"CHEER UP, ENGLAND!"
[from our own correspondent.] London, July 9. This was tho keynote of a speech made this week by Lord Curzon, who pointed out that tho judgment of foreign lands is the true judgment, and England,, never more than at present, is tho guide and teacher of other nations in sport, in politics, and in tho nobler sido of education. To most foreigners a visit to England is a courso of education in tho highest arts of civilisation. Lord Lonsdale, a well-known sportsman, is of the opinion that the spirit of sport in England is as good as ever it was, but that tho education in sport is on wrong lines. Ho said: " I certainly do not think that anything like a general ' rot' has set in in English sport. History shows that noarly all the great records aro hold by Englishmen, and I am sure thoro is the grit left to hold them, if it is only cultivated. They do not, take tho trouble to train properly, and young men aro too anxious to go in for too many sports instead of making themselves proficient at one.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 14145, 21 August 1909, Page 9
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