To the Editor of the "Norra-Cuixa Datty News."
Sm,—The questions raised in your recent leader on the above subject -have been pretty fully discussed, and the summing up of your Sports Editor in this morning's paper was read with mixed feelings by the opposing factions. He certainly favours the veterans and goes so far as to explain the ways and means by which a young man in ordinary financial circumstances can aspire to playing polo, and further, makes the sound suggestion that 11 old cricketers try their skill against a team of young ones. The Cricket Club might take that up.
In the meantime, however, we are to understand that the recent importations from Home are inferior to their predecessors and that it is an affliction of the mind rather than of the body which has caused the present rot in sport. I think that the remedy to some degree lies with the old men. Do they.have any consideration for the younger men? One veteran golfer, an ex-champion of Shanghai, once in a nice way gave me a game at Kiangwan and the environment caused by his game and company increased my skill twofold and I beat him by two-up. All men like to play games with their equals in capability, but I feel that a little more of this sort of thing is wanted in Shanghai. Let the older men come down to their younger brethren a bit more and I think they will find underlying the casual independent air affected by the youngsters a certain commonsense which readily imbibes words of experience, and appreciates friendliness.
I am, ete.
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