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But in another, and to my mind, a mera We are in for another ware of postimism important sense, I am rather glad that we our commerce or our Poor. Low that is to be tional contesta. Dar reinstause to go, to the inuidated, but our sport, the one remaining field lengths of our foreign rivals in preparing for a in which we fancied ourselves moderately secure struggle is due, in part, in very large part, to a our schoolmasters and our publicists and win is apt to turn a game into a business.

It is really very distressing. For years past healthy parcoption that after all the game's

Mr. the

thing," and that too great an anxiety to Rudyard Kipling liave been dinning

into us. that we were saorificing altogether too much to games. Lost on a cricket-feld," we were told, was to be the ultimate epitaph on the British Empire. The flannelied tool at the wicket and the muddied af at the goal were pointed at as national perils; and the ruin of England was confidently predicted unies we thought more,

imore, and played less. And now it scoms we have been ruaning these appalling risks and making this egregious sacrifice without usingle compensation in return. We stand convicted not only of playing-400 much, but of playing badly. We do not even excel in the games that are to bring a low.

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So long as sport continues to hold its unique place in our national life, so long as its devotees are numbered by hundreds in England instead of by tens as in other countries, so long as old and young, men and boya, meet and play together on innumerable Halds, so long as we retain the I for one shall consider all talk of our "deca. eans spirit and wholesome traditions of the thing, dence absurd, and shall not care à fig how many championships may chanos to leave our

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HEROIC MISSIONARY. ALE NIGHT RIDE TO AID A DRITISH FORCE.

The remarkable heroism of an English mis. sionary in Nigeria is described by Renter's Agency in giving the details of the disastrous attack on a British force, when Lientenant Vanreneu, who was in charge, and eleven po loomen were killed, while the doctor wounded.

For look at the record. The Australians, with no more than a fair to moderate toam, have thrashed is at cricket. The Belgians, for the third time, have carried off the blue ribbon of the Thames. The Americans at Harlingham simply swamped our mon at polo. A South African won the hundred yards amateur championship, an American the two hundred and twenty, and a Gorman the half-mile race. There were three Australians playing in the Oxfordd ericket team, The captain of the Cambridge eleven was a South African. And to crown our discomfiture, M. Blériot, a French-urence, in a hurriedly written message from mian, hus heen the Brst to fly the Channel. decadence is incontestable,

CONDITION OF ENGLISH SPORT.

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The Bret nows of the disaster came to Minha, about thirty miles from the scene of the oc- a place on the line of the Bero Kano Railway..

the wounded doctor at Kata.

-The Rev. W. P. Low, who has for some years be at Minns when the news came in. He been working among the Guaris, happened to instantly relatered to go to Kuta to render

he started off on his bicycle at ten minates' Leaving behind all his baggage and servants,

and borrowing a revolver frem Captain Orr, the notice, cramming a few biscuits in his pockets Residant at Minus.

So say the pessimists. But in this matter I confess myself anything bat u pessimist. Almost all the jeromisits we are listening to jast now spring, as it seems to me, from and possible to the survivors, and also to failure to realiss, first, what is the real essence

use his intence with the people. of sport; and secondly, the conditions ander which sport Is carried ou.in England..

We won our old supremacy in games simply because we wore the first people to cultivate them on a large scale. I do not suppose that Mr. Low rods hard all night. We were ever particularly

A short We were distinctly. bettor at them, but distance out from Minna he was overtaken by a than other nations. tornado of great severity, and was compelled to Thirty or forty years ago our position in pretty exchange bis bicycle for a horse. He became nearly all departments of sport, as compared with completely axlensted. and shortly before America the Continent, was precisely what

and

it is to-day in Ragby. football as compared with Teaching Kuta fall off his horse, which bolted,

the French. The South Africans and the New Zealanders have proved that our Rugby is not really first-class But it is decidedly botter than the French. They are only just beginning it, and we hare played it for generations. There- fore we beat them, and for some years to come shall probably continue to beat them.

So it used to be in aloiost every other form of sport. We had been at it longer and harder then our rivals They began by being our pupils, and our superiority over them as rela- tiroly very great We, let us say, were second raters and they were tenth-raters, and there were no first-raters. Consequently we had things pretty much our own way. But such condition could not last for ever. Our rivals improved. They began to speciali. They have to-day very largely ontstripped their old

masters.

Tüm severoly bruised.

morning, he found that the survivors of the Ou reaching Kats, at threw the дель

Guari people, from whom they had to hide force had come in, having been pursued by the in the bush.

Mr. Low spent twelve hours in Kata, and townspeople, resumed his journey to the coast. having assured himself of the loyally of the Picking up a construction train on the way back, he just caught his steamer, but was nearly drowned in a native conce when going down the Niger.

lisms, consisting of 150 men, with a Maxim, on He met a punitive forge undor Major, Wil- way to the scene of the ambush.

The punitive expedition had some stiff fight- the Guaris and burnt their towa. There were ing, but they inflicted severe punishment on no losses on the British aide.

sionary of the Church Missionary Society. He The Rev. Walter Percival Low is a mis-

man, and was ordained in 1901. was sent out to fries in 19 3. He is a young

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But why? How is it that our improvement has not kept pace with theirs? Well, there are several reasons. An examination of the Ameri ennis' victory at pulo will explain some of them. I suppose there are hundred Englishmen playing polo regularly to every America. And yet the Meadowbrook quartette have utterly routed the best, or nearly the best, team that we could put in the field. They have done it, first of all, by devoting themselves almost exclusively to this single pastime summer after summer; secondly, by spanding on it an amount of time and money and determination that our A wireless messago from the B.M.S. Express men are neither the means nor the leisure nor of India received through the Yokohama Offse the inclination to give up to say game, thirdly, by the Hongkong Office of the C.P.R. Co, by playing in winter only such gramos, like advised that the ship may be expected at tennis and racquets, as would help their polo in Tokohama on the morning of the 9th instant. the summer; fourthly, by buying up the best The Captain reports having experienced heavy ponies to be got anywhere; and fifthly, by put-weather in crossing, which accounts for the and shaping their whole lives for the time being ting themselves under a professional trainer slightly delayed arrival, to this single end.

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OUR LACK OF INITIATIVE.

It was the same with Jay Gould and the tennis championship. He made up his mind to win it; he had a private. tennis court built for him; he practically lived in it for years, he employed the finest professional player; and naturally enough he defeated the English champion to whom tennis, while an absorbing pastime, was not the whole of life. And yet I do not doubt that tennis is far more widely played here than in the States, and that the first dozen English players would easily have vanquished the first dozen Americau players.

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