Show A foreigners FOREIGNER IDEA the new zealand times has not a a high regard tor the american game of football in an editorial it says it Is IF to be hoped that our touring rugby team will not be prevailed upon to encounter any american college team at the american game they play so BO enthusiastically and so well it if such a match wet aeto e to take place we might not see ans of the team un protected protect ed as they are agala again in an account of a match between the universities of wesleyan and columbia a recent american paper calls the encounter the apotheosis of football brutality tall ta lity ty and the incidents of tills this game fully bear out the apt aptness ness of 0 the phrase it appears that near the end of the second half wb when en tho the wesleyann wesleyans Wesle ans were desperate and wild with rage armstrong armets ng of the columbian team was thrown on his bach and while in this position bailey approached pro ached at full tilt leaped in the air and crushed down with all ills his force and weight on the prostrate ate player immediately a yell of rage ige rose from the columbia team and their hundreds of adherents to all of these it appeared as a barefaced attempt to spike a player at once the columbia team started for bailey a A tall swarthy fellow who played fu fullback he was about to kick ick armstrong with his heavy boot when white the urn umpire grasped him lie he pushed white away with great force and then struck at the official the columbia crack then took a ha band nd lie he dived through the crowd and dealt dailey bailey a terrific blow on the no like a flash fiath the fighting became general era in every direction the players were nvere dealing blows and squaring off in the approved methods of the prize ring our exchange naively remarks that there were plenty of police on the grounds but I 1 that hat the majority of thorn them stood looking on imagining the light fight was according to the rules of f the iolj game this account lends ends point to a recent american satirist who states that the ball itself has not as yet been eliminated from football but there Is no sound excuse for its presence in it the r ri real I object of the kicker aeo art Is not tho the ball but his after saries stomach or teeth there is lit ift atle I 1 tie use in punting tafe bal but t the e I 1 06 of bf A fr mahs mails down ais alx j Is too to lo be mentioned the ways way will wili thus bi be elied for the development ot of th tha real game gamb vilh I 1 ts athe the sm of the opposing players ribs and the rupturing of lher vital organ I 1 |