Surprisingly, donkey baseball (and basketball) is still played in places today amid questions of the appropriateness of using animals for entertainment. Theseus prays to Poseidon to kill Hippolytus for his transgression.167 Poseidon sends a wild bull to scare Hippolytuss horses as he is riding by the sea in his chariot, causing the horses to bolt and smash the chariot against the cliffs, dragging Hippolytus to a bloody death across the rocky shoreline. The fun in it, for the spectators, came in the fact that donkeys don’t always do what their riders want them to do.

Created by an American promoter, service groups often played a game as a fundraiser. (1978) 277) the first we know to win with a chariot, perhaps the future. Robert, ‘Catalogue agonistique des Romaia de Xanthus’, Rev. Octavius Pollio won a horse-race and had himself announced as a Telmessian (L. Donkey baseballĭonkey baseball was popular during the Great Depression, even with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. However from the late Republic Romans sometimes entered Greek competitions so in the late 2nd or early 1st century B.C.

So, here then is a small selection of the weird, wacky and wild of the Glenbow Library and Archives. While the list of subjects the photographs in the Glenbow Archives cover is long and remarkably diverse, they all document life in Western Canada and beyond right back to the 1880s.Įven though many of those subjects are both serious and important, thankfully, there’s a side to the collection that allows us to look back at history with a laugh. The Glenbow Archives holds thousands of photographs in its collections and some of it is downright weird, wacky and wild.

Wild bull chariot races