There can be no question, however, that sport generally is on the in crease in the United States, I would say that there are more people in this country playing games than ever before, and the proportion is greater probably than among any of the other nations. It is estimated that there are at least 12 million people in the country who fare more or less regular golfers, Football is everywhere becoming more popular, and sport in all its forms is appealing to all classes of people. And the United States needs the stimulation and development made possible by this inereasing interest in athletics. Sport, moreover, will continue, as "Collier's" leader-writer says, to be more than ever essential as machinery lifts the load of manual labour from the backs of men and women, and substitutes nervous attention for physical effect, The brain will not function well in an unsound body. It would be a calamity if at the very height of its development "the iterest in games and con-the physical fitness essential to good play, were to be poisoned by an unprincipled emphasis on the dollar mark of success."
No branch of sport stands in such rived of cleansing in this regard as prize fighting, and it would be better for the sport as a whole if less enormous rewards were made for the carrying off of championship hon~ ours,
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