Show M MOST HAZARDOUS 0 OF F S SPORTS participants in irish wild goose goof chase always in for danger real and thrilling the etymology of steeplechase Is too obvious to need set fret explanation founders of the sport merely blied flied upon a distant steeple and rode straight raight bt to it crossing gallantly hedge ditch paling turf or timber pastures crops moorland or ridge and furrow choso whoso A hoso riding straightest canle came in fit liht flut and was winner put but there ard few indeed to whom a wild chase bears any implication of spurt sport yet the phrase derives from a sport hazardous indeed it Is said to have begun in ireland where it a chosen leader took mounted men cross country but chose always tile roughest wildest going to be found if mischance befell uie the lender leader some other took up tile occasionally there vms nias a change of leaders it if the first proved timorous for danger real and thrilling was anas the spice of tile the wild goose chase the winner wes was not dot ile he who came home first but lie who had flunked nothing in the alie route everi even possibly having gone further around to negotiate an all extra bezard knowing this I 1 have wondered a little if the wild geese the irish legions who fighting for alien kings have shown themselves elies prodigies of valor did not take their name from the sport port nearest tile the heart of their homeland new york herald |