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Show j HARD KNOCK I AT FOOTBALL I Iidiana Congressman Sees I Game and Declares It a Brutal Pastime. i . 4 - CHICAGO, Oct. 14. A dispatch to the Tribune from Lafayette. Ihd., says: Congressman Charles B. Landis is not an admirer of football. His position -is summed up in the following statement: state-ment: 1 ' . ' I saw a game of football last Saturday. Satur-day. Several hundred people who witnessed wit-nessed it said It was sport. I guess I'm old-fashioned, for I have to confess that this sport does not appeal to me. ! Sport that necessitates the presence of i physicians well, that Is simply another i evidence that the brutal instincts in man and woman -will crop out. Early in the contest one of the captains was carried off the field insensible, and the j game went on. This Is sport. "There was not a boy in the game who did not run the risk of receiving an Injury that would send him through life a hopeless cripple. Now, this may be sport, but does it pay to take the chances? Should an alleged sport that necessitates taking such chances receive re-ceive the sanction and encouragement of sane and sensible people? Possibly so. I desire to register my opinion, however, that dog fighting, cock fighting fight-ing and bull fighting are Sabbath-school Sabbath-school games in comparison with modern mod-ern football." |