-*> Sport and Nature in Germany 



cry of challenge to his rival, and the huntsman makes 

 his way over the moor. 



There one still experiences the spell of the Elelescho. 

 But everywhere, all over the world, everywhere in our 

 Fatherland, it once lived and held sway. 



We may hope that the intimate and beautiful relations 

 that the German sportsman establishes between himself 

 and nature in his Fatherland will for a long, long time 

 be handed clown from generation to generation, and thus 

 result in the. maintenance and preservation of the noble old 

 spell of the woodland and the wilderness. The ideal of 

 true German sportsmanship has been developed in as high 

 and full a sense as that of fair play in sport in England. 



Both of these ideals will be judged in unfriendly fashion 

 only by those who regard them from a distorted point 

 of view. The English ideal of sport is winning the world 

 to itself; the German ideal must do the same. 



Coming from a good German school of sport, I consider 

 myself fortunate in having learned to know the wonderful 

 animal world of Africa. There is no doubt whatever that 

 I must ascribe to the influence of this school the fact that 

 my accounts of what I had experienced and seen met with 

 such an appreciative reception both at home and abroad. 



How wonderful is the chase in Germany ! The 

 primitive attraction for the chase must be a part of every 

 man. One need only once have seen the excitement that 

 seizes upon a gathering of thousands if on a sudden a hare 

 or some other wild creature comes into sight. At such 

 a moment, almost without exception, every one of them 

 is on the move, without the least reflection, and even 



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