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Show SPORTS AND; ATHLETICS Basketball on horsei-nck is tho latent and also one ot the most dangerous and thrilling sports uius far dovlsed. The game has found considerable favor fa-vor among New York's rich young men, for It Is only th well-to-do who can afford to play It. Four players make up a team.- Tho play is exactly tho sf.aio as In the or-I or-I dlnnry basketball afoot. Scoring Is cimuar and tho object, or course, is to throw tho ball Into your opponent's basket, thereby scoring a goal. When tho signal Is given to begin play each side, nil tho players mounted, mount-ed, lines up tinder Its own bad ot. When the referee tosses the ball Id o tho center of tho playing spaco one man from each fcur dashes out at full speed toward tho rolling ball and dives from his horse In the effort to bo the first to touch It. The player touching tho leathern sphere first Is entitled to Its possession. With tho ball on his arm ho Is allowed al-lowed to remount and dash for his opponent's op-ponent's goal,- As the rules require thp.t no player hold tho ball moro than five seconds, the object of the play is for tho sldo that has the. ball to ad- -our lnjiuea la iiuiiu iuu iimiiy lur u hoi game. Tho keep of such a string; Is expensive, ex-pensive, with tho wages ot a groom extra. Then thero are- all sorts ol riding equipments necessary, and the togs In which to play tho game. Any body who goes Into tho gamo'serlousl," must count on spending at least a con pie of thousand dollars for the fun U expects to have. |