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National Geographic : 1919 Aug
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THE NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC MAGAZINE A BOXING BOUT ON A U. S. TRAINING SHIP Fuegians attained a low visibility by daubing themselves with mud and clay. Florida Indians donned skin and horns of deer to enable them to approach their prey. Ways of setting traps for animals and of poisoning spears were known thou sands of years before Christ. The sportsmanlike Greeks shrank from use of poisoned darts in warfare for the same reason that they regarded archery as a savage practice in combat. Even in war they declined to use instruments which would give cne side an unfair ad vantage. It was long before the horse, ridden so skilfully by the Arab and the Moor, became either a beast of burden or man's plaything at the races. And whatever the civilized opinion of bull-fighting, that sport is a far cry from either the combat to death of human beings or the lack sport diversion of watching two animals tear each other to pieces. The Span iard will defend his national pastime by citing that the matador runs a far greater risk than the hunter of the big gest game, with the advantage of his firearms. Horse-racing is another sport that 124
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