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SPORT (IDROTT).
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Hunting and shooting are two
closely related branches of sport.
Hunting has, at all times, been a national
sport, pursued generally and
everywhere in the country, originally as a
profession, now almost exclusively as a
sport. The royal elk-hunts on
Hunne-berg in Vestergötland are, perhaps, the
principal deer hunts in Europe; on
these occasions, some fifty of these
stately animals will, at times, bite the
ground. H. M. the King’s Hunting Club
is the chief of the kind in the country.
Hundreds of first-class hunting parties
are annually held, all over Sweden.
For the promoting of shooting —
important from the national defence
point of view — a number of shooting
clubs, enjoying State support, have
been organized. Svenska
jägarför-bundet (the hunters’ association), with
head quarter in Stockholm and branches
in the province, practises rifleshooting
from a hunting point of view.
Everywhere, shooting-matches are held, and
the State provides means for the prizes.
Göteborgs skyttegille (the Gothenburg
Shooting Club) has presented a valuable
Challenge cup, which is annually
competed for by group-shooting. Also for
schoolboys, shooting-matches are
arranged, amongst which the one annually
held in Stockholm is the principal.
Biding, as a sport, has chiefly been exercised by professional riders, i. e.
cavalry officers. Of låte years, during which a special Racing Club, a Jockey
Club, and several Cross-country Clubs have been formed, riding has come to
be more generally practised also by civilians and ladies. Excellent race-courses
have been laid out, and races are held annually at many places in the country.
Hunt-rides, steeplechases, hurdleraces, despatch rides, »following the hounds»,
and cross-country riding of different kinds are arranged by the cross-country
clubs, and riding has taken a more practical turn by cross-country riding
having received attention at the side of manège riding, formerly more exclusively
practised.
Trotting races certainly occur, and begin to get considerable development.
Several trotting clubs exist, which arrange competitions mostly in winter, on
the ice.
The Northern Games (Nordiska spelen) have been instituted on the
model of the Olympian Games of Ancient Greece. Just as they derived their
vitality and vigorous existence from the noble purpose that inspired them, of
gathering together exponents of athletic skill from among the highly civilized
peoples of that day to take part in national championship contests, so these
modern games owe their conception to a desire of assembling at periodic meetings
the modern nations’ most brilliant representatives in the domain of winter sports,
there to try their skill, and thereby to stimulate the love of and devotion to
Playing at the Game of Park, outside Visby.
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