True Sport and Sportsmanship 9 



of itself. One cannot develope or cultivate in one's children 

 a safer passion than that for clean outdoor sports. They 

 carry with them no stain that will not easily come off. 

 Though health and strength are much more to be desired 

 than riches, yet one delves and saves and denies himself 

 everything to leave to his children money, and lets the 

 more important question of robust constitutions be taken 

 up by chance and the family physician. May every teacher 

 and college professor become builders of bodies as well as 

 minds, educators of the whole instead of a part. May 

 every school-boy and school-girl, before it is too late, learn 

 how to play, how to take defeat in a true sportsmanlike 

 way, to love all manly and womanly games of sport for 

 sport's sake, and live on to enjoy the fulness of mature 

 years with the happy reflection of a well-spent life in the 

 pursuit of health-giving pleasure and happiness. 



