SPORTING CONTESTS

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIV, 21 February 1931, Page 3

SPORTING CONTESTS

SUCCESS OF AMERICANS Tho success of Americans in sporting 'contests®is the subject of analytical review in “Harper’s Monthly” by Mr S. R.. Tunis. “The English have not had much luck at imitating our methods; and, continuing to lose, they have become—to put it plainly—just a little peevish,” he concludes. “Should we in their place be as good-humoured losers as the English after 30 years of concentrated lickings? I doubt it; if they are peevish, I am confident that in a similar situation we should be simply unbearable. Nor is there anything in the manner in which our business world has taken the setbacks of the recent depres sion to make one believe the contrary . . The important thing is that these great international contests, far from serving the purposes for which they were instituted, tire doing exactly the opposite. The more we meet upon the Common ground of sport the less respect we have for each other. It is distressing, but it is a fact. Let us no', blink facts, let us face them. And the facts are that the fundamental purposes of sport about which we all agree are being defeated, not furthered, by international contests. Let us have done with them. Let us shake hands liko sportsmen and say good-bye.”