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must be able to admire his adversary's best qualities, 

 must be a good loser and a graceful winner, and in all 

 things "play the game." In other words, the "true 

 sportsman and the true gentleman are synonymous." 



I thoroughly agree with Frank Sherman Peer when 

 he says, in "Cross Country with Horse and Hound": 

 "Nor is it too much to say that the universal love of 

 sports in England is one of the principal causes of her 

 greatness as a nation. Fair play is a cardinal virtue 

 among her people. The lessons the youth of England 

 absorbs from cricket, football, rowing, and other out- 

 door sports of skill and chance, have done as much to 

 establish and maintain the supremacy of that little 

 country among the nations of the world as have all 

 her schools and colleges and churches combined." 



What is true of men is equally true of women. 

 Courage, and strength, and nerve are as essential to a 

 woman as to a man, and by right-minded people as 

 much admired in her as is tenderness and kindness and 

 refinement in him. 



"In the long years liker must they grow; 

 The Man be more of Woman, she of man, 

 He gain in sweetness and in moral height, 

 Nor lose the wrestling thews that throw the world; 

 She mental breadth nor fail in childward care, 

 Nor lose the childlike in the larger mind; 

 Till at the last she set herself to man 

 Like perfect music unto noble words." 



It is wrong to suppose that to be a sportswoman, or 

 a fine horsewoman she must drink and swear and smoke, 

 or that she need have the unsightly biceps of a man, 

 look like a scalped Indian, or be so straight and flat- 

 chested as to lose all femininity. Physical fitness 

 and strength of character do not necessarily imply 



