Show ROMAN CHASE The Roman Homan chase chas is a n great affair I have ha seen it at Frascati otten and once was a participator Instead lil of Roman chase this pastime should bo be styled Roman cheese Roman Is s a cheap imitation of Parmesan an and 1 is manufactured in in grindstone toDe shapes and sizes size weighing from front forty lorty to sixty pounds The rha chase consists in ro roll rolling rolling in ing those thoC N a distance of three or four our over or rough country A rope rOPI is attached to the tho wheel like affair ir and by lV means of it it- the time cheese is cast forward for for- ward vard artl nail awl set rolling It may go into tx it deep ra ral ravine l lor or halt half way up tip tho the Bi side of or ofa ora a mountain and back again There arc aro all 11 sorts of difficulties to tu bo be overcome o Umpires and referees see ace that no ito unfair un tin- fair advantage C is ill talt taken ati is a famous resort of the rich Romans about twelve miles from front the ho eternal city Tho The chase is usually a sweepstakes and ono otic winner has been known to tu capture as HI HIman many man manas as halt half a n hundred bundred cheeses or about 2500 pounds The rite Italian HaHnn nobles enjoy enjo this sport which intrinsically is not not unlike th the game of golf olf tho the cheese being the tho I hall ball the tho rope the sticks find and tho the course I the links Enter an Italian grocery grocer in New York and S see I ono one of these theM che cheeses ses I Look at its unattractive o outside dirty and worn a sort of ot greasy rea brown brown- black A sweepstakes of 2500 pounds I means at nt least bust to the winner winner- JuitO Juit enough no ugh lo to support him and his family in comfort for iw ono one year car Sometimes Sometimes Some Seine times a winning cheese is is cut into small email pieces and auctioned off at nt an tin price Nw New York Press |