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...seems as severely questioned as that of the coach horse is undergoing reclamation in England. Clubs for bicycling are dusting out their abandoned quarters and planning new trips, according to the Manchester papers, while Easter turned out to be largely a bicycle parade. Perhaps, with this reappearance of a sport of a generation ago, will return the other means our fathers took to keep their waistline slender...
...exhilaration which one felt bestride one of these mighty wheeled bicycles, especially when it was the custom to blow a horn with one free hand. Beside these cyclists strode groups of "pedestrians", not sauntering in dress clothes but flailing the air with their elbows and equipped according to the sport catalogue. At times there would go racing by a "gentleman's driving outfit", consisting usually of a buggy stripped for speed, fragile wheels and a pair of well clipped, mettlesome horses that could do a mile in not too many seconds over two minutes. Plenty of exercise was afforded...
...must go "down to the sea in ships" he did not put more gas in his motor boat, but piled the family in a rowboat for ballast and paddled up the river. This was the only water sport fully accredited by society. Bearded ball players, looking like the present House of David team, played the new game of baseball with leather-tipped gloves; and Paddy the Blacksmith stopped the ball with his unprotected chest. At home those more pressed for time did not take a "daily dozen" before the phonograph, but jumped up and down on a stiff spring board...
Theodore Roosevelt, Assistant Secretary of the Navy: " My eldest son, Theodore, Jr., can ride Cossack fashion, standing in his stirrups, and take hurdles like a steeplechase winner. Sons Quentin and Cornelius and daughter Grace share his love of sport...
Benito Mussolini: " I was enjoying my usual sport of driving my red racer at a terrific rate when a police-man in Faenza arrested me, not knowing who I was. He took me before a magistrate and I was fined. Said I to the then trembling policeman: 'Always do your duty and fear nothing...