The brain side of games, sports and pastimes / by H. C. Donovan.

  • Donovan, H. C
Date:
[1909]
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Credit: The brain side of games, sports and pastimes / by H. C. Donovan. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    merits of perfect freedom, this game will no doubt return to the place from whence it came. Now that we have all forms of motor-cars, perhaps these polo players, these half and half sportsmen, will endeavour to play this game from motor-cars with blindfolded chauffeurs. The player could then direct the course of the car by word of mouth to him who drives. No doubt there is a sport in Polo, but it can be as well played from a bath-chair impelled by a blindfolded hired attendant as from a horse, and therefore Hockey is the more manly game, because it is more manly to provide all the energy required for yourself, than it is to have those energies provided for you by others, whether it be by horses, chauffeurs, or bath-chair men. Lawn Tennis. In dealing with this game, we must of necessity include Badminton, as, to a certain extent, they are somewhat similar in their nature ; and both, no doubt, have evolved from other and more primitive games. As the human intellect improves, both children and youths naturally seek means of education which call for greater skill in their execution than are afforded by those parent games which have been abandoned. Men and women now play Lawn Tennis and Badminton not for educational purposes, but mainly as a recreation, because in the execution of these games faculties of the brain, and especially of the intellectual portion thereof, are brought into activity, which in the ordinary course of their daily