Life, 1886-09-02 · page 11 of 16
Life — September 2, 1886 — page 11: what you’re looking at
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# Analysis This page from *Life* magazine contains sports commentary and a three-panel comic strip titled "A Tragedy in Real Life." **The Sports Section** discusses yacht racing (Atlantic vs. Puritan), tennis tournaments at Newport, and a baseball team's withdrawal from the League race—all contemporary sporting events meant to entertain readers through witty, satirical commentary about athletic competition. **The Comic Strip** depicts domestic drama: A woman waiting inside grows increasingly angry at a man named Edwin for keeping her waiting. In the final panel, a tramp approaches asking for money. The joke appears to satirize either marital tension or the contrast between the woman's fury at her companion versus the beggar's desperation outside—suggesting misplaced priorities or social hypocrisy about who "deserves" sympathy. The strip's humor relies on period expectations about gender roles, propriety, and class distinctions that modern readers would need historical context to fully appreciate.
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Gyiguin 3, ° HE results of last week’s yacht racing were such as | should have predicted three months ago, had I been ing sport articles at the time, and it is rather hard on me personally that close confinement to an obituary column in the far West should interfere with my obtaining my share of the glory pertaining to the Prophetic Sport. That the A//an/zc should prove the superior of the Purztan in the first trial did not in the least surprise me, as the extreme draught of the former is six-tenths of a foot greater than that of the Purztan, and her captain had the benefit of that much more wind. Everything depends in getting to draughtward in a yacht race, and all other things being equal, the A//antic can be counted on to leave the ex-pride of Boston and her twenty-seven owners hopelessly in the rear every time. * * * Concerning Wednesday's performance, I do not credit the tumor that the captain of the A¢/antéc got sea-sick at the start and threw up the race before he had gone ten yards. The trouble was that there were one hundred and twenty-six 137 tons of displacement on board of the Bay Ridge boat and she got stuck in seventeen fathoms of mud. = x * HE Trailing Arbutus, as the Mayflower is poetically termed, will doubtless show the Ga/atea a fine pair of heels in the great race, unless the vessels encounter a heavy swell, when the Ga/atea, accustomed to Mr. J. Beavor Webb, won't be half so much incommoded as her less fortunate rival. * * * DWeNaceR WATKINS has decided to withdraw the New York nine from the League race since these worthies have stopped playing ball. He is endeavoring to induce them to jump off the Brooklyn Bridge, feeling certain that they are sufficiently inoculated by their recent experiences to drop any given distance. * * * T Newport the tennis champions are endeavoring to defeat each other as we go to press. We hope they will succeed. Our sympathies go out to Dr. Dwight for his defeat in the first round, and as consolation in his hour of trouble we assure him that no man can expect to write a good book and win a Tennis Tournament in the same year. Having accomplished the former feat the Doctor should be content to rest on his laurels. CaS. A TRAGEDY IN REAL LIFE. “THERE’s EDWIN Now. I KNOW HIS STEP.” ‘“HOW DARE HE KEEP ME SO LONG! I'LL TEACH HIM! HE’LL FIND ME FIRM!” Tramp: GIVE A POOR MAN— LoL UBL to em wm PEE comicbooks.com