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DANGERS OF A "BICYCLE GYMKHANA."

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DANGERS OF A "BICYCLE GYMKHANA." A new outdoor amusement has recently been devised, and is becoming very popular just now. It is known as "bicycle gymkhana," and the events and amusements comprise open races, obstacle races, tricks, musical rides, carry- ing burdens, and team driving. From beginning to end the impression cannot be banished from the mind that danger and risk to life and limb appear to be courted at every point. In the obstacle race, for one example, the riders of both sexes encounter in their career sacks stuffed with straw, high hurdles, see-saws, etc.; and the sport is varied in the case of male riders by their assuming at some. Doint on the course a grotesque garb. which severely. interferes with the freedom of pedal- ling. As may be imagined, ugly spills are the rule, and are often very serious. The strain on the bicycle is very great, and none but the most superior "make" survive the ordeal, while the breaking down of the macii ine is another source of accident. As an instance of another game, a team of six lady riders, two abreast, and bound by ribbon on the shoulders which terminate like a pair of reins in tha hands of a gentleman driver, is driven at ari alarming pace helter skelter round the course. Should any single rider fall out or break down disaster speedily overtakes the rest. Should another team be behind they share the sama fate, and the spectators are left in fmspense as to whether any personal injury has been sustained amongst the living debris. The evil is greater for girls,, who are expected to lift their bicycles over bigh hurdles in an excit- ing race, and it is difficult to calculate what lasting and deep-seated mischief may be started by-this apparently simple effort. Under the special circumstances t should never be at- tempted by girls, and especially young, .grow- ing girls, neither should other equally risky taks which are attempted. The bicycle gym- khana is a pretty and engaging spectacle, but it should be shorn of barbarisms of this kind. In any case, such sports on a bicycle are attended with danger, and it is comforting to think that there is generally a medical man amongst the audience or close at hand. His services are -only too likely to be needed, and the view which we take is by no means an exaggerated one of the real dangers I which he in the path of those who participate in. Xhe bifcycle gymkhana: There can be no sport without some element of risk, but in this pastime that risk passes from possibility to extreme probability.

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