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Identifier: athleticsfootba00shea (find matches)
Title: Athletics and football
Year: 1894 (1890s)
Authors: Shearman, Montague, Sir, 1857-1930
Subjects: Athletics Rugby football Soccer
Publisher: London : Longmans, Green
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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^ serious results when arunner, far from home, sat down in a dry ditch to rest. Hadhe not been picked up and dosed with hot drink, and rubbedtill his skin came off, the consequences might have been graveindeed, for his hands and arms were dead up to the armpits.We can, however, speak from an experience now coveringnearly twenty years, and can positively say that we know of noman of the hundreds with whom we have been acquainted who
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CROSS-COUNTRY RUNNING 263 has been injured by distance running, and the rate of mortalityamong running men is singularly small. Hounds should be strongly cautioned against larking*over unnecessary jumps or doing the least avoidable damage..Farmers are mortal, and are therefore generally fond of sport,and if no great damage is done and if what is done is cheerfullyand voluntarily paid for, will generally let a moderately sizedpack cross their land ; but near London monster packs of thirtyor forty runners become a nuisance. Like hunting the scent,jumping for the sake of jumping is dying out a great deal. Wehave no fine jumpers nowadays, like the two Burts who learntthe art at Wellington and would take every gate through a longrun, or A. P. Smith who would jump at anything, or trickyjumpers like Bentley, who used to land with both feet on thetop of a five-barred gate with a clatter and a rattle, and jumpoff the top far into the next field. In fact, jumping does not pay in the cross-count

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