Twice a year Shanghai's sportsmen, with their brothers elsewhere in the world, "are forced to pause. When winter's feverish sports come to their end, and before summer's activities speed up into equally feverish activity, is the frst of these periods. The second, as summer regretfully slackens its hold and. winter's pleasures have yet to attract, is on the city now. There are many sports men, whose avidity for all forms of violent exercise calls forth the envy or ridicule of others more phlegma-lie, who refuse to take the rest offered. "The great majority, however, cannot but be grateful for these pauses, for they bring other forms recreation. It is not necessary to Jump out of bed of a Sunday with the crack of dawn. "Saturday may well be Saturday with the brilliance of its night life, and Sunday night and Monday morning can be free of the wracking pains of overstrained insoles. Winter will be here all too soon, and it surely behooves all sportsmen to make the best of this most charming period now theirs 10 enjoy.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.