No doubt some of your chums are already enjoying this fast-paced sport. Why not give it a "shot" to-day?

New York, 1908. "Basket-ball at Columbia University gymnasium." 8x10 inch glass negative, George Grantham Bain Collection. View full size.

        Runaways -- real ones, calculated to make your hair stand on end -- will be caught by members of the Traffic Squad. -- N.Y. Times

June 24, 1916. "Police show at Sheepshead Bay Speedway -- rescuing woman from runaway horse." A benefit for "widows and orphans of the men whose names are carried on the Honor Roll." 5x7 glass negative, Bain News Service. View full size.

New York. February 21, 1912. "Matty Baldwin." The lightweight boxer from Boston, a.k.a. the Bunker Hill Bearcat, died at the age of 33 in 1918, a victim of the Spanish flu epidemic. 5x7 glass negative, Bain News Service. View full size.

New York circa 1910. "Seller of pretzels, Sixth Avenue." With a dusting of salt and snow. 5x7 glass negative, George Grantham Bain Collection. View full size.

1908. "California rifle team at Camp Perry, Ohio." Site of the National Shoot. 5x7 glass negative, George Grantham Bain Collection. View full size.

New York circa 1915. "Police tuba players." HALT OR WE'LL TOOT. 5x7 inch glass negative, George Grantham Bain Collection. View full size.

New York circa 1921. "New York Band Instrument Co., East 14th Street." Dealer in Victrolas and Victor records, also seen here in its window display. Next door: Great China Chop Suey. 5x7 glass negative, Bain News Service. View full size.

New York, 1911. "Sailor Burke." The Brooklyn-born welterweight champion known to his mother as Charles Presser, and someone you wouldn't want to meet in a well-lit alley. 5x7 glass negative, Bain News Service. View full size.

1910. "Columbia crew at Poughkeepsie boathouse -- Members of the Columbia University varsity eight-oared crew team. Top row: R.K. Murphy, F. Miller, Paul Renshaw, A.M. Hamman, W. Steinschneider, G. Downing; bottom row: S. Pitt, A. Brock, and F.H. Saunders at Poughkeepsie, New York, for an intercollegiate regatta." Gelatin silver print. Bain News Service. View full size.

Denishawn dance company founder Ruth St. Denis and husband Ted Shawn with garden party guests (bridesmaids? caterers? vestal virgins?), among them the modern dance pioneers Louise Brooks and Martha Graham. View full size.

July 1911. "Street scene, 2nd Avenue, Asbury Park." Greetings from this pleasant setting for the ice wagon, streetcar, sandwich shop and resort hotels. 5x7 glass negative, George Grantham Bain Collection. View full size.

April 2, 1909. "Playground at Hamilton Fish Park." New York, New York -- it's a toddler town. 5x7 inch glass negative, Bain News Service. View full size.

Somewhere in Europe circa 1918, from a series of World War I views. "Dead German artilleryman." Bain News Service glass negative. View full size.

July 14, 1913. "French fete." Bastille Day in New York 101 years ago, where the Continental lunch menu included Frankfurters, Clam Chowder, "All Kinds of Sandwiches" and Ice Cold Milk. Bain News Service glass negative. View full size.

August 21, 1924. New York. "C.G. Dawes." Charles G. Dawes, some two months away from being elected Vice President of the United States. His platform: Helping the little man. 5x7 inch glass negative, Bain News Service. View full size.