stop to dispute the question another monkey takes his until he too receives his dismissal it was presumed by the travelers that the game was finished when a majority of monkeys jay nursing their wounds under the friendly shade of a neighboring palm the football is of a more advanced type it is with a cocoanut coco anut the game it anything is undoubtedly the socker game and is played with the feet of course tharo is no goal nor any tactics to speak of the object of each animal being tp keep the ball to himself as much as possible still the competition to get tho ball makes it resemble a real game of footer and tho dexterity exhibited by these peculiar amateurs is surprising and wonderful in an avil moment some ambitious monkey may elect to play tho bugby game by snatching up the ball and making off but the game then develops into war in which life is sometimes the prize no mention is made of a referee but if there is one about like a and provident monkey he is probably up a tree brooklyn times |