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Show SPORT THAT IS EXCITING. Played by the Owners of Automobiles Automo-biles and tho Passing ' Public. "Wo havo a new Sunday amusement on ho north shore. r' said Tompkins, actotdlng to thu Chicago Daily News. "Everybody takes part youug and , old, rich and poor. Wo play It on Sheridan Sher-idan road. The game is double, and tho players aro divided Into two classes thoso who havo sufficiently largo Incomes to own automobiles and those- who havo not. "if you have no lutomobllc, tho game la to get across the thoroughfare. If you accomplish this feat without .being hit, you win. Otherwise you lose. It is quite exciUng and It has proxed an excellent cxcrcire. "Doctors say that It Increases tho power of observation, adds to one's uglllty, breaks up tho most stubborn crsep of rheumatism, and Is a sure euro Tor tiinul. Also it increases the pli.M-1clu.i8 sind surgeons' practice, nnd, all things considered, Is greatly to fie recommended. v'lf you own an nut" nobllo of tho large, red, able-bodied variety, the game Is to see how many persons you can hit or almost hit in n tcn-mllo spin along tho boulevard. Some splendid splen-did records havo been made. Actual homicide, however. Is going out of fashion on the north shoro because, so often it risuits in exasperating litigation. lit-igation. I "A favorite trick is to see how close you can conio to n pedestrian without actually hitting him. This requires re-quires excellent nerves and a considerable consid-erable knowlcdgo of human nature. Ono has to calculate not only on tho speed of tho automobile, but on tho general activity of tho pedestrian and on what may bo termed his 'personal equation." Will he or sho Jump forward for-ward or backwnrd, or will he or she mciely go up In tho olr7 ""For n full-grown man to cross tho rend alono is not considered a very remarakble thing. Hut to escort one'B dearly beloved grandfather Is an evl-denco evl-denco or bravery, and to push a go-cart go-cart containing one's son and heir shows tho extreme of foolhardy heroism. hero-ism. "Gentlemen coii'ng their mothers-in-law are barred." |