Sport: Variations

Growth of sport in the last century corresponds with increase of leisure. What may become of sport in the future was suggested last week by five extraordinary variations of it occurring simultaneously.

Tray Race. In London, fruit porters each spring race around Covent Garden into the Strand with wicker baskets piled 12 ft. high on their cork-padded caps. Famed is the Paris tray race, in which waiters wearing long white aprons run around the outer boulevards. In the U. S. nothing on this order appeared until a year ago when Fisticuffer Jack...

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