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National Geographic : 1919 Aug
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THE GEOGRAPHY OF GAMES Photograph by R. R. Sallows THIS SPORT WAS TOO BIG FOR ANY SMALL BOY TO RESIST The prospective victim being the largest man in Goderich, Canada, who weighed 460 pounds. "Every well-constituted republic," he said, "ought, by offering prizes to the conquerors, to encourage all such exer cises as tend to increase the strength and agility of the body." He advocated State provision for teaching girls to dance and the use of arms for self-defense. THE PLAY SPIRIT AS A PIONEER FOR PROGRESS A Hawker sets out to fly across the Atlantic as a sporting proposition and helps chart the course that soon will be plied by air carriers of work-a-day com merce. Whirring motors churn about a banked speedway as thousands sense the zest of a breathless and death-defying game, but the play spirit which the con test arouses-the spirit that ever drove men to higher attainment-generates the stimulus for bringing nearer to perfec tion man's new-found servant, the auto mobile. Benjamin Franklin, employing a boy's familiar plaything, snatched from the clouds a secret that outdoes the pranks of a magic carpet. 101 I
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