The Vogue of Sport: Its Place in Life and Talk: More Burnsiana Fro Oce OWN CORRESPONDENT, Edinburgh, Mar. 4.
If it is the case, as some pessimists tell us, that our prestige as exponents of games in which we once Jed the world is threatened by, if it has not definitely passed to, younger rivals, we can probably' Sil claim the distinction, for what it ig worth, of spending more time: and) money on games than any: ther people in the world in pro-Portion to our population.
is, however, a saddening thought that in order to prove that the British ave still the most sport-Jeving people on the earth we have to count not our trophies in inter-rational contests, bet the shillings: and six-pences spent on gate-money football and cricket matches. And not only is sport treated as an luring spectacle; we pay it the further tribute of making it the chief subject of our daily conversation, It is not politics, or even trades it is. not the Church or education that is the staple talk When men—and women—mieet, together, If it is not football, it is elf, oF tennis, or the hunting field we have no other small-talk half important, and as for the big things we excuse ourselves alto~ wether from discussing them, Truly, we are a nation of sportsmen—in that sense.
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