SPORTS

Horowhenua Chronicle, 13 June 1916, Page 2

SPORTS

(By WALT MASON.) 1 watch the young men sporting, and tussling and cavorting, at divers manly games, at wrestling, Greek arati Cornish, and boxing bouts tinhorninh, until they break their haiues. It givos them satisfaction to get their forma in action, to strain their bones andi thews; life in their veins is bubbling, no rheumatiz is troubling the feet that fill their shoes. They have no gout or glanders, ring-bones or yaller janders, no spavins on their joints; if vagrant pain should hit them, they merely bid it quit them, and promptly it aroints. 1 see them strive and tussle, exerting • every muscle—they call such horse play fun; and in the shade I'm sitting, aweoping on my knitting; my active days are done. My joints are stiff and rusty, my whiskers grey and dusty,. 1 oreak whene'er I walk, and you may hear me sighing when J. am sadily trying to drill around a blocK. Oh, Youth, when Age is gazing upon your sports amazing, and energy so line, Age i'eels its portion bitter, and says, "Though not a quitter, I must take in my