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be determined, this never did anyone any particular 

 harm, and never did anyone any particular good. 

 That things have continued to drift pretty much 

 the same you may discover by even the most care- 

 less perusal of the average sporting page of the 

 daily press, where you will find baseball, racing, 

 prize-fighting, football, this or that current popular 

 or fashionable sport by proxy, furthered and fea- 

 tured ad libitum and sometimes, one must confess, 

 ad nauseam. 



It might be supposed that the average sporting 

 writer of the daily page, who makes his living from 

 his acquaintance with baseball, football, prize-fight- 

 ing, racing, etc., would be loyal to his own clientage, 

 even to the point of prejudice. You would not 

 expect commonly to find on any sporting page a 

 word adverse to any of the commercialized sports 

 of America. You might opine that the writers of 

 this sort of thing are "lewd fellows of the baser 

 sort," with no special mentality of their own. That 

 is to say, you might think this if you had no special 

 mentality of your own. As a matter of fact, there 

 are some very able men engaged in precisely this 

 form of journalism. Some of them are brilliant 

 men; most of them are philosophers; nearly all of 

 them are keen observers. 



Therefore if you found such a man of wide ex- 

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