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The Universal Tug and Tempo of Sport
In India these intense youngsters play field hockey, the national pastime there and one that is popular in Pakistan and other lands still influenced by British sporting traditions
In South Africa players on Rugby teams from rival mining towns scramble for the ball in one of the innumerable periods of orderly turmoil or patterned confusion permitted by the rules of many games
In Turkey wrestlers meet each year in a week-long tournament started by sultans 300 years ago for army training
In Spain an impassioned pelota a mano champion gets set for a full-arm smash during a contest in Barcelona
In Australia, in the oceanic distances of the Outback, where the nearest neighbor may live 100 miles away, horse racing provides its familiar, universal fascination at a meet at Betoota (pop. 14)
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