| Show FAVORITE SPORTS OF TODAY baseball and football are games evolved from dally daily work of our forefathers piny Is ancestral work the things our forefathers near or remote did to live we do tor for fun muses an exchange chan gre away back in the dim distance they lived ly by hunting and by dodging the creatures which were hunting them in those days it considerably sider ably strengthened ones grip on life to be able to throw a stone with accuracy to hit quickly and strongly with a club to run from tree to tree so EO and with such nice judg ment of distance as to foil old the original apostle ot of fright falness ful ness i the men who could do these things well left descendants generations Sen centuries afons passed and these descendants struggling to repeat the daily work of their forbears evolved such games as cricket crl chet one old cat and out of this last by happy chance and happier genius was developed baseball to exercise our lungs improve our eyes and increase our vocabularies 11 far different la Is the of toot ball the keynote of that la Is the massed rush like the one which won the battle of marathon sometimes the massing is extra close corresponding to the charge arge ot of the theban column at Leuc tra and with pretty nearly as high a proportion of casualties until the rule makers abolished the flying wedge but even in the most open game football Is essentially a dinci aja planed charge and the activities it calls into play are immeasurably less ancient than those of baseball why the one game has become the greatest of professional oporto and the other the peculiar joy of colleges no one can say but so it Is perhaps halt hall the problem can be solved by recollecting that the college age Is the military age and takes naturally to a game which mimics ancient war |
