Salt Lake Tribune | 1903-09-20 | Page 26 | A Queer Tug of War

A Queer Tug of War In I3urmah the inhabltaiuu have a novel form of the sport that elsewhere is commonly called tugofwar In the Burmese game there I Is a rain party and a drought party who null one against the other the victory of cither party being be-ing considered to have Immediate results re-sults as regards the weather The drought party however obtain few victories vic-tories for the kind of wcathor l they t represent Is commonly not so much desired de-sired as rain In the face therefore of a strong public opinion the rain party is nearly always allowed to win the palpable roping in the popular notion being Generally followed by a fertilizing fertiliz-ing downpour I is to be feared that In London the drought party would this summer hardly leave the field alive 1 London Daily Chronicle