Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 121, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 May 1913 — In Defense of Mother Tongue, [ARTICLE]

In Defense of Mother Tongue,

Italy, an well as France, now has the football erase, and the fact has caused Sig. Luciano Zuccoll to raise a cry of alarm on behalf of hla mother

tongue. He complains that the most musical of all languages is being debased by the introduction of harsh sounding sporting terms imported from England, although for many of these, such as "match," “rush” ■ and "trial,” there are satisfactory homemade equivalents. Oner of the largest athletic bodies tn Italy has an entirely English name. "The Milan Football and Cricket dub.” Yet football. Sig. Zucoll points out. is a direct descendant of the old Roman game, "harpaa turn.”