Brothers in Football

SIMILAR POSITIONS on football teams have often been filled by brothers, we are told by R. E. Klingensmith, writing in The Journal of Heredity (Washington). He submits a list of 29 sets of brothers who are playing or previously have played college football under coaches who presumably knew the positions to which they were best fitted. This list sho... continued

Learning to Ski the Scandinavian Way – Part 2

In skiing, as in most other sports, the right way is the easy and simple way. In the game of golf the unconscious, easy natural swing of the caddy boy is the despair of more than one perspiring, hardworking golfer. So, in skiing, the tendency of most beginners is toward work -instead of ease. Skiing is essentially a game of skill, not muscle. The a... continued

Learning to Ski the Scandinavian Way – Part 1

ANYBODY can ski. (You pronounce it “she,” experts tell us, if you wish to be strictly au fait.) It is a man’s sport, and woman’s and a child’s, and the difficulty is chiefly in appearance, for, we are assured, “it is fairly easy to learn.” As in pronouncing the name of the sport, once you acquired the knack... continued

Ice Yachts for Thrill Seekers – Part 2

In Russia, owing to the rough ice, a sail area of 600 to 1000 square feet is necessary, and ice-boats are heavily built with side-bars, and carry twenty people. But on the great expanses of ice smooth spots of about the size of an ordinary lake form and on these are used the lightly constructed racing craft of American design. In Stockholm, Sweden,... continued

Ice Yachts for Thrill Seekers – Part 1

THRILLS, in variety and number not to be experienced anywhere else, can be found aboard an ice-yacht, with enough breeze to give about sixty miles an hour on spurts where the going is good. So says a veteran American designer of ice-boats; and, he considerately adds, there is little or no danger in the sport, for “statistics show that acciden... continued

Indoor Polo Develops a Little Theatre

IT IS AN intimate sort of thing, this indoor polo, that makes sport of the winter of our discontent, and gives a real “close-up” of the galloping game. From the time these lines appear until well past the Ides of March there will be something of a furore in the armories, East, West and North—New York, Cleveland, Cincinnati, Buffalo, N... continued

Little Bill Johnston Stays an Amateur

THE decision of William M. Johnston, international tennis star and Davis Cup defender, to remain an amateur in spite of the dazzling offer recently made to him by C. C. Pyle, the tennis impresario, to turn professional has about it something rather fine. William T. Tilden 2d, for six consecutive years National Champion, also characteristically has ... continued

A Big Week in Baseball

IT is commonly said that there is no sportsmanship in professional baseball; that the teams are out for the money and the rooters are out to see their city get the championship. Yet at St. Louis in the World Series the local fans, notorious for fierceness and vociferousness, “booed” their own pitcher when he “walked” Babe Ru... continued