Deseret Evening News | 1906-10-20 | Page 11 | Chinese Football Very Interesting

CHINESE FOOTBALL VERY INTERESTING mire lire generally not credited with being to accept ho 10 that when It Is said that northern ChIna bouts boasts ot of several football teams a good of at surprise wilt will bo be evInced Yet toot football ball Is no new hour game among time Celestials at least among those of oC them who inhabit northern ChinA amid hns been beell In existence me II number ot of years cars Ot Of course the game Is riot not played ex cx accordIng to intercollegIate rules huh n a basket baskal or something which looks like one replaces the modern football Time The besides have hao no goals and time the gridiron Is replaced by the tho streets or of the tho in which the deadly combat is IH with 60 10 sturdy on n a side Is not 1 mc loan lIan them how hower however ever er who is IH net hot six Ix feet high mind tommie of them are arc Inches while their average lie Is II hout pounds The men who form time hll ot of northern hina timid at are typical of oC the race ur of giants In that ot of the world Lined up Against till the knights ot of time the gridiron of Jenn or liar yard vard would ap appear ear ate a of pig mice alit the Chinese give glo the collegians it a battle royal roal It If ther time could be indUced to appear fill ott all no Amer can cun toot football ball field A club with a rol col weight of at 2000 could outcry everythIng he before foro It The main Idea In time the Chinese game or of football as In the American is 18 to carrk the basket Into time the opponents end ot of time tho town nuil this Is often done dono by stealth ns as well as hy by brute tore force There Thern arc no halves I ut the Iho gome in continued until ono tulmO its arid often otten lads tar for days The rhe hundred arc scat scattered over time tho town ton nrc each pro ride whistles whistle which they In order to hiring assistance When a scrimmage occurs the give vent to their feelings In time the most mOlt pe Ie nol CM frequently with delight Their yells ells of which resound through h time tho aIr the hr ball ballIs Is art are likened by one who uvito hn lies heard them to III the tho ct cry of oe ofa 1 a pig has hall rile Tue charging is III dune with the tho head heuel Tim Till only precaution Inken aken h by them themon on the tho football field Ix is for the III ration ot of their which mIre cared for All as though the avers worth 1 ti thou sand samid tunes their value Rlue With this ex cx they throw to 10 the intuit rind devote themselves elves with whim nil ull strength to time pIli play