Outing . etter average than about 1,500a year. The item sundries is plainlyseveral thousand short, but as a wholeit is as nearly accurate as careful revisionof old books and papers can make it. That is all. The writer gainedhealth. The game suffered. Some nodoubt will say, Too bad that doctorever gave such a prescription. Too badthe sick young man ever lived and grewinto such a destroyer of game. In say-ing so, they may be right. We drop into a current and drift alongfor many days, never realizing wherewe are going or what the end will be;then after much time awake to find abad past behind us
Outing . etter average than about 1,500a year. The item sundries is plainlyseveral thousand short, but as a wholeit is as nearly accurate as careful revisionof old books and papers can make it. That is all. The writer gainedhealth. The game suffered. Some nodoubt will say, Too bad that doctorever gave such a prescription. Too badthe sick young man ever lived and grewinto such a destroyer of game. In say-ing so, they may be right. We drop into a current and drift alongfor many days, never realizing wherewe are going or what the end will be;then after much time awake to find abad past behind us and no future inwhich to correct our errors. Yet whocan say, had he power to turn back timeand commence at the beginning again,he would improve on the life alreadylived, steer clear of rocks that have al-most wrecked his bark, and avoid shal-lows which have retarded progress inthings that should have been done andwere not. Be charitable all, and lethim that is without sin cast the firststone of THE WORLD Amateurism °nCe f^™ «« ° *« Again verge or a discussion of the true nature and content ofamateurism in sport. This time the con-flict has been precipitated by a suggestionfrom Gustavus T. Kirby, president ofthe Amateur Athletic Union, that pro-fessionals and amateurs be allowed tocompete together, the amateurs takingtheir prizes in the form of plate. Tothe rank outsider it is somewhat amusingto note the storm of highly righteous pro-test that this has called up. Apparentlythe very foundations of amateurism arethreatened and nothing but the most de-termined efforts of the friends of puresport can avail to save it. We hold nospecial brief for either party to the con-troversy, but we should like to point outone or two slight errors in the argumentsof both sides. Mr. Kirby declares thatthe line between the amateur and theprofessional is drawn too fine at the pres-ent time. We can hardly agree withthis. So long as any doubt remains inthe mind of anyone as to what
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