Outing . gned onone side, and Nowell Smith, Headmasterof Sherborn School, and Frederick Har-rison on the other, the former urginga $500,000 fund to insure the Britishathletes being properly selected, trained,and looked after for the next OlympicGames, while the latter are saying thatthese modern pseudo Olympic Gamesare rot and the $500,000 fund positivelydegrading, then we certainly must con-fess that there is something more than atrivial misunderstanding of the purposeof sport. Meantime, the opponents ofthe fund say, The subscriptions come inslowly and we may hope that nothinglike this amount


Outing . gned onone side, and Nowell Smith, Headmasterof Sherborn School, and Frederick Har-rison on the other, the former urginga $500,000 fund to insure the Britishathletes being properly selected, trained,and looked after for the next OlympicGames, while the latter are saying thatthese modern pseudo Olympic Gamesare rot and the $500,000 fund positivelydegrading, then we certainly must con-fess that there is something more than atrivial misunderstanding of the purposeof sport. Meantime, the opponents ofthe fund say, The subscriptions come inslowly and we may hope that nothinglike this amount will be thrown awayupon so ill-advised a scheme. Harrison, in his denunciation, says:A long list of possible candidates is tobe tried in order to discover latent per cent will be finally are to be practically taken out oftheir usual lives to the loss of their in-dustrial or professional careers and thenput into a training stable mill as if theywere Derby colts. The average youth. THE SCHOOLBOY IS A NATURAL ATHLETE IF THE PROPER INCENTIVE IS APPLIED m 1 . ,/M * ,, t • C* ** .Sir V -S«(* . - s ? ^ffe v -. .. ? -• -. , , Si 4^- v ~ • ^ - ••?>,- * V —- v , V v * ,-?: .5 gF*f ?^%^Jk?>j S ^ ?>lft ???:-.™-^|., jp. • * N ^V e V • -*i N AT . v A j^t ;VS Uv>v. 4»S^\ .Skv: ..A ^.-«^!4 » yi\- jo* ~^\ ,*?**> ^ !_ Al \ . /. THE SUMMER THESE TWO PICTURES SHOW ONLY A FRACTION OF THE CROWD FOR THE PRIVILEGE OF SEEING A WORLDS SERIES GAME IN NEW YORK 266 OUTING


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