SPORT AND WAR.
Lacrosse players will he interested in learn that some of the Canadian troops at the front use lacrosse sticks for throwing lmml -eremules into rm •Herman trenches, and are aide in tins wav to throw-them further, more accurately,'' and with less risk than otherwise. This constitutes a strong tribute to the practical value of j 1 panic which lias outdistanced al others in Canada. It ong.na cd among the American Indians, and tin first printed description of a hierosso match occurs in }h>.jor /. M ■ “Account of Expeditions to U Sources of the Mississippi. Polished IS 10. The contesting teams were drawn from the Smux tribe am | [’mint tribe, some thousands m dol a'being wagered on the game. „ a plaver finds himsell too closely puistied, 5 ’ writes Pike, -he hurls the ha with great force and dexterity to an amazing distance.- ” TwwirrWwrr**
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Gisborne Times, Volume XLV, Issue 3999, 4 August 1915, Page 5
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