Sport: Refined Baggataway

The old Iroquois game of baggataway was a brutal pastime with one main object: to get the braves toughened up for the warpath. Squaws standing on the sidelines with switches whipped any laggards into mauling activity. Nowadays, with a few genteel refinements such as padded gloves and helmets, the Iroquois' old game is known as lacrosse.*

Last week, rushing up & down a 110-yard field at Annapolis with rough & tumble abandon, the men of Army and Navy were on the warpath again. Object of the game: to hurl a 5-oz. India rubber ball into a 6-ft.-square net, using a...

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