FOOTBALL IN AMERICA.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 11951, 29 March 1894, Page 2

FOOTBALL IN AMERICA.

lv crossing tho Atlantic, football lias clearly not lost its perils. An American writer has taken tho trouble to gather from tho New York papers of a single day a list of the reported mishaps. It opens with Captain Frank Riukeu, of tho Montauk team, who had his leg brokon in tiro places in " onn cf the ewly scrimmagos." Jamoa MoNally of tho sumo toim had ail his lower tenth knocked out. Mapos, of tho Clovolnnd tonm, \\m\ a sovero shouldor strain. Robort Christy, of tho Woostor Univorsity, died from n kick in tho stomuch. His widowed inobher was at his bedside. "Captaiu Vators, of tho Uiivvard loam," continues this account, " will novor play ni»«in owing to a wrench in tho kuoo, lo say nothing of a bad bruise ovor ouo nyo, aud a blow on tho bond which laid open tho scalp " It is also observed that tho conduct of Prentis at the Crescent Orange <?ame at Eastern Park is muoh ropro- ' headed because, when ho soos n mnsa of men on tho ground.he "runs and jumps on them feot first." At the game at Springlield Mackio punched his head into Stillman's stomach. McCrea waa for several minutes under a " mountain of men," and, after extricating himself, was ''badly winded," and took some minuros to recover. Beard Btepped " unconsciously " on Wrigbtington'B bend, and Acton hit Beari a smart blow on the chin. It was thought at first, after Thorn was "thrown down harshly and a dozen mou had fallen on him," that his nose was broken, but it was only badly damaged. It appears that tho American teams are supposed to . play under Eugby rules«

A " Etivod " BiDUDr liqb jußt forwarded the New' South Wales railway authorities £2, with a letter Buying thnt it was v fare ho neglected to pay before being > saved,