144 SPORT IN EUROPE 



by our politicians, rejected whenever they crop up, because they 

 labour under the delusion that fishing and shooting have an aristo- 

 cratic ilavour little in keeping with the laws of equality, and because 

 they cannot see that, from the poorest to the most wealthy, in country 

 and town alike, the vast majority of the population loves sport, 

 following it for recreation or to supply its needs. 



