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EDINBURGH, August 13th. Cricket in on the wane, and its place" will be taken, next week by Association football in the Scottish sports calender. Fortunately interest in the reniging part of the programme promises to be fully maintained, particularly in connec What reason can there be for the utter tion with the solution of the Scottish supremacy of the Finns-that handful of Counties and Western District Union people-in long-distance running / This Championship competitions, both

erticular query is only one of many which are still comparatively open. Ia that have surprised, as ever since inter- the senior tourney Clackmannan County national rivalry in sport came into hold a very useful fead, but are being bing, and before it. At various times seriously challenged by Perthshire, pre- and seasons some nation or race some sent champions. Each have still two province, or even parish, has reached a game's to play, so that it is quite possible level of skill altogether incredible to its the issue may hang on the outcome of the $31.00 neighbours' and a little unexpected even last match of the season, that between to itself. The Channel Islands produce Clackmannan County and Aberdeenshire $20.50 all at once a trio of pre-eminent golfers. on the last Saturday of this month. The A Slav boy can we combinations on the result of the Western Union competition chess-board denied even to the Germans even more obscure. Kelburne and master of the art of Sitzfleisch." From Uddingston jointly occupy the leading the once dnathleric company of French bert, with Drumpellier a good third, and maidens and a small group of very young here also it is unlikely that the winner men emerges one, two, three lawn-tennis will be known till the schedule is rom- players of an effective grace too full of pleted in the first week of September. genius for the combined athletes of the Last week-end the weather conditions British Empire, Spain, and Amerion, cald hardly have been improved upon, A small Reatish village becomes on thur- while wickets generally were the fastest sery of cricketers. A Welsh mining town of the season, and, naturally, scoring was discovers an art of football combination high. Only in a few instances were the for that a while leaves dit other parts of tradiers able to assert their superiority, Greater Britain, except New Zealand, one notable instance being that in the helpless. A priner of the Pacific Islands Scottish Countira Championship fixture out-swims, negro of the United States at Aberdeen, where Penthshire overwhelm- out-jumps, the world. Existing stand-ed the Northern county chiefly throngh ards of speed over short distances grow the pre-eminence of Q.M.S. Smith with- out of date each year, before the succes the ball. The military man was practi- sive feat of athletes. some Celts, some ently unplayable, and his eight wicketa anglo-Saxons so-called, of the United for 20 runs must rank as one of the best States.

performances in the competition this sea- son, as the wicket did not lend him much We could all continue such lists of Assistance, the North Inch side previous examples, in the big world and in our to that having demonstrated its sound- parishes. To become parcchial for a ness by a bright display of hitting and a moment; I know an artisans golf club, score bordering on the second century. Fifeshire had many anxious momenta be-. of twenty-four members, all living within a mile of the little links, which fore they succeeded in defeating Stirling contains at least four players who are County, who now occupy the last post The Fifers' all too good for the Colonel's baggy. tion on the table of merit The general team is unbeatable by clabs success was chiefly due to the versatility with treble their numbers who yofW Anderson and F. Nicholson, who, under much better conditions.

after equally dividing the tab County pative players may be compared with the wickets, formed a partnership at the bat- Finas, whose incomparable stamins and ting crease which completed the discom- style amized every student of Olympicture of the ground team, and was bot excellence. No man can trace the origin of genius. This prodigy and that derives frain a combination of atoms altogether fortuitous so far as our present know- |ledge can trace the causes. But in general the reason for local superiority follows rules that we can in some measure scien- tificially estimate. The secret ís open secret, at any rate to the traveller and student of athletics, though plenty of nice questions remain for inquiry.

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climate or race or training is responsible. Twelve of the leading Scottish League They even ask whether some trick of dop-clubs took part in a five-a-side competi- ing with oxygen or other enlivening gas tion in Glasgow, when Rangers carried aruid may not be responsible for feats off the honours, defeating Celtic in the almost more than humas, according to final. old standards. Ur Ilre men growing TENNIS. more able with every generation in this county and that? Does transplantation, as of the Irish to America, give the original race a new stimulust

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In the South of Scotland Tennis Chun- pionships at Moffat, the ladies" single went to Miss D. Spencer, Newcastle, who defented Mias M, Latta, Wamphrey, in the final. The gentleman's singles was won by F. S. Paterson, Dean Club, Edia- burgh, A. E. Dickenson, Newcastle, being

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A feature of the First Division games was the pronounced success of the visit- ing teams, Tottenham Hotspur and West Ham being the only home, clubs securing major points. There were three drawn games, and in the other six matches the visiting teams won,

The theme, with its many ramificatiuus, in of interest and concern not only to athletes-using the word to cover all who prictice games and sports. It matters to the eugenists; it matters to the politicians and social reformers. A community cap- able, say, of running three miles in less than a quarter of an hour could only) be wonderfully strong and healthy, you would think. And yet it used to be à common jibe in the United States that

a chumpion in athletics is a person in England had an auspicious opening who is no good at anything else." Busi on Saturday, the aggregate attendance ness men scoffed at his attainments, and at the matches exceeding three-quarters when he reached forty years of age the of a million. The ranks of the big city workers would walk him off his legs, clubs showed few fresh faces. so it was said.

International competitions at games are very new on any considerable scale, The writer of this article was in part responsible for the first serious competi- tion of British and American amateur athletes. The Grat formal meeting took place after years of quite difficult and | delicate 'argotiations in 1885. The first revived Olympiad was in 1896, when English groundmen laid the first cinder truck in Athens. We may say that is ternational athletics 'are barely a gene. ration old, if we take the meeting in he tween London and New York athletic teams as the beginning of the new era. Aston Villa gave 'n great display, for Since then international games have he. which their victory was merited. Walker come institutional; athletics, in--the nar-scored two goals for Villa. Huddersfield rower sense of Beld-sports, lawn tennis, played a sparkling game and were worthy golf, rowing, and to souio extent foot of their win over last year's Cup holdert ball, give established standards cou Forty-two thousand spectators witness parison. They express in real characters ed Leeds initial match in the First the physical prowess of the nations. We Division, in which Sunderland were sometimes fear, quite, needleanly, that lucky to draw. they express British decadence."

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Roberts scored Manchester's two goals, and Whitehouse did the hat trick for Derby.

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After visiting the homes of athletic skill in America, Australia, and Sean their entry to the Sreond Division by The match in which Chelsen signified dinavia, and, of course fireat Britain, benten Coventry City was uninspiring. it seems to me demonstrable that superior Brown scored the only goal of the match, merit is the direct result of skilful trainent which 30,000 xpectators attended. ing and social organisation. Excellence" issues from schools of art, as it did in selves on making their re-appearance on Old players, who distinguished them- the days before literature killed architec Saturday were: Rutherford, of Arsenal; ture or Unions superseded Guilds. Doubtless there are national and racial McCall, of Preston; and Shes, of Coven. types of build. The Australian is lean ry being in each instance the beat man and long; and the top qualities are control of the ball were the main factors.

on the field. Rutherford's speed and about equally due to race and climate. An Englishman often becomes an Aus- secured in an opening match of the sea- in Arsenal's victory, the first they have tralian, in appearance at least, within a few years. The Frenchman has a lens angular frame than the Briton. "He makes a better. statue," as an artist said climate or race is chiefly responsible. The during the war. The muscular strength Negro and Fijian have special racial and endurance of the North Italian is gifts; but when all allowance is made, almost incomparable. I cannot but beI think it may be shown that in half-a- lieve that Ireland produces some attri dezen forms of athletic endeavour the bute of what may be called "springi-'eaper-excellence is due to the school. ness," for want of a better word, in men These schools-in Scandinavia, France, and horses, though we certainly have the United States, and Great Britalo- not the material to discover whether soil, will be the theme of a second article.

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