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LONDON, August 24,

ANN OUR SPORTSMEN SNOBBISH?

From several » quartare" juni non the suggestion is coming that our sports are too much dominated by snobbery. The propneations for the Olympic Games aro the central cause of this outburst, for a little bery of nobles, headed by the Duke of Wittminster, has issued an appeal to the British public for £100,000, with which to prepare and equip the British team that will represent the Union Jack in the Berlin stadium. The accusations are based on soraral grounds, It is sa

serted that the poor but swift athlete has

no chance of selection by the aristocrats who rule the roost and who are keen on

good form" and "high, tons." It is declared that too much fuss is made of the dainty competitors in tho' fano?· sronts, while the real sturdy branolics of, athletics ar buglented.

And the appeal, coming from the source it does, has jarred the actual men of musclo tik aevoral of them have spoken. right out and declared that the noble signatories to the appeal could and should pat up the money theintalver Mind, I am trying to give you the situation-im-; partially, without colouring the question 210 with any viows I may have myself. But hers are two specimens of the many state. ments by well known men.

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YUAN MIR-KATA 'NIES.

rather a shrinkage in American, partly sttributed to the higher scat af-living - on the other side of the Pond and partly the affuence of the Titanid dimaber. The London hotal manager does not mind the change, for he says the men and wonen from the Continent do themselves better and especially patronise his wine cellar, which is a department that brings the lirguah percentage of profit on the average bil

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THE WOMAN "IN TES CAX.

Even the supporter of the suffragetter. like the worm, can turn`at laat. Mr. Plowden, the joker of the magisterial bench in Laadon, is generally accepted as friend of the downtrodden? xir sax, but even he thinks they can be an evil influence,

at times. There was a fatal accident in the Camdon Road while back, and the driver of the motor car that knocked the woman down. was before the Marylebone declared the belief that no women should Whereupon Mr. Plowden hamourist. ride beside the driver of a motor car, for such" ja "human ostore that the male ab the wheel is spt to forget the care

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fered, declares that one of the chief roo- sons for England's failure at the last Olympic Games scam. the snobbery ram-. pant among several of the athletic asso- cintions represented. "If we are to bo represented again," he said, "it "is essential that there must be one uniform definition of an amateur in all sports. The Amateur Rowing Association's rulesy debarring moet anies, artisans, and labourers can only be described as dis- gusting. In boxing circles wo tako, a much wider view, and doom an amateur overy man who has never bored 15 the

What a man's vocation may be money. nevor troubles us at all, so long as we

A correspondent in the "Manchester ah arty debate to arise, and the balance of know him to be a true sportsman. Prob-

Dispatch" writes. Three sons al Twan opinion is about fairly divided. The slight

is due bly the A.B.A, will say that rowing has Bhih-kal, the provisional Chinese President,preponderance that there is,

accidents, nothing to do with boxing, and that are now in this country for the purpose of the alarming increase in accordingly they are entitled to place being educated on British Lines-or, rather, though it should be added that the motor whatever barriers they choose around baring their education completed. For buses are mainly responsible, as they are thir sport. My reply would be that the moment they have goon to Paris too for the degeneration of London into a see the nights," but they will very shortly very Fedism for poise, to say nothing of unless a better spirit of comradeship is return for the start of the educational sen- the increase in the rates, through the savage created among all classes of sport we. They speak English, bus

only a way the roads are ripped up by the violence may as well at once bid farewell to all little. They are too old for a preparatory of motion with which the modern. Jugger hopes of recovering the pre-eminent posi. school, and, on the other hand, could hardly ranta are propalied.

be sent to one of the larger matitstions for tion in athletics that once was ours." boys, because their knowledge of the

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& gama,—with but one or two excep Jens- ley Street specialist, is even more pro- to which the modern Chinese youth is not brought about a scarcity at the source, and nounced in bis views. He says tho ap- taking. Football is very popular, and so is it is increasingly difficult to get good, lang, peal of the peers in another chouky at cricket, while the best player of lawn fine hair.

tennis at any treaty port is. Chinaman.. tempt to rob the public in order to glorify Nowadays, too, Chinese athletes are quite imported into England from Europe yearly the few. As a matter of fact cliques and ready to pit themselves against Europeana sad 1,000,000lb. from Ching," said the snobbery so dominate English sport that they have competed in teams at I have long ceased to hope that any and elsewhere, and it is quite likely that presentative of Mears H. Servanti, the national advantage will evce again be they will be in evidenca at the next har merchants, to a Daily Mail representa derived from its pursuit. As for supre Olympic Games at Berlin. Doubtless the tire. at prices ranging from 3 to £50 lore of sport is stimulated by the residence per pound for ordinary colour. "For pure maoy in the Olympic Games meaning of so many Chiness in this country. The white hair, for which there is a great physical improvement in the race-tommy son of the present Chinese Minister, who demand, I got a few days ago 1964. an rot Golf, tonnis, football-oza is 66 in being educated at Berbill, is a fins ounce or £100 a pound. badly conducted as the other. All for cricketer.”. the snobbish ique and a madiul of halore for a few tin pot beroes.",

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