THE CONTENTMENT OF THE ONLOOKER.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIV, Issue 9176, 20 June 1908, Page 6

THE CONTENTMENT OF THE ONLOOKER.

Lord Roberts, writing in Fry’s Magaizue, says that because it, is easier for British men to assembleV'n thousands to watch a match than At elevens to play one. most of tA\. are content to look on rather tfeavr ; play themselves. “But is this 1 Jj tentment of the onlooker good for | as a nation? Whatever other nat is ( VjS may have thought of us, or in the past, we prided being a nation of sportsmen. . I rfSfßww the word in its highest sense. JKtfr descriptive of the man who kp how to give, as well as how >JI|» take, hard blows; who possesses old dogged quality of an Englislp 'wS who never knows when he is beat ' A who scorns a mean action, and o; 1 demands a fair field and no. favdi s ,“rßyy' where ho may strive his utmost, %-am k where the best man may win. hjH * we consider ourselves as sportsi *! in this sense to-day? Are pared to do and dare for anr.p and for our country as in tlir SB* of old?. I fear not. Go to sr wfe lags sports’,, to-day and wr competiti* race-Sfd | boys, ifs low the com , ' v-'Jhest*.-.. |f| and how the * H alter race. B nos compe. ’ ■. . ‘«i B “Oh, brcapse *'*.j -1 K win!’ There i»V v feeling ' 'W* it _ one do^ ■ t . fr Jgr ; » bring ■■ - • w to reccgni/^ 30 . Jf disgrace, /-“Can engt glorious pranceUhe ’tai# I *'- . arC shall we o v "- i AJ the world-as a . * . ’ I '•» . -'t ti ■ -- M 1