Outing . WHAT ARE ATHLETICS GOOD FOR? By WALTER CAMP Illustrated with Photographs I v HIS is a question that demands an answer. The rapid spread-?- of athletic interest and activity in this country in the pastdecade has no parallel in any other form of human activity. Criti-cism is becoming less virulent and effective opposition has prac-tically disappeared. There remains the question of the place thatsport should reasonably occupy in national life. This questionMr. Camp answers in the article that follows. His long connec-tion with and interest in amateur sport make his opinions con-clusive.
Outing . WHAT ARE ATHLETICS GOOD FOR? By WALTER CAMP Illustrated with Photographs I v HIS is a question that demands an answer. The rapid spread-?- of athletic interest and activity in this country in the pastdecade has no parallel in any other form of human activity. Criti-cism is becoming less virulent and effective opposition has prac-tically disappeared. There remains the question of the place thatsport should reasonably occupy in national life. This questionMr. Camp answers in the article that follows. His long connec-tion with and interest in amateur sport make his opinions con-clusive. His field of vision is broad and takes in much more thanmere performance on the playing N Englishman once wrote:It is a fearful respon-sibility to be young, 2ndnone can bear it liketheir elders! The truthis that our athletic pointof view is constantly changing with years,and yet so steadily and progressively thatfew indeed are those who recognize thehumor of it all. I wouldnt do that if I were you,said the eighteen-year-old sister to thethirteen-year-old young brother who wasendeavoring to stand on his head on thelawn. You couldnt do it if you tried!Id like to see you! was the reply. Per-haps five years earlier she might havetried. Copyright, I remember having a very earnestconversation at one time with a professorwho sincerely believed that it was pos-sible to bring boys up with no games orsports, their sole exercise and recreationbeing a four-mile walk daily. His con-vincing argument was, Thats what Ivedone for twenty years! This is almost identical with the sooft-repeated saying, Youll think differ-ently when you are my age, which theelder man believes is a convincing
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