Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 303, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 December 1910 — Tournament on Sea Horses. [ARTICLE]

Tournament on Sea Horses.

Rumor has often told us of sea horses, but with amused Incredulity we have always waved the tales aside. Faith is, however, no inn gar upon, for in the water of Huntington hay, on the north shore of Long island, actual sea horses are daily capering in highly spectacular water sports, even in a quaint revival of the ancient tournament The strange beasts have been brought to us from France and are ingeniously composed of a barrel, weighted on one side which is under water, and decorated with an expressive head and an aggressive tail. As soon as one mounts upon the rotund back of one of these beasts it shows its temper, for, although tame and mild enough when grazing among the waves by themselves, they are fiends incarnate as soon as one attempts to throw a leg over them. They kick and buck in a manner which would appall a Buffalo Bill himself. One of the daily features of the beach at Huntington is a tournament in which armed knights, each astride of a prancing sea horse, face each other for battle royal. The riders are equipped with long lances, well wadded at the end with “stuffing." With there the knights paddle their course to each other, and then with lances poised the battle begins.