Judge — April 30, 1932 — page 14: what you’re looking at

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JUDGE wooden bat strung with snowshoe strings. Players are also allowed to catch the ball in this webbing, but they are always too busy banging each other over the head. Which may explain why veteran lacrosse play- ers so often xe id Congressmen in later life. Another interesting fea- ture about this pastime is that there are no limits to the width of the field, an end run often progressing laterally clear over to the next county and sometimes into its jail. Needless to y, it requir great deal of wind to play this game —this also goes to substan- tiate what we said about Congressmen. ACTOSSe players wear heavy caps like polo players, but it's more fun to be kicked in the head by e than clubbed by a se bat. In the former case there’s the consolation that the horse didn't really mean it. Lacrosse, like ice hocke is played by practic; everybody in Can the Dominion ever to secede from the British Empire, it’s a good 2-1 bet that England won't try to put up any serious r ance. It would even be straining our cour: to live in Lacrosse, Wisi ‘Ee . ° ” vente, meente, metnee mo— . GAMES WE LOVE NOT TO PLAY By Parke Cummings LACROSSE ; I ROSSE is the great spring game at many colleges now- adays, being exceeded in popularity only by golf, baseball, tennis, rowing, track, sciatica, and being called J i to the dea office. It was invented by the North | American Indians who also invented scalping, but the Indian became civilized he abandoned lacrosse. ! was, however, adopted by the white man who also adopted 4 poison gas, submarines, and aerial warfare. Lacrosse is played with twelve (or maybe it’s fifteen) § men on a side, and is played until they have all run . / themselves ragged or knocked each other’s heads off. The wai * implement supplied for this is an extremely heavy “Mind your horse, Mister?” comicbooks.com